Castle Street Center

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Castle Street Center
Castle Street Center
Castle Street Center, 2012
Basic data
Location: Berlin-Friedenau ,
Walther-Schreiber-Platz  1
Opening: March 29, 2007
Sales area : 16,200 m²
Owner : MIB AG, Berlin, together with the Irish investor CMC Capital
Transport links
Railway stations: Walther-Schreiber-Platz ,
Feuerbachstrasse
S-Bahn : S1
Subway : U9
Omnibus : bus X76, M48, M76, M85, 181, 186
Parking spaces : 365
Technical specifications
Construction time : 2006-2007
Architects : Aukett + Heese GmbH, Berlin
Building material : Reinforced concrete
Building-costs: 80 million euros

The Schloss-Straßen-Center (short form: SSC ) is a shopping center in the Berlin district of Friedenau , right on the border with the district of Steglitz on the corner of Bundesallee and Bornstrasse on Walther-Schreiber-Platz . The SSC is - viewed from the square - to the right of the Forum Steglitz and, with a sales area of ​​16,200 m², is the smallest of the four shopping centers in the Schloßstraße area .

Naming

The name of the shopping center is intended to refer to the location of the building at the entrance to the eponymous Schloßstraße. Strictly speaking, however, Schloßstraße only begins on the opposite side of Bornstraße with the Forum Steglitz in the Steglitz district. In addition, the street name as a proper name has not been adapted to the new German spelling , so that two orthographical errors are combined here - Schloßstraße-Center would be correct .

History of the property

In 1905, at the southern end of what was then Kaiserallee (today: Bundesallee) between Lefèvre and Bornstrasse, a block of houses with large, expensive apartments as well as doctors and lawyers' offices was built. There were many small shops on the ground floor, such as the Losch soap shop, a dairy and stationery shop, an ice cream parlor, Thalia-Lichtspiele, the specialist shop for technical toys Steinke and the Berlin-Friedenau 3 post office (Bornstrasse 1). This city block burned down in 1942 after an air raid in World War II .

The Held department store was built on the property in 1953 by the architect Paul Schwebes in a design typical of the time and expanded several times between 1959 and 1965. In the center of the building there was a large oval staircase that connected all full floors. The corner property Bundesallee / Lefèvrestrasse (Bundesallee 96) was given a simple residential building in the architectural style of the 1950s, where the branch post office Berlin-Friedenau 3 was now housed on the ground floor .

In 1971, immediately in front of the department store site, the Walther-Schreiber-Platz underground station, the then terminus of underground line 9, went into operation. In 1973 the Held department store was sold to Hertie Waren- und Kaufhaus GmbH and operated from then on under the name Hertie . In the 1990s, the branch post office Berlin 411 was closed and the rooms were no longer used.

After the Karstadt group had taken over the Hertie department stores in 1994, this group now owned three department store locations in the area of ​​Steglitzer Schloßstraße: Karstadt , Wertheim and Hertie , and the Karstadt Sport branch in Forum Steglitz . The range of goods and staff in the Hertie department store were gradually reduced in order to direct buyers to the other two stores. In the end, only the sales area on the ground floor was used for the sale of promotional goods and remaining stocks.

On February 22, 2003 the old department store was finally closed.

Planning and construction of the SSC

The demolition of the old department store began in June 2005. In addition to the actual department store, the corner residential building Bundesallee 96 with the former post office and the adjoining four-storey residential building Lefèvrestraße 29 from around 1905-1910 were demolished in order to expand the area so that car park entrances could be built. The tenants of the apartments, some of whom have been tenants for many years, were informed in 2004 about the planned demolition of the houses.

Part of the project was a change in the building alignment lines in the square area to further enlarge the area. This was after the abandonment of the old nor the tram predominantly stemming bus terminus in central position in front of the Forum Steglitz and the cross section reduction of Castle Street.

The construction project was viewed with concern by the retailers and tradespeople in Rheinstrasse because they feared that purchasing power would continue to drain into the large houses.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the new shopping center already followed in mid-June 2005 ; however, the contents of the building permit were in dispute. In August 2005, public participation in the development plan XI-1-1 began to determine the use of the affected areas under planning law. The new building was finally completed in spring 2007.

At the same time as the construction of the new SSC building, a bus terminus was set up in Bundesallee with the possibility of turning articulated buses . Currently, three bus routes end directly in front of the building. In addition, the entrance to the subway was redesigned, with the shopping center being provided with a direct connection from the basement to the subway distribution level. A multi-storey car park with 365 parking spaces is connected to the shopping center .

The new SSC building initially had an open atrium. The ceilings of the ground floor and the gallery-like floors above were open in the middle and allowed a clear view down to the basement. In preparation for the Primark settlement, the usable sales area was enlarged from 2011 to 2012 by closing the floor ceilings in the interior.

Shops in the SSC

View from the east side of the street, 2016

The shopping center, which opened on March 29, 2007 and was designed as a “shop-in-shop” system, housed around 50 specialist shops, service facilities and catering establishments on four levels, including retail chains such as Zara , Cyberport and Toys ”Я "Us .

