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Seestern office location

Düsseldorf-Seestern , also known as Am Seestern , is a large office area and relief center in the North Rhine-Westphalian capital of Düsseldorf . The name is derived from the star-shaped layout of the link between the Düsseldorf city ​​motorway  ( B 7 ) and Lütticher Straße. The office is located in the Lörick district of Düsseldorf on the border with the Niederkassel district .

history

The location at Seestern was planned as the second city relief area of ​​the state capital after Kennedydamm in order to free the Düsseldorf city center from further large office buildings.

The first administration building was built in 1961 by the Düsseldorf department store chain Horten based on the American model ( Horten main administration building , Am Seestern 3). In the years that followed, development came to a standstill until 1970. Hotels followed for the first time. In the following years distinctive buildings were built, including a. the Euro-Center I & II, the Sternplaza and the Hansastern.

In January 2010, the location initiative Seestern Düsseldorf e. V. to further develop the location and to highlight the advantages of the office district. In addition to the transport links to the trade fair and airport, these also consist in the fact that the Seestern is not an isolated office town on the green field, but that the employees can quickly reach the suburbs on foot .

From 2013 to 2017, 400 million euros were invested in the area. Many projects were able to dedicate themselves to monument protection . For example, the former Horten headquarters, which is now a listed building, was restored by the Union Investment fund company for 25 million euros . In 2015 Telekom moved into the restored office complex, which also includes a listed park.

location

Parts of the office area lower left, June 2008

The actual Düsseldorf-Seestern office area is located between Lütticher Straße, Brusselser Straße and the northern part of Hansaallee.

Over the years, the area was no longer sufficient, which is why it was expanded to include a part south of Hansaallee, between Prinzenallee / Brussels street and Heerdter Lohweg. Some buildings are located on Am Albertussee street .

The area is very popular as the journeys to the exhibition center and the airport are relatively short compared to other office locations.

Addresses at the Seestern fall into the zip code range 40547–40549.

Development

Former Vodafone headquarters in the X-Cite building

The gross floor area of the offices and hotels is 520,000 m² and is the second largest in the city next to the Kennedydamm office area on Kaiserswerther Strasse . Around 5.5% of the office space in Düsseldorf and 9% of the overnight capacities are located on Seestern.

The average gross office space is 10,000 to 25,000 m². Many well-known companies have settled at Seestern and employ around 10,000 people there. Examples are Huawei , CGI Group, Ericsson , HP, Level 3 , Vodafone Germany , amdocs , planetactive, MCI Worldcom and Avaya .

Over time, the Seestern has also become an important hotel location. There are currently five hotels ( Mercure , Novotel , Courtyard , Lindner and Innside ) with a total of around 1500 beds.

traffic

The office area has excellent transport connections. The Brusseler Straße (B 7) comes from the east over the Theodor-Heuss-Brücke , runs on the Seestern as a motorway-like elevated road towards the west and later becomes the  A 52 . Connection to Brussels Street is via Lütticher Straße, which it crosses to the east of the area.

Since 1991 the area has also had its own connection to the Düsseldorf light rail system : the U77 line branches off from Hansaallee at the Prinzenallee station and runs parallel to Brussels Street to the Am Seestern terminus. The U77 runs every 20 minutes from Seestern via the city ​​center and the main train station to the southern district of Holthausen .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tamms, Auberlen, Beyer: Die Stadtautobahn Düsseldorf . Bridges, roads and elevated roads of the approach to the north bridge. Ed .: State capital Düsseldorf. Kirschbaum Verlag, Bad Godesberg 1960.
  2. ^ A newspaper article by Thorsten Breitkopf is in bloom after Vodafone has withdrawn . Published in the Rheinische Post on May 26, 2017. On the Rheinische Post website (accessed on February 1, 2019)
  3. ^ Düsseldorf-Seestern on düsseldorf.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 32.7 "  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 19.6"  E