On the approximately 2600m² plot of Block IV of the former allotment garden site of the Kolonie am Stadtpark I, people have been gardening for around 80 years. Immediately adjacent to the north was the synagogue, which was inaugurated in 1930. It was destroyed in the pogrom night of 1938 and never rebuilt. A memorial plaque at Prinzregentenstraße 69/70 commemorates this.
The literary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin lived in the immediate vicinity, at Prinzregentenstraße 66. He went into exile in Paris in 1933 and took his own life on the French-Spanish border in 1940 while fleeing from the Nazis.