Graz Reininghaus
With 54 hectares, Graz-Reininghaus is the largest undeveloped area in a central location in the second largest Austrian city of Graz by population . The area is 1.8 km from the historic city center and administratively belongs to the three city districts Eggenberg , Gries and Wetzelsdorf .
history
5000 years ago, a road led from Schloßberg and Murgasse roughly along today's Prankergasse, Friedhofgasse and Reininghausstrasse to Baierdorf. It crossed today's Alte Poststrasse, an important north-south transit route, since Roman times.
Even then, the city of Graz was on the other - left - side of the river. Many travelers passed the city. Therefore, in 1361 the citizens of Graz expanded their urban area beyond the Mur to the Alte Poststraße. The largest toll house in the city, the Steinfeldhof, was built at the crossroads at Steinfeld .
There was also an inn with overnight accommodation as early as the Middle Ages. The Eggenbergers were the landlords of this inn . Johann Seyfried, Duke of Krumau and Prince of Eggenberg, gave the then landlord Lorenz Schaupp in 1669 permission to set up a brewery on the ground of the Steinfeld and to serve beer. Over the next century, the Mauthaus brewery changed hands several times.
The Reininghaus family
Johann Peter Reininghaus , originally from Westphalia, bought the Mauthaus am Steinfeld in 1853 with his Viennese wife Therese, née Mautner. It consisted of a house, a storage cellar, brewhouse, fermentation cellar, stable and barn and a total of almost 45 hectares of land. In addition to beer, he began to produce alcohol, liqueur, vinegar and pressed yeast. Together with his brother Julius , who had also married a daughter of the company's founder Adolf Ignaz Mautner (later Ritter von Markhof ), he founded the company "Brothers Reininghaus" in 1855. The Reininghaus brothers built the first steam-powered brewery in Styria (of which only the machine house is left today) and applied for several patents for brewery equipment.
The entrepreneurial family Reininghaus remained large landowners in Eggenberg for several generations. By the turn of the century, in 1900, she had managed to increase her land holdings twenty-five times - it reached what is now the Weblinger Belt. In the first four decades, industrialization changed the appearance of the Reininghaus grounds permanently: Ice ponds were created, a canal to the Mur dug and tracks laid to the nearby southern railway line, to which Reininghaus was connected from 1882. In addition, a sports field was laid out, quite a novelty for the time. The buffalo with which the Reininghaus beer was delivered in Graz were also legendary. Shortly before the turn of the century, in 1892, the brewery had 700 employees, making it the fifth largest brewery in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. However, the Reininghaus family did not only have a lasting effect on Graz in the brewing sector, the family was also involved in the development of the Graz Tramway Company, the E-Werk in Lebring and the construction of the Schlossbergbahn.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the widow Johann Peters, Therese transformed the company into a stock corporation. More cold rooms, huge cellars and halls were built until the First World War broke out. After the war, exports ceased due to protective tariffs against Austria. The grandson Peter Reininghaus took over the company in 1920 as an authorized signatory and started beer production again. When the Second World War broke out, the Reininghaus family, who were not considered full Aryan, emigrated. The brewery came under the rule of the National Socialists and was forcibly merged with the brewery in Puntigam in 1944. In the last years of the war, the Puch works produced war equipment in the spacious cellars. The brewery was bombed several times and was badly damaged at the end of the war.
After returning from exile, beer production was relocated to Puntigam. Attempts in Reininghaus to produce non-alcoholic beverages failed. Both the Coca-Cola company , which was looking for a production site in Graz in the 1950s, and a Reininghaus descendant who had big plans for a fruit juice factory in the 1960s, received a rejection. Nevertheless, the family held the largely fallow grounds together. The name "Reininghausgrund" thus got its first definition.
Only very hesitantly, some peripheral properties were sold to well-known or partner companies such as Mannesmann , Denzel and Großschädl , as well as some workers' apartments in the south. With the death of Peter Reininghaus sen. in 1973 and the founding of Steirerbrau in 1977 began 25 years in which many projects were conceived, but none were realized.
The remaining building ensemble is a remarkable industrial monument. The following objects are under monument protection : the Villa Keil, the fountain house, the malting tub and the silo storage.
