Alstertal shopping center

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Alstertal shopping center
Alstertal shopping center
Basic data
Location: Hamburg-Poppenbüttel
Opening: 5th November 1970
Total area: approx. 59,000
Sales area : approx. 59,000 m²
Shops: approx. 240
Owner : ECE project management
Website: www.alstertal-einkaufszentrum.de
Transport links
Railway station: Hamburg-Poppenbüttel S-Bahn station
Bus stop: Alstertal shopping center
S-Bahn : S1Hamburg S1.svg S11Hamburg S11.svg
Omnibus : 8, 24, 174, 176, 178, 179, 276, 374
Motorways : B432 B434
Parking spaces : 3,000

The Alstertal Shopping Center (AEZ) in northeast Hamburg is one of the largest shopping centers in northern Germany. It is in the former local exchange area Alstertal in the district of Hamburg-Poppenbüttel near the Alster run . According to the operator ECE , the AEZ has a sales area of ​​59,000 m², 240 shops and around 38,500 visitors per day.

Emergence

Originally, the AEZ was to be built on Meiendorfer Strasse in Hamburg-Rahlstedt , but met resistance there, and the city of Hamburg directed the investor to the “green field” in Poppenbüttel. In 1970 the AEZ was opened as the first covered shopping gallery in Germany with 100 shops and a sales area of ​​32,000 m².

The murder of Hamburg police officer Norbert Schmid on October 22, 1971 by the RAF in front of the AEZ made nationwide headlines . Gerhard Müller and Ulrike Meinhof were among the refugees . In memory of Norbert Schmid, a central square in the Tegelsbarg residential area was named after him.

remodeling

Main entrance AEZ
Entrance from the direction of the S-Bahn station

In the spring of 2005, renovation and expansion work began. They were completed in September 2006 and the related reorganization was completed in autumn 2007. The AEZ received a “piazza”, cafés, restaurants, water and green areas as well as a light glass-sandstone facade that is illuminated in the evening. The entrance portal was renewed and added three 8 meter high, red sculptures by the artist Zoyt . They represent a family (mother, father and child) and stand in a Mimir fountain.

Three figures by Zoyt at the Mimir fountain

meaning

The operator's most important shops in the AEZ include the retail agent Galeria Kaufhof , the grocery store REWE , the book retail chain Thalia and the textile retailers H&M , P&C , Zara and Anson's Herrenhaus . The AEZ has over 3000 parking spaces with three entrances (east, middle, west). With over 2000 employees, it is an important regional economic factor.

See also

literature

  • Natalie Hochheim: Development of the shopping center in Hamburg: with special consideration of the history of the shopping center shopping center Hamburger Straße and Alstertal shopping center . University of Hamburg, Hamburg 2003, urn : nbn: de: gbv: 18-9175 . (Social history dissertation with Franklin Kopitzsch .)
  • Martin Koscheike: Nationwide consumer magnet: the Alstertal shopping center . In: Jürgen Mirow: Poppenbüttel: Portrait of a district , BoD, Norderstedt 2003, ISBN 3-8334-0169-9 , pp. 169–175. (Excerpt online .)

Web links

Commons : Alstertal shopping center  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ECE Gründerzeit, Alstertal shopping center
  2. a b Alstertal shopping center Hamburg. ECE, accessed on March 24, 2019 .
  3. a b About us. Retrieved March 24, 2019 .
  4. Alstertal shopping center, contact. Retrieved March 24, 2019 .
  5. a b c Anja Sommerfeld and Wolfgang Buss: The large AEZ book . 2010, ISBN 978-3-925800-11-5 , pp. 79, 95, 129 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 39 ′ 16 ″  N , 10 ° 5 ′ 27 ″  E