Germany's First 3D-Printed House Opens in Beckum

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  Starts 12/21/2019CONFIRMED81% CONFIDENCE6.8 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: the tower "was completed and inaugurated in 2019," with reporting placing that milestone in winter of that year.

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  Starts 07/08/1977CONFIRMED78% CONFIDENCE49.2 years agoBerlin 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.^[1]

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  Starts 12/31/1834ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE191.7 years agoThe article states it "Opened in 1834 on the Unter den Linden boulevard" with no month or day, so the pin sits on that year's last day. It is placed at the City West rotunda, where the business moved after the war, not at the original Linden address.^[1]

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• Automotive09/15/2026@BuildDesk

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