Herblingertal

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Herblingertal
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location City of Schaffhausen , Canton of Schaffhausen , Switzerland
Mountains Reiat
Geographical location 691 626  /  285.76 thousand coordinates: 47 ° 42 '58 "  N , 8 ° 39' 35"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and ninety-one thousand six hundred twenty-six  /  285,760
Herblingertal (Canton Schaffhausen)
Herblingertal
height 424  m above sea level M.

The Herblingertal is a valley in the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen . It lies between the municipality of Thayngen and the city ​​of Schaffhausen . The valley takes its name from the former farming village at the southern end and today's city quarter of Herblingen . The southernmost part of the valley at the freight yard is called the Fulachtal . The Herblingertal is the largest industrial and commercial area in the city of Schaffhausen.

valley

Weiher in the Herblingertal

The flat but narrow valley was once a wild flat moor interspersed with swamps. From the 1990s onwards, the valuable, but increasingly decayed, streuried was renatured piece by piece. The bog and reed areas Butterswies, Alte Weiher, Moos and Weierwisen have been included in the federal inventory of flat bogs of national importance.

The high Rhine route Basel - Schaffhausen - Singen - Konstanz of the Deutsche Bahn runs through the valley. The J15 runs parallel to this (reclassification to the A4 national  road on January 1, 2020 ).

The prehistoric Kesslerloch cave is located at the entrance to the valley near Thayngen. The likewise prehistoric pile dwelling settlement of Weier lies in a small side valley . This site was included in 2011 by UNESCO in the inventory of the UNESCO World Heritage Site along with 110 other sites in 6 Alpine countries . The Swiss picture site is also in the Herblinger area.

Industrial area «Herblingertal»

The southern part of the Herblingertal, located in the area of ​​the city of Schaffhausen, was transformed into an industrial, commercial and service area in the years 1966 to 1974 due to large earth movements.

prehistory

Industrialization began relatively late in Schaffhausen. In order to be able to use the hydropower, the first industrial companies were built on the rivers Durach and Rhine . In 1802 Johann Conrad Fischer (1773-1854) founded a foundry in Mühlental . Georg Fischer AG later emerged from it. In 1866, the Moser dam planned by Heinrich Moser was built in the Rhine. At the time, it was the largest hydropower plant in Switzerland. Thanks to the energy transported by wire rope transmission, several companies settled along the banks of the Rhine. In 1900 the transmissions were replaced by electricity generators. This made it possible to supply other industrial areas with energy. Between 1908 and 1911, the Ebnat industrial quarter bordering the Herblinger Valley was developed. The Moser dam was replaced by a modern river power plant in 1967 .

From the idea to the construction

The great industrial boom after the Second World War led to a lack of industrial space in Schaffhausen. The expansion of the Herblinger Valley was considered as early as the Second World War. In 1942, investors intended to build a housing estate in Herblingertal. In order to prevent this, the city council obtained an immediate construction closure from the Schaffhausen government council. In the same year, the city of Schaffhausen acquired the land. On the night of February 25th to 26th, 1960, the buildings of the Schaffhausen Agricultural Cooperative Association (GVS) on Spitalstrasse in Schaffhausen burned down. Reconstruction was out of the question because of the planned N4 national road . GVS was one of the first companies to erect their new buildings in Herblingertal. The canton and city of Schaffhausen, the municipality of Herblingen and landowners founded the Industriequartier Herblingertal cooperative in 1962 . In a vote, the voters of the city and canton of Schaffhausen each approved a cost sharing of 30% of the development costs of 36 million francs. On January 1, 1964, Herblingen was incorporated into the city of Schaffhausen.

construction

The development of the Herblingertal lasted from 1966 to 1974. Almost 3 million cubic meters of earth had to be removed. At the same time, the new Rhine power plant , the Rheinuferstrasse and the new Rhine bridge were built in Schaffhausen . Part of the earth was used for these structures. The dam section of the power plant also had to be redesigned. The Lindli Rhine promenade from Güterhof via Salzstadel to Stemmer was wrested from the Rhine with heaped up material from the Herblingertal valley.

SBB marshalling yard

In 1963 the SBB Board of Directors approved the project for the construction of a new marshalling yard in Schaffhausen. In 1948, the mayor of Schaffhausen, Walter Bringolf, took a seat on the board of directors. The new marshalling yard was built in the Fulachtal and was inaugurated provisionally in 1968 and definitively in 1975. The Herblingertal, which is currently under construction and located north of the Fulach Valley, was connected to the SBB railway network via an access track.

Deutsche Bahn

The High Rhine route Basel - Schaffhausen - Singen - Konstanz of Deutsche Bahn crosses under the Herblingertal industrial area in a 530 meter long tunnel built in 1966/67 using opencast mining . The Herblingen stop is at the eastern end of the tunnel . This was upgraded as part of the Schaffhausen S-Bahn .

A4 / J15

In 1973 what was then the N4 motorway ( Bargen - Schaffhausen) was completed. To the northwest of the Herblingertal, the N4 was linked with the J15 coming from Thayngen without crossing.

Herblingertal industrial area from 1965–1989

In 1968 the foundation stone was laid for the new Georg Fischer AG steel mill . Steel rims were cast in the new plant until 1989. The workshops have been used by other companies and organizations since the foundry was closed.

Technical progress and limited space in the old town prompted several craft and commercial enterprises to build new sales and production facilities in the Herblingertal. The Schaffhausen public transport laid 1987 her bus depot with workshops and administration buildings into Herblingertal. The new fire station was built at the old location at Schwabentor. Since an expansion, the depot has combined the vehicle fleet of the Schaffhausen transport company and SchaffhausenBus (intercity buses).