Development history
At the beginning of the nineties, the owners and the city of Graz commissioned a recycling study. The result of this study was the concept of a new cultural district on the Reininghaus grounds. There were also major traffic planning visions, such as the tram, which was to run from Graz Thalerhof over the GKB tracks on Reininghausgrund to Pirka . Other suggestions saw the University of Applied Sciences move into the listed factory halls, and there were considerations to build the Olympic Village on the Reininghaus grounds in the event of a positive application for the Olympic Winter Games in 2002 or 2006. Folke Tegetthoff, on the other hand, planned a “Wonder World of Music” theme park on the Reininghaus grounds. The adventure park with an IMAX cinema and an event hall in the shape of a violin should have attracted 600,000 visitors annually. It has not yet been realized anywhere else. The use of the area as a sports and leisure park with a test run course, fitness course and sports hotel, as well as a French sporting goods retailer as an investor, were also considered. Shortly before the Reininghaus grounds changed hands again, at the end of the 1990s the plan for a business park was born, which also remained unrealized.
In the years 1995–1999, as part of the URBAN Graz program (the EU community initiative URBAN), the Joanneum University of Applied Sciences was established in the immediate vicinity of the Reininghaus area at the intersection of Eggenberger Allee / Alte Poststraße. At the same time, this was linked to the mission of providing an impetus for upgrading the west of Graz. These impulse measures continued in the second funding period of the URBAN II community initiative. As part of the URBAN_Link Graz-West program, a. the construction of the Helmut List Hall and the expansion of the recently established university of applied sciences. Support was also given to the construction of the underpass for the Graz-Köflach-Bahn in Alten Poststrasse and the construction of the start-up center in the "Reininghaus Business Park". As a result of these measures, Reininghaus moved a little more into the focus of urban development in Graz and, above all, the population of Graz.
In 2005 Asset One Immobilienentwicklungs AG acquired the non-operational properties of the Brau Union in Austria on the Reininghaus grounds in order to develop them in close cooperation with the city and its residents, the economy, the authorities and institutions. However, due to the economic crisis in 2009, Asset One ran into financial difficulties and considered a leaner implementation of the project. The City of Graz, on the other hand, wanted uniform exploitation and now tried to take the project into their own hands. After the sale of Asset One to Petruswerk under Douglas Fernando failed after long negotiations, Asset One was taken over in December 2011 by a consortium led by real estate agent Alfred Müller. The Graz lawyer Dr. Bernhard Astner. In 2010, the Graz Reininghaus framework plan was drawn up together with the City of Graz. This master plan was decided in February 2010 as the basis for the change in the zoning plan for the Reininghaus grounds.
In a public survey in July 2012, 66.99 percent of the participating 70,593 citizens rejected the intended purchase of the Reininghaus grounds by the city of Graz. Of the 69,784 valid votes, 22,495 (32.24 percent) were in favor of a purchase and 47,289 (67.76 percent) were against a purchase. The results of the Graz citizens' survey on the purchase of the Reininghaus grounds published on July 17, 2012 are binding for the City of Graz.
In 2012, the City of Graz decided on the 4.0 urban development concept and the development specifications for the Reininghaus grounds laid down in it. In 2013, a large number of the areas on the Reininghaus grounds were transferred to public property and, above all, as public green areas, with the aim of securing valuable open and green areas for future development.
In the meantime, ASSET ONE has sold its properties to non-profit and private property developers, most of them from Austria. At the same time, work was carried out in 2013 on the planning for the necessary infrastructure (road and tram) and an important core element of sustainable mobility in Reininghaus was drawn up: the mobility contracts between the city of Graz and the owners of the properties. The main aim of these contracts is to focus more on sustainable forms of mobility, such as walking and cycling. This is done, among other things, through 13.5 km of footpaths and cycle paths, which are to be built by the end of the Reininghausgrund in 2027. The center of the district will be closed to private motorized traffic. Each construction site will also be equipped with bicycle service stations and its own car sharing car. The residents receive an annual pass for urban public transport per residential unit when they move in for the first time. For the first three years, two additional bicycle service days are offered each year. Personal mobility advice from the district management helps to change or adapt mobility behavior.
The first architecture competitions for the individual quarters of the Reininghausgrund started in 2014. At the same time, work was carried out on the respective development plans in order to guarantee a high quality urban development in Reininghaus. In 2015, the EU-wide architecture competition for public space in Reininghaus started (the central promenade on the Reininghaus grounds - the UNESCO Esplanade and the axis for public transport are particularly affected). At the same time, there was a two-stage architecture competition in 2016 for the Reininghauspark - the central public green space in the new district, which the landscape architecture office zwo PK was able to win.
The first construction projects were implemented in Reininghaus from 2017, and in 2018 the expansion of the Alte Poststrasse started, which could be reopened at the end of 2019. Also in 2019, the expansion of the tram started, which is expected to go into operation in 2021, thus connecting the new district to the tram network.
