Glückstein district
The Glückstein-Quartier (working title until 2011: Mannheim 21 ) is a new urban quarter south of Mannheim's main train station in the Lindenhof district between the Victoria Tower and the Neckarau crossing . It is an area of around 33 hectares made up of areas belonging to Deutsche Bahn AG that are no longer required for operations , areas of the former foundry of the John Deere works and urban areas. The new city quarter with office buildings, scientific facilities, high-quality apartments, a hotel and a public green area should provide space for around 4600 jobs and 1500 residents when it is completed. In 2011 the project was renamed the Glückstein-Quartier after a competition from Mannheim 21 . The name is based on the nearby Hanns-Glückstein-Platz, which is named after the Palatinate dialect poet Hanns Glückstein .
history
In 1988, the city of Mannheim commissioned the planning office Albert Speer & Partner GmbH (AS&P) with an urban planning report for the development of a service location on the station forecourt (north side of the station) and the south side of the station (Lindenhof).
The project was taken up in the mid-1990s by Deutsche Bahn AG as part of its Bahnhof-21 measures . At that time, a lowering of the tracks and the overbuilding of the track field were also examined, but rejected. A complete renovation and comprehensive modernization of the Mannheim main station were implemented.
Deutsche Bahn, together with Deutsche Eisenbahn Consulting and the architectural office Albert Speer , prepared a feasibility study for the Mannheim 21 project. On January 10, 1997, DB boss Heinz Dürr , Prime Minister Erwin Teufel and Mannheim's mayor Gerhard Widder presented this study. The number of platform tracks was to be reduced from 10 to 8 through optimized operational processes, and shunting and sidings that were no longer required were to be dismantled. The remaining platform tracks were to be bridged by an overpass or a large footbridge. The entrance hall of the reception building was to be raised from one to two floors and a glass dome that was destroyed in the war was to be rebuilt over the entrance portal. Up to 10 hectares should be made available for urban development by 2004. Three to four years were estimated for the renovation of the main station. By redesigning the track and platform systems, operations should be significantly improved and travel times shortened. The plan was to reduce the separating effect of the tracks and to convert the train station into a hinge between the city center and the Lindenhof district. The feasibility study should be followed by an examination of costs and financing options. The federal government excluded participation. Estimates of the cost were between DM 200 and 300 million.
The future of the project, which had meanwhile been calculated at 220 million DM, was open at the beginning of 1999. Deutsche Bahn had initially announced that it would participate in the financing, but did not want to confirm this later. In the same year, the Victoria Insurance Group announced that it would erect a first 97 m high building on the Mannheim 21 site by the year 2000. In mid-1999 the total costs were put at 215 million DM. According to a newspaper report, the state had agreed to contribute 100 million DM, the city of Mannheim wanted to contribute 20 to 30 million DM. The share of Deutsche Bahn remained open. In mid-July 1999 the groundbreaking ceremony took place for the renovation of the station building, which was calculated at 80 million DM. At the end of May 2000, the DB Group representative for Baden-Württemberg finally declared that the Mannheim 21 project would not be economically viable. The planned sale of track areas that are no longer needed should also be postponed until the planning for the new Rhine / Main – Rhine / Neckar line is sufficiently advanced to foresee whether this area will still be needed. Shortly thereafter, the company denied this report. The company merely reduced its investments, but did not want to give up the project. Ongoing negotiations with the state and the city should be continued. However, plans for a large track hall initially planned as part of the renovation of the station building had been abandoned.
After a top-level meeting with representatives of Deutsche Bahn, Transport Minister Ulrich Müller and Mannheim's Lord Mayor Widder announced that Deutsche Bahn would neither build the planned glazed station hall nor the planned connecting bridge over the tracks to the Lindenhof district; Instead of the footbridge, the previous underpasses should be improved. The state had recently offered to take over half of the construction costs of the footbridge. The DB, however, had agreed to the sale of 7.8 hectares of land on the south side of the main station, with which the Bundesstraße 36 could be relocated.
