City Gallery Schweinfurt
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| Basic data | |
| Location: | Schweinfurt |
| Opening: | February 26, 2009 |
| Sales area : | 22,500 m² |
| Shops: | 94 |
| Visitors: | 15,964 daily |
| Operator: | ECE project management |
| Website: | www.stadtgalerie-schweinfurt.de |
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| Railway station: | Schweinfurt center |
| Stops: | Luitpoldstrasse, court, Heilig-Geist-Kirche |
| Omnibus : | OVF lines 8137, 8156, 8160, city bus lines 11, 12, 13, 61, 63 |
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| Parking spaces : | 1,300 |
| Bicycle parking spaces : | There are bicycle parking spaces at the entrances to Schrammstraße / Sattlerstraße, Schrammstraße / Cramerstraße and Gunnar-Wester-Straße |
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| Construction time : | April 27, 2007 – February 2009 |
| Building-costs: | 175 million euros |
The Stadtgalerie Schweinfurt is a shopping center in Schweinfurt that was built by the Hamburg company ECE Projektmanagement . ECE operates and rents the center on behalf of large investors as the owner. The 300 m long shopping mall is located on the southwestern edge of the city center (integrated center) , in a very convenient location. The lavishly designed shopping center ( temple of consumption ) was opened on February 26, 2009.
location
The Stadtgalerie is centrally located within Main Franconia , not far from the Main , on the southern edge of the Wilhelminian-style district . The shopping center is located between the main train station , which is 1 km to the west, and the Schweinfurt Mitte stop ( regional train ), which is only 200 m to the east of the center. The Stadtgalerie has three entrances: Schrammstrasse / Sattlerstrasse (east, access from the city), Schrammstrasse / Cramerstrasse (center, access from the Wilhelminian style district) and Gunnar-Wester-Strasse (south, access from the Mainufer).
description
With around 22,500 m² of retail space , the Stadtgalerie Schweinfurt is the largest shopping center in Main Franconia . There are around 1,300 parking spaces on two floors on the roof. As of May 2020, around 80 shops, particularly from the retail and catering sectors, are spread over two levels. The two levels and the parking areas are connected by three escalators and lifts . The center is barrier-free .
The main tenants (anchor tenants ) at both ends of the center include the clothing company C&A (over two floors, with an additional internal escalator system) and the electronics company Media Markt , which occupy areas between 2,200 and 3,500 m². Another highlight is a large Thalia bookshop. There are also many boutiques , most of which are in a mid-range price segment.
A total of 700 people are employed in the city gallery.
Prehistory and opening
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Fries & Höpflinger AG,
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The city gallery (dark red) corresponds to the street corner on the left picture
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The City Gallery was built in 21 months on an industrial wasteland in the former, western part of SKF Plant 1 . The large company Fries & Höpflinger , which was taken over by SKF in 1929, was originally located on the area of the eastern section of the Stadtgalerie, between the entrance to Schrammstrasse / Sattlerstrasse and the entrance to Schrammstrasse / Cramerstrasse .
Because of the feared negative effects on the established trade in the inner city, a referendum on the city gallery was carried out in 2005. A narrow majority decided in favor of the Hamburg-based ECE group's project in the western city center . The foundation stone was laid on May 9, 2007. ECE announced the clothing chain Peek & Cloppenburg as a main tenant, but ECE was unable to keep this promise. The Stadtgalerie was opened on February 26, 2009, the same day as the MyZeil shopping center in Frankfurt am Main, also operated by ECE .
Architecture and urban planning
The building is 300 m long, 100 m wide and has a 230 m long and 2,200 m² three-dimensional glass roof to provide daylight. One of two restored, former SKF factory gates was integrated into the complex. The room climate is regulated, among other things, by natural ventilation through the glass roof.
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SKF administration tower with city gallery on both sides
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SKF factory gate, Art Nouveau
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The City Gallery surrounds the skyscraper of the SKF German Headquarters on three sides. While the vast majority of inner-city shopping centers have to adapt to the existing surroundings with their nooks and crannies and no completely free design is possible, enough space was available for the Schweinfurt project. A shopping mall in the classic sense could be built from a long, straight shopping arcade (on two levels with a gallery ), the name of which is derived from the ball game Paille-Maille . It was played on long, straight lanes outside the old towns, on which urban streets later emerged, such as the more well-known examples, the Palmaille in Hamburg or the Pall Mall in London .
In contrast to many other cities, the City Gallery was therefore not criticized for going beyond the urban , inner-city scale, as it is just as long but lower than the previous SKF buildings.
The city gallery was built in the course of the urban redevelopment west , in which several streets and squares in the Wilhelminian era and beyond were redesigned and the Ernst-Sachs-Bad was converted into the Schweinfurt art gallery and opened 3 months after the city gallery.
Originally it was also planned to extend Schrammstrasse, which had been transformed into a boulevard at the Stadtgalerie, to the east as a passage through the Galeria Kaufhof complex in the direction of Siebenbrückleinsgasse / Spitalstrasse . The aim was to create a 1.3 km long east-west city axis that would have connected the two poles of the Stadtgalerie and Rückert-Center directly. The project was not realized but not finally given up.
