Speicherstadt Munster
The memory city of Münster is a modern office and communications center on an area of 11.5 ha in an old military warehouse district of Münster district Coerde . The conversion began after the end of military use in the mid-1990s. Well -known companies such as the internet bookseller thalia.de are now based in the Speicherstadt. The editors of the cultural magazine Westfalenspiegel and the Ardey publishing house are also based here.
history
Military use
The history of the Speicherstadt in Münster's north begins in 1936. As part of the preparations for the Second World War , the Army Administration was looking for a location for a new Army Catering Office, which was responsible for catering production and logistical planning for the garrisons stationed in northern Germany. At the time, the choice fell on a large area with good traffic connections between Coerde and the children's home . It is only marginally north of today's “Münster Zentrum-Nord” train station and the main train station, which is about 5 km further south . The former provided a direct connection to the Münster - Rheine - Emden and Münster - Gronau railway lines .
In 1939, the Speicherstadt was completed as a main supply office for the army after only three years of construction. The central component were seven floor storage facilities and two cell storage facilities for grain, each five stories high. Even today they extend over a length of almost 600 m. An intelligent conveyor and flap system guaranteed vertical and horizontal transport in the stores.
The warehouse district also had its own army bakery, which produced up to 30,000 loaves of bread a day. Accordingly, a great deal of logistical effort in terms of people and material was necessary. A city of its own was created with casino buildings, workshops, garages, administration buildings, sleeping quarters and other buildings around the granaries.
After the British Rhine Army moved into Münster, they used the approx. 21 hectare site north of the Holtmannsweg for almost 40 years as a provision office for the Winterbourne barracks. The British only left the Speicherstadt in 1994.
Reconstruction and civil use
After four years of vacancy, the civilian use of the area did not begin until 1998, when the WLV - a 100% subsidiary of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL) - acquired the area with the vacant compact storage buildings from the Federal Property Office at that time to set up its central operating base for to build the WestBahn. At that time, the entire building ensemble, including the outdoor facilities, was placed under monument protection. After the railway location could not be realized, another use for the building had to be found. It turned out that the floor storage and the bakery were structurally suitable for office purposes as well as for magazine use and seminars.
During the first renovation in 2000, the WLV made the former use of the floor storage for drying its own and developed a "low-tech climate control" for archiving basic files in the storage building of the State Archive (An denspeicher 14), which only ensures a constant room climate enabled the regulated exchange of air and the humidity-controlled heating of the room air. After converting a floor storage facility into office space (An denpeicher 6), it was possible to attract further prospective tenants with this exemplary space from 2001 onwards. Followed by the conversion of a further floor storage for the district workshop and archive areas u. a. For the archeology of the city of Münster, the restoration workshop of the LWL archeology (An denspeicher 12) was opened in 2003. The storage facility of the City Archives of Münster (An denpeicher 8), which was rebuilt in 2003, and the technical center of the State Archives of North Rhine-Westphalia (An denspeicher 11), which was inaugurated in 2006, also use low-tech climate control. The communal study institute Westfalen-Lippe and a gastronomy and catering company moved into the building of the former army bakery. After the conversion of the last remaining ground storage for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (An denspeicher 9, 2006), the last two buildings, the cell and silo storage facilities, were converted for the administration of the LWL archeology for Westphalia and the center for practical school teacher training in Münster and passed in 2008 and 2011.
After the renovation and renovation of the last building there are around 550 jobs in the Speicherstadt. In addition, approx. 2,500 people a week the institutions and the event rooms of the Speicherstadt. The converted total area is approx. 50,000 m² gross floor area .
After the structural completion, the outdoor facilities of the listed storehouses were planned over the last few years as part of a competition by landscape architects and the design of the first prize winner was implemented.
Photo gallery
South facade of "An den Speicher 6"
Panorama to the south
Panorama in the other direction
Main building of the city archive ("An den Speicher 8")
Former train entrance
Former shunting tracks, now parking and bicycle parking spaces
Information board
Impression by night
Locomotive "KÖF LG II 1944"
literature
- Angelika Oelgeklaus: The warehouse district of Münster. Heeresverpflegungsamt and Reichtypenspeicher - conversion and monument protection . Edited by the Institute for Comparative Urban History. Ardey-Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-87023-274-0 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 53 ″ N , 7 ° 38 ′ 5 ″ E