Shopping City Seiersberg
| Shopping City Seiersberg | ||
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| Main building of the Shopping City Seiersberg | ||
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| Location: | Seiersberg | |
| Opening: | 2003 | |
| Sales area : | 85,000 m² | |
| Shops: | about 180 | |
| Website: | www.shoppingcityseiersberg.at | |
The Shopping City Seiersberg is a shopping center in Seiersberg-Pirka, a suburb of the Styrian capital Graz . With a rentable sales area of 85,000 m², the Shopping City Seiersberg, which opened in 2003, is the largest shopping center in Styria and the third largest in Austria. In 2005 eight million visitors visited the center. It is conveniently located for motor vehicles directly at the Seiersberg junction of the Pyhrn A 9 motorway and 2 km south of the Graz-Webling distribution circle .
The shopping center is divided into five centers, each structurally divided by entrances that are glazed up to the roof. With around 180 shops and an office center with doctors and service providers, it has a catchment area that stretches from Lower Carinthia to Burgenland and from Upper Styria via Slovenia to Croatia .
The fifth center opened on February 18, 2008, and is located directly north of the original building complex. The reason for the new building was the high demand for retail space, which made building a new part of the building profitable. What is remarkable about the new building is the longest escalator in Styria, which leads directly and only to the new Media Markt, which, with 10,000 m² of retail space, is one of the world's largest Media Markt branches.
On November 25, 2013, nine locations within the shopping center area were equipped with an interactive wayfinding system that guides every customer to the desired destination within the shopping city on large-format touch displays.
Dispute about the legal status
In July 2016, the Constitutional Court revoked the operating license for the shopping center with effect from January 15, 2017. However, the municipality of Seiersberg-Pirka immediately submitted an application for the issuance of a single location ordinance for shopping centers in the state, as otherwise operations would have had to be stopped on January 15, 2017, which would have affected 2,100 jobs.
Through an amendment to the Road Administration Act in November 2016, the so-called paths for interested parties that are located between the buildings were defined as normal traffic routes; a procedure for this is still pending at the Constitutional Court. The state politicians are planning to anticipate a possible negative judgment with a single site ordinance, whereupon critics of the special ordinance filed a complaint with the EU Commission. This then took action and sent a request for information to the federal government.
Notable installations
Shadow of the Graz clock tower
The “shadow” of the Graz clock tower stands on the grounds of the Shopping City Seiersberg . It is a black twin tower made of steel designed by the artist Markus Wilfling and built in 2003 on the occasion of the celebrations of Graz as the European Capital of Culture . It was supposed to symbolize the dark side of Graz during the time of National Socialism . After the celebrations, it was bought and set up on the site as an attraction. In October 2006, the clock tower shadow was moved from its location on the side of the parking lot opposite the shopping center to the center of the roundabout 
at the junction of the A 9 motorway. As a result, it is now clearly visible from the motorway.
Schlossbergbahnwagen
The red car no. 1 of the Grazer Schlossbergbahn (Generation 2, 1961-2004) stands with a brightly painted roof on an embankment near the above-mentioned roundabout and thus 50 m east of the clock tower shadow, or at the southwest corner of the deep parking lot north . A grate staircase next to the wagon, as steep as the track, allows it to be used as a photo opportunity with people.
Web links
- Shopping City Seiersberg - website
Individual evidence
- ↑ orf.at - permit for Shoppingcity Seiersberg tipped . Article dated July 15, 2016, accessed July 15, 2016.
- ^ Law legalizes Shopping City Seiersberg on ORF from November 15, 2016, accessed on November 15, 2016.
- ↑ Shopping City Seiersberg: Decision postponed to ORF from March 9, 2020
- ↑ Now the EU is getting involved in the dispute over the shopping city , Kleine Zeitung from April 24, 2020.
Coordinates: 47 ° 0 ′ 42.7 " N , 15 ° 24 ′ 37.3" E