Otto von Bahrenpark
The Otto von Bahrenpark , or Bahrenpark for short , is a residential and commercial park in the Hamburg district of Bahrenfeld . It includes the historic buildings of the former Altona gasworks .
Bahrenfeld gasworks
The gas works was built between 1892 and 1895 according to the plans of the architect and civil engineer Schaar on a 8.5 hectare site that stretched north of today's Gasstrasse to Mendelssohnstrasse . The Bahrenfeld gasworks went into operation in 1896 as the successor to the gasworks on Grosse Elbstrasse. It served the Altona gas works as the main production facility.
From 1910 to 1928 the industrial facilities were expanded as required. In 1938 it was shut down as a generation plant. After the war destruction in 1943, city gas was no longer produced in the 1950s , but crude benzene from the other gas works in Hamburg was still stored and processed on the property. The system served as a container and compressor station . In 1960 the entire industrial plant was shut down, the remaining gas containers were demolished in 1974.
Parts of the building were still used commercially after that. B. one of the old coal storage halls as a feed factory, other parts were used for small businesses. There were also uses by artists and dropouts who increasingly discovered vacant industrial buildings and set up studios, apartments and warehouses here.
The gasworks had a rail connection to Bahrenfeld station . The bridge over the Gasstrasse is still there.
conversion
At the beginning of the 1990s, investors and architects became aware of the factory buildings with their typical brick buildings and initially founded an interest group for further planning. The gasworks site was purchased in 1994 by the Hollmann Peters Vogler (HPV) investor group and another investor. The idea was to convert the former gasworks into a modern, stylish, large-scale facility for commercial purposes and a modern center with all the associated facilities for the Bahrenfeld district under monumental aspects. The buildings on the site were entered in the list of monuments in 1996 .
Between 1994 and 1998 the investors and the Hamburg authority for urban development and the environment explored the contaminated site on the site. In doing so, they sometimes found heavy soil pollution from cyanides , PAHs , phenols and BTEX and found aromatic compounds in the well-protected aquifer . The extensive soil renovation that was necessary before the planned use took place from mid-1999 to mid-2000, parallel to the first construction work. The underground mine structures were exposed, aqueous liquids and tar oils were pumped out and the pits were dismantled. Overall, the soil had to be partially rehabilitated to a depth of 12 m and around 150,000 t of soil and rubble had to be disposed of. In 2007, deep benzene pollution was discovered in the south of the site. After the completion of this last refurbishment, the former gas works site is considered refurbished. The 7.5 million euros required to finance these measures came from the budget of the City of Hamburg.
Business park
The planned commercial use of the residential and commercial properties began in 2003. From the historical ensemble, the group of investors converted over 10 properties under monument protection conditions and extensively renovated them. The new business park was named Otto von Bahrenpark and consists of a mixture of offices, shops, hotels, a fitness center and restaurants. The 250 condominiums were mainly built in the northern part, with a centrally located park in the middle with a pond that also serves as a rainwater retention basin .
Name of the site and monument protection
According to the site operator, the business park owes its name to a knight named "Otto von Bahren", whose existence is not documented, but who is claimed on the business park website as the namesake for the Hamburg districts of Bahrenfeld and Ottensen . The proper name is a creation of the marketing company and should be correctly spelled "Otto-von-Bahren-Park".
Listed remains of the gasworks are two large buildings of the former gas cleaning on the west side of the site, three large buildings of the former coal depot on the east side of the site and smaller buildings on the south side of the site, which were originally used as a controller house, workshop and administration building. In addition, there are scattered remnants of industrial use such as a railway bridge over Gasstrasse, street paving, railway tracks and a vehicle scale .
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '43.9 " N , 9 ° 55' 3.3" E
South coal shed
Former vehicle scale
West gable of the former regulator house
Former railway bridge over Gasstrasse
Northern gas cleaning
literature
- Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag , Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 268 .
- Authority for Urban Development and Environment Hamburg (Ed.): Best Practice - Good Examples for Land Recycling in Hamburg, Former Gas Works Bahrenfeld . Hamburg 2007 ( online [PDF; accessed on March 14, 2016]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Description of the business park on hamburg.de . Retrieved March 18, 2016.
- ↑ a b Description of the history of the site on the homepage of today's business park. Retrieved March 18, 2016.
- ↑ a b History of the Hotel Gastwerk on the hotel's website. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
- ↑ a b c d History of the Bahrenfeld gas works on the website of the Hamburg Authority for Urban Development and Environment. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
- ↑ List of all monuments of the city of Hamburg. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
