Ihme Center

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North-east side of the Ihme-Zentrum: in the foreground the newly designed Glockseepark and the Ihme running in front of the buildings , on the left the office tower of the Stadtwerke , on the right the Spinnereistraße (on the Leinertbrücke ) and the Linden thermal power station , 2016

The Ihme-Zentrum is a large residential, office and former shopping center in Hanover in the Linden-Mitte district . It is located on the western bank of the eponymous river Ihme opposite the Calenberger Neustadt . It is limited to the north by Spinnereistraße and Am Küchengarten square , and to the west by Blumenauer Straße . The south side is in the immediate vicinity of the Schwarzer Bär square and the Capitol event center .

history

concept

View from the town hall tower : the Ihme center in the south-north extension, with the office tower of the municipal utilities to the left of the center of the picture. The Hastra skyscraper on the far left stands on the other side of the Ihme and does not belong to it, but partially covers the southernmost part.
Location map

The Ihme-Zentrum was to be one of several high-density residential, work and shopping centers that were planned for the inner city of Hanover in the 1960s. With these centers, the inner city should be relieved and at the same time centrally located living space should be created. The Ihme Center was the only one of these centers that was actually built.

The Ihme Center was designed as a “city within the city”. This should indicate that most of the facilities necessary for daily living should be available in the center itself. In the south and north, framed by 22-story high-rise apartment buildings, there are two elongated five- and six-story units with apartments in between. A continuous shopping arcade ran through the originally opened Ihme-Zentrum. At the far ends were larger, multi-story shops for anchor tenants , while smaller shops dominated in between. A two-story underground car park with a basement for almost the entire center provided a large number of parking spaces. The floor space index (a measure of the density of development) has, according to Hanns Adrian 1997 value of 3.8; According to the development plan 554 of May 25, 1970 it should be 3.0.

The developer was City-Bau KG owned by Carl Schaetzle from Leverkusen. It advertised condominiums as early as August 1969 and was able to announce in April 1971 (i.e. before construction began) that over 50% of the apartments had already been sold.

At the laying of the foundation stone on November 11, 1971, City Director Martin Neuffer spoke of the beginning of a “decade of major renovations” with a view to further major construction projects at Kröpcke and Raschplatz . The concepts of new, large building forms, as decided by the city council and administration in the autumn of 1970, were quickly subject to a change in values , because as early as 1975, exposed concrete was “mega-out”.

The city planner Hanns Adrian , who succeeded Rudolf Hillebrecht in 1975 as the city councilor in Hanover, had already warned of the monumental nature of the building at the end of the 1960s : the project was ultimately eight times larger than it was originally planned, but he liked the approach of urbanity . When he moved back to Hanover, Adrian and his wife bought an apartment in the Ihme-Zentrum, where they both also lived. When asked why he lived there, he said: "The best place to live in Hanover, if you don't want to see the Ihme-Zentrum, is the Ihme-Zentrum."

construction

Under construction, around 1973 - the building facing the river along the Ihme-Ufer-Weg

The mechanical weaving mill , which was founded in 1837 and ceased operations in 1961, and the Linden baking powder and bread factory were previously located on the building site of the Ihme Center . Even before the last factory buildings were demolished in 1972, construction of the Ihme Center began in autumn 1971.

The entire complex was built in one piece, making it one of the largest construction sites with the largest poured concrete foundation in Europe. By 1975 a sales area of 60,000 m² and living space of 58,300 m² for around 860 apartments (around 2400 people) and 8000 m² for around 450 students had been created.

The foundations and the arrangement of the high-rise towers in the Ihmeplatz area were designed in such a way that a subway tunnel for the planned D-route of the Hanover city railway can be carried out under the structure.

