Savings bank We also offer our members the opportunity to invest their money in our savings bank. It’s a facility that used to and still does benefit both our members and the A smart move for Cooperative. Our members and their relatives (see clause 15 of the Berliner Bau- und homes and savings Abgabeordnung – German Taxation Ordinance defining Wohnungsgenossenschaft a relative) can place their money in the Cooperative’s von 1892 eG Based in Berlin since 1892 savings bank at exceptionally reasonable conditions. We’d be happy to advise you. Contact Knobelsdorffstrasse 94, 14050 Berlin Knobelsdorffstrasse 96 Phone +49 (0)800 1892 444, Fax +49 (0)30 30 30 2-175 14050 Berlin [email protected] Phone +49 (0)30 30 30 2-0 Fax +49 (0)30 30 30 2-165 [email protected] Who can use it? Great-grandparents www.1892.de Grandparents Uncles/aunts Parents-in-law Parents Siblings Spouse Member Brother-in-law/ sister-in-law/ Fiancé(e) Nieces/ nephews Civil partner (as specified in article 1 Children LPartG Lebenspartner- schaftsgesetz – German Civil Partnership Act) Photos: © Brenk Nashmi GbR Grandchildren Illustration: © Dominik Joswig Sons- or daugh- August 2019 BUILDING HOMES AND HELPING SAVINGS GROW ters-in-law Membership Wandlitz You need to purchase a share in the Cooperative worth of € 300 and an additional entrance fee of currently € 300 to become a member. The entrance fee will not be refun- ded upon termination of membership. If you rent an apartment you will need to buy further shares. Living in a cooperative allows you to feel very Pankow secure because you have a lifelong right to stay in our Spandau property. Mitte Lichtenberg Democracy in a cooperative Friedrichshain- Kreuzberg A key characteristic of a housing cooperative is that Gartenstadt Falkenberg and Schillerpark, our World Charlottenburg- Wilmersdorf members can exercise a voluntary right to have a say Heritage developments. and become involved. Our members have this option Steglitz-Zehlendorf Tempelhof- Schöneberg Neukölln Treptow-Köpenick with regard to the properties themselves and the organi- sation as a whole. elect Representatives Supervisory board About us elect appoints The Berliner Bau- und Wohnungsgenossenschaft von Members Our senior citizens’ apartments in Ortolanweg and 1892 eG was founded on 9 March 1892. We have approx. Westend. 6,870 apartments in Berlin and Wandlitz. At the moment employs we have a good 16,000 members. Staff Management board We can offer very different properties which are located in the following neighbourhoods: More than places to live _ Mitte (Moabit, Wedding) Our range of services allows us to offer our members _ Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (Friedrichshain) more than just a roof over their heads: _ Pankow (Prenzlauer Berg, Weissensee) _ Concierge offices in five of our developments _ Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (Charlottenburg, _ 20 Guest apartments in Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg, Westend) Lübbenau and Warnemünde (Baltic Sea) _ Spandau (Spandau) _ Apartments for senior citizens or shared apartments _ Steglitz-Zehlendorf (Lichterfelde) for senior citizens in five developments _ Tempelhof-Schöneberg (Tempelhof) _ General advice Our very first building in Sickingenstrasse and our cur- _ Neukölln (Britz, Buckow) _ Savings bank rent new build in Gartenstadt Falkenberg. _ Treptow-Köpenick (Altglienicke, Bohnsdorf) _ meeting place 1892Treffpunkt in Charlottenburg _ Lichtenberg (Lichtenberg) _ Laundry-cum-café in Spandau _ Brandenburg (Wandlitz).