Arabellapark

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Arabellapark (Munich)
Arabellapark
Arabellapark
Location in Munich

The Arabellapark is a residential and commercial area in the Munich district of Bogenhausen , the development of which was essentially created between 1965 and 1998. It was one of the largest city expansion projects in Munich after the Second World War . The Arabellapark takes its name from the Arabellastraße located there.

Location, traffic development and development

The Arabellapark is located in the east of Munich on an area that is enclosed by four large streets. The Richard-Strauss-Straße , part of the middle ring , forms the border in the west, Englschalkinger road in the north, to the east lies the Vollmannstraße and south Denningerstraße. The Arabellapark is connected to the Munich rapid-transit railway network by the subway station of the same name on the U 4 line ; Numerous urban buses and two tram lines stop at the bus station on the surface . A mixture of residential, office, shop and hotel use was realized in Arabellapark , with offices predominating. There are only a few, small streets within the Arabellapark; the majority of the road network is reserved for pedestrians. In over thirty years of construction activity, a variety of building shapes in different modern architectural styles and heights has emerged - from the two-storey row of shops to the bank headquarters over a hundred meters high. Today, around 10,000 people live in the Arabellapark on around 40 hectares , while 18,000 people work in offices, shops and hotels.

history

Inscription foundation stone

In the second half of the 19th century, clay was mined for brick production in the area of ​​today's Arabellapark as well as further east and on the site of the later Parkstadt Bogenhausen . After the clay layer was exhausted, it was used for gravel mining and as sheep pasture. With the completion of the Kennedy Bridge at the end of 1963, Richard-Strauss-Strasse became an important link between the districts east of the Isar and Schwabing . This made the site interesting for residential use. From 1958 Josef Schörghuber began to buy up large plots of land on the area of ​​today's Arabellapark. For 17.50 DM per square meter he acquired the first piece of land from a community of heirs . Schörghuber noticed the large undeveloped area from the plane. In exchange for land required by the city of Munich on today's Altstadtring , he later also acquired shares in their property. The Bavarian construction Josef Schörghubers had later as owner of the largest share of the construction activity in the Arabella Park.

In 1965 the city drew up a zoning plan that had been discussed since 1961. The principle of interlinking living and working, which was laid down in this plan and later also implemented with the Arabellapark, was not in trend in the mid-1960s. The first office building was started in 1965; it is the only one to have been canceled so far. The first residential buildings were built in the same year. Since 1968 there was an emergency church in a wooden barrack. After a few office buildings, the Arabellahaus , the Sheraton Hotel and some high-rise apartment buildings had already been completed, the city no longer issued building permits for further planned buildings, among other things because there was a lack of public transport connections. In 1976 a new development plan was finally drawn up, which envisaged the Arabellapark as a sub-center for the north-east of Munich. Another intensive construction activity followed. In 1988 the subway and bus station went into operation, the last office building has been occupied since 1998.

At the end of the 1990s, the first office building built in Arabellapark a little further west on Denninger Strasse was demolished and replaced by an extension for the Hypo-Haus . In 2011 the disk house at Arabellastraße 30 was dismantled and replaced by the new Arabeska building and an associated residential building by the end of 2013 .

Streets and squares

The Arabellapark is also called Richard-Strauss-Viertel , in which the street names are named after the composer Richard Strauss and his works. These include:

Outstanding buildings

In addition to the largest and most distinctive buildings, the Arabellahaus and the Hypo-Haus and the Catholic parish center St. Rita (today part of the parish association Bogenhausen-Süd), the following buildings, which can be assigned to classical modernism, characterize the Arabellapark:

"Point high-rise buildings"

"Star House"
"Westin Grand Hotel"
"Disk House"
Arabellapark market square

Five 17-storey residential buildings with a square floor plan are located in the north-eastern part of the Arabellapark. Hans Ziegert , who lived there himself until his death, planned these houses with one to three-room condominiums . Construction time was from 1965 to 1969. On the roof of two of these skyscrapers there is a heated swimming pool in the open air.

"Star House"

The star house in the northwest is called that because of its cross-shaped floor plan and not - what would seem logical - "Kreuzhaus". The office building is 18 stories high and is clad with precast concrete with broken marble. It was built between 1967 and 1969 according to plans by Toby Schmidbauer . In 1976 three - storey pavilion - like extensions with an aluminum-glass facade were built, designed by Claus Winkler , E. Effinger and G. Altmann . BayWa AG has owned the complex since 1976 .

The Westin Grand Munich Arabellapark hotel

Edgar Frasch built the hotel for the Sheraton chain . With its 22 floors, it has a slim, rectangular floor plan. Upstream are two-storey additional buildings. High-rise and low-rise buildings are clad with reinforced concrete parts. Construction time was from 1969 to 1972. The name of the former Sheraton Hotel changed several times; Since May 1, 2009, it has offered 627 rooms and suites as the Westin Grand Munich Arabellapark. With 38.2 million euros in 2015, it was ranked 9th among the hotels with the highest turnover in Germany and 3rd in Munich.

Ministry of Environment building

Edgar Frasch also planned this building, and it was completed in 1970. The six-story, natural stone-clad building on Englschalkinger Strasse measures 90 by 65 meters and was one of the largest office buildings in Munich when it was built. The large inner courtyard of the house is covered at the level of the first floor. The Bavarian State Ministry for Environment and Health resides in this building .

"Arabeska"

Since 2010 there has been a new office building under the Arabeska brand at Denninger Strasse 30 in Arabellapark. It replaces the original disc house , whose continuous concrete parapets gave the office building the appearance of stacked panes. It was 14 stories high; It was built from 1969 to 1973 according to plans by Busse & Partner . In 2010 the building was demolished and replaced by the new 6-storey building. Arabeska is a property owned by Bayerische Ärzteversorgung .

Arabella arch

The 7 to 12 storey, U-shaped residential and commercial building is clad with white metal panels; it is popularly known as the “white giant”. A design by Busse & Partners was also implemented here. There are medical practices, apartments and offices in the house.

Office buildings, public facilities and rows of shops on the market square

The two- to three-storey buildings clad with dark brown panels, which are loosely grouped around Rosenkavalierplatz, come from Stöter-Tillmann & Kaiser, Friedrichs, Kleye . Here you will find offices, shops, restaurants, a cinema, a discotheque , as well as a branch of the Munich adult education center , the Munich city library and the elderly and service center .

Headquarters of the Schörghuber Group in Denninger Strasse

Corporate headquarters of the Schörghuber Group

The building complex on Denninger Strasse, planned by Peter Lanz , consists of a long, rectangular building and a triangular wing. Both are clad in polished natural stone; together they form a trapezoidal forecourt on the corner of Daphnestrasse and Denninger Strasse. A closed building bridge connects this complex with the office buildings on Bayerische Hausbau on the corner of Vollmannstrasse and Denninger Strasse that had been built a few years earlier. With the headquarters of the Schörghuber group of companies , the development in Arabellapark was initially completed in 1994.

Church, social and cultural institutions

literature

  • Willibald Karl (ed.): The Arabellapark. A success story . Buchendorfer, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-927984-90-6

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ deal magazine, 8, 2004: 50 years of Bavarian house building. The success story , accessed on March 5, 2009
  2. ↑ Guests and investors fly to German hotels , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 20, 2016, p. 22.
  3. ↑ Architecture , arabeska-muenchen.de
  4. ^ High-rise demolition piece by piece , Münchner Merkur , March 3, 2010

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '  N , 11 ° 37'  E