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- Jul 8, 197790% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
First Prefab Panel Goes Up at Berlin-Marzahn, Founding Europe's Largest Housing Estate
- The Peter Zeises construction brigade of VEB Wohnungsbaukombinat Berlin set the first WBS 70 concrete panel at Marchwitzastraße 35-45 on 8 July 1977.
- The building topped out just two months later, on 2 September 1977, and its first tenants moved in on 18 December 1977.
- Over the following 13 years the GDR built roughly 103,000 apartments across Marzahn using the WBS 70 prefabricated panel system, making it the largest such estate in Europe.
- Chief architect Roland Korn led the design team chosen through a 1973 competition.
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- [1]90%youtube.com/watch?v=HKofXfHe4-kyoutube.com· Posted Sep 15, 2026· Starts Jul 8, 1977 ✓· 33% of score
Berlin newspaper reporting on Marzahn's 40th anniversary states the construction brigade Peter Zeises of VEB Wohnungsbaukombinat Berlin set the first panel of a QP 71/WBS 70 building at Marchwitzastraße on 8 July 1977.
- [2]60%WBS 70 - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org· Added Sep 15, 2026· 33% of score
Documents the WBS 70 prefabricated panel system used to build Marzahn and other large GDR housing estates from the late 1970s.[1]
- [3]85%40 Jahre Marzahn: Europas größte Plattensammlung - Tagesspiegeltagesspiegel.de· Added Sep 15, 2026· 33% of score
States the first panel for Marzahn was set on 8 July 1977 by the Peter Zeises brigade of VEB Wohnungsbaukombinat Berlin, with topping-out on 2 September 1977 and first tenants moving in on 18 December 1977.[1]
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