Alster center
The Alsterzentrum is a major construction project in Hamburg that was not carried out in the 1960s.
In June 1966, the presented housing enterprises New home of its former chairman Albert Vietor -commissioned plans for a radical transformation of Hamburg-St. Georg , which included an almost complete demolition of the district. The design by the architect Hans Konwiarz envisaged the removal of the entire grown structure of the district with the exception of the Evangelical Trinity Church and the Catholic Church of St. Mary, thus creating space for a crescent-shaped chain of pyramid-like upward pointing with its back to the Alster rejuvenating high-rise buildings, the construction of which was estimated to cost two billion German marks . The facility should offer living space for 20,000 people and parking spaces for 16,000 cars . The total length of the complex should be 700 meters, the tallest building would have 63 floors and a height of 200 meters. Konwiarz 'plans were only a basic draft; The final design of the complex was to be decided in an international architectural competition . The project should be completed by 1973.
While the project initially generated a positive response, including in the Hamburg Senate , critical voices increased in the following years. Landowners and residents asked to participate in the planning, there was resistance to the threat of forced relocation of the residents of St. Georg, and in general the sense of the oversized building project was increasingly questioned. In 1973, the then First Mayor Peter Schulz finally announced the end of the Alsterzentrum project .
literature
- Norbert Baues: Concrete urban utopia - Alster center in St. Georg . In: Ulrich Höhns (Ed.): The unbuilt Hamburg . Junius Verlag , Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-88506-191-0 , p. 188-199 .
Web links
- The Hamburg dream of 1966: Manhattan on the Alster - Hamburger Abendblatt from November 28, 2014.
- City within the city - DER SPIEGEL No. 29/1966
- Hamburg Architecture Archive ( Memento from April 28, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg: Construction date for the Alster Center is already in sight. March 11, 1969, accessed on February 4, 2019 (German).