The castle (Berlin)
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| View of the entrance portal, 2012 | |
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| Location: | Berlin-Steglitz , Schlossstrasse 34 |
| Opening: | March 16, 2006 |
| Total area: | 48,000 m² |
| Sales area : | 36,000 m² |
| Shops: | about 90 |
| Owner : | HFS Immobilienfonds GmbH |
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| Railway station: | Steglitz town hall |
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| Omnibus : | X83, M48, M82, M85, 170, 186, 188, 282, 283, 284, 285, 380, 386 |
| Parking spaces : | 650 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Construction time : | 2004-2006 |
| Architect : | Manfred Pechtold |
| Building material : | Reinforced concrete, sandstone facing |
| Building-costs: | € 220 million |
The castle is a shopping center in the Berlin district of Steglitz . It is located on the corner of Schloßstraße and Grunewaldstraße and partially encloses the Steglitz town hall , the inner courtyard of which was integrated into the shopping center as a restaurant area. In addition to around 90 retail stores, the palace is also home to the cultural office and the Steglitz-Zehlendorf city library ("Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek") and is the seat of the Berlin media center, production location of the private radio stations 98.8 Kiss FM , 94.3 rs2 , Berliner Rundfunk 91.4 , sunshine live and the US public broadcaster KCRW Berlin.
History and structure
The first considerations for the construction of a “Rathauspassage” were made in the 1990s. The planning for today's shopping center began under the working title “Castle Gallery” in 2000. The castle was built from 2004 to 2006 according to plans by the architect Manfred Pechtold and was opened on March 16, 2006. The client was HFS Immobilienfonds GmbH , which belongs to the HypoVereinsbank Group . In preparation for the new building, the listed extension buildings of the town hall from the 1920s, which were located in Grunewaldstrasse and housed the district cash desk and the city library, as well as a building of the Sparkasse Berlin from the 1980s in Schloßstrasse, were demolished.
The shopping center was designed as a reinforced concrete building with a historicizing facade made of yellow Saxon sandstone . Shopping, leisure and service areas are spread over five floors, which enclose the neo-Gothic Steglitz town hall , built in 1898, to the north and west . The center is adorned inside with colored marble and granite as well as a “media sky”: 78 video projectors controlled by 16 servers project, among other things, an underwater world with a resolution of 62 million pixels onto the 1200 m² ceiling. The retail chains represented in the castle include Media Markt , H&M , Anson’s , REWE and Thalia .
A multi-storey car park with 650 parking spaces is connected to the shopping center and can be reached via Grunewaldstrasse. In the basement there is direct access to the Rathaus Steglitz underground station , via which the U9 underground line and, within walking distance, the S1 S-Bahn line and the bus node of the same name, connect to twelve bus lines . The connection point to the west bypass is also in the immediate vicinity .
resonance
When it opened in 2006, the palace was the largest shopping center on Schloßstraße (today it is the boulevard Berlin located around 600 meters northeast ). It has given important impetus to strengthen Schloßstraße as Berlin's second most important shopping street (after Tauentzienstrasse ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The castle at Kaupterts
- ↑ Information on the construction project at the BDA Association of German Architects ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 9, 2012
- ↑ Karl-Heinz Dittberner: 2004 - Marble & Palms for Schloßstraße - A "Castle Gallery" is created . Last update: June 25, 2011, accessed October 9, 2012
- ^ Center - the Berlin Steglitz Palace. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
- ^ Karl-Heinz Dittberner: Die Steglitzer Schloßstraße (3) , documentation; Last update: May 27, 2011, accessed on December 3, 2017
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 27.3 " N , 13 ° 19 ′ 15.7" E