Hackesche Höfe
Hackesche Höfe stands beside Hackescher Markt in central Berlin, forming Germany’s largest single courtyard complex. Eight interconnected courtyards create a passage between residential, commercial, and cultural spaces.
August Endell designed the Jugendstil architecture, whose construction began in 1906 as an alternative to nineteenth-century courtyard layouts. Shops, restaurants, cafés, offices, workshops, apartments, a cinema, and cultural institutions fill the restored buildings. Restoration began in 1993 after wartime damage and deterioration during Germany’s division, preserving the complex’s mixed urban use.
The surrounding Scheunenviertel developed outside Berlin’s seventeenth-century walls and became a lively Jewish neighbourhood. The first courtyard draws the eye with a façade of polychrome glazed bricks, while bars, clubs, and theatres animate the front courtyards. Wheelchair access makes the connected spaces easier to explore.
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