´Blütenviertel` Caputh, Schwielowsee (DE) 2009

In central position at the main through-road of Caputh, within eyshot of the baroque palace and the historical church of the village, an idle area of 45 000 qm is situated. It was former used by a horticultural farm and other reasons and is abandoned now for more than 15 years. The VON ZADOW GmbH is supporting the development of a new utilisation concept under the working title `Blütenviertel´ to give this site in the middle of Caputh a new function and face.

The abandoned area should become a vital, valuable and multifarious urban place in Caputh.

The village has got 4 000 inhabitants and is currently intending the status of a state approved recreation site. Surrounded by scenic lakes and forests but still close to Berlin or Potsdam the village was and still is a favoured place to live and for holidays. Since 1989 Caputh was developing and growing pretty fast. New residential areas were launched, the baroque palace, the church and other old and historical bulidings were saved and reconstructed.

Nevertheless, a reasonable utilisation concept was never developed for the 45 000 qm site situated in the middle of the village, so over the past 15 years buildings and structures of the place got derelict.

Now the area should become a high-quality, multifarious urban living space for common welfare by using cooperative planning methods as intensive participation of interested citizens, civil service, town planners, and politicians

A development concept with urban, ecological, social and economical perspectives is the central precondition for future investments in this site that is currently hold by the `BVVG´, sucessor of the `Treuhand´, a governmental organisation for managing and vending the once public owned estates in the area of the former DDR (German Democratic Republic).

4 500 qm derelict area within a former horticultural farm inhibits the development of central Caputh.