In the first few years, not all shops could be rented, and the buyer's visit did not meet expectations. There was frequent fluctuation .

In 2011, many shops moved out of the building to move to the Boulevard Berlin shopping center on Schloß- / Treitschkestrasse, about 200 meters away , which opened on April 4, 2012. The Schloss-Strasse-Center was rebuilt, but remained open during the renovation with Cyberport, Acom, BackWerk and Toys “Я” Us on the 1st floor.

In July 2012 the first Berlin branch of the Irish fashion chain Primark opened on 5,400 m² . At the opening, accompanied by around 100 journalists, there was a rush of around 1,000 mostly young women.

The Primark sales areas are located on the ground floor and on the first floor in the middle area between the stairwells. On the ground floor, entertainment electronics are also offered on a larger area, while a toy supplier uses the larger area on the first floor.

In the basement are a Rewe - supermarket and several smaller stores located, including different gastronomic offers.

A 1,500 m² fitness studio is located on the second floor.

business

The SSC is operated by CMde Centermanager und Immobilien GmbH & Co. KG . The HSH Nordbank provided for inventory financing a sum of 72 million euros.

Web links

Commons : Schloss-Strassen-Center  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin: Primark rents 5,000 m² in the Schloss-Straßen-Center. Thomas Daily, July 27, 2011. Retrieved June 27, 2012.
  2. ↑ Schloss-Straßen-Center changes hands. In: Immobilien Zeitung , September 20, 2007. Retrieved June 27, 2012.
  3. ↑ Object Schloss-Strassen-Center.  ( 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. MIB AG. Retrieved June 27, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mib.de  
  4. ↑ a b Inner-city shopping centers. ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Geographische Handelsforschung , No. 28, December 2010. Economic geography of the Humboldt University of Berlin . (pdf; 2.6 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geographische-handelsforschung.de
  5. ↑ a b c Real estate financing: HSH Nordbank finances “Schloss-Straßen-Center” in Berlin . At: Haufe.de , January 3, 2013, accessed on January 15, 2013.
    HSH Nordbank finances Schloss-Straßen-Center in Berlin . From: Deal-magazin.com , January 3, 2013, accessed January 15, 2013.
  6. ↑ Birgitt Eltzel: 67 shops are being built on ex-Hertie premises. In: Berliner Zeitung , October 20, 2005, accessed on January 15, 2013.
  7. ↑ Sigrid Wiegand: Walther-Schreiber-Platz - the place that never existed. In: Heimatverein Steglitz (Ed.): Steglitzer Heimat 49 Jg. (1/2004) ( Memento from August 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.2 MB), pp. 27-30.
  8. ↑ Internet source: Kaufhaus Held at www.laufwerk-b.de, accessed on January 21, 2013  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.laufwerk-b.de  
  9. ↑ Internet source: List of Berlin post offices at www.blocksignal.de, accessed on January 22, 2013
  10. ^ Birgitt Eltzel: Schloss Strasse Center instead of Hertie . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 27, 2004, accessed on January 15, 2013.
  11. ↑ Ela Dobrinkat: Demolition of the Hertie department store on Walther-Schreiber-Platz begins . In: Die Welt , June 4, 2005, accessed January 15, 2013.
  12. ↑ Internet source : Entliete in Friedenau on www.berliner-mieterverein.de, accessed on January 22, 2013
  13. ↑ Birgitt Eltzel: Investors in the Schloss-Straßen-Center accuse the city councilor of kidnapping tactics. Groundbreaking without building permit . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 15, 2005, accessed on January 15, 2013.
  14. ↑ Internet source: 3.) 2005 - Another shopping mall for Schloßstraße on khd-blog.net, accessed on January 21, 2013
  15. ^ Katrin Lange: New shopping centers on Schloßstraße . In: Die Welt , June 17, 2007 (Overview of the article Shopping center must be smaller. ).
  16. ↑ Shopping center with subway connection . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 29, 2007, accessed on December 25, 2012.
  17. ↑ Steglitz-Zehlendorf: Schloss-Straßen-Center is being rebuilt. In: Berliner Morgenpost , March 3, 2011, accessed on January 15, 2013.
  18. ↑ a b Miriam Hauft: Hype about shop opening in Berlin. I want a dress from you . In: the daily newspaper , July 11, 2012, accessed on January 15, 2013.
  19. ↑ Birgitt Eltzel: Irish fashion chain: Primark opens first Berlin branch . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 12, 2012, accessed on January 15, 2013.
  20. ↑ Cheap fashion chain: Why there were hysterical scenes at the Primark premiere . In: Berliner Morgenpost , July 15, 2012, accessed on January 15, 2013.
  21. ↑ Center management at Schloss Strasse Center .  ( 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. Retrieved June 27, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schloss-strassen-center.de  

Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '54.4 "  N , 13 ° 19' 39.9"  E