Originally built between 1968 and 1980, the building stands at 118.5 m (389 ft) tall with 32 floors and is located in the southern area of Schloßstraße diagonally opposite the Steglitz Town Hall.

[2] The main part of the complex is a 120 m high former administration building with 30 floors, one of the highest skyscrapers in Berlin, which housed the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district office until the end of 2007 and which has been empty since then.

After demolition of the ruins had already been considered, the building was bought at auction in 1977 by Becker & Kries, who completed the roundabout for 95 million marks.

It is rumored that a civil defense system was installed in the parking garage for some members of the American armed forces.

The current site of the Steglitzer Kreisel used to be the southern part of the estate village of Stegelitz, which was in a remote peripheral location until the construction of the first paved street in Prussia, later Reichsstraße 1 (afterwards: Bundesstraße 1), in 1792.

Comedy and musical plays were performed on the stage set up in an octagonal wooden house, including the then famous Karl Unzelmann.

[4] According to one source, “a multi-purpose building with a hotel, restaurant and theater” was said to have been built that year, but the first construction work was probably limited to the garden hall and orchestra stage.

[7] vermutlich beschränkten sich die ersten Baumaßnahmen aber auf Gartenhalle und Orchesterbühne.

A photo from 1904 shows the Berlinickes' simple farmhouses on Schloßstrasse, while behind the railway line in the Berlinickestrasse area there are already multi-story residential buildings.

[4] As late as 1936, the restaurant kept twelve pigs and 500-600 chickens in the Albrechtshof, and residents of the houses directly opposite at Kuhligkshofstrasse 3-5 complained about the noise and the “stench”.

From them, it emerged that: The real estate company Becker & Kries offered to cover the costs and carry out the renovation gradually if the complex continued to be used by the district office.

[13] After the asbestos removal, carried out on behalf of the State of Berlin in 2016, the actual costs were estimated at 18.5 million euros.

The two-year renovation work was supposed to have started in 2009, after the Berlin finance administration and the real estate fund had again tried in vain to sell the building in an unrenovated state.

[20] The Berliner Zeitung reported on 11 August 2011 that the renovation of the Steglitzer Kreisel should begin "in the summer of next year and be completed in the first half of 2015".

[21][22] In February 2012, the architect Gert Eckel submitted a new proposal to the Senator for Urban Development for the use of the asbestos-contaminated building, in which he had "shown great interest".

According to this, the building was to be used for a limited period of 15 years as a small warehouse, for studios for visual artists and as a meeting place for Jewish culture with a restaurant.

[18] The office building was used as an outdoor set in the 1984 film Didi – The Doppelgänger with Dieter Hallervorden for the fictional million-dollar company 'Immer International'.

The ARD report Ungleichland, broadcast in May 2018, shows the Steglitzer Kreisel as an illustration of Berlin's housing construction and real estate market.