Zurich-West

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Office building and shipbuilding at Turbinenplatz
Pulse 5
Hardturmstrasse at Escher-Wyss-Platz
Nagelhaus on Turbinenstrasse with the network of the artist Pierre Haubensak

Zurich-West is the official name of the urban development area in the west of the city center of Zurich , in which the former industrial and Escher Wyss quarters are gradually being converted. Zurich-West is located in District 5 , west of the Aussersihl Viaduct , and extends - between the Limmat and the track leading away from the main station - to Aargauerstrasse. Colloquially, this is the name given to the area around the Hardbrücke in particular .

Transformation of the district

After the manufacturing industry moved away, Zurich-West offered the greatest development opportunities within the city alongside Oerlikon . Numerous superstructures and new buildings were completed from the 1990s, and many of the available areas were completed in the 2010s. Some of the imposing old brick buildings and factory halls - some with origins dating back to the end of the 19th century - have been incorporated into new projects. This happened, for example, when the shipbuilding hall was converted into a multifunctional building with several theater stages in the Schauspielhaus Zurich , the renowned jazz and music club Moods , restaurants and apartments. The Puls 5 shopping center has also retained the old steel structure in the main hall, creating an industrial flair.

Project areas in Zurich-West

(Annual figures: start and end of construction according to planning)

Buildings already completed

  • Viaduct , installations in the arches and market hall, 2008–2010
  • Bluewin Tower (commercial building), also known as Mobimo high-rise, Escher Wyss area, 1972, renovation 1999–2001
  • Abaton , formerly Cinemax (cinema, residential and commercial building), Steinfels area, 1993–1996, expansion 2002–2003
  • Com.West (commercial building) 2000–2002
  • Coop area , CityWest and Scala Tower , hotel, business and living space, 2009–2015
  • Escher-Wyss-Areal , Escher-Terrassen, 2009–2014
  • Commercial building Förrlibuckstrasse 181 (commercial building), 2001–2002
  • Hotels Novotel, Ibis and Etap (hotels), Escher Wyss area, 1999–2000
  • KraftWerk1 (residential and commercial building), 1999–2001
  • Kulturpark, district center and culture, 2012–2016
  • Löwenbräuareal (former brewery), art galleries, business and living spaces, 2009–2013
  • Limmatwest I + II (apartments, shops), 1999–2002
  • Maag area , Prime Tower , high-rise commercial building, tallest building in Switzerland, 2008–2011
  • Puls 5 (shopping center, commercial building), Escher Wyss area, 1893 (Giesserhalle), 2001–2004
  • Heinrich residential building, Josef office building, Muller Martini site, 2004–2006
  • Shipbuilding (theater, gastronomy and Moods jazz club ), Escher Wyss area, 1892, renovation 1996–2000
  • SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Group , “Hard Turm Park”, Pfingstweidstrasse, 2017
  • Technopark (commercial building), Escher Wyss-Areal, 1989–1993
  • Toni-Areal (formerly dairy), universities of the arts ( ZHdK ) and applied sciences ( ZHAW ), 2009–2012
  • Turbinenplatz , Escher Wyss-Areal, 2002–2003
  • Westcube (office and commercial space), 1965 (Eichhof beer depot), renovation 2002–2003
  • Westpark (commercial building), Escher Wyss area, 2001–2002
  • West side (residential and commercial building), Steinfels area, 2000–2002
  • Zürcher Kantonalbank (residential and commercial building), Steinfels area, 2002–2004

Traffic development

The Zurich West tram (TZW), the official title for the new tram line operated by the Zurich Transport Authority (VBZ) in Zurich's Escher Wyss district , was intended to provide better access to the booming Zurich West district. The opening took place in December 2011. Since December 2017, tram line 8 has been connected to the “Tram Zurich West” route over the Hardbrücke . At the same time the Pfingstweidstrasse was redesigned, a national road of class 3E (urban express road), which extends the A1H motorway branch into the city center. Due to the classification of the road as the main axis of incidence and the main axis of incidence in the national road network, the canton of Zurich and the federal government were involved in the project in addition to other municipal service departments .

