Berlin wholesale market
The Berlin wholesale market is located in the Moabit district of Berlin at Beusselstrasse 44n – q, right next to the Westhafen . Around 300 wholesalers from the food and non-food sector offer their goods and services on an area of 326,475 square meters. The product spectrum of the Berlin Freshness Center ranges from fruit and vegetables ( Fruchthof Berlin ) to meat and sausage products, seafood, fresh fish and frozen fish, drinks, convenience products , specialties and delicacies. The offer is complemented by the flower wholesale market with its range of cut flowers, plants and floristry supplies. In addition, there are supporting services such as storage, transport, cooling, refueling, washing and repairing.
Infrastructure
The Berlin wholesale market is operated by Berliner Großmarkt GmbH. Your management is in the hands of Peter Stäblein. Berliner Großmarkt GmbH is a state-owned company that acts independently. However, its supervisory board is largely made up of representatives from the Berlin Senate .
The Berlin Wholesale Market GmbH in 2017 from the World Association of Wholesale Markets leaked (World Union of Wholesale Markets, WUWM) and the Community to promote the interests of Germany's fresh produce markets (GFI).
The total turnover of the Berlin wholesale market is around 600,000 tons per year, of which around 220,000 tons are fruit and vegetables. The catchment area of the Freshness Center Berlin serves around six million people and includes the metropolitan region of Berlin / Brandenburg and the areas beyond it as far as Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
The companies based in the wholesale market provide around 2500 jobs, the administration of the wholesale market employs 27 people. The Berlin wholesale market is open 24 hours a day, the fruit and vegetable hall Monday to Friday from 2 a.m. to 10 p.m., on Saturdays until 2 p.m., the flower wholesale market is open from Monday to Friday from 4 a.m. to 1 p.m. and on Tuesday and Thursday until 8 p.m. open on Saturdays until 9 a.m. The wholesale meat market is open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., the Deutsche See from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
history
The Berlin wholesale market was created as the operating company for the Berlin market halls, which the Berlin City Administration had built and opened between 1883 and 1892. A total of eleven market halls were built throughout the city, plus the wholesale flower market on Enckestrasse in 1937 .
Much of the market halls were destroyed in World War II and only a part of them was rebuilt. Among other things, the market hall on Marheinekeplatz (reopened in 1962), the market hall on Arminiusstrasse and the one on Eisenbahnstrasse. Which were also destroyed Market Hall II and the adjacent wholesale flower on Friedrichstrasse. The latter was rebuilt in 1962 and opened in 1965.
The so-called “Central Market Hall” on Alexanderplatz also fell victim to the war . It was also the seat of the management company Großmarkt Berlin. Since rebuilding was next to impossible, the wholesale market moved to Mariendorf in 1949 and was renamed to Berliner Großmarkt GmbH in 1960. The newly founded company applied for a new location and received approval for a new building on Beusselstrasse. The location opened on March 20, 1965.
In that year and the following years, the fruit and vegetable wholesale market and the meat wholesale market were opened. In 1969 the land of the flower wholesale market and the three retail market halls on Marheinekeplatz, Eisenbahnstrasse and Arminiusstrasse were transferred. In 1975 the offer of the wholesale market was completed by the new building of the "Deutsche See", in 1987 a new fruit and vegetable hall with 11,000 square meters was added; in addition to the approximately 30,000 square meter hall of the Fruchthof Berlin
In 2007 the market hall on Marheinekeplatz was completely renovated and reopened with a small-scale retail concept. During the nine-month renovation phase, the market traders continued their business in sales containers on Marheinekeplatz. The renovation of the market hall turned out to be a success: The hall is currently one of the most modern in Germany and attracts up to 7,000 customers daily from the near and far.
The fruit and vegetable wholesale market on the Beusselstrasse site was comprehensively renovated in 2007 and reopened in March 2008. At the end of 2009, the wholesale flower market on the wholesale market site on Beusselstrasse was rebuilt (12,000 square meters of sales area, opening May 2010), the old wholesale flower market on Friedrichstrasse was closed and some of the wholesalers relocated to the new building.
The former wholesale flower market hall is now owned by the Jewish Museum and is being expanded as an extension to the museum. The market hall on Arminiusstrasse was leased to Zunft AG in 2010 , while the market hall on Eisenbahnstrasse is for sale.
Energy concept
Together with the Berlin Energy Agency (BEA), the wholesale market also wants to become a “green wholesale market” in terms of energy. The largest photovoltaic area on Berlin's roofs, at 40,000 square meters, was put into operation as early as 2012 . The solar power plant was financed, planned and built in cooperation with service providers by the BEA. The electricity currently still flows in full into the general grid, but in the future it is also intended to directly secure the on-site power supply at low-cost conditions.
An energy concept agreed in 2013 includes, among other things, an inventory of the electricity, cooling and heating consumption, the technical building equipment as well as feasibility studies, the development of an energy management concept and an implementation strategy with a work plan. Other plans of the wholesale market include the gradual conversion of the vehicle fleet to electric vehicles and the installation of a combined heat and power unit (CHP) or a wood chip system for processing 1,500 tons of wood waste that is generated annually on the site.
In the past, the wholesale market has already implemented some measures for more sustainability on its own , including switching to certified green electricity , modernizing the cooling supply for the flower wholesale market and optimizing the heat supply in the fruit and vegetable hall of the Fruchthof Berlin. In total, these measures saved over 800 tons of CO 2 per year, and a further 800 tons through the installation of the solar power system .
Web links
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- Info brochure from Berliner Großmarkt GmbH, as of December 2010.
Individual evidence
- ^ Supervisory board of the Berliner Großmarkt GmbH
- ↑ Photovoltaic system on the Berlin wholesale market
- ↑ Start of the EU project "goEco"
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 5 ″ N , 13 ° 19 ′ 17 ″ E