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Torfaen County Borough Council REVIT: A Review of the Conservation of Industrial Heritage Assets on Brownfield Sites 4.5.4 The Stuttgart 21 project is based on Deutsche Bahn’s (Germany’s Railway) plans to remodel the train infrastructure in Stuttgart, leaving the city’s central railway station and approximately 109 hectares of railway land redundant. The railway line will now become part of a high speed route between Paris, Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Munich and Budapest. Stuttgart station will be converted from a terminus to a through-station opening-up the links to other regions. As a result of this upgrade, new the railway lines and new station building are being transferred in to tunnels below the old terminus, releasing the existing station building and the surrounding area for re-development. 4.5.5 Then main station building was built between 1914 and 1928 in Arnulf-Klett- Platz under the architectural control of Professor Paul Bonatz with Friedrich E. Scholer. The building was constructed using the relatively new materials of concrete and steel and was decorated with coarse chalk tiles. 4.5.6 In 1910 Paul Bonatz won the competition to design the railway terminus, which he built as a grand, austere stone structure which links nineteenth-century eclecticism and the Spartan approach of Modernity and Albert Speer's monumental Classicism. 4.5.7 The historic Stuttgart railway station building will be retained and refurbished and become the focal point of the new inner city mixed development area which aims to attract services industries, business, culture and a high quality of living provided by linking the green areas through a series of green corridors. 4.5.8 An international competition to re-develop the site was held in 1997 and construction started 2000 with the new station not expected to be finished until 2013, allowing further changes in the development proposals. In particular, relationships between the Bonatz building, the new piazza over the station, the park and the proposed first buildings of Stuttgart 21 are being studied in an attempt to improve the centre of the city. 4.5.9 The architects Ingenhoven Overdiek and Partner, who won the competition, proposed a new underground station below the railway station with a design that creates a building 12m below ground level. The design proposes to stretch the Castle Gardens Park, which is adjacent to the existing station, over the top of the new underground tracks and platforms. The new station will form a continuous station hall illuminated by natural light that will fall into the space through large circular ‘light eyes’. These 'light eyes'will make the subterranean station visible to passers-by above ground, linking historic building and the new station to the old and new sections of the City. 4.5.10 The plan will create a station square and from here the Cannstatter Promenade, an extension to the Königstrasse, will provide access to the new quarter. Around the new square it is proposed to construct new office buildings, hotels or a museum dedicated to the theme of travel in order to ‘pump-prime’ the development of the urban quarter with attractive public buildings. 4.5.11 The redundant Bonatz station will become a public meeting place with restaurants and shops, and the floor of its concourse opened-up to make connection with the new platforms via bridges. Access to the bridges will also be provided via large curved glass atria. 4.5.12 The main station is a protected historic building under the Inventory of Monuments in Stuttgart north in 1987 (Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart Stadtbezirk Stuttgart-Nord, 2001) and will be retained as a building of character. 4.5.13 For the rebuilding of the main station, the following aims are set out as: 0014021/JM/001 33
Torfaen County Borough Council REVIT: A Review of the Conservation of Industrial Heritage Assets on Brownfield Sites • optimal access to the station for local and long distance traffic; • the possibility of a link between the existing and new planned pedestrian zone in the city centre, as well as a link with the new train station and the station ”Staatsgalerie"; • efficient access and parking facilities for buses, taxies and private traffic; and • relief of the Schillerstrabetae by diverting the passing traffic and shifting the traffic to the Wolframstrabetae. 4.5.14 The redundant railway land around the central station consists of three main areas for development. Area A is an area of 28