City south
The City South is an office location and long-term real estate project in Hamburg-Mitte . It was designed as a counterpart to City Nord in the Hamburg-Nord district and, with around 82 hectares, covers a large part of the Hammerbrook district, which is close to the city center . City Süd is also the name of the Hammerbrook S-Bahn station .
history
Until 1943, the Hammerbrook district was a residential area predominantly populated by working-class families with a high population density and good infrastructure. During the bombing of Hamburg by the Allies in July 1943, 11,981 people lost their lives here, around a quarter of the resident population. Almost all buildings were destroyed or badly damaged. After the Second World War it was initially decided not to rebuild Hammerbrook. The destroyed district then lay fallow for decades.
Since the beginning of the 1970s, urban developers in western Hammerbrook and partly in the eastern part of the city of Klostertor have been planning the City Süd office location under the heading Hanse-Centrum or Hamburg company . The name was based on City Nord , which was already under construction at that time , as the new area was supposed to cover the increasing demand for office space and relieve the Hamburg city center in the same way . The main planning area for the southern office district was the Spaldingstraße, Süderstraße, Amsinckstraße and Heidenkampsweg trapeze. For a long time, City Süd was considered unattractive and had a bad image. A connection to the local public transport was available through the S-Bahn stop Hammerbrook , but a lack of green areas reinforced the negative image of City Süd. In the 1990s, the space was still difficult to rent. The area's weaknesses were the poor infrastructure and the poor mix of living and office space.
In 1996 the resident companies founded the City Süd interest group with the aim of increasing the attractiveness of the location. As a result, the area received a supermarket and a weekly market, and the lighting at the S-Bahn station was improved to increase safety . The community of interests regularly initiates meetings and workshops, publishes the district newspaper Hamburger SüdSeiten and invites residents and employees to meet at a club in the Hotel Ambassador once a month .
Today City Süd is considered to be an attractive office location in Hamburg. Around 800 companies are based here on around 89,000 square meters with around 20,000 employees.
Buildings
Olympus on Wendenstrasse in Hamburg-Hammerbrook
Street light on Heidenkampsweg
Office building Heidenkampsweg 66
Hammerbrookstrasse, view out of town
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Hammerbrook: Worth knowing and seeing. Office city in transition. In: hamburg.de. January 2018, accessed March 23, 2018 .
- ^ S. Petermann: Interest group IG City Süd. Goals and Activities. January 2017, accessed March 23, 2018 .
See also
- Berliner Tor (Hamburg) - transport hub on the edge of City-Süd
- City Nord - another project to relieve Hamburg's inner city from the 1960s
- Leder-Schüler office building - one of the few remaining pre-war buildings
literature
- Peter Illies: Hanse Center, 1970 . In: Ulrich Höhns (Ed.): The unbuilt Hamburg . Junius Verlag , Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-88506-191-0 , p. 210-217 .
- Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (Ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 2nd, revised edition. Zeiseverlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-9805687-9-2 .
- Daniel Tilgner (Ed.): Hamburg from Altona to Zollenspieker. The Haspa manual for all districts of the Hanseatic city. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-455-11333-8 .
Web links
- Map (pdf) (2.95 MB)
- Interest group City Süd
- City Süd is one of the winners of the Hamburger Abendblatt article
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ' N , 10 ° 2' E