Architectural problems

Facade along Blumenauer Straße in a north-westerly direction, with the 92 m high office building of the Stadtwerke on the left edge of the picture

The following architectural problems exist at the Ihme Center:

  • The building is winding and confusing in many places.
  • The shopping arcade was not completely covered. The roof structures added in the 1980s and 1990s could not completely solve the problem.
  • The proximity to the Ihmeufer is not used: From the shopping arcade there are only a few draughty passages on a high promenade that is not upgraded by management or furnishing.
  • The main traffic level of the Ihme-Zentrum is one floor above street level and can only be reached in a few places via stairs, escalators and belts or elevators. The (previously existing) pedestrian overpass at the intersection at the kitchen garden was not sufficiently accepted. After the renovation work began in June 2006 and the mall had hardly any business left, the bridge was demolished in June 2008. The zero level at street level was used exclusively for management and delivery.

use

Shopping arcade on Ihmeplatz in June 2003

Since it opened, the Ihme Center had to struggle with acceptance problems. The anchor tenants of the early days, Kaufhof in the north and the grocery store more Wert (later Huma ) in the south, were only there for a few years. The Huma successor, Allkauf, and various subsequent tenants could not hold out either, so that the two-storey sales area there has been vacant since the mid-1990s. In the mid-1980s, the Kaufhof department store became a branch of the electrical retail chain Saturn-Hansa, which also belongs to the Metro Group . After they moved out in 2004, there was no longer any high-reach customer magnet in the Ihme Center, which further accelerated the decline of the smaller shops (mostly textile and shoe stores in the lower price segment).

At the end of the 1990s, the state capital Hanover rented office space of over 5000 m² in the north-western part of the Ihme Center. Among other things, the city's building construction department was relocated from downtown offices to the Ihme center. In 2002, after the Norddeutsche Landesbank moved out, the city of Hanover rented additional office space (approx. 5000 m²) for municipal authorities, in connection with the landlord's obligation to revitalize the entire complex quickly (which was not complied with).

Currently (2017) all shops are empty because the renovation of the entire shopping arcade began in 2006. The only tenants relevant to the public are the offices of the state capital Hanover and the Stadtwerke Hanover (enercity), which use two high-rise buildings as administrative buildings.

Rebuilding started

State of construction on Blumenauer Strasse in 2010

Owner Engel (2000–2006)

In May 2000, the investor Frank Michael Engel took over a large part of the retail space. He had already successfully renovated similar properties in Germany in the past, including the NordWestZentrum in Frankfurt am Main .

However, for a long time no new business, especially no anchor tenants, could be found in the Ihme Center. After this was finally achieved in October 2005, construction began in July 2006 for a fundamental renovation, which was also intended to alleviate the aforementioned architectural problems. The completion of the renovation was planned for the beginning of 2008.

Owner Carlyle (2006-2009)

In July 2006, the shares of the Engel group were taken over by the American Carlyle Group , which initially continued the conversion in a slightly modified form. The planned Linden Park was the first real estate development project in which Carlyle invested with its second real estate fund, Carlyle Europe Real Estate Partners II, in Hanover. The heart of the plans was a new shopping arcade on the ground floor at street level, which was planned with lots of glass and high-quality building materials. The renovation of the passage above it as a mall was also under construction. The project ran under the name Linden-Park and should be completed in the third quarter of 2009. As a result of the general crisis on the capital markets, the parent company Carlyle Group came under financial pressure.

In January 2009 there was a construction freeze as a result of non-payment by construction companies. Most of the underground car park was closed due to fire protection deficiencies. On February 23, 2009, the investor Carlyle filed for bankruptcy for his project companies involved in the renovation of the complex . The ownership interests of the Carlyle Group were subsequently 2015 by a sequestrators managed.

Forced administration (2009-2015)

Buildings along the Ihme , seen from Glocksee-Park at the Ida-Arenhold-Brücke (2014)

The Landesbank Berlin as a lender and the main creditor of the bankrupt project companies was interested in a solution for the construction project. In 2010, the bank commissioned the US developer Hines to come up with a concept (pre-development) for the complex. In addition, a change in the declaration of division and the community order was sought with the aim of legally separating the residential and commercial areas from each other, which should make the property more interesting for investors. This required the consent of all 543 apartment owners. By December 2011 around 84% had agreed, the collection of signatures began in January 2011 .; however, the required 100% was not achieved.

