Siemensstadt is a locality of Berlin in the district of Spandau. The locality emerged when the company Siemens & Halske, one of the predecessors of today's Siemens, bought land in the area, in order to expand production of S & H and their subsidiary Siemens-Schuckertwerke as well. On the initiative of Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, S & H started to build new f…Siemensstadt is a locality of Berlin in the district of Spandau. The locality emerged when the company Siemens & Halske, one of the predecessors of today's Siemens, bought land in the area, in order to expand production of S & H and their subsidiary Siemens-Schuckertwerke as well. On the initiative of Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, S & H started to build new factories in 1899. Soon also residential buildings were erected. The locality was incorporated into Berlin on 1 October 1920 by the Greater Berlin Act.
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