Prussia Park
Prussia Park was the name of a failed model for a new stadium in Münster , Westphalia . The Hamburg investor ECE was to build a fully roofed stadium with 22,500 seats on the site of today's Preußenstadion in Münster .
The project had been under discussion since 1994 and looked like this: The city of Münster provided the investor with a plot of land on Hammer Strasse free of charge. ECE wanted to build the stadium for the previously calculated market value of the property. In order to finance the whole project and secure the return for ECE, ECE should be allowed to build a shopping center and a parking garage with 2000 spaces in addition to the planned stadium.
In 1996 the project picked up speed politically, the city of Münster approved the project. But criticism quickly ignited in Münster. The planned shopping center in particular met with criticism from downtown merchants. Presumably supported by the merchants, a single resident filed a lawsuit with the Higher Administrative Court . On December 7, 2000, the lawsuit was heard. Because the city did not sufficiently appreciate the effects of traffic and noise, the development plan was declared void.
The entire project had thus failed, the judgment was not admitted to revision . At the insistence of the investor, the city of Münster filed a complaint against the non-approval of the revision. But this complaint was finally rejected a year later.
Web links
OVG judgment , file number 7A D 60 / 99.NE
Individual evidence
- ^ Court overturns plan of Prussia Park . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung . December 8, 2000, p. 1 .