On August 5, 2014, the first foreclosure auction of the Carlyle shares in the Ihme Center was carried out at the Hanover District Court . No buyer was found, as the required minimum bid of almost 25 million euros was not achieved.

Current situation (since 2015)

According to the daily press, the city of Hanover is one of the largest office tenants in the Ihme-Zentrum (here: entrance on Spinnereistraße).
Poster of the city of Hanover for the cycle path through the Ihme Center

Another auction took place on February 25, 2015 at the Hanover District Court. The Carlyle shares were sold to Projekt Steglitzer Kreisel Berlin Grundstücks-GmbH for 16.5 million euros . The daily press named this as a subsidiary of the Intown company, which is backed by Israeli investors.

In December 2015 it became known that the investor would like to install a new, uniform facade cladding. The outer walls should be provided with insulation panels to close gaps. Only a few windows are provided in the draft. There will be no openings in the area intended for supermarkets. In January the daily press reported that the manager had been able to win over several trading companies that want to rent vacant commercial space, including the supermarket chain Edeka . The city of Hanover, which is one of the largest office tenants, recently negotiated constructively with investors. In the summer of 2015, the city demanded that "if possible by the end of 2015" rental contracts should be ready for signature. At the end of January 2016, the daily press reported that 250 city employees were to move from the Ihme-Zentrum to the former office building of the Sparkasse Hannover at Aegidientorplatz 1 . It is about employees of the building management. The free office space would then be taken over by other departments: those for youth and family as well as for senior citizens.

In December 2015, the Lower Saxony State Office for the Preservation of Monuments declared that the Ihme Center would not be elevated to a listed building status. The Green Councilwoman Elisabeth Clausen-Muradian formulated plans for this in June 2015 . According to the preservation authorities, the architectural "overall context [...] was destroyed by the removal of virtually the entire business area", and there were too many redesigns of the passages inside.

On November 29, 2016 it was announced that the city of Hanover was extending a lease that expired at the end of 2017 until mid-2020 and that the municipal utilities would only remain in the Ihme-Zentrum until 2020.

The Steglitzer Kreisel Berlin Grundstücks-GmbH project was renamed to Projekt IZ Hannover GmbH with effect from February 28, 2017 .

On March 3, 2017, the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety announced that it would provide two million euros to promote the revitalization and creation of a cycling and walking path.

On February 6, 2018, a period from 2018 to 2021 was specified for the renovation of the facade and until 2022 for work inside. In April 2018 it was announced that the city would like to extend its office leases on a long-term basis, provided that the investor renovates the building.

In March 2019 it was announced that a sale of the Intown shares to the company Civitas Property Group SA , a subsidiary of the Sapinda company of the financial investor Lars Windhorst , is planned. Windhorst announced that it would continue the work and contracts started by Intown. The sale was carried out by summer 2019.

Planning

time event Remarks
December 31, 2020 End of the municipal utility lease
September 30, 2021 End of rental contract for the City of Hanover for Ihmeplatz 5
December 31, 2021 9000 m² of retail space are to be let
October 1, 2021 Renovation of office building Ihmeplatz 5
October 1, 2022 Start of rental contract for the city of Hanover, moving in
December 31, 2022 End of commercial renovation
September 30, 2042 End of rental contract for the city of Hanover

Photos from the communal and commercial areas from 2015

RAF

In January 1978, the police discovered a conspiratorial apartment belonging to the left- wing terrorist organization RAF at the Ihme Center after being informed by a neighbor . After the intrusion, the police found that the home had already been abandoned. In addition to handwritten notes, material for the construction of a Stalin organ was found . Based on fingerprints , the BKA suspected that the apartment had served the RAF terrorists Knut Folkerts , Silke Maier-Witt , Ingrid Siepmann and Monika Helbing as a retreat until September 1977. Within the RAF, the Ihme Center was called Klotz , which apparently related to the building's block-like appearance.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Ihme-Zentrum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Current situation

