Main Taunus Center
Main Taunus Center | |
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The Main Taunus Center 2004 | |
Basic data | |
Location: | Sulzbach (Taunus) , Main-Taunus-Kreis , Hesse |
Opening: | May 2, 1964 |
Sales area : | 91,000 m² |
Shops: | 170 |
Visitors: | 36,816 daily |
Turnover : | 400 million euros (as of 2014) |
Operator: | ECE project management |
Website: | www.main-taunus-zentrum.de |
Transport links | |
Bus stop: | Sulzbach (Taunus) MTZ / bus station |
Omnibus : | Lines 253, 803, 804, 810, 814 |
Motorways : |
A 66 (Frankfurt - Wiesbaden), B 8 (Bad Soden - Königstein Kronberg) |
Parking spaces : | 4,500 |
Bicycle parking spaces : | 200 |
Technical specifications | |
Construction time : | 1962–1964 (expansion from Nov. 2009 to Nov. 2011) |
Architects : | Jost Hering and Gisela Simon (extension) |
Building-costs: | 75 million euros (investment in the expansion) |
The Main-Taunus-Zentrum , MTZ for short, is mainly located in the Hessian community Sulzbach (Taunus) in the Main-Taunus district and a small part in the west of Frankfurt am Main . With an area of around 91,000 square meters, it is one of the largest shopping centers in Germany . The MTZ belongs to Deutsche EuroShop from Hamburg and the tenants are around 170 retail and system catering companies . It is the only building in Sulzbach that uses the Frankfurt telephone area code .
history
When it opened in 1964, the MTZ was the first following the example of US , built self-contained shopping malls property in West Germany and the largest shopping center in Europe. For the first time, shops and department stores were specifically concentrated on a newly created area “ on the green field ”. For construction costs of 60 million DM (in today's purchasing power 126 million euros), 73 shops with 40,000 square meters of retail space were built on 260,000 square meters, including the large department stores Horten (now Kaufhof ) and Hertie (now Karstadt ). The operator was the Swiss Intershop group , which took over the property from a Canadian entrepreneur.
The concept quickly proved to be a success. In 1964 sales of DM 85 million were achieved, in 1975 it was over 300 million. The fact that the catchment area of the MTZ has significantly above average purchasing power also contributed to this. In 1975, 20 percent of MTZ visitors stated in a survey that they had a net income of more than DM 2,500. 17 percent were between 2,000 and 2,500, 20 percent between 1,500 and 2,000 and 20 percent between 1,000 and 1,500 DM. Only 9 percent reported monthly income of less than 1,000 DM. This was also reflected in the sum that was spent per person per visit to the MTZ. In 1975 this was 118 DM (in 1969 it was 73 DM).
In 1998, ownership of the Main-Taunus-Zentrum was transferred from Zurich-based Intershop Holding to a closed-end real estate fund of a Deutsche Bank investment company . The German Euro Shop AG since the end of 2010 the majority owner. The Main-Taunus-Zentrum has been operated by ECE Projektmanagement GmbH since 1998 .
Extensions
The Main-Taunus-Zentrum was modernized and expanded from 2001 to 2005. An expansion of the Main-Taunus-Zentrum to 91,000 square meters of retail space, 170 shops and 4,500 parking spaces, which has been planned since the end of 2005, was started in November 2009 and completed two years later. In parallel to the existing one, a second shopping street and a parking garage were built on the site of a previous parking lot.
This expansion project planned by the Main-Taunus-Kreis was initially stopped in mid-December 2007 by the 8th Chamber of the Frankfurt Administrative Court. The reason for this was that the Main-Taunus-Zentrum is to a (smaller) part in the city of Frankfurt and the city of Frankfurt was not involved in the planning of the expansion. Another reason for stopping the expansion project was the vagueness of the building project; It was not clear to the court from the preliminary building decision which product groups should be located and how large the retail space should be. The legal background was that there is no development plan for the site and that the development must therefore be based on the neighborhood development. After this judgment in the second instance did not last, the expansion began in November 2009. The reopening took place on November 17, 2011 and drew criticism from the Verdi union regarding the working hours of employees. It should lead to 540 additional jobs.
architecture
The Main-Taunus-Zentrum was laid out in a "bone plan" in which a straight, long shopping street connects the so-called anchor shops or magnet shops that bring most customers to the shopping center. From the outside, there is a closed, industrial-looking and self-sufficient complex with plastered or clad outer walls, while the inside is the open, partially covered shopping street that lets in natural light. The complex has a bus station and open parks. With event offers and a multiplex cinema from the Kinopolis chain, aspects of an urban entertainment center are available.
Transport links
The Main-Taunus-Zentrum is on the A 66 and the B 8 . It can be reached directly by car and various bus lines of the Rhein-Main transport association . It has no connection to the S-Bahn or any other railroad.
See also
literature
- Main Taunus Center . In: District Administrator Dr. Valentin Jost (Ed.): Main-Taunus-Almanach 1967 + 1968 . 1968, p. 199-201 .
Web links
- Main-Taunus-Zentrum website
- Data from the center on the ECE website
- 360 degree view of the Main-Taunus-Zentrum
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Matthias Borutta, MTZ manager . Homepage Frankfurter Rundschau. Retrieved October 5, 2015
- ↑ Data from the center on the operator's website ( memento of the original from October 30, 2015 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. . ECE homepage. Retrieved October 5, 2015
- ^ A b c Christian Seemann: Analysis and planning of shopping centers . Igel Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86815-038-4 , p. 64-67 .
- ↑ Jeremy Rifkin: Access- The Disappearance of Property: Why We Own Less and Spend More, p. 208 . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38374-3 . Online: limited preview in Google Book search
- ^ Bruno Tietz: Consumer and Retail: Structural Changes in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1960 to 1985 . Lorch Verlag, 1973, ISBN 978-3-87150-061-9 , pp. 646 : "The Main-Taunus-Zentrum [...]", planned and built by a Canadian company and taken over by Intershop Holding AG
- ↑ Reinhard A. Bölts: Main-Taunus-Portraits, 1976, chapter “Target of 8 million buyers - The Main-Taunus-Center”, pages 87-89
- ↑ a b c FAZ on November 17, 2011: New shopping street for the oldest shopping center. Retrieved November 19, 2011 .
- ^ Immobilien-Zeitung on April 9, 1998: Intershop separates from Centers. Deutsche Bank and ECE as takeover partners. Retrieved November 19, 2011 . (Abstract)
- ^ Textilwirtschaft online on December 15, 2010: Deutsche Euroshop secures majority in Main-Taunus-Zentrum. Retrieved November 19, 2011 .
- ↑ a b FAZ on November 13, 2008: Main-Taunus-Zentrum - expansion open again. Retrieved November 19, 2011 .
- ^ FAZ on December 14, 2007: Main-Taunus-Zentrum may not be expanded for the time being. Retrieved November 19, 2011 .
- ↑ Echo-Online : Verdi: “Inhuman” opening times in the Main-Taunus-Zentrum ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2015 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.
- ^ Ministry of Economics, Energy, Building, Housing and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia: Working aid for dealing with large inner-city shopping centers, January 2011. (PDF) Retrieved on November 19, 2011 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 7 ″ N , 8 ° 31 ′ 37 ″ E