Collini Center

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Collini Center
Collini Center
Left the residential tower, in the middle the office tower
Basic data
Place: Mannheim
Construction time : 1971-1975
Architectural style : brutalism
Architect : Karl Schmucker
Use / legal
Usage : Apartments, offices
Apartments : 515
Technical specifications
Height : 95 m
Floors : 32
Elevators : 5
address
City: Mannheim
Country: Germany

The Collini-Center is located on the northern edge of the city center of Mannheim directly on the Neckar .

architecture

Collini Center before the office tower is wrapped

The 95 meter high building consists of a taller residential tower and a lower office tower, which can be reached via a two-story passage. The city's technical offices and other municipal facilities (media education, etc.) are housed in the office wing. By Neckarsteg the Collini Center is directly connected to the district Neckar-Ost. Opposite are the three distinctive 100 meter high skyscrapers of the north bank of the Neckar . It was built on the site of the Collinistraße depot of the Mannheim tram, which was closed in 1971 on the occasion of the Federal Garden Show in 1975 and the associated urban planning concept. The name giver for the Collinistraße and thus for the Collini-Center was Cosimo Alessandro Collini . The residential tower is privately owned.

The three-tier tower-shaped structure with a honeycomb balcony structure is characteristic. Originally, a 150 meter high office tower with 50 floors was to be built, surrounded by five-story residential and school buildings. According to the architect's idea, living, working and leisure should be combined under one roof. After a subsoil investigation, the height had to be reduced to 95 meters and the use was also rescheduled. Today around 1300 people live in the residential tower. The Collini-Center is one of the tallest skyscrapers in Baden-Württemberg .

The smaller office tower was built by Neue Heimat and rented by the city of Mannheim to accommodate the technical offices. In 1984 the city bought the office tower and the connecting wing with swimming pool and shop gallery for 32 million Deutschmarks. The swimming pool has been empty since 1990. The office tower is in need of renovation. The costs were estimated at over 70 million euros in 2013. The tower is therefore to be demolished. The building has been encased in scaffolding and safety nets since 2012 to protect passers-by from falling concrete. The city wants to leave the house and sell it. For a long time the question of a new location was open. At the end of November 2015, the Mannheim city council decided to build the new technical town hall by the course of 2019 [out of date] on an urban site near the main station in the Glückstein quarter in the Lindenhof district . The owner of the 80 million property is to be the municipal GBG - Mannheimer Wohnungsbaugesellschaft mbH, which will rent the building to the city.

use

  • Building 1, residential high-rise:
    • Floors: 32 (including 30 residential floors)
    • Elevators: four passenger elevators, one freight elevator
    • Apartments: 515 one to four-room apartments
  • Building 3, office tower, City of Mannheim (Technical Town Hall)
    • Floors 10
    • Elevators 4

Before moving to the Ochsenpferchbunker in March 2018, the city archive - Institute for City History, now Marchivum , was located in the office tower.

designation

The Collini Center is named after its location on Collinistraße, which in turn is named after Cosimo Alessandro Collini , from 1760 court historiographer and head of the natural history cabinet at the Mannheimer Hof.

literature

  • Andreas Schenk: Architectural Guide Mannheim . Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-496-01201-3 .
  • Stadtarchiv Mannheim, Mannheimer Architektur- und Bauarchiv eV (ed.), Andreas Schenk: Mannheim and its buildings 1907–2007: Volume 1 . Mannheim 2006, ISBN 978-3-923003-26-6 .
  • City archive Mannheim, Mannheimer Architektur- und Bauarchiv eV (ed.), Andreas Schenk: Mannheim and its buildings 1907-2007: Volume 2 . Mannheim 2000, ISBN 3-923003-83-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. www.thehighrisepages.de
  2. Architecture Guide Mannheim . ISBN 3-496-01201-3 . P. 125.
  3. www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de January 29, 2013: City project becomes problematic property
  4. ^ Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , October 9, 2013, The Collini Center - a tragedy
  5. morgenweb.de: Ailing tower costs millions. November 5, 2014, accessed November 6, 2014 .
  6. MARCHIVUM: Mannheimer street names, Collinistrasse. Retrieved September 30, 2018 .

Web links

Commons : Collini Center  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 26.4 "  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 40.2"  E