Former and current industrial companies in Zurich-West

  • Escher Wyss AG . In 1889 the company bought a plot of 153,800 m² in the lower Hard, on which the largest industrial plant in the Canton of Zurich was built between 1891 and 1894. The machine factory alone took up an area of ​​15,000 m². There was also a boiler shop (shipbuilding hall), the 6350 m² foundry hall and other facilities. Escher Wyss was liquidated in 1935, continued to be operated by the Canton of Zurich until 1937, went to Jacob Schmidheiny in 1937and wastaken overby the Sulzer Groupin 1966. After 1999 the company premises were sold piece by piece, parts of the former Escher Wyss are still operated on the premises.
  • Friedrich Steinfels AG . The company was founded in 1830 as a soap factory by Rudolf Friedrich Steinfels (1808–1872) on Hirschengraben. In 1895–1897, new production facilities were built on 30,000 m² in the lower Hard. Well-known products such as “Maga”, “Niaxa” and “Dish-Lav” were produced. Under Eric Steinfels, production was relocated to Wetzikon in the 1990s, and soap production was finally sold to Henkel . Today the company still exists as a property manager.
  • Löwenbräu Zurich AG . In 1897, the joint stock company of the Wald and Feldbach breweries built the brewery on Limmatstrasse, at that time the most modern operation in Switzerland with an output of 60,000 hl. In 1898 the brewery was renamed “Aktienbrauerei Zürich”, later to Löwenbräu Zürich AG. In 1984 it was taken over by the Hürlimann brewery and shut down, and liquidated in 2001.
  • Daverio AG . The company was founded in 1876 as Daverio-Henrici & Cie. founded and dealt with the construction of mills, conveyor systems, postal technology and post-printing as well as logistics systems. In 1988 it was taken over by Muller Martini and operated as "Muller Martini Logistik-Systeme AG" until 2000/2001, then closed.
  • Waste cogeneration plant Josefstrasse from waste disposal + recycling Zurich (ERZ)
  • Maag-Zahnräder AG . In 1913 Max Maag bought the building of the liquidated automobile factory «Safir». In 1968 the industrial area was last expanded and modernized. At times Maag was a world leader in the manufacture of gearboxes for gas turbines and compressors, for ships and for cement factories. In the 1980s, Maag employed over 1200 people. In 1990 the company was broken up, the industrial part went to foreign companies, the rump company was renamed Maag Holding AG and was only active in the real estate sector. In 2004 Maag Gear was the last industrial producer to leave the former site of Maag-Zahnräder AG.
  • Otto Fischer AG
  • Schoeller Hardturm AG (until 1988). Dyeing factory founded in 1882 as Schoeller & Co. by Cäsar Schoeller. Subsidiary of Schoeller Switzerland, which was transferred as a whole to Albers & Co by Caesar's son Walter Schoeller . The factory area includes the Hardturm with the «Hardturmgut».
  • Town mill. In 1873 the city of Zurich bought the area of ​​the former Esslingen calico printing plant and rented the mill to the Maggi family . Eugen Maggi took over the Zurich business and built a representative large mill on Sihlquai; today Swissmill
  • Toni AG . Former milk processing company, renamed Swiss Dairy Food AG in 1998, went bankrupt in 2002 and the processing company in Zurich was closed.
  • Central laundry Zurich (cantonal operation)
  • Swiss carbon dioxide plants . The carbonic acid works, founded in Bern in 1896, opened a coke incineration plant on Hardturmstrasse in 1912 after they had to vacate their factory on Stampfenbachstrasse for the new construction of the Kaspar Escher House.
  • Weidmann dye works . Erected 1885–1886 as “Zurich silk dyeing” by August Weidmann on Limmatstrasse near Escher-Wyss Platz. In 1893 a wool dyeing factory was added and renamed “Weidmann, Schütze & Dittmar”, later “Schütze & Co AG, dyeing, bleaching and finishing, Zurich”. After a referendum, the dye works sold its industrial area on Limmatstrasse to the city of Zurich in 1977 for over CHF 20 million. The factory was demolished in 1979. Today the building of the commercial school KV-Zürich is located on the area.
  • Welti-Furrer AG . Transporter since 1838 with an old company building and parking garage right in the heart of Zurich West.

literature

  • Hans-Peter Bärtschi: Industrialization, railway battles and town planning. The development of the Zurich industrial and working-class district of Aussersihl. A comparative contribution to the history of architecture and technology . (Series of publications by the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, gta 25). Birkhäuser, Basel 1983, ISBN 3-764-31312-9 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Cooperative development planning Zurich West. Synthesis report by the City of Zurich and the participating landowners, March 1999; [1]
  2. ↑ Florian Schoop: Temporary life in the Gerold area. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 19, 2016. Retrieved May 19, 2018 .
  3. ↑ City council refrains from building the Kleeblatt high-rise. City of Zurich, April 29, 2009, accessed on May 19, 2018 .
  4. ↑ New construction of the Schütze area - City of Zurich. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Bärtschi, Industrialisierung, p. 398 f.
  6. ↑ Bärtschi, Industrialisierung, p. 396 f.
  7. ↑ Bärtschi, Industrialisierung, p. 408 f.
  8. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stadt-zuerich.ch
  9. ↑ http://www.maagmusichall.ch/sites/history/start.html
  10. ↑ Maag moves away ( Memento from July 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Bärtschi, Industrialisierung, p. 396.
  12. ^ History of the Welti-Furrer transport company in the Tages-Anzeiger from June 1, 2013