Centro

Centro ( own spelling. CentrO ) is the name of a shopping mall in Oberhausen. It forms the heart of the new center of the city.

Survey

The Centro Oberhausen is just under 119,000 m² of retail space and a total of over 830,000 sqm plant area, the second largest shopping and leisure center in Europe (the largest shopping center is the Forum Istanbul shopping center with a sales area of ​​175.000m ²). About 220 retail stores spread across two levels of the mall. The Coca -Cola oasis with 1,100 seats the second largest food court in Europe, surpassed only by that of the Trafford Centre in Manchester, which seats 1600.

On the CentrO grounds are home to a number of tourist attractions, such as a multi -functional hall for large events, the König-Pilsener- Arena, as a leisure park for families of Centro Park, a multiplex cinema, the Heinz- Schleußer Marina with the sea-life Aquarium and the leisure port, as an exhibition hall and a view point of the Gasometer Oberhausen, a museum, gallery and event center, Schloss Oberhausen, as a musical theater the metronome theater and opened in 2009, adventure water park. Other attractions such as Legoland Discovery Centre and the Sea Life Adventure Park opened in the spring of 2013.

According to surveys by the company for market and sales research (GMA, Ludwigsburg ) in July 2003 had almost 18,000 visitors interviewed Centro following Locations: Oberhausen 15.8%, MA 8.3%, food 6.6%, 3.9% Bottrop, Gelsenkirchen 3.8%, Mülheim an der Ruhr, 3.5%, 2.3% Dinslaken, Gladbeck 1.5%, Netherlands 4.9 %, other places of residence ( in Germany or abroad) 49.5 %. This is the opinion of the GMA a national charisma, which is due to the fact that the Centro through its tourist offers additional occupies a special role in the Ruhr.

Connection

There is a direct highway connection to the highway 42 Moreover, within 2.5 kilometers further twelve motorway connections are available. For passenger cars are 14,000 free parking available.

To connect with public transport, the route network of public transport (LPT ) was redesigned in Oberhausen city: the tram in Oberhausen was reintroduced 28 years after the closure by extending the Mülheim tram 112.

A leading through the Centro- terrain former freight railway was converted to independent of the road transport route. On this tram and bus lines between old Oberhausen ( main station) and Sterkrade bundled so that very common compounds found ( during business hours every 90 seconds).

The stop between Arena and Shopping Center ( New Center ) is also architecturally worth seeing. Overall, keep it there next to the line 112, the five rapid bus SB90, SB91, SB92, SB93 and SB98, and the city bus lines 953 and 960 Three other city bus lines, 185, 957 and 961 pass under the public transport route and also stopped at the new center. A total of nine of these lines are also on the main station Oberhausen.

In the late evening and night hours run several overnight express lines.

Development and history

In the context of structural change in the Ruhr area, the 143 -acre industrial site Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen, which belonged to Thyssen AG last was, for brownfield. The city of Oberhausen now sought by investors to supply the land to a new use. 1991 acquired the British investment group stage by Edwin D. Healey part of the land to be developed by the Centro here the nucleus of the Neue Mitte Oberhausen. Previously, an even more ambitious project, the Canadian company Triple Five talking had been, which was dubbed in the press as Super Hausen.

The project cost amounted to over 2 billion DM

Template for the Centro was the British Meadowhall Shopping Centre in the north east of Sheffield. Strikingly similar structures are, for example, in the oasis and the long corridors of the shopping center available.

In structural and design aspects and the shopping and leisure center Centro is an outstanding example of postmodern architecture. With the facades of brick, stucco, steel and glass, it shows hints of the traditional industrial architecture. A stronger mix of styles and designs can be found especially in the area of the so-called promenade.

In 2014 it was announced that the investor group wants to retire from the stage Centro. So planning stage, 50 % of the shopping center to Unibail -Rodamco to sell. The antitrust authorities have to approve the sale still. 2011 had already sold the first 50 % of the Canadian Canada Pension Investment Board Stadium.

Special

24 September 1999 to 30 June 2001 in New Centre, the musical Tabaluga and Lilli was performed (including Peter Maffay ). This, however, did not pay and was abandoned. The corresponding theater, which was specifically designed for the Maffay Musical ( shape of a dragon ), then called Theatro Centro and is now used for other purposes under the name Metronome theater. There Roman Polanski was performed musical Dance of the Vampires From 7 November 2008 to 31 January 2010. On 8 March 2010, the musical Wicked celebrated - The Witches of Oz in metronome theater premiere and ran until September 2011 was followed at 19 October 2011 to 8 October 2012, the musical Dirty Dancing. . From December 5, 2012 to 24 October 2013, the musical was I was never performed in New York.

Since 1 September 2007, the Centro is basically non-smoking. An exception is the restaurant where there are individual deviations from the smoking ban.

Extensions

On 20 September 2004, the Council of the City of Oberhausen, has decided with a development plan amendment, the planning permission for an extension of the shopping center by up to 30,000 m² of floor space. Against the Zoning change the cities Bottrop, Dinslaken, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Gladbeck, Moers Mülheim an der Ruhr and the district government of the district of Dusseldorf had raised 2004 for judicial actions before the Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine -Westphalia in December. During the procedure, the cities Gladbeck, Moers and Mülheim an der Ruhr attracted back their claims. The remaining claimants had the Higher Administrative Court in judgments of 6 June 2005 as unfounded. The Higher Administrative Court ruled that the planning is urban justified and unobjectionable in the disputed points. In particular, it noted that planning is not contrary to objectives of regional planning. The then called the Federal Administrative Court decided on 28 December 2005, that the judgments of the Administrative Court do not require revision. Thus, the judgments of the Supreme Administrative Court have legal force. The judgments have a profound for North Rhine -Westphalia importance than was judicially determined that parts of the country development program, the National Development Plan and the field development plan for the district Dusseldorf get no legal effect as a planning objective. As a result, the country saw induced thereby to develop new regional planning arrangements for the management of large-scale retail trade.

In a press statement the city of Oberhausen it was early June 2008, that the expansion of Galeria Kaufhof was already under construction, the construction work would start on the most important new phase of construction in the first half of 2009 and that the completion and opening of additional 23,000 sqm of retail space in this phase of construction are planned for the fall of 2010. With this addition, around 700 jobs would be created. The parking capacity should be expanded to 14,000 parking spaces. In March 2009, it was declared that further expansion measures are initially postponed because of uncertainties as a result of the financial crisis.

In January 2011, the expansion by 17,000 m² of retail space has begun construction. The opening took place on September 27, 2012. Previously, the sales area by expanding the Galeria Kaufhof as well as cultivation and integration of a new, two-storey house for sale, which is used by the electronics store Saturn, greatly expanded.

Regular events

• Annual Christmas Market