Dong Xuan Center
The Dong Xuan Center is a wholesale market in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg in the Lichtenberg district .
Wholesale market
In the predominantly Vietnamese wholesale market, more than 400 entrepreneurs with around 2000 employees run their businesses on an area of 165,000 square meters. "Đồng Xuân" is Vietnamese and translated means "spring meadow". The shops offer, among other things, Asian food , textiles , leather goods , haberdashery , technology , watches and jewelery through to various services . Eight dining options offer Vietnamese cuisine . The traders come from Vietnam , India , China , Turkey and Pakistan , and their trade relationships extend across Europe .
History of the building and the area
The history of the location began in 1872 when Siemens & Halske set up a partial production facility for the manufacture of alcohol measuring equipment. After 1880, lighting carbon and carbon brushes became the focus of production, supplemented in 1904 by the manufacture of silicon carbide heating rods. During the First World War , the company became an armaments company important to the war effort . After the merger in 1928 with the Rütgers Group, it was named Siemens-Plania AG .
During the Second World War , coal products essential to the war effort were also made. After the end of the war, the company first became a Soviet joint-stock company , and in 1954 it became a state-owned company with the name VEB Elektrokohle Lichtenberg (EKL). In 1969 EKL came to VEB Chemiekombinat Bitterfeld .
The main production in electric coal fell significantly after the fall of the Wall , and above all the Eastern European customers had collapsed. In 1996, the US company UCAR International took over the large coal production area, while the small coal area was transferred to the SGL Carbon Group in 1997 . In the same year, large-scale production on the Lichtenberg site was completely stopped, the buildings cleared and the chimneys blown up. Were in 1992 and 1997 to 1999 were done on behalf of the Lichtenberger district administration detailed studies on the impact of land with various pollutants found, for example 15-55 mg Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons per kilogram of dry matter throughout the filler layer, on faces and chromium (23 g / kg), copper (3.6 g / kg) and phenols (up to 7.3 g / kg). A groundwater hazard could not be determined.
Only the medium-sized company PanTrac GmbH successfully continues the final production of industrial coal products in some parts of the building and supplies SGL Carbon GmbH in Bonn with the raw material .
Since 2005: Dong Xuan Center
Like many contract workers in the GDR , Nguyễn Văn Hiền became unemployed with German reunification . Immediately after the fall of the Wall, he went into business for himself and sold clothes. As usual, he bought new goods from a wholesale company in Poland. Here he regularly met colleagues from Berlin. That gave him the crucial idea of offering all of this himself in Berlin in the future. In 2005, he implemented his idea of a commercial center and founded the Dong Xuan Center. At the end of the 2010s, people from all over the world were already making use of the wide range of textiles, Far Eastern foods and services.
gallery
First hall with restaurant
Women's clothing
Shoes
Beauty Nails Supply
Food
environmental Protection
The contaminated sites in the ground created by over 100 years of industrial production were removed before construction began on the Dong Xuan Center, and the site was completely renovated and sealed. This area recycling with the measures of sealing, well construction, monitoring and disposal of heavily contaminated soils was carried out by the Senate with great expenditure of time and money.
Model from Hanoi
The model and namesake of the Berlin Dong Xuan Center is the Dong Xuan market in Hanoi , the largest and at the same time the oldest market in the Vietnamese capital.
development
At the end of the 2010s, a wide range of wholesale goods, gastronomy and various services were offered in six sales halls, each with a sales area of 6500 square meters and two large warehouses. The first construction phase, the listed conversion of a former laboratory building of VEB Elektrokohle into a guest house of DXC, was completed in spring 2017.
Since 2015, the second construction phase has been realized on Herzbergstrasse, the revitalization of the VEB Elektrokohle Lichtenberg cultural center, which was opened in 1952, while maintaining the original character to create a modern cultural center, the Dong Xuan House . First of all, the middle section, the flat culture hall, was removed. The three-story buildings on both sides remained standing and were gutted. In summer 2019, a new foundation was built on the old area, which is planned to be the same height as the wing structures. Completion is scheduled for the end of 2020. In the future, there will be a wide range of exhibitions, cultural and leisure activities here - including major events such as the Integration Festival, a festival for all Berliners launched by the Dong Xuan Center. From February 2020 the construction cranes will turn and the new building has already reached two thirds of the planned height (as of the beginning of April).
2017: dismantling
2019: Demolition of the middle section and preparation for construction
2020, April: structural work
There is also a Dong Xuan Center in Leipzig.
Location and transport links
The Dong Xuan Center is located in Berlin-Lichtenberg within the Carré between Landsberger Allee , Vulkanstraße , Herzbergstraße and Siegfriedstraße and can be easily reached by car via the Herzbergstraße (main entrance) and Vulkanstraße entrances. The Dong Xuan Center can be reached by public transport with the tram lines M 8 and 21 (tram station Herzbergstraße / Industriegebiet) and the bus line 240 (stop Josef-Orlopp-Straße / Vulkanstraße).
literature
- Peter Badel, Holger Herschel, Karl Karau: From Siemens-Plania to Dong Xuan: Exhibition on an industrial location with a theater history in Berlin-Lichtenberg . Ed .: Jana Froebel. Berlin: Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940737-57-1 .
- Caroline Schmitt, Asta Vonderau: Transnationality and the Public . Interdisciplinary perspectives. transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2154-9 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Web links
- Dong Xuan Center. In: berlin.de. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
- Stefan Weißenborn: Dong Xuan Center: A piece of Vietnam in Berlin-Lichtenberg. In: welt.de . January 24, 2018, accessed April 6, 2020 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Dong Xuan Center in Berlin-Lichtenberg - 99 percent urban. In: 99prozenturban.de. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
- ^ Advertising card for products from Siemens & Co., 1923, on a private homepage
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung: Dong Xuan Center Lichtenberg: How Nguyen Van Hien wants to build a Vietnamese quarter. In: berliner-zeitung.de. April 5, 2020, accessed April 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Request to the Berlin Senate regarding the establishment of the Asia Center from 2004 (Online; PDF, 124 kB) ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Dong Xuan Center Leipzig - Asian wholesalers - Dong Xuan Center Leipzig. In: dong-xuan-center-leipzig.de. February 4, 2013, accessed April 6, 2020 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 36.1 ″ N , 13 ° 29 ′ 27.2 ″ E