Roller mill (Ludwigshafen)
The roller mill is a former industrial building in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , which was converted into a shopping center in 1998. It limits the south bank of the Rhine to the north. The Ernst Bloch Center has been located in the former director's villa since November 2000 .
history
The roller mill was founded in 1885 by the company Kaufmann, Strauss and Co. from Frankenthal as a commercial mill . In 1905 the building was destroyed by a major fire. In 1906, the groups of buildings that still exist today were rebuilt according to a design by the Ludwigshafen district architect Adolf Lipps. The visible sides were designed accordingly to its exposed location with a view of the Mannheim Palace.
The name comes from the technology that was new at the time, in which a roller mill was used.
Due to its location directly on the banks of the Rhine and on the railway line, the roller mill was of great economic importance and developed into one of the largest and most modern mills in Europe. The technical equipment was lost after the shutdown in 1985.
In the 1990s, the city of Ludwigshafen, under Mayor Wolfgang Schulte, planned the development of the industrial wasteland in the southern inner city. A hall on Rheinuferstrasse, which was later demolished, has meanwhile been used primarily for techno and drum and bass parties such as Time Warp . In 1998 the shopping and cinema center, which was built at great expense, opened in the Walzmühle. The number of visitors, however, was well below the expected 30,000 daily customers. In 2011, a quarter of the approximately 20 shops with 16,000 m² of lettable space were empty. At the end of 2016, vacancies of more than 50% were recorded.
Today the roller mill belongs to the Metro Group .
layout
The former flour magazine is a six-storey, monumentally dimensioned building wing with a symmetrical facing brick facade. The upper floors are accentuated in color by glazed clinker.
A nine-storey tower tower overlooks the remaining parts of the mill. It originally contained a high water tank.
use
A five-story car park takes up a large part of the new building. There is a shopping arcade on the ground floor, which until September 2016 housed a branch of the real supermarket chain . The Cinestar company operates a cinema center on the first floor .
Data
- Total area: 20,000 m²
- Rental space: 15,000 m²
- Number of tenants: 24 retail stores and specialist markets
- Parking spaces: 1,239
- Address: Walzmühle, Yorckstraße 2 in 67061 Ludwigshafen
Web links
- Site of the roller mill
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Ludwigshafen roll mill in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Footnotes
- ↑ Time Warp I, 1994 , time-warp.de
- ^ Time Warp III, 1995 , time-warp.de
- ^ Die Rheinpfalz, Wirtschaft Regional, September 15, 2011
Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 45 ″ N , 8 ° 27 ′ 13 ″ E