My family and I started living in the Pergola District in November 2019. The ‘Pergolenviertel’ is located in Hamburg, Germany and about 1400 residential flats will be part to the district. This photo blog is about the experience of being one of the first residents in a new community built from scratch.

This site is not affiliated with any official sources.

Inner courtyard bird’s eye view

Inner courtyard bird’s eye view

Our inner courtyard has rapidly developed over the last 3 weeks. Our building is a square, with one half ‘our’ building and the other half developed by a different building company. Due to the district concept, it all looks nicely like it belongs together. Our part of the building, site 2b, is pretty much finished, site 2a is due to finish in spring 2020. A massive building fence still divides our inner courtyard and it will be good to access the other half come spring. I think the daughter will have much fun in the sandpit. Centrally located is also a toddler paddling pool. Due to health and safety, this pool would need to be emptied every day if it were officially in use, with the building ownership community having to pay for the management. When buying, we were rather excited about this toddler pool – we quickly realised though that it is unlikely that the daughter will ever use it due to the costs and general hassle (let alone rather wasteful water use) that come with operating the toddler pool. Well, at least she will have an excellent slope for her little toy cars in the spring..

62401F51-F1AC-4194-B37F-06A19321BF2C.jpeg
0DB1CC33-A34F-4E5D-A102-0A3F5AE17EE3.jpeg
15BCEE94-B5EC-4E9E-AEF9-0C8B9006064F.jpeg
Cranes – and first contact

Cranes – and first contact

First Christmas

First Christmas