Anton-Saefkow-Square

The town square named after Anton Saefkow in the Berlin district of Fennpfuhl in Lichtenberg was created on April 2, 1975 when the first large housing estate in the GDR was built. It is not a square in the classic sense, as it is neither enclosed by a clear boundary nor by a continuous, enclosing development.

In 1987, the architects Dieter Rühle, Jürgen-Dieter Busch, Manfred Bielert, Heinz Gischke, Lothar Köhler, Jörg Piesel, Otto Richter, Jack Welsland and Günter Wernitz were collectively awarded the Architecture Prize of the Capital of the GDR for the urban and architectural design of Anton-Saefkow-Platz in Berlin Lichtenberg.

The "Anton Saefkow Promenade" in the northern part of the square with the ball fountain in the center is worth a visit, as is the Saefkow memorial in the south. The stone stele "German Resistance to Fascism" commemorates the resistance fighters Anton Saeflow, Franz Jacob and Bernhard Bästlein, and the memorial was designed by Siegfried Krepp in 1986 at the transition to the Fennpfuhlpark on the south-eastern corner of the square and erected in 1989.