Car mile Höherweg

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Car mile Höherweg, view from west to east

The car Höherweg in Düsseldorf district Flingern-South is an urban planned and targeted settlement of car dealerships from different manufacturers, which is an overarching concept is based. The project, which was set up in 2003 and 2004, was unique in Germany until then. The operator and initiator is Automeile Höherweg GmbH .

Between June 11 and 21, 2014, the ten-year anniversary of the automobile mile was celebrated.

Location and description

One of the four Kroymans pavilions on the automobile mile
Pedestrian promenade between the four Kroymans pavilions
Škoda Center Düsseldorf
4-wheel car dealership (since 09/2010)
Lexus Forum Düsseldorf
Bentley Düsseldorf
Infiniti Düsseldorf

The area, which runs in a west-east direction, is up to 600 m long and 250 m wide and is located in the industrial and commercial district of Flingern-Süd on Höherweg, which is also the namesake. The car mile is two kilometers east of Düsseldorf city ​​center in the immediate vicinity of the “Lastring”, the B 8 .

As a result of the Kroymans Group's insolvency in November 2009, nine car dealerships with formerly 23 car brands stood empty on an area of ​​around 100,000 m². The former Kroymans buildings have been occupied again since the beginning of July 2010. Since then, ten car dealerships have offered 17 car brands. Second-hand cars from other manufacturers are also sold. Furthermore, the central registration office and a citizens' office of the city of Düsseldorf as well as the local ADAC office are located on the site . The range of automobiles is rounded off by a Dekra branch , two car rental companies and various workshops for the car brands represented.

Car dealerships and their brands

  • Peugeot Niederrhein GmbH 1 : 07 / 2004-03 / 2016
  • CITROËN Commerce GmbH 1 : 07 / 2009–03 / 2016
  • Car dealership Ulmen (Citroën, DS, Peugeot): since 04/2016
  • Škoda Centrum Düsseldorf *: since 10/2005
  • Kroyman's dealership Düsseldorf 2 (Alfa Romeo, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Corvette, Ford, Hummer, Jaguar, Lancia, Land Rover, Opel, Saab, SsangYong, Volvo): 07 / 2004–11 / 2009
  • Car dealership 4-Rad 2 (Hyundai): since 10/2010
  • NRW-Garage Düsseldorf 2 (Fisker, Ford, Volvo): since 09/2010
  • Autocenter Dresen GmbH (Honda): 07 / 2004–12 / 2013
  • Honda Center Düsseldorf: since 01/2014
  • Car center P & A-Preckel 2 (Dacia, Infiniti, Kia, Nissan, Renault, Alpine): since 07/2004
  • Autohaus Yvel Düsseldorf (Lexus, Toyota): since 07/2004
  • SEAT Center North Rhine * 3 : 07 / 2004-09 / 2006
  • Bentley Düsseldorf * 3 : since 10/2006
  • Volkswagen Center North Rhine *: since 07/2004
  • Audi Center North Rhine - used cars *: since 07/2004
* Belongs to Gottfried Schultz GmbH & Co.KG.
1 In the summer of 2009, CITROËN Commerce GmbH received 50 percent of the sales space from Peugeot Niederrhein GmbH
2 From the end of August 2010, the NRW Garage Düsseldorf will rent 25 percent of the former Kroymans pavilions. Half will be taken over by the P&A car center and a quarter by the 4-Rad dealership.
3 Initially built for Seat, the dealership has been used by Bentley Düsseldorf ever since

history

During the Nazi era, all Düsseldorf Sinti families who had been forcibly evicted from their previous place of residence on the Heinefeld or from their apartments were housed in a forced camp on the Höherweg as a result of police persecution . The resettlement was under the slogan issued by Robert Ritter of "immediate police surveillance". In the camp, a sadistic supervisor including a sheepdog was able to let off steam unhindered with the people. Most of the residents were then killed in concentration camps. After 1945 the Höherweg camp housed a few returned survivors of the human extermination. Through the activities of the artist Otto Pankok , both periods are well documented in pictures and photos, these documents have been preserved.

As part of industrial closures and restructuring of the neighboring Stadtwerke Düsseldorf, the area moved into the urban planning focus. In the past, various car dealers, workshops and scrapyards had settled in the district. When Gottfried Schultz GmbH & Co.KG was looking for an expansion option for its Düsseldorf branch, the idea for the automobile mile arose.

Urban planning concept

Central pedestrian promenade

The central axis of the automobile mile is a green and traffic-calmed pedestrian promenade running from west to east, along which the various car brands can present themselves. Further pedestrianized paths branch off from this axis. The workshops, warehouses and disposal areas are arranged inside the building as far as possible so that there are shop windows on up to four sides of the building. A ring road leads around this central and traffic-calmed area. In the southern area there are service providers, the registration office, restaurants and the central parking garage. Luminous, green pylons with the trademark “AM” are intended to facilitate orientation and are also the leitmotif of the automobile mile. In order to achieve a certain degree of uniformity and architectural quality on the one hand, but also to meet the presentation needs of the various car brands on the other hand, a design statute was issued.

architecture

The architectural concept was developed by the Essen architects Koschany + Zimmer Architekten KZA . Landscape architects was the Duisburg office Plan B alternatives .

Web links

Commons : Automeile Höherweg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Erwin (Ed.): Plans, Projects, Buildings, Architecture and Urban Development in Düsseldorf 2000 to 2015 , p. 57f, Braun, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938780-00-8
  2. ↑ CITROËN branch Düsseldorf ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2010 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / home.mobile.de
  3. ↑ Skoda Centrum Düsseldorf: Customer-friendly and transparent ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2009 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schormann-architekten.de
  4. ↑ Kroymans pavilions sold on the automobile mile
  5. ↑ Automeile closes Kroymans gap
  6. ↑ Honda opens third branch: Importer: earnings situation in Honda dealers is "on the mend"
  7. ↑ Bentley opens tenth branch in Germany ( Memento of the original from July 6, 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / de.cars.yahoo.com
  8. ↑ in detail, with many illustrations in 1. Karola Fings , Frank Sparing: "Oh friends, where have you gone ...?" Otto Pankok and the Düsseldorf Sinti. Ed. Evangelische Johanneskirchen-Gemeinde & Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Düsseldorf 2006, 2nd, revised. Edition catalog of a traveling exhibition that can be borrowed. Numerous drawings by Pankok, b / w photos and texts about the living conditions and the extermination of the Sinti on site, especially in the chapter “Crammed together behind barbed wire.” The gypsy camp on Höherweg. ; 2. Photos from the post-war period from the Höherweg gypsy camp. in Zs. "Moment", Ed. Mahn- und Gedenkstätte, No. 7, 1995 p. 11 (4 b / w photos, text by Frank Sparing). Both editions with details of the respective archives

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '14.3 "  N , 6 ° 49' 11.4"  E