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As of: 27.11.2018 at 18.30
The controversial demolition of the landmark City-Hof building in Hamburg's main train station is getting closer. A possible stumbling block has finally been solved: the demolition of the four gray skyscrapers does not endanger the World Heritage status of the neighboring district of Kontorhaus from the point of view of the World Heritage Center of Kontorhaus. UNESCO. The Foreign Office announced on Tuesday the city of Hamburg, as announced by the Senate. Thus, new plans could be pursued on the Klosterwall property. The city had temporarily put the demolition plans on hold in the view of UNESCO.
The city-Hof: past and present
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For many years, the future of the four skyscrapers of the city, located near Hamburg's main train station, has been disputed. Now, the demolition of the entire 1950s with the official name "City-Hof" approach.
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It is planned to build a new building with offices, apartments and a hotel. This image shows the revised drawing of January 2018. The property is located in the buffer zone of Kontorhausviertel, which was included by UNESCO – with the Speicherstadt – in the list of World Heritage Site.
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In this photo you can see the hotel planned – at the main station. According to the client, this will be a four-star hotel with about 210 rooms.
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In addition, there will be a wide pbadage between Johanniswall and Klosterwall in the future. Here you can see the previous pbadage of the City-Hof.
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Access to the Steinstraße metro station on Deichtorplatz is also different. The access will then be part of the new building.
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If the new building comes as expected, it will no longer give this view of the monastery wall on the Chilehaus and Kontorhausviertel, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Deichtorplatz in the middle is partially covered.
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This is what the new planned building in Klosterwall looks like. The multi-lane road is very noisy. Nevertheless, apart from offices, apartments are also planned in Klosterwall. The rooms should be but the courtyard quieter.
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The city wants to make the Burchardplatz between the current City-Hof and the Kontorhausviertel more attractive in the future. The parking must be omitted. In the new building, an underground garage of at least 140 parking spaces must be built.
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Due to the planned demolition of the City-Hof in the summer of 2018, it is completely cleared. All tenants had to move in the last few months.
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For the Hamburg gallery owner, Kai Erdmann, the time spent in the City-Hof is over in the spring of 2018. He would have liked to stay.
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The City-Hof bookstore has also arrived with the new construction plans. The antique store was there for decades at this point.
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The bookseller Torsten Bernhardt had taken over the business of his father. For the move, he had to pack 24,000 books. Bernhardt considers that the winning design of the new building is "arbitrary and attractive".
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Monika Barberi and her father Lieto run a wine business with Italian specialties on the ground floor of the City-Hof since 1985. Your usual customers regret the end of the store.
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The district office of Hamburg-Mitte moved at the end of May 2018. With nearly 1,000 employees, it was by far the largest tenant of the skyscrapers.
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The skyscrapers of the city, for example, were almost completed in 1958. The light facade is elegant and modern. The bright ceramic plates were delivered from Denmark.
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He designed the City-Hof: the Hamburg architect Rudolf Klophaus. His mark was the cigar. Klophaus only attended the closing ceremony, but not at the completion of its skyscrapers on Klosterwall. He died in July 1957. His daughter Lieselotte Klophaus said that construction was a very important project for her father.
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The construction of skyscrapers in the city was considered something special. These are the first skyscrapers built after the Second World War in downtown Hamburg. This photo shows the construction site in 1956.
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The architect Rudolf Klophaus wanted to use red bricks for the facade of the skyscrapers of the city. That's what Lieselotte Klophaus says. However, Werner Hebebrand, then building director, had wanted – unlike the district Kontorhaus – a luminous facade. The Bartholomay House (far right, dark clinker facade) is also the work of Rudolf Klophaus.
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At night, the City-Hof initially offered an impressive show.
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At this point, you can still see the original facade of the 1950s. Leca's square and light panels were hidden in 1977 behind Eternit gray panels, due to problems with the joints. Since then, the skyscrapers of the city have their look, which many burgers find ugly.
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The move to City-Hof was a dark spectacle for many years. Since 2006, the city of Hamburg owns the property. But she did nothing for the preservation of the buildings. The complex is clbadified as a historical monument since 2013.
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"Demolition of the modern": the opponents of the demolition bear this inscription on the facade in the autumn of 2018. Their last hope: that UNESCO considers the status of the world heritage of the neighboring Kontorhausviertel threatened by the new construction plans . But in November 2018, UNESCO gives its approval to the project of the Senate of Hamburg.
Relief in the Hamburg Senate
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Opponents of demolition say: The planned new construction of "Klosterwall district" almost completely obscures the view of Kontorhaus district.
The cultural senator from Hamburg, Carsten Brosda (SPD), welcomes the end of the suspended match. "It is good that we now have the certainty that the UNESCO World Heritage Center will see no negative impact on World Heritage because of planning on Klosterwall." The city's development senate, Dorothee Stapelfeldt (SPD), was also satisfied: "With the decision of the World Heritage Center, we can now quickly continue the development of this sensitive downtown point."
New building with hotel, offices and apartments
Two experts from UNESCO Advisory Board In August, in Hamburg, ICOMOS informed of the planned demolition of skyscrapers in the city. The high-rise buildings of the 50s must be replaced by a new building with a reddish-brick facade. A hotel, offices, shops, nursery and apartments are planned.
"A cultural monument would be lost"
Demolition has been contested for years. Critics fear that the huge new construction could obstruct the lines of view and thus undermine the "universal value" of the World Heritage Site Kontorhausviertel and Speicherstadt. In addition, with the demolition of skyscrapers in the city, a cultural monument would be irretrievably lost. "The Senate and investor Augen Prien would be well advised to finally distance themselves from these projects," said Marco Alexander Hosemann, president of the City Court Association, during a conversation with NDR.de . The badociation is committed to renovating the entire building.
Demolition should begin in summer
The courtyard of the city
The City-Hof is one of the most remarkable buildings of the post-war period in Hamburg. The four towers, also called city skyscrapers, were built from 1956 to 1958. The plans are from the Hamburg architect Rudolf Klophaus (1885-1957). When completed, the City-Hof was considered a modern building: it was the first skyscraper in the city center after 1945. It is a listed building since 2013. The city has owned the property since 2006.
The Senate wants to demolish the skyscrapers of the city. He argues that there are global urban interests that justify demolition. In fact, the demolition should begin this summer.
There is a special buffer zone around World Heritage sites. If it is rebuilt en mbade there, UNESCO can deny the title. This happened in 2009, when the Dresden Elbe Valley lost its title due to the construction of a bridge. For Hamburg, this danger does not exist anymore.
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27.11.2018 17:00 clock Author: Volker Frerichs
UNESCO sees no objection to new construction projects on the City-Hof site. The World Heritage status of the neighboring district of Kontorhaus is not threatened.
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