Center Töss
| Center Töss | |
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 The center of Töss photographed from the south |
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| place | Winterthur , Switzerland |
| architect | Architects Klaiber, Affeltranger and Zehnder |
| Client | Center Töss AG |
| Architectural style | brutalism |
| Construction year | 1970 |
| Coordinates | 695 528 / 260889 |
The center Töss is the district center of the district of Töss in Winterthur and is a typical representative of the concrete brutalism of the 1960s . The shopping center on the ground floor was the first in the city of Winterthur and the third in the canton. The building and its surroundings are listed by the Canton of Zurich as a listed building of regional importance.
architecture
The central building, built with a lot of exposed concrete as a typical representative of brutalism, consists of several structures. The structure is similar to the Römertor Center in Oberwinterthur , which was created a year later .
At the bottom is the base building with a covered market passage in which there are shops and is used as a marketplace. At the intersection of Emil-Klötli- and Zürcherstrasse there is an asphalt forecourt, which is separated from the street with plant troughs and two beeches . In the middle of the forecourt there is a concrete fountain, which is decorated with frog motifs.
On the first floor, accessed via a staircase, there is the elevated «village square», which should serve as a meeting center. It is located between the residential high-rise, which comprises 45 residential buildings on eleven floors, and the hotel building with 22 rooms, a ballroom, restaurant and meeting rooms. There is a parking deck on the other side of the high-rise residential building. The district library is also accessible via the village square.
Art in architecture is represented by two works of art by Winterthur artists, a cast aluminum relief by Robert Lienhard and a wall painting called “Playing Cards and Figures” by Hans Affeltranger .
history
The Töss Center was built by Zentrum Töss AG, a consortium of the Rieter machine works , Winterthur Insurance and the City of Winterthur. After the municipal participation was approved by the Winterthur sovereign in 1967, the Töss shopping center was opened on October 1, 1970 after a two-year construction period. The new hall in the center of Töss gave the district back an event hall after the hall of the demolished Hotel Krone became a furniture exhibition in 1961. With the opening of the center, the district also received an elevated “village square”, a district library and the post office was able to move to larger premises.
Until the surprising sale to Hugo Erb AG in 1988, Zentrum Töss AG owned the center of the same name. After the takeover, Hugo Erb initially planned to expand the center to include new shops and offices as well as new parking spaces and a car lift. The bed capacity of the hotel should also have been doubled and the expanded center should have served as the new headquarters for the Hugo Erb AG management team. However, since the city only issued the permit with restrictions and, among other things, canceled the expansion of the parking spaces due to the expected increase in traffic, the new owner ultimately abandoned his expansion plans.
When the family business Erb went bankrupt in the summer of 2003, the Töss Center also became part of the bankruptcy estate of the second largest company bankrupt in Switzerland. The liquidation of the bankruptcy blocked a further renovation of the center from this point in time, only in 2016, in consultation with creditor representatives, at the request of the Migros Ostschweiz cooperative, a lift could be installed as part of a minor renovation. This building application also made it known that the value of the building at that time was estimated by the cantonal building insurance to be CHF 44 million. In September 2017, Schlosshof Immobilien AG, which also includes the Töss Center, was finally sold to an unnamed Swiss family company.
Development
Right next to the center of Töss is the bus station of the same name, where bus routes 1 (Töss – HB – Oberwinterthur), 5 (Dättnau – HB – Technorama), 11 (HB – Steig) and 660 (HB – Brütten – Nürensdorf – Bassersdorf) from Stadtbus Winterthur stop. The Winterthur-Töss train station , where the S41 (Winterthur – Bülach – Waldhut) stops, is 300 meters away .
Located right next to Zürcherstrasse, the center is also easily accessible for car traffic. The Winterthur-Töss motorway junction is also not far from the center of Töss.
Varia
- Individual scenes of the Swiss feature film Platzspitzbaby , which was released in 2020, were shot over two days in the Töss Center and the adjacent underpass under Zürcherstrasse.
Web links
- Center Töss in Winterthur Glossary.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lorenzo Petrò: A symbol of "decay". In: Tages-Anzeiger . Retrieved October 21, 2018 .
- ^ Canton of Zurich (Ed.): AREV No. 0929/2018 list and inventory sheet . 2018 ( maps.zh.ch [accessed on October 21, 2018]).
- ^ City of Winterthur (ed.): Buildings of the city of Winterthur worthy of protection. Supplement to newer buildings and open spaces until 1980 . December 2013, p. 82-83 .
- ^ Stiftung Edition Winterthur (ed.): Der Kunstführer: Art in public space in Winterthur . Stiftung Edition Winterthur, Winterthur 2004, ISBN 3-9522599-2-6 ( edition-winterthur.ch [accessed on October 21, 2018]).
- ^ Hans Schaufelberger: The city of Winterthur in the 20th century . Neue Helvetische Gesellschaft, Winterthur 1991, p. 145, 343 .
- ↑ 20 years of the Töss Center . In: De Tössemer . 33rd volume, no. 4 , November 1990, pp. 1-2 .
- ^ Henry Müller: 25 years of the Töss Center . In: De Tössemer . 38th year, no. 4 , November 1995, pp. 16 .
- ↑ Michael Graf, Anna Berger: Center Töss is estimated at over 40 million . In: The Landbote . October 14, 2016, p. 1 ( landbote.ch [accessed on October 21, 2018]).
- ↑ Michael Graf: A family company buys the Töss Center . In: The Landbote . September 27, 2017, p. 1 ( landbote.ch [accessed on October 21, 2018]).
- ↑ Jigme Garne: Töss serves as a drug backdrop in "Platzspitzbaby" . In: The Landbote . February 1, 2020, p. 7 ( landbote.ch [accessed on February 4, 2020]).