Castle courtyards
| Oldenburg Castle Courtyards | ||
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| Basic data | ||
| Location: | Oldenburg | |
| Opening: | March 16, 2011 | |
| Sales area : | 12,500 m² | |
| Shops: | 80 | |
| Visitors: | 16,272 daily | |
| Operator: | ECE project management | |
| Website: | www.schlosshoefe-oldenburg.de | |
| Transport links | ||
| Railway station: | Oldenburg Central Station | |
| Bus stop: | Schlossplatz platform A (central city bus stop) | |
| Motorways : | A 28 , A 29 , B 211 , B 401 | |
| Parking spaces : | 430 | |
| Bicycle parking spaces : | 30th | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Construction time : | January 2009 – March 2011 | |
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The Schlosshöfe is a shopping center in the city center of Oldenburg , which opened on March 16, 2011 and is located in the immediate vicinity of the Oldenburg Castle . There is a 42 meter wide undeveloped strip between the castle courtyards and the castle. The name Schlosshöfe is controversial as the monumental building has no courtyard structure.
description
The operator of the castle courtyards is ECE Projektmanagement GmbH . The company invested 115 million euros in the project. The sales area is around 12,500 square meters. There are 80 shops in the center and a total of 450 employees. The total catchment area comprises 809,455 inhabitants.
history
The site of the former indoor swimming pool of the city of Oldenburg was sold to ECE Projektmanagement in 2004. An architects' competition was then carried out and concrete planning for a shopping center began. Accompanied by some protests in the city, the project was pushed forward by the council majority until the local elections in 2006. In the run-up to the election, the construction of what was then known as the "ECE Center" became one of the key issues. The previously very popular mayor Dietmar Schütz , SPD, spoke out in favor of the CDU candidate Schwandner against the ECE Center. When Schwandner became mayor with an extremely narrow majority, the city council confirmed the building project three months later and implementation began. Among other reasons, this U-turn almost led to the break of the Black-Green coalition in Oldenburg. Construction began in February 2009.
criticism
Even before they were opened, the palace courtyards were politically controversial. It is unclear whether the Schlosshöfe purchasing power to the regional center bind Oldenburg, consisting of the central and basic centers is drawn off the area. Furthermore, skeptics have calculated a total area of the center of over 30,000 m², including catering and office areas. You indirectly assume that the indication of a lower number of square meters should counteract fears that the castle courtyards could become even greater competition for the retail trade in the inner city. The proponents of the shopping center assume a synergy effect , through which the retail sales in the Oldenburg city center should increase overall. The center manager of the Schlosshöfe, Kathrin Landsmann, emphasizes that “70 percent of the shops in Oldenburg do not even exist”. In individual sectors, however, there is an accumulation of offers. For example, there are a large number of hairdressers in the castle courtyards that not only compete with each other, but also threaten the existence of the hairdressers outside the shopping center. ECE rejected the thesis from industry circles that there had been difficulties in letting, which is why so-called B-location tenants such as "1982" (from Takko ), Kauflust or the mail order company Walbusch came to cheap space in the shopping center.
Transport links
The Schlosshöfe shopping center is served by numerous buses operated by Verkehr und Wasser GmbH as well as an overland line, the Weser Sprinter . The shopping center has 430 parking spaces of its own in a newly built multi-storey car park .
public relation
The center management provides information about the latest news and stories about the castle courtyards at regular intervals in the newspaper “Schlosshöfe aktuell”, which, according to the legal notice, is produced by the Nordwest-Zeitung . The shopping center has an annual budget of 700,000 euros for advertising.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ City of Oldenburg: Changes compared to June 2006 ( 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. , accessed March 21, 2011
- ↑ taz, the daily newspaper - When the industry mix is casting its shadow , accessed on April 27, 2011
- ↑ a b c ECE - project page: Schlosshöfe, Oldenburg ( Memento of the original dated February 27, 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. , accessed on August 14, 2015
- ^ Martina Scheffler: Bürger-Zoff in Oldenburg . The mirror . September 20, 2009 , accessed March 21, 2011
- ↑ trading-house.net: No ECE center in Lower Saxony without citizen protests ( memento of the original from September 27, 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. , accessed March 20, 2011
- ↑ Oldenburg local section - Small colossus, really big ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 14, 2015
- ^ "Schlosshöfe" shopping center opens , accessed on March 20, 2011
- ↑ a b Immobilien-Zeitung - ECE opens the Schlosshöfe , accessed on April 27, 2011
- ↑ Schlosshöfe Oldenburg, website ( 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. , accessed April 27, 2011
Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 14.9 ″ N , 8 ° 13 ′ 1.6 ″ E