At the end of July 2000, a reduced project variant was announced, which was to be borne exclusively by the country and the city. Of the planned costs of 28 million DM for relocating the B 36, the state offered a grant of 20 million DM. Another six million DM state funds were to be invested in the expansion of underpasses, including the extension of the western underpass to the Lindenhof.
In 2001, the city of Mannheim, together with the Verwertungsgesellschaft für Eisenbahnimmobilien GmbH & Co. KG, represented by Vivico Management GmbH and the project group Diringer & Scheidel GmbH / FAY Grundstücks-, Verwaltungs- & Financing KG, praised a competition for the urban redevelopment of the areas to the south of the main train station. 37 offices and working groups took part in the competition to design the one kilometer long strip. On the basis of the winning design by the architectural office ASTOC Architects & Planners, Cologne, the urban planning framework plan Mannheim 21 / New city quarter at the main station was developed. The convenient location of this area south of the main train station at the junction between the city center and Lindenhof as well as the southern bypass as an important main road makes this area attractive.
In 2003, Deutsche Bahn AG finally withdrew from the project. Because of its great importance in terms of urban development and economic policy, the city of Mannheim acquired the land owned by the railway and incorporated it into an overall urban planning plan with the area of the former John Deere foundry and urban areas. A total of 33 hectares (including existing areas) is now being further developed in terms of urban development.
With the zoning plan coming into force in February 2011, the marketing of the former railway area began. The coordination of the reorganization and development and the marketing of the land to commercial property developers is carried out by the newly established "Projektkoordination Glückstein-Quartier", which is assigned to the building department.
Development and use
In total, around 169,000 m² of office and administrative space (gross floor area), 14,000 m² of service area, 91,000 m² of living space and a public car park with 700 parking spaces are to be created in the new city quarter. At the transition to the main train station and the city center, the Lindenhofplatz will be created as the start of the quarter. The Hanns-Glückstein-Park is enlarged and redesigned.
The 97 m high Victoria Tower was the first building to be ready for occupancy in 2001 . Today's ERGO-Versicherung has concentrated several regional head offices from southern Germany there. The LanzCarré ⊙ with condominiums, an inpatient care facility, four-star hotel and retail trade has also been completed. In the neighboring "Glückstein-Carré" ⊙ a residential complex with another 250 apartments was realized. An office building is planned.
On part of the former foundry site the city of Mannheim established the MAFINEX Technology Center ⊙ for young, innovative start-ups. The second construction phase was ready for occupancy at the beginning of 2015.
In 2009 the railway island , which was no longer required by Deutsche Bahn AG on the southern edge of the main station, was cleared and the buildings demolished. In 2010, the southernmost railway tracks that were no longer needed were removed and the overhead line system for the remaining station tracks was rebuilt. A listed locomotive shed ⊙ including the adjacent workshop building ⊙ from 1872 has been preserved. These buildings are intended to be used to revitalize the district, e.g. B. Gastronomy.
The building areas still to be developed comprise approx. 64,000 m². Six to twelve-story office buildings and six-story residential buildings are planned in six rectangular building plots on the land along the north-east running railway line.
The Diringer & Scheidel company will build an office building with 17,000 square meters of usable space and 70 apartments on a 6,000 square meter site. The Mannheim engineering and service company Bilfinger SE planned to relocate its corporate headquarters next to the Victoria Tower, and for this purpose acquired a 4,400 square meter building plot from the city. However, this planning was stopped by the company in mid-March 2015.
At the end of November 2015, the Mannheim city council decided to build the new Technical Town Hall by 2019 as the successor to the current building in the Collini Center on construction site 5 in the Glückstein district. The building site owned by the city is located in the immediate vicinity of the main train station on the B 36 (Südtangente) and is therefore easily accessible. The owner of the 90 million property is to be the municipal "GBG - Mannheimer Wohnungsbaugesellschaft mbH", which will rent the building to the city. A construction period of two years and completion at the end of 2020 is now planned.
