Painted Wilhelminian apartment blocks converge at a seven street junction, two blocks from the floodplain forest along the Pleiße.
What Connewitz looks like
Seven streets meet at the , where a tram line splits off toward Dölitz and a 1994 replica of a sandstone column from 1536 stands on the traffic island, the original kept in the city history museum. Painted plaster blocks four and five storeys tall run down Bornaische Straße and Wolfgang-Heinze-Straße, their ground floors given over to shops and cafes. has run as a cinema since 1912, its twin gabled front rising over the shopfronts on Wolfgang-Heinze-Straße.
Bernhard-Göring-Straße continues the same painted facades past a carved sandstone portal at the . Farther along, the blocks turn plainer where four storey housing went up after the war, with trams running on tracks set into the asphalt and bicycles racked along the kerb.
Behind the Kreuz, Werk 2 fills a run of yellow brick halls built as a gas meter factory in the nineteenth century, its gate opening onto a cobbled courtyard hung with gig posters. Arthur-Hoffmann-Straße runs a longer stretch of the same yellow brick at the , banded in green glazed brick where a gear factory became flats and shops.
Selneckerstraße ends at the , its sixty metre tower rising clear of the rooftops. South and west of the apartment blocks, the street grid stops within two blocks of the Pleiße's floodplain forest, dense woodland reaching down to the water.
Shot in Connewitz
A gas meter factory converted behind the Connewitzer Kreuz, Werk 2 hosted two ZDF broadcasts in 1995. One was a late night series named after the building itself. The 2015 feature Als wir träumten shot interior scenes at a bar in Connewitz, and the production does not name which one.
WERK 2 – Nachtschicht, 1995
Werk 2
ZDF recorded two broadcasts at Werk 2 in 1995, one of them a late night series named after the building itself. The cameras worked inside the converted gas meter factory, with its cobbled yard and brick halls behind the Connewitzer Kreuz.
Friedrichshain repeats the same five storey Wilhelminian blocks with painted plaster facades and shops at street level, and productions already use its cheaper streets to stand in for central Berlin. The road junctions and tram tracks read the same way on camera. Berlin cornices run heavier and some blocks rise a storey taller, so a tight street level frame holds the match better than a wide rooftop shot. Try searching painted plaster facades blocks now.
Žižkov is built from the same four and five storey tenement blocks as Connewitz, raised in the same Austro-Hungarian era of apartment construction, with corner towers breaking the roofline the same way. The grid of dense side streets reads the same from above. Prague brick runs a deeper ochre and its roofs pitch steeper, so colour grading and a tighter lens keep the match convincing. Try searching tenement block corner tower now.
Ancoats red brick mills carry the same banded cornices and round headed windows as the converted factory at Werk 2, raised for the same era of mechanised industry. English brick runs a deeper red and the window frames are timber rather than painted steel, so close inserts need matching hardware. A courtyard behind iron gates could pass for the one here with the right dressing. Try searching red brick mill courtyard gates now.
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