Cité (Baden-Baden)

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Baden Baden, Cité business park with the circular buildings of the Shopping Cité retail park (aerial photo, July 2013)

The Cité in Baden-Baden is a former French barracks and military settlement area that has been converted into a new city district since the French armed forces withdrew from Germany in 1999 . It is located at the exit of the Oostal to the Rhine plain .

The development of the site began in 1937 with the construction of the margrave barracks for the Wehrmacht on around 11 hectares of land. After the Second World War , Baden-Baden became the seat of the French zone government and the headquarters of the French occupation forces in Germany. The barracks were renamed the Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny . Adjacent to it, the Cité was built on around 40 hectares from 1952 to 1954 as a self-sufficient French residential and administrative settlement with residential quarters for the civilian members of the French officer corps. Among other things, a large food market (Économat), a cinema, a school as well as churches and administrative buildings that were only accessible to the French community were built. At times, 8,000 members of the French armed forces and family members lived at the site.

After the French military withdrew in 1999, the existing buildings were partially demolished or extensively rebuilt. New residential and commercial properties were created and the Cité developed into a new, civilly used district. One of the largest development projects was a plot of around six hectares that was acquired in 2003 by Adler Real Estate and the US fund Apollo International in order to develop 48,000 square meters of usable space with an investment volume of around 70 million euros. However, at the end of 2014, Adler sold its stake in Apollo. The Hamburg company Redos Real Estate and Apollo acted as investors in the implementation. Construction began in March 2005. The heart of this facility opened in November 2006 as the Shopping Cité retail park with a sales area of ​​around 18,000 m². At the beginning of 2007, Henderson Global Investors bought a majority stake in the retail park for a fund it managed for around 80 million euros. Redos remained a minority shareholder.

The European Media and Event Academy is one of the newly established facilities in the Cité . In 2015 a multiplex cinema opened in the Cité.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Baden-Baden: 20th century: 1950 - today ( Memento from November 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Development company Cité mbH: History of the Cité , accessed on May 17, 2011
  3. ^ Development company Cité mbH: Project development , accessed on January 4, 2010
  4. ↑ Adler Real Estate builds retail park in Baden-Baden. In: Immobilien Zeitung March 20, 2003. Retrieved October 20, 2015.
  5. ↑ Entwicklungsgesellschaft Cité mbH: Fachmarktzentrum , accessed on October 12, 2013
  6. ↑ Hamburgers bring grasshoppers on deck In: Immobilien Zeitung March 29, 2007. Accessed October 20, 2015.
  7. ↑ Large multiplex cinema opened in Baden-Baden Cité , goodnews4.de from April 17, 2015.

Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 53 "  N , 8 ° 11 ′ 40.6"  E