Cooperation between property developer and city of Graz district management on the Reininghaus grounds
Through the sale of the properties on the Reininghaus grounds from ASSET ONE to individual property developers, one found oneself faced with the situation of having to bundle a large number of individual interests for the sustainable development of the Reininghaus grounds. Due to this fact, the merger of the Reininghaus owner board, which is unique in Austria in this form, was created in autumn 2018, in which the 17 property developers involved in the project can jointly tackle construction site-wide topics and work priorities in order to exploit synergies and positively further develop Graz-Reininghaus. One of the first measures was a marketing offensive to bring the entire Reininghaus grounds, a term that has been used strictly for the development area since then, into the focus of the citizens. It is also the aim, together with the city of Graz, to ensure an attractive trading structure on the Reininghaus grounds in order to offer future residents a livable district. Another core interest of both the public sector and property developers is to create attractive offers for the population in the form of social infrastructure facilities. These include facilities for leisure time, for education, the integration of minorities, social care, public transport, a sensibly and sustainably planned network of foot and cycle paths. During the same period, the Reininghaus district management began its work and has since acted on behalf of the City of Graz as a hub and communication hub for all actors in the ongoing urban development process. Neighboring residents, those interested in housing, property developers and the city of Graz come together here at regular events and use the exchange and information platform. The district management is also the contact point for everyday questions in Reininghaus for the first residents who were able to move into the first completed building - the "Reininghaus Zehn" in the "Linse" at the end of 2019.
Future development - vision for the Reininghaus reasons
By 2027, living space for up to 10,000 people will be created on the Reininghaus grounds. The development of the residential units is keeping pace with this and around 5000 apartments are to be built on the Reininghaus grounds. The Styrian district towns of Leibnitz and Weiz show comparable figures. A lively usage structure consisting of living, living and working will also create 5000 jobs, which will mainly consist of the areas of social infrastructure, gastronomy, retail, office and services. The buildings on the quarters will be gradually completed in the annual steps 2020-2021-2023-2027 and thus also visually ensure a growing district. Even if the process of urban development is in principle a dynamic system and will therefore never come to an end, 2027 will still take a marked cut in the development of the Reininghausgrund. In that year, the new district on the former brewery site with its centuries-old tradition should be completed. In total, a 54-hectare district for 10,000 people will have been created by then. Around 2000 trees will be planted by then, a 3 hectare "Reininghauspark" and at least 10% green space per construction site will be created, leisure and sports facilities will have been built, the tallest tower in the city will have been built in Quartier 2 and "Reininghauser" - Schoolchildren will go to school in the district's own AHS or elementary school. In total, a total investment volume of one billion euros will have been made in monetary terms by 2027. The aim will be to keep this enormous financial contribution to urban development in Graz alive in the future.
Public connection The Reininghaus grounds are integrated into the Graz public transport network. The bus line 66 has been connecting the west of Graz with the east since 2019 and passes the district with several stops on Wetzelsdorferstraße. In the north of the area there are stops for tram lines 1 and 7 at the FH Joanneum stop. By the end of 2021, the tram through the Reininghaus grounds will be completed and will run as line 4 between Reininghaus and Liebenau. The final stop is right next to the Peter Rosegger Geriatric Health Center. Further stops are planned along the Esplanade and will be partially combined with the Tim Mobility Hub of Holding Graz.
literature
- Gerhard M. Dienes, Karl A. Kubinzky (Ed.): Eggenberg. Stadtmuseum Graz, Graz 1999, ISBN 3-900764-22-0 .
- Donja Noormofidi, Thomas Wolkinger: Built on beer. In: Falter 30/2006. ( Memento from April 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Hubert Rieß: Impulse Center Graz-West. 2004, on: nextroom.at
- Peter Lau: A place for the future . In: Brand one . No. 8, 2008, ISSN 1438-9339 . (on-line)
Web links
- Website of the Reininghaus owner board
- Website from "kleboth lindinger partners."
- Urban_Link Graz-West: Urban development in the west of Graz.
- werkstadt017: What one could know about the reasons for the Reininghaus. (PDF; 393 kB) A publication by Asset One
Individual evidence
- ↑ Graz wants to buy Asset One projects for 100 million. ( Memento from October 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Wirtschaftsblatt. September 22, 2009.
- ↑ No to Reininghaus reasons . Kleine Zeitung , July 17, 2012, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 . .
Coordinates: 47 ° 3 ′ 52.8 " N , 15 ° 24 ′ 31.9" E