Bermudadreieck

The Bermuda3eck in the center of Bochum is the name given to an area with a high density of dining establishments. It is located between Suedring Konrad -Adenauer-Platz. Benefiting from the short distances to the Schauspielhaus Bochum, Union cinema and the main train continued to increase the number of gastronomical establishments in the 1980s. In January 2013 appeared on the blog "Ruhr barons " a very circumferential, illustrated article " The B3E story"

Culture and Gastronomy

In Bermuda3eck there are now over 80 catering establishments. The extent of the area is approximately 2 km ². Of the approximately 8000 seats in restaurants and other dining options include more than half of the outside catering, for the scene of Bochum streets are typical, since the seating of squares and sidewalks in the early 1970s by local builder was introduced here. The food has over three million visitors per year. In the summer, come on sunny weekends up to 30,000 visitors per day, for large events such as Bochum Total, there are up to 300,000 valued guests.

Furthermore, the Bermuda3eck provides approximately 1600 jobs of varying quality. Although associated with this development, " privatization" of public space by beer gardens is not without controversy, but generally accepted by the population.

Property prices and rental prices have risen in recent years in Bermuda3eck so strong that the classic retail increasingly disappears and the vacant land to be taken in the catering business. The lease is now often even at such a low intense level that the food and beverage prices of catering establishments are above average even by regional standards.

Center of the Bermuda3ecks was the space around the Engelbertbrunnen, named after Engelbert III. of the marrow, the procession to Maiabendfest starts out annually to the. Since early 2009, the fountain no longer exists.

One of the major events include:

• The four-day Bochum Total in July, the largest music festival in Europe.
• Maiabendfest the starting point for a move with more hundred years of tradition
• The Sparkassen Giro Bochum - with its directly adjacent to the Bermuda3eck sections Suedring ( start and finish ) and Victoria Street

Also, due to the proximity to the Schauspielhaus Bochum, to disco "Riff " and several cinemas which Bermuda3eck is the major cultural center of the city and a popular meeting place for people from the entire Ruhr area.

History and conversion

By the end of the 1970s, the space around the Engelbertbrunnen nothing unusual had marked. Only the Kinobetriebe Intimate (today Casablanca), Union and in the vicinity of the Capitol (now Bofimax ) ensured as well as the English topics local Victory pub and the cinema adjacent pub restaurant The Golden U ( named after the Union brewery, now a Turkish restaurant ) even then for a slightly increased attractiveness in the evenings.

Only the rapidly increasing number of pubs at the end of the 1980s led to the emergence of a veritable entertainment zone. In particular, the navigability of the Brüderstraße made ​​the quarter- to a kind of show stage for rebuilt cars (then in particular because of the local factory Opel Opel Mantas ). The naming Bermuda3eck goes back to the former magazine of the Ruhr Marabo. The reporter Werner Schmitz wrote an article about Leonardo Bauer ( the "father" of Bermuda3ecks ), entitled Captain in the Bermuda Triangle.

Since the 1980s, the Logos Group, with a variety of different types of hospitality operations of the main developers of the Bermuda3Ecks. Here, not many sites with a concept, but a host of concepts were different from the conventional system catering developed.

The mid-1990s revealed Bauer and logos group by a wide range of different restaurant concepts from nearly the entire market in Bermuda3Eck.

Bauer and logos group were initiators of the ISG Bermuda3Eck eV, one of the first property and ( Improvement Business District / BID ) Location Communities North Rhine-Westphalia, whose board members Bauer and Hans -Joachim Hauschulz for the group logo.

The high attraction to non-urban Visitors in the allocation of the pubs on the different youth cultures did not know about and these were also not used to from other cities in this form, led in the 1990s to a substantial equalization of eating out, to a price increase and to a predominance of opportunity guests over the regulars.

For the future development of Bermuda3ecks the not unfounded fear that just the loss of the original, only for certain target groups interesting places and the increasing number of older visitors leads to a displacement of the style-forming, solid recurring groups in other districts and the appeal by the long term is re- drops.

An approximation of the design is also reflected by the equipment with big screens, as it is already known from the American gastronomy. In January 2008, Hooters opened a now- closed restaurant again.

As part of an extensive renovation of the upper Kortumstraße of Bermuda3ecks by the end of 2008 to early 2009 eliminated almost all of the mature trees as well as the steadily reduced in recent years Engelbertbrunnen in the area. Replacement is to make a degradable for major events water game, which is subsequently installed. The Knights figure of the former fountain received a new location directly opposite the mouth of the brothers road, while the trees was replaced by young trees. The geometric alignment of these trees along with a new lighting along the building line creates large open spaces, significantly more bowel places for gastronomy. Simultaneously with this, but any sitting for visitors has been removed, do not use the gastronomic offer.

In order to foster structural change towards greater diversity in the quarter, Volker Brunswick opened in September 2011, the streetwear shop Boom! Store, a glass roundel at the entrance Adenauer Platz and 21 April 2012 on the roof there an outdoor skating landscape.

Others

In the fictional parallel world of the photographed superhero webcomics Union of Heroes the Bochum Bermuda3eck also plays a role. The basement of Mandragora Crêperie serves the villain Manero as a shelter, and at the Konrad -Adenauer-Platz or the Viktoriastraße it comes to meeting him and the Archangel.