PROHLIS: The Charms Of Socialist Housing by Kathrin_E
Prohlis is a suburb in the southeast of Dresden that contains entirely of Plattenbauten, uniform apartment buildings made from prefabricated slabs. Here you can see and feel how ideology wanted the New Socialist Human Being to live.Most of the houses have been renovated in recent years. The quarter has got a modern shopping mall and tram connection. Anyway, the atmosphere is still somehow depressing, even on a bright sunny spring day with the pink cherry trees in bloom.
The little protestant church and community centre, built in 1982, almost disappears among the surrounding multi-storey houses. According to the parish's website, it want s to be "the Lord's modest hut among His people." This is one of the few new churches that could be built after a change in GDR politics towards the Churches in the late 70s. The bell tower, however, has only been added in 2005.