Period with owner Intown (2015-2018)

Historical (situation before 2015)

Individual evidence

  1. There is still room for 30,000 residents in Hanover . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of October 22, 1997, p. 7
  2. ^ Full-page advertisement in the HAZ from August 20, 1969
  3. Signals for the Ihme center to clear the road . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of April 30, 1971
  4. ^ Prelude to a decade of renovation In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 12, 1971
  5. ^ Marianne Adrian: Interesting facts about the Ihmezentrum . In: Jonny Peter, Das LindenLimmerBuch , Ed .: FAUST eV and Netzwerk Lindener Kulturwerkstatt, Hanover 1998, pp. 203–209
  6. Remembrance on the tenth anniversary of Hans Adrian's death
  7. ^ HAZ page on the Ihme center
  8. The tower crane is in the stairwell of O1 . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 4, 1971
  9. ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, November 13, 2008.
  10. Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung June 6, 2008.
  11. Juliane Kaune, Gunnar Menkens: Ruins: US investor stops renovation of the Ihme center. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. February 23, 2009, accessed January 30, 2011 .
  12. Juliane Kaune: 90 signatures are still missing for the search for investors. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . December 27, 2011, accessed December 28, 2011 .
  13. Juliane Kaune: Again some movement in the Ihme center. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . July 19, 2011, accessed July 31, 2011 .
  14. Ole Spata: Foreclosure auction of the Ihme Center fails. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. August 5, 2014, accessed August 6, 2014 .
  15. Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of February 26 and 27, 2015
  16. Conrad von Meding, Jens Heitmann: Who is the mysterious investor from Berlin? at www.haz.de, February 28, 2015
  17. a b c Ihme-Zentrum should get a new facade , article on HAZ.de, published on December 10, 2015. Accessed on January 26, 2016.
  18. a b c Dealers want to go back to the Ihme-Zentrum , article on HAZ.de, published on January 15, 2016. Accessed on January 26, 2016.
  19. a b 250 city employees move to the Aegi , article in the printed edition of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , published on January 27, 2016. Accessible on HAZ.de on the day of publication: 250 city employees move to the Aegi .
  20. a b Ihme Center will definitely not be a memorial , article on HAZ.de, published on December 21, 2015. Accessed on January 26, 2016.
  21. ^ Temporary solution in the Ihme center on the website of the city of Hanover
  22. Funding for the Ihme-Zentrum on Hannover.de, accessed on March 5, 2017
  23. Juliane Kaune: owner presents schedule . In: HAZ of February 6, 2018; also online , accessed February 8, 2018
  24. ^ Andreas Schinkel: City administration remains tenant in the Ihme center. In: www.haz.de. HAZ , April 3, 2018, accessed April 6, 2018 .
  25. City signs long-term lease with investor. In: www.hannover.de. Retrieved May 3, 2018 .
  26. Financial investor Lars Windhorst wants to buy the Ihme Center. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .
  27. ^ Ihme Center: Investor Windhorst wants to "roll up sleeves". In: www.neuepresse.de. Neue Presse , March 22, 2019, accessed on March 22, 2019 .
  28. Ihme-Zentrum: Investor Windhorst in the OB Committee on YouTube , March 21, 2019, accessed on March 22, 2019 (from 10:27 Mr Windhorst will have his say).
  29. The Civitas Property Group has acquired over 80% of the shares in the Ihme Center in Hanover. In: civitasproperty.com. Civitas Property Group, June 25, 2019, accessed June 20, 2020 .
  30. a b The conversion should be finished in 2022 , article in the printed edition of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , published on November 29, 2018.
  31. ^ Ihme Center was the terrorist headquarters of the RAF in Hanover. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. February 4, 2011.
  32. Former RAF terrorist Boock hid in the Ihme Center In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. dated February 4, 2011

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 15 ″  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 2 ″  E