Dreispitz Basel and Münchenstein

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The Dreispitz (complete: “ Dreispitz Basel and Münchenstein ”) is the largest closed commercial and service area in Basel with around 50 hectares with several hundred established businesses. The land used in the construction law belongs to the Christoph Merian Foundation and is half in the municipalities of Basel and Münchenstein . A public development plan, based on a study by architects Herzog & de Meuron , is intended to transform the industrial area into a significantly more urban part of the Basel agglomeration over the next one to two decades .

history

Opening of the storage area on the Dreispitz - photo from 1901. The transports were still carried out with horses, the first locomotive came in 1902. The freight wagon bears the abbreviation of the Nordostbahn .

The Dreispitz, whose name comes from its wedge-shaped outline, is a former agricultural area that the foundation's founder, Christoph Merian , gradually acquired from 1840 and attached to his headquarters in Brüglingen . Merian and his foundation operated it as a mere farm estate until 1901, with parts of the area repeatedly ceded for public purposes. The conversion to the public material storage areas on the Dreispitz (initially about 8 hectares in size) happened due to the inadequate goods depots at Basler Centralbahnhof and the favorable traffic situation of the Dreispitz. In 1900, the foundation and the canton of Basel-Stadt contractually agreed on the leasing of the land to the state and the operation by the state Dreispitz administration , which began in 1901.

In addition to the material storage areas , a duty-free warehouse (operated by Basler Freilagergesellschaft ) was added from 1922 , for which a contract in the form of a building permit was concluded for the first time. This legal form was transferred to the Dreispitz administration in 1955, replacing the old lease. Since then, the Dreispitz administration has been relocating further companies to the area under building rights. Several hundred production and service companies with a focus on logistics and international connections have taken the place of the pure storage areas and buildings . (The streets of the Dreispitz, named after trading cities such as Frankfurt, Rotterdam or Genoa, indicate this.) The growing importance of the area is also reflected in the Basel S-Bahn's own station . In 2005, the canton of Basel-Stadt and the Christoph Merian Foundation agreed to terminate the current building lease agreement early. The foundation, which has already acquired the shares of the Freilagergesellschaft, took over the Dreispitz administration in 2008.

Freight railway Dreispitz

With the connection to the rail network of the Swiss Federal Railways on April 1, 1901, the two cantons (BS / BL) put a raw material station into operation on the area, which was operated by the cantons with their own locomotives. More and more companies from logistics, trade and industry have recognized the locational advantage of good rail access and have settled their company on the Dreispitz. In order to meet the growing demand in rail freight transport, the entire system was modernized and reopened on January 17, 1994. Thanks to the direct access from Ruchfeld via the 150 meter long Schwertrain tunnel, freight traffic could be handled efficiently and in a customer-friendly manner.

The freight railway Dreispitz comprised 14,942 kilometers of track with 87 points. The operation was controlled with a central interlocking of the Domino 67 type . With three daily direct freight train connections to the Basel marshalling yard , the goods wagons were brought in and out, which were finely distributed on the site with two modern Tm 237 shunting tractors . Railgate AG was responsible for rail operations from 2012 to 2016.

In 2016, the rail freight operator stopped operating after the traffic had decreased significantly. The Migros has, however, their siding maintained.

model series Construction year Manufacturer origin number of pieces Discarded Remarks
series Numbers total today
Steam locomotives
E 2/2 1 1902 SLM 2 0 1926 at Schweizerhalle sold
2 1917 1930 on paper Biberist sold
E 3/3 3 1873 SLM SBB (1924) (Ex) 2 00 0 1948 ex SCB E 3/3 82, ex SBB E 3/3 8581
4th 1960 ex SCB E 3/3 87, ex SBB E 3/3 8586
E 3/3 5 1886 SACM RPB (1929) (Ex) 1 00 0 1948 ex PV E 3/3 201 “Le Risoux”;
ex RPB E 3/3 751 «Allaine»
Ed 3/4 6th 1907 SLM SMB (1934) (Ex) 1 00 0 1945 ex SMB Ed 3/4 1; at Lonza (Visp) sold
E 3/3 7th 1900 SLM GTB (1943) (Ex) 2 00 0 1966 ex GTB E 3/3 2
8th GTB (1945) ex GTB E 3/3 1
E 3/3 9 1894 SLM SBB (1948) (Ex) 1 00 0 1962 ex NOB E 3/3 257; ex SBB E 3/3 8555
Shunting tractors
Tm III 10 1962 SLM / BBC 4th 0 1998 at CJ sold
11 1999 at Stadler sold
12-13 1966 2006 at Stauffer sold
Tm 237 860 1998 STAG 2 1 2017 sold to Migros Aare (GMA)
869 2003 Operation Migros Basel (GMB)
Ub = takeover from outside stock (used vehicle); Um = conversion from our own stock

Development planning

The establishment of the company in the Dreispitz has been largely without overriding objectives since 1901 and also withdrew the Dreispitz from Basel's urban development . In 2002 the public authorities and the foundation presented a study by the architects Herzog & de Meuron on the medium and long-term prospects for the area. This vision was converted into a feasibility study in 2003 and a structure plan in 2006 . The aim is to upgrade the area as a new development area in the Basel region and to open it up to the city and the agglomeration with a more urban character . The plan is to continue the previous commercial - industrial use with the addition of residential buildings and educational and cultural institutions. The University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (HGK, from the Morger Partner architectural office) has concentrated its University of Design and Art , which was previously spread over several locations, in the “Kunstfreilager” quarter within the Dreispitz. The term "Kunstfreilager" refers to the earlier use of the site as a duty-free warehouse as well as to the newly established facilities in the creative industries (archive building of architects Herzog & de Meuron, HGK, galleries, artist studios, House for Electronic Arts Basel including the media festival " Shift »).

Web links

literature

  • Ernst Miescher: The Christoph Merian'sche Foundation in Basel. Basel 1936.
  • Herzog & de Meuron: Vision Dreispitz - An urban study. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2003, ISBN 3-85616-208-9 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 32 '  N , 7 ° 36'  E ; CH1903:  six hundred twelve thousand seven hundred thirty-eight  /  two hundred and sixty-four thousand seven hundred sixteen

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Freight railway Dreispitz. In: Website of Railgate AG, Küsnacht ZH. Retrieved April 15, 2017 .
  2. ↑ End of the Dreispitz-Bahn - the renovation is to take place in stages. In: Basler Zeitung. December 5, 2015, accessed April 24, 2017 .