Post Gallery (Karlsruhe)
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| Europaplatz with a view of the Postgalerie (2005) | ||
| Basic data | ||
| Location: | Karlsruhe | |
| Opening: | 2001 | |
| Sales area : | 29,000 (will be expanded in 2015) m² | |
| Shops: | approx. 50 | |
| Owner : | Balsa property management company Sarl & Co Vermietungs KG | |
| Website: | www.postgalerie.de | |
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| Railway station: | Karlsruhe main station | |
| Bus stop: | Europaplatz | |
| Tram : | 1, 2, 3, 4, S2, S5 | |
| Omnibus : | 73 | |
| Parking spaces : | 330 | |
The Postgalerie (spelling POSTGALERIE, formerly Post Galerie) in downtown Karlsruhe is a shopping center ; it is located in the former main post office building between Europaplatz and Stephanplatz and was opened in 2001 as a shopping center.
history
The mighty sandstone building was designed in neo-baroque style by the Berlin architect Wilhelm Walter and opened on October 18, 1900 as the Reichspost telegraph building. In 1918 a wing was added on the south side in the neoclassical style and since then has a floor area of around 100 × 100 m.
After the Second World War , the building, which was only slightly damaged, housed government offices. a. until 1949 it was the official residence of Heinrich Köhler .
Then the main post office in Karlsruhe was in it. With the privatization of the German Post Office in 1995 was the entire administration gradually dismantled and vacated the lucrative downtown location. At the end of the 1990s, Deutsche Post AG commissioned the Düsseldorf office of the international architecture firm Chapman Taylor to convert the listed building into a modern shopping mall .
Post gallery
After about two years of construction, the building was opened as a shopping center under the name Post Galerie on September 21, 2001; the construction costs were stated at 51 million euros. The 29,000 m² sales area (retail and catering) can be reached via three strolling floors (ground floor, basement, 1st floor), which are connected by a 22 m high gallery atrium with stairs and two glass elevators . The 2nd and 3rd floor cannot be reached through the mall. a. further retail spaces, offices and practices.
Around 50 shops from various industries are represented in the Postgalerie ( fashion , accessories , food , gastronomy , magazines , concert tickets, etc.). The largest tenants are Decathlon , the textile supplier Primark and the off-price concept TK Maxx . Deutsche Post occupies around 900 m² with a counter for letters and parcels ( Yellow Post ) and Postbank and a post office box .
Extensive renovation work took place in 2011 and 2012 after the previous anchor tenant Saturn had moved into a neighboring department store.
The underground car park under the adjacent Stephanplatz offers 330 parking spaces.
The post gallery is managed by CEMAGG GmbH, Karlsruhe (previously Sonae Sierra Germany GmbH, Düsseldorf).
As part of the tram tunnel project , the Postgalerie will have underground access at the Europaplatz / Post Galerie stop.
In 2015 the post gallery was expanded by one floor. Thus, the shopping center was enlarged by 1,300 m² of shopping space and also got a 3,000 m² fitness center.
Gallery atrium
From Stephanplatz
From Karlstrasse
Facade to Europaplatz with the Leibgrenadier Monument
Shop row on the ground floor (outside of core business hours)
Memorial plaque for Heinrich Köhler
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Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 33.5 ″ N , 8 ° 23 ′ 39.2 ″ E