Infrastructure measures and implementation schedule
In the years 2006 to 2009, the extended regional road was built as the southern boundary of the Glückstein district on the former John Deere foundry site, which MAFINEX, "LanzCarré" and "Glückstein-Carré" are developing. The streets between the three blocks were called “ Heinz-Haber- Strasse” and “ Julius-Hatry- Strasse”.
The prerequisite for the development of the area was the relocation of a section of the southern bypass ( Bundesstrasse 36 ) between the Victoria high-rise and the Fahrlach tunnel directly to the railroad tracks. This allows the former railway areas to be integrated into the Lindenhof district. The new route was put into operation at the end of 2012. The new southern bypass also created a new connection to the southern ramp of the Neckarau crossing, so that traffic on Paul-Wittsack-Strasse in the area of the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences could be calmed.
In 2014/2015 the Glücksteinallee was built as an inner development of the quarter. Links to the southern ring road exist in the extension of the Landteilstraße and the Gontardstraße. The continuation to Lindenhofplatz took place between mid-2018 and the end of 2019 [out of date] .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b glueckstein-quartier.de Website of the city of Mannheim for the Glückstein-Quartier
- ↑ Mannheim: draft resolution 393/2011. New name for the city quarter / street renaming. ( 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. Retrieved October 9, 2011 (PDF file)
- ^ City of Mannheim: Urban planning study at Mannheim main station. Prepared by AS&P - Albert Speer & Partner GmbH, 1988.
- ↑ Mannheim 21: Everything should be ready by the 400th anniversary . In: Immobilienzeitung . No. 4 , February 6, 1997, p. 16 .
- ^ A b Johanna Eberhardt: Bahn would also like to slim down in Mannheim . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . January 11, 1997, p. 7 .
- ^ Mannheim 21: Feasibility study presented . In: Railway technical review . tape 46 , no. 3 , 1997, ISSN 0013-2845 , pp. 166 .
- ↑ No acceptance for Mannheim 21 . In: Immobilienzeitung . No. 5 , February 25, 1999, p. 18 .
- ↑ Victoria Versicherung gives impetus to Mannheim 21 . In: Immobilienzeitung . No. 8 , April 9, 1999, p. 18 .
- ^ Johanna Eberhardt: Mannheim 21 still in limbo . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . July 23, 1999, p. 6 .
- ↑ Start of construction for Mannheim main train station: Those who want to be beautiful have to suffer. A time of inconvenience begins for travelers . In: Immobilienzeitung . No. 17 , August 12, 1999, p. 16 .
- ↑ Bahn wants to get out of "Mannheim 21" . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . May 29, 2000, p. 6 .
- ^ Rail: No exit from Mannheim 21 . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . May 29, 2000, p. 8 .
- ^ Mannheim 21: Only the small solution . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . July 5, 2000, p. 7 .
- ↑ a b Mannheim 21 Rail free and slimmed down! In: Immobilienzeitung . No. 17 , 2000, pp. 20 .
- ↑ a b Bahn slimming down project “Mannheim 21” . In: The world . tape 50 , no. 173 , July 27, 2000, pp. 18 .
- ↑ Competition announcement and winner
- ^ Johanna Eberhardt: Plans for Mannheim 21 are becoming more concrete . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . February 1, 2002, p. 8 .
- ↑ a b City of Mannheim: draft resolution 219/2008. Mannheim 21 New city quarter at the main train station. ( 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. Accessed August 21, 2011 (PDF file, 5.8 MB)
- ↑ Mannheimer Morgen, May 6, 2009, page 37, wrecking ball frees locomotive sheds from surrounding buildings.
- ↑ http://www.glueckstein-quartier.de/mektiven/architekturwettbewerb-quartier-4-entschieden
- ↑ Bilfinger overturns new construction plans. In: Mannheimer Morgen , edition of March 17, 2015, page 1
- ↑ Mannheimer Morgen, May 14, 2018, page 9, Technical Town Hall will not be ready until the end of 2020
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2014 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.
Web links
- glueckstein-quartier.de Information from the city of Mannheim
- City of Mannheim, relocation of the southern bypass
- Deutsches-Architektur-Forum.de
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