In the 1980s, the US glass company Guardian Industries was looking for a new location in Europe for the production of flat glass. The city council tried very hard to locate the industrial company. However, the glass factory would have emitted large amounts of pollutants. The emerging discussion about the death of forests mobilized a large citizens' movement, which protested against the construction of the factory. The group finally decided against the Schaffhausen location and built the glass factory in Luxembourg .

"Herblinger Markt" shopping center

In the Herblinger Markt shopping center there are 32 specialist shops and restaurants on a net sales area of ​​15,000 m². Bus line 5 of the Schaffhausen transport company (VBSH) connects the shopping center with Schaffhausen train station every 10 minutes. 1,000 free parking spaces are available. In 2004, 1.5 million customers visited the Herblinger Markt, around 30% of them from southern Germany. The shopping center offers a workplace for 600 people.

In 1979, Migros and private investors created two separate shopping centers, which were only expanded into a single shopping center in 2001 with a connecting wing with a mall. At the end of the 1960s, the then Migros Winterthur / Schaffhausen cooperative bought a plot of land on the edge of the Herblinger Valley. Private investors under the leadership of the former mayor Walter Bringolf and the investor Bruno Szpiro also founded the Herblingertal AG shopping center and acquired an adjacent plot. A study jointly commissioned in 1973 was based on the construction of a joint shopping center. To protect the shops in the old town of Schaffhausen, the city authorities limited the permitted retail space to 10,000 m² in 1977. In the mid-1970s, Migros opened a shop on its premises in a wooden barrack. During the planning phase, the two parties quarreled more and more and so it happened that in 1979 two separate shopping centers were opened next to each other within a month. Migros opened the “Herblinger Markt” and the Herblingertal AG shopping center opened the “Herbiland”. Both shopping centers each had a usable area of ​​5,000 m². The two large parking lots were also separate. This unsatisfactory situation not only affected the visitors, but also the shops. In “Herbiland” in particular, with the main tenant Coop , there was always empty space. Even a covered connection path that was soon created could not connect the two centers into one unit. The two parking spaces were also connected to each other.

Several attempts to connect the two shopping centers failed. In 1997 the city of Schaffhausen changed the administrative contract with the two owners and allowed the total retail space to be increased by 5,000 m² to 15,000 m². In March 2000, Migros and the Herblingertal AG Shopping Center agreed on a joint connection. This was opened in November 2001. The light-flooded building with a mall cost around 16 million francs. A year later, Migros invested a further CHF 20 million in the total renovation of its building. The rustic, gloomy interior gave way to a modern appearance. The owner of the old "Herblinger Markt" and 52% of the connecting structure is the Migros Cooperative Eastern Switzerland. The building part of the old “Herbiland” as well as the remaining 48% of the connecting structure belong to the Shopping Center Herblingertal AG. Migros, the owner, uses a large part of the retail space in the old “Herblinger Markt” and almost half of the connecting wing for herself and her subsidiaries. In addition to an MMM supermarket and a Migros restaurant, the Migros Group also operates branches of melectronics, Ex Libris, Denner, Do it & Garden Migros and SportXX. Other well-known shops in the Herblinger Markt are: Dipl. Ing. Fust, H&M, C & A, Vögele Shoes, Tchibo, Clockhouse and Mobilezone. A UBS vending machine, dry cleaning, the Mister Minit shoe and key service, as well as a pharmacy, a hairdresser, two other restaurants and a petrol station with Migrol car cleaning complete the range of shops. It is rather unusual that Coop operates a supermarket in the same shopping center as Migros. However, this can be explained by the history of its origin.

Herblingertal industrial area since 1990

The Schaffhauser Nachrichten moved their printing center of the old town into Herblingertal 1991 and founded for the ZDS newsprint Schaffhausen AG . Jumbo and the Falkenbrauerei opened a construction, hobby and beverage market in 1992. After an expansion, Athleticum and Qualipet also opened a branch in 2001 . In 2000 a multiplex cinema Kinepolis with 8 halls and a total of 1500 seats was opened. The two retail chains Aldi Suisse and Landi open branches in Herblingertal in 2006.

The Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical company Cilag built a new logistics center. An office building originally built by Georg Fischer AG in 1972 has been extensively renovated and expanded. Since then, 8500 m² of office space has been available.

The online shop and the largest independent Swiss provider in the computer and electronics market, the PCP.COM Group , has been based in Herblingertal since 2013 .

Future of the industrial area

At the beginning of 2017, the new football stadium LIPO Park Schaffhausen of FC Schaffhausen was opened. The stadium with a small shopping center as a jacket is right next to the Schaffhausen-Herblingen train station.

A large part of the usable area in the Herblingertal has already been built over. The structural change in the Swiss economy that began in the 1980s also had a direct impact on the Herblingertal industrial area. Fewer industrial companies settled there than the builders had hoped for. The area is mainly used by freight forwarding, commercial and service companies of all kinds. The industry mix is ​​very large. In the 1970s and 1980s, additional industrial areas in the city area were opened up in the Schweizersbild and in the Merishausertal . However, the Herblingertal has remained the largest industrial and commercial area in Schaffhausen. The wounds in nature caused during construction are now overgrown by forest.

literature

  • Schaffhausen canton history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume 1 and 2, publisher: Historical Association of the Canton of Schaffhausen
  • Schaffhauser Nachrichten of November 29, 2001
  • 30 years of Herblinger Markt. In: Schaffhauser Nachrichten , November 4, 2009, supplement.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Protected areas in the canton of Schaffhausen ( Memento of the original from August 31, 2017 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. On: Pro Natura @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pronatura-sh.ch
  2. ↑ Falachmoor inventory on: Federal Office for the Environment