See Großsiedlung Britz (Hufeisensiedlung), Berlin, Germany (UNESCO site)

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The horseshoe settlement arose from 1925 to 1933 in Berlin-Britz, designed by Bruno Taut and Martin Wagner. She is one of the first projects of social housing and part of the large settlement of Britz / Fritz-Reuter-city, the second part designed by the architect Paul Engelmann and Emil Meyer was catching. Since 2008 she has been a UNESCO World Heritage site. The site consist of 1072 homes. There are four different floor plans. 472 homes are in - strung together - family homes, 600 are located in the three-story apartment buildings. With the exception of the central horseshoe all the buildings are lined with rows, each house is assigned its own tenants garden.

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