Sennestadt
Sign in to savethumb| Sennestadt is a district in the South-East of the German city of Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia. With some 21,000 residents, it is renowned as a remarkable feat of urban planning. The satellite town of Sennestadt was created in the 1950s, in the heathlands and grasslands of the former municipality of Senne II, in accordance with the designs of the urban planner, Hans Bernhard Reichow, and it was primarily intended for post-war displaced persons and refugees. The town's many distinctive urban planning features have attracted international attention.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- housing estate
- Country
- Germany
- Population
- 21710
- Area
- 24.71
- Elevation
- 149
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.bielefeld.de/de/bz/sest
- Image
- Die Lichtung.JPG
- Dialing code
- 05205
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- Commons category
- Sennestadt
- postal code
- 33689
- P6814
- Sennestadt
- P8168
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Urban planning, traffic and architecture
- Environmental aspects
- Sennestadt as the "historic city centre"
- Buildings
- Art in public spaces
- Urban restructuring and urban renewal
- Trivia
- References
- External links
thumb| Sennestadt is a district in the South-East of the German city of Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia. With some 21,000 residents, it is renowned as a remarkable feat of urban planning. The satellite town of Sennestadt was created in the 1950s, in the heathlands and grasslands of the former municipality of Senne II, in accordance with the designs of the urban planner, Hans Bernhard Reichow, and it was primarily intended for post-war displaced persons and refugees. The town's many distinctive urban planning features have attracted international attention.
== History ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sennestadt” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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