Ring Center Berlin

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Ring Center Berlin
Ring Center Berlin
Basic data
Location: Berlin
Opening: October 5, 1995 (Ring-Center I)
October 29, 1997 (Ring-Center II)
March 28, 2007 (Ring-Center III)
Sales area : 16,500 m² (I) + 20,000 m² (II) + 8,700 m² (III) = 45,200 m²
Shops: about 110
Visitors: around 40,000 daily
Operator: ECE project management
Website: www.ring-center.de
Transport links
Railway station: Frankfurter Allee train station
S-Bahn : Ringbahn S41 and S42, S8, S85
Subway : U5
Tram : M13, 16
Motorways : Frankfurter Allee ( B 1 / B 5 )
Other: Möllendorffstraße ,
at the container station
Parking spaces : about 1000
Bicycle parking spaces : 90
Technical specifications
Construction time : February 1994 ( groundbreaking Ring-Center I) - March 2007 (opening of Ring-Center III)
Architects : Jost Hernig, Manfred Stanek,
HPP Hentrich-Petschnigg & Partner (I + II),
Klaus M. Hoffmann (III)
Building-costs: 120 million marks (investment volume Ring-Center II), 28 million € (investment volume Ring-Center III)

The Ring-Center is a shopping center east and west of the Ringbahn at Frankfurter Allee station in the districts of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (district Friedrichshain ) and Lichtenberg (district Lichtenberg ). The shopping center consists of three parts of the building and with 45,200 m² of retail space is one of the larger in Berlin.

history

Ringbahnhalle 1991

On the area between Frankfurter Allee , Pettenkoferstraße and Riga Street 1915 Frankfurt at the address Avenue was built in 272, a building that was initially intended as a cinema, but then housed a market hall for decades, according to their location on the Berlin ring road name Ringbahn Hall was . In the early 1970s it was converted into a shopping center for everyday goods with a year-round fruit and vegetable market. In 1981 it was closed and repaired for several months, but no longer met the conditions of a then modern trading facility, so it was not even heatable. In 1987 the East Berlin chief architect announced a competition, according to which a new 2500 m² hall should be built in the 1990s.

From 1991, a consortium consisting of Philipp Holzmann AG , the US architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) and ECE Projektmanagement , wanted to build an office and business center on both sides of the Ringbahn. On the east side, on the corner of Möllendorffstrasse, a 130 m high office building with 32 floors was to be built, next to it an eight-story department store. An underground passage under the Ringbahntrasse with access to the S-Bahn and U-Bahn was to connect to a six-storey building with offices and shopping arcades on the west side. However, no users were found for the office high-rise projected by Adrian D. Smith (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP) in collaboration with HPP International, so the project was rejected.

The old Ringbahnhalle was demolished in 1993.

Ring Center I.

The Ring Center was opened in October 1995 west of the Ringbahn. The architects were Hentrich-Petschnigg & Partner International (HPP) from Berlin and Jost Hernig and Manfred Stanek from Hamburg . Subsequently, the client called the multi-tier construction as Ring Center I .

Ring Center II (right) and III (left)

In October 1997 the area was expanded to include the Ring-Center II on the Lichtenberger (eastern) side of the Ringbahn. The extension was planned by the same team of architects.

Construction of the Ring-Center III started in November 2005. The building was designed by ECE itself, the architect was Klaus M. Hoffmann. The only tenant of the building, which opened on March 28, 2007, is Galeria Kaufhof , which in return closed its branch on Anton-Saefkow-Platz in the Fennpfuhl district . The sales area of ​​the four-story Ring-Center III is around 8,700 m². The world's first hotel on a parking deck with 152 rooms was opened on Ringcenter II in May 2019.

Ring Center I was sold to investment manager Angelo Gordon and Kintyre Investments in 2019. The new owners want to "reposition" the shopping center and create an "integrated shop and office center with a leisure and retail destination". Ring-Center II and III will continue to be operated by ECE.

description

There are around 110 shops in the Ring Center (I – III). While the branch mix in the first part of the building complex is relatively heterogeneous (textiles, the largest item, takes up 28.9 percent of the area), half of the sales area in the second part is occupied by a department store, and there is also a large hardware store . As already described above, the Ring-Center III is used entirely by Galeria Kaufhof . 1000 employees work in the entire mall. Every day around 40,000 visitors come, the catchment area with a journey of up to 30 minutes amounts to around 500,000 inhabitants.

Infrastructure

Due to its location on the Ringbahn with the S-Bahn lines S41, S42, S8 and S85 as well as the U-Bahn line 5 , the center is well connected to local public transport. The tram lines M13 and 16 also stop directly at Frankfurter Allee station . The shopping center can be reached by car via Frankfurter Allee , and the entrance to the car park can be reached from Möllendorffstraße via Am Containerbahnhof .

Web links

Commons : Ring Center  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The Ring Center II at a glance . Archive: berliner-zeitung.de . Retrieved October 8, 2015
  2. ↑ a b Facts and Figures Ring Center. At: architekten24.de . Retrieved October 8, 2015
  3. ↑ Camping, supplies and health. In: Berliner Zeitung , March 27, 1971, p. 8.
  4. ↑ Cold rooms facilitate transport. In: Neue Zeit , March 27, 1981, p. 8.
  5. ↑ Café “Eclair” and much more. In: Neue Zeit , October 3, 1983, p. 8.
  6. ↑ New Ringbahnhalle in different models. In: Berliner Zeitung , May 31, 1988, p. 12.
  7. ↑ Giant made of glass, 120 m high. In: Berliner Zeitung , September 25, 1992, p. 20.
  8. ↑ Frankfurter Allee office building. At: emporis.com
  9. ↑ Instead of the office tower, a department store is now being built . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 3, 2005
  10. ↑ a b c Ring-Center Berlin on www.ece.com (with floor plans)
  11. ^ Architecture Ring Center; Background information on the HPP team of architects. Retrieved June 9, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Ring Center at emporis.com
  13. ↑ Report  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at morgenpost.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.morgenpost.de  
  14. ↑ a b Data of the Ring-Center III on the operator website ( Memento from November 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). ECE homepage. Retrieved October 8, 2015
  15. ↑ Kaufhof moves to the Ring Center . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 24, 2007
  16. ↑ The world's first hotel on parking deck. Press release from the Lichtenberg District Office, May 13, 2019
  17. ↑ Unibail and the Otto family give up the Berlin Ring Center 1. In: Immobilien Zeitung , December 19, 2019.
  18. ↑ Data of the Ring Center II on the operator website. ( Memento from September 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) ECE homepage. Retrieved October 8, 2015
  19. ↑ Directions and parking. Center website. Retrieved October 8, 2015

Coordinates: 52 ° 30'51.3 "  N , 13 ° 28'26.7"  E