Sonnenhof shopping center

Sonnenhof shopping center
Logo Sonnenhof
Basic data
Location:	Zürcherstrasse 4, 8640 Rapperswil
Opening:	1978
Shops:	38
Owner :	UBS real estate funds
Website:	center-sonnenhof.ch
Transport links
Railway station:	Rapperswil
Bus stop:	Sonnenhof (bus stop)
S-Bahn :	S 5 S 7 S 15 S 40
Omnibus :	885 992 993 994
Other:	Hauptstrasse 15
Parking spaces :	400 (chargeable)
Technical specifications
Construction time :	1975-1988
Architects :	Ramseier & Associates Ltd. (Renovation)
Building-costs:	70 million SFr. (Renovation)

Sonnenhof after renovation

Interior view before the renovation

The Sonnenhof shopping center (in colloquial language Sonnenhof ) is a shopping center in Rapperswil . It opened in 1978, making it one of the first shopping centers in the canton of St. Gallen .

history

At the end of the 1960s, various companies in Switzerland began planning shopping centers based on the American shopping malls . In 1978 the Sonnenhof shopping center was opened by Gallintra AG under the slogan "Second Heart of Rapperswil" after a construction period of around three years. With sandblasted concrete elements, exposed aggregate concrete and colored sheet metal, the shopping center was a typical building from the 1980s before the renovation. Inside, the building was originally designed with a dark red artificial stone floor and dark walls and ceilings. The building was refurbished for the first time in the 1990s; the walls and ceilings were now painted light gray and white.

From May 2011 to autumn 2012, the shopping, residential and office complex was completely renovated by Ramseier & Associates , as the building was getting on in years. The Coop -Filiale was closed during the conversion from undisclosed reasons, so that Migros is now the highest turnover users of the building.

Location and infrastructure

The shopping center is located on Zürcherstrasse leading to Kempraten at the northeastern end of Rapperswil's old town at Stadthofplatz, where the only usable building land in the community was available after the demolition of the Rapperswils city fortifications .

40 shops, service and restaurant businesses are housed on three and a half floors and a sales area of ​​13,000 square meters. Further floors are used as apartments and offices. While in the 1970s and 1980s the floor plans of the storeys and the sales areas marked in them were angled and confusing, today's are clearly structured and clear.

Web links

Commons : Sonnenhof Rapperswil  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Center-Sonnenhof.ch - Stores AZ ( Memento of the original dated November 2, 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 June 7, 2013  
2. ↑ Center-Sonnenhof.ch - media release ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2011 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. (PDF; 31 kB), accessed on June 7, 2013  
3. ↑ ^{a b} media release September 2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 184 kB), accessed on June 7, 2013  
4. ↑ Magnus Leibundgut: Trade and Change in the Old Town . In: Zürichsee-Zeitung . April 11, 2017 ( zsz.ch [accessed November 8, 2019]).
5. ↑ ^{a b} https://www.e-periodica.ch/cntmng?pid=hoc-001:2011:24::1273
6. ↑ Zürcher Oberländer (January 12, 2012): Kerstin Henggeler: Coop is still looking for a new location , accessed on April 24, 2013
7. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.curem.uzh.ch/static/schlussarbeiten/2011/Krieger_David_MT_2011.pdf

Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '39.8 "  N , 8 ° 49' 1.8"  E ; CH1903:  704 396  /  231671