City Gallery Augsburg
| City Gallery Augsburg | |
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| City-Galerie in Augsburg at sunset | |
| Basic data | |
| Location: | Willy-Brandt-Platz 1, 86153 Augsburg |
| Opening: | September 5, 2001 |
| Total area: | 26,550 m² |
| Sales area : | 25,000 m² |
| Shops: | 100 |
| Visitors: | 25,618 daily |
| Operator: | ECE project management |
| Website: | www.city-galerie-augsburg.de |
| Transport links | |
| Bus stop: | Moritzplatz |
| Tram : | Line 2 |
| Omnibus : | Lines 22 and 35 |
| Local transport : | Shuttle bus between City-Galerie and Moritzplatz |
| Motorways : | A 8 , exit Augsburg-Ost |
| Other: | B 10 , B 17 |
| Parking spaces : | 2000 |
| Bicycle parking spaces : | 142 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Construction time : | April 1999 – September 2001 |
| Architects : | Jost Hering, Manfred Stanek |
| Architectural style : | Max Bögl prefabricated construction |
| Building material : | 38,000 m³ in-situ concrete , glass |
| Building-costs: | EUR 92 million |
The City-Galerie is a shopping center in Augsburg that opened in 2001 and is the largest shopping center in Bavarian Swabia . It is operated by ECE Projektmanagement GmbH & Co. KG as one of over 90 commercial properties.
location
The shopping center is located east of Augsburg city center within the textile district , which is named after the textile industry companies that previously settled there. It was built on the site of the former New Augsburger Kattunfabrik (NAK for short) , which was demolished in 1999. With the new construction of the so-called Schleifenstrasse , the City-Galerie was also connected to the four-lane Amagasaki- / Nagahama- / Inverness-Allee. A connection to various city bus routes has been set up.
use
Overall, the City-Galerie offers more than 100 different retail and catering businesses a sales area, whereby the concept is designed so that specialty shops (for example for fashion or sports goods ) alternate with catering stands. The city gallery houses, among other things, three large fashion houses, a specialist market for entertainment electronics and a sports store, as well as a number of fast food restaurants. Germany's sixth Apple Store opened its doors here on September 3, 2011 .
In addition to the retail and catering businesses, there is a Cinemaxx multiplex cinema with nine cinema halls. There are also regular events, such as a snowboard rail battle in front of the City Gallery on Willy-Brandt-Platz.
Dates and numbers
The City-Galerie was built on a plot of land with an area of 50,300 m² and has a total rental area of 40,400 m² - making it one of the largest shopping centers in southern Germany . This area is divided into 32,600 m² for the sales areas of the retail and catering businesses, 6,200 m² for their storage space and 1,600 m² for various medical practices that were housed in the building (including dentists and orthopedists ). Every day around 25,620 people visit the shopping center, which employs 950 people.
Consequential effects
Already in the planning phase, the establishment of a “new center” away from the historic city center was “viewed with skepticism and discussed very controversially” in public, especially in the inner-city retail sector. It was feared that there would be considerable shifts in sales and lasting damage to local retailers and the urban structure as a whole. At the start of the public discussion, the city, which had committed itself to the ECE project, hired a “City Manager” who would guide the residents of the city center, the clubs and those involved in ECE towards “common goals and uniform action to swear ”.
Just a few years after the opening, local observers of urban development noticed the “massive” effects of this settlement policy. These included the "growing chain stores ", namely by non-local large chains, a "rise of discounters" and an increased vacancy rate in the city center. As part of what is known as vacancy management, a large textile chain then tried to make vacancies more attractive.
This confirms the general experience that shopping centers of the “City-Galerie” type (also known as “Malls”), as they have been built in numerous cities for around two decades by a few major investors such as ECE Projektmanagement GmbH & Co. KG (see also the city galleries in Siegen or Aschaffenburg ), bring about fundamental changes in the city structures in a displacement competition. As a rule, they have a negative impact on trade and life in the historic center.
If they are large in the shape of the mall and do not directly adjoin the grown city center, as is the case in Augsburg, “they can destroy established urban structures and contribute to the desolation of entire streets.” Since larger sales areas do not increase purchasing power, distribute them the sales are new. As a rule, the local retail trade loses its function in favor of the largely non-local, mostly international large chain stores in the new areas. The historical centers, which are only rarely frequented by established consumers, take up offers of lower value. Established restaurants and retailers have to close. A vacancy problem arises.
literature
- Monika Walther, Shopping Center - Curse or Blessing for (Inner) Urban Development ?, o. O. 2006
Web links
- Overview of discussion on city change
- Statement from urban planners at the University of Stuttgart (PDF; 1.4 MB)
- Extract from FDP announcements (PDF; 495 kB)
- Official website of the City-Galerie Augsburg
- City-Galerie Augsburg on the ECE website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cult status: Augsburg Apple Store opened - customers are queuing , Augsburger Allgemeine , accessed on September 5, 2011.
- ↑ a b Such a study by the University of Stuttgart: PDF .
- ↑ See Forum Augsburg, 2004 ; a good overview of the discussion ( memento of the original from June 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Interview of the Augsburg FDP “Mitteilungen” with the city manager, 2004
- ↑ Monika Walther (University of Hamburg) examined 70 such new centers, including Augsburg. In one case (Wolfsburg) alone, instead of polarization (here a flourishing mall, there a distressed old center), she found a positive overall development: Monika Walther, Shopping Center - Curse or Blessing for (Inner) Urban Development ?, o. O. 2006.
- ↑ So the Braunschweig city architect Holger Pump-Uhlmann in: Der Patriot. Lippstädter Zeitung, September 15, 2007.
- ↑ There is a good overview of the criticism of the Augsburg case ( memento of the original from June 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . About the criticism of the concept of the mall, which is also fundamentally related to the Augsburg case, B .: Monika Walther, Shopping Center - Curse or Blessing for (Inner) Urban Development ?, o. O. 2006; Gerhard Matzig, A department store is made out of a castle, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 27, 2007.
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 56 ″ N , 10 ° 54 ′ 20 ″ E