Transport links
The city gallery is connected to the federal highway 286 . After the Main Bridge, this is a freeway-like expressway that takes you to the A 70 in 5 minutes (junction no. 7 Schweinfurt-Zentrum ). The A 71 and A 7 are connected to the A 70 not far from there.
In the course of the urban redevelopment west ( see: Urban development ), the DB stop Schweinfurt Mitte was also built, a few minutes' walk from the city gallery. In addition, there are several stops for several city bus routes and the Omnibusverkehr Franken (OVF) in the vicinity of the shopping center .
In addition, a CityXpress, a so-called trackless train with two cars that could carry 40 people, furnished. This connected the city center with the city gallery for a small fare. The CityXPress was abolished in the summer of 2009 because the demand was too low.
Schweinfurt retail
Basic data
ECE figures, the city of Schweinfurt has a maximum catchment area of the retail trade of 787,000 inhabitants, the central and eastern Franconia and Südthüringen includes. The total catchment area of the city gallery is given by ECE with around 760,000 inhabitants.
Schweinfurt's sales area is 237,600 m² (2016), 70,200 m² of which is in the city center. The city's sales area density is a high 4,500 m² per 1,000 inhabitants (2016). Due to its large surrounding area, very easy access by car and one of the largest specialist market agglomerations in Germany, in the east of the port, Schweinfurt has an extremely high retail centrality, with 221.2 points (2016); for comparison: Würzburg 180.4 (2016), Frankfurt am Main 108.7 (2012), Berlin 106.0 (2012). The retail turnover in Schweinfurt rose steadily, to 646 million euros in 2016 (526 million euros in 2014).
Development of the city gallery
So far there have been an average of around 16,000 visitors a day, in September 2015 there were 15,964. In May 2020 there were 19 vacant units, including the large area of the former anchor tenant tegut .
Downtown development
In the first time after the opening of the city gallery, many chain stores, such as E.g. the textile department store C&A , the North Sea or McDonald’s are represented twice in the city center, but then closed their branches outside the city gallery. The market hall on Keßlergasse finally closed completely, and Woolworth came here as his successor. In the beginning there were hardly any vacancies and sales in the city center increased overall. Until then, in a later period, online trading became increasingly competitive for inner-city shops. However, this led to an unusually high number of vacancies in Schweinfurt, especially in prime locations. The Schweinfurt businessmen no longer saw the reasons for this solely in the city gallery.
From 2017 a trend reversal took place in the Schweinfurt city center, with new construction projects (Krönlein Karree) and increasingly high-quality gastronomy in the eastern area ( old town ).
criticism
Right from the start of planning, the local inner-city retailers resolutely rejected the large shopping center away from the historic city center. It was feared that there would be considerable shifts in sales and lasting damage to local retailers and the entire urban structure. Actionist measures, such as converting the base of the New Town Hall into a shopping center or roofing the Keßlergasse, wanted to avert the project. The city under the aegis of the then Mayoress Gudrun Grieser replied that the shopping city of Schweinfurt would be strengthened overall and would attract more customers from the very large surrounding area. In addition, a large industrial wasteland is being built on, making the entire Weststadt more attractive.
Regarding ECE itself, it was criticized that Peek & Cloppenburg did not come and that the inner-city offer was not supplemented, but only copied. There were also dissatisfied C&A customers, as the previous house at Jägersbrunnen was larger, with a correspondingly more extensive range.
Web links
Video
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f SCHWEINFURT: City Gallery: The ECE opens in Schweinfurt
- ↑ According to the center plan on the Stadtgalerie website
- ↑ a b c d Stadtgalerie Schweinfurt.de. Retrieved April 24, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Luck of the efficient: STADTGALERIE opens its doors - shopping experience with 100 stores ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), in: Schweinfurter Anzeiger, February 26, 2009
- ↑ Annual review 2009, part 1: The Stadtgalerie Schweinfurt, Sarah Kreuz, the ice rink and slow train flop & a street that was not moved ( 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. swex.de (Schweinfurt on the Internet), December 24, 2009
- ↑ Bimmelbahn no longer runs
- ↑ ECE City Gallery Schweinfurt. Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Schweinfurter Tagblatt: Reviewer: Retail in the Center , January 31, 2017.
- ↑ a b Calculations of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Würzburg-Schweinfurt published in: Wirtschaft in Mainfranken: Mainfränkische Städtische bind much purchasing power , October 2016, p. 6.
- ↑ a b Main-Post: Study: Würzburg and Schweinfurt attract customers , July 26, 2012. According to a study by the Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung (GfK), the centrality factor in 2012 was 212.6 points for Schweinfurt and 186.3 points for Würzburg
- ↑ Schweinfurter Tagblatt: Schweinfurter trade attracts customers , January 27, 2017; Figures from a study by the IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt.
- ↑ Stadtgalerie Schweinfurt: Center plan. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 23 ″ N , 10 ° 13 ′ 30 ″ E