Port town center is the name of a planned borough in Hamburg at the northern edge Hamburg port, in the range of the quarters Hamburg old part of town and Hamburg monastery gate. 155 hectares large areas (with 60 hectares net development land) also dwelling is to offer for 12.000 inhabitants in 5.500 dwellings and is thereby the largest current project for the town development of Hamburg beside office surfaces for more than 40,000 jobs, which are already posed to a part.

In the year 2008 the port town center is to become formal own quarters, which of areas of the quarters monastery gate, Hamburg old part of town and Rothenburgsort are to consist.

Planning

Planning for the living ranges is only for the western ranges at the Dalmannkai (sand gate port) and emperor dock (Grasbrook) concretizes, where the building already began. The further east one comes, planning is the vaguer, also because for the possible olympia application 2016 sports facilities and the olympic village are to develop here.

The moreover one it is planned that the building academy becomes resident here Hamburg as port town center University of Hamburg. Furthermore is on the today's dock memory A, a former cocoa memory, a new music-resounds, which develops so-called Elbphilharmonie, which will supplement the existing offer of the Hamburgi state opera and the Laeiszhalle Musikhalle. The dock memory B is converted at present to the international maritime museum Hamburg. The completion of the port town center is at the earliest planned for the year 2020. The master plan for the ambitious project was presented to 1997 by the mayor at that time Henning Voscherau (SPD).

Planning covers an area along the Norderelbe on the one hand and the course upper port/tariff channel on the other hand and extends from the to the turning repoint. It includes the old memory city, which stands under monument protection, also.

Additionally to the existing binding to the public suburban traffic with a Buslinie the building of a new underground line (U4) is planned, which will contrive the eastern branch of the U3 between citizens of Berlin gate and at the stop young remote stairs on the distance of the line U2 and together with this to take over is.

History

The area, up to the establishment of the memory city 1885 still residential district for 20.000 humans, is used as consequence of the containerization of the foreign trade since some years no more of harbor operations. Above all economic aspects are beside proceeds from the city-own area (indirect over HHLA) the creation from surfaces to the commercial use.

Flooding danger

The area has a height of 4,4 to 7.2 meters over Normalnull, thus exists the latent danger of flooding by storm tides. Therefore Flutschutzmassnahmen are to be planned and be accomplished in a throwing concept fills up to 7.5 meters at the individual buildings.

Port town center info. center

In the old boiler house of the memory city, at the sand gate dock 30, an exhibition and a documentation center were furnished to the port town center. 8 x a 4 meters large model on a scale 1:500 informs interactively about the current in each case planning conditions. At so-called knowledge stations the visitor receives audiovisual information about the port town center, in addition, about other topics, like the history of large ports or flood protection. In addition models and photos of famous ships are issued. In the adjacent chimney base, the lighthouse, a Multimedia show takes place about life at the water. The entrance is free.

Related links

• official side to the project
• Port town center info. center
• Press release U4
• Private Website - of and for the population of the port town center
• Free Doku; Art and culture in the port town center
• Report over art and culture in the port town center
• Social master plan port town
• Artistic argument with the project
• Water metropolis - Hamburg builds a new city in the port Telepolis
• Private homepage with photos from the port town center

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