Hanseatic Quarter (Hamburg)

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Hanseatic Quarter
Hanseatic Quarter
The Hanseatic Quarter (2012)
Basic data
Location: Hamburg
Opening: November 14, 1980
Sales area : 9,000 m²
Shops: 60 stores
Visitors: 20,000
Turnover : 70 million euros per year
Owner : CBRE Group
Website: http://www.hanseviertel.de
Transport links
Parking spaces : Parking garage Hanse-Viertel, Hohe Bleichen 20, city parking guidance system "yellow", 440 spaces
Technical specifications
Construction time : May 1978 – November 1980
Architects : Architects Meinhard von Gerkan, Volkwin Marg & Partner
Building material : Red clinker
Construction: Brick and glass-steel
Building-costs: 200 million DM

The Hanse Quarter is a shopping mall in downtown Hamburg between Poststrasse and Große Bleichen . It was opened on November 14th 1980 and offers space for 60 shops on 9000 m². The client and owner was Allianz Lebensversicherungs-AG , which sold the property to the US CBRE Group in August 2018 . The building complex also includes a hotel , offices , apartments and a parking garage and is 45,000  m² in size.

The quarter is considered an important example of postmodernism . The architecture is based on the brick tradition of Hamburg and, in contrast to other modern shopping centers, on classic commercial and arcade houses such as the Mellinpassage in the Alsterarkaden . The Hanseatic Quarter has been a listed building since January 2018. There were demolition plans for the area, which resulted in public protest.

history

The topping-out ceremony for the Hanseatic Quarter was on June 27, 1980. The opening took place on November 14, 1980 after a construction period of two and a half years. The hotel followed a year later, and in 1983 the parking garage. According to the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce , the number of pedestrians in 1983 was around 20,000 per day.

In November 2017 it became known that the Hanseatic Quarter was to be demolished within the next few years because it was no longer economically viable. A much higher complex was planned with shops, offices and around 100 residential units, including around 30 social housing. However, the monument status can prevent the demolition.

architecture

Passage in the Hanseatic Quarter (2013)

The main entrance is on the streets Poststraße and Große Bleichen under an inwardly arched ( concave ) construction made of red clinker bricks, which is complemented by a carillon with 23 bronze bells (see Haus des Glockenspiels ). The Hamburg architects Meinhard von Gerkan, Volkwin Marg and Partners completely roofed the passage with glass dome windows, which in one part of the building arch above a round building (rotunda) in a particularly noticeable way as a glass and steel construction - today there is a floating globe in the rotunda Granite housed as the center of a restaurant. In the floors are inlaid with inscriptions and arms of brass inserted.

use

The Hanse-Viertel building complex covers 45,000 m² and consists of 60 shops, four restaurants, a multi-storey car park with 440 parking spaces, 51 office units and 16 apartments - the area of ​​the actual shopping mall being 9,000 m². The Broschek-Haus also belongs to the ensemble , in this and ancillary building the Renaissance Hamburg Hotel of the Marriott Group is located on 10,000 m² .

Trivia

Below the carillon at the main entrance is a lighter area about twenty bricks high, in which the word "POLAND" can be read in darker bricks. Maurer from the Polish Krakow had sorted the bricks by color; the lighter ones are used for the background and the darker ones for the characters.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.hamburg.citysam.de/neustadt.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.hamburg.citysam.de/neustadt.htm
  3. ↑ Service
  4. ↑ http://www.hamburg.de/hanse-viertel/2147160/hanseviertel-shops.html
  5. ↑ http://www.hamburg.de/hanse-viertel/2147160/hanseviertel-shops.html
  6. ↑ http://www.hamburg.de/hanse-viertel/2147160/hanseviertel-shops.html
  7. ↑ http://www.hamburg.citysam.de/neustadt.htm
  8. ↑ Hamburg City. Americans buy the Hanseviertel from Allianz , abendblatt.de (accessed on August 28, 2018)
  9. ↑ https://www.shz.de/regionales/hamburg/hanseviertel-vor-dem-aus-abriss-moeglich-id18312661.html
  10. ↑ Hanseviertel will not be demolished
  11. ↑ NDR: Hanseviertel should not be demolished , January 15, 2018
  12. ↑ Allianz-Versicherung asked for the topping-out ceremony. The new Hanse-Viertel is now under glass , Abendblatt.de of June 26, 1980
  13. ↑ A luxury suite for 1,100 marks , Abendblatt.de
  14. ↑ Visitors to the passages counted , Abendblatt.de from May 3, 1983 (accessed on August 30, 2018)
  15. ↑ Monument protectors save the Hanse Quarter , Abendblatt.de of January 14, 2018
  16. ↑ http://www.hamburg.citysam.de/neustadt.htm
  17. ↑ immobilien-zeitung.de (accessed on August 29, 2018)
  18. ↑ Luxury Hotel at the Ohnsorg Theater , abendblatt.de from December 12, 1979 (accessed August 30, 2018)
  19. ↑ Lettering ( memento of the original from October 6, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gohamburg.de
  20. ↑ Poland immortalized with stones on the house wall of the Hanseatic Quarter

Web links

Commons : Hanse-Viertel  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 12.1 ″  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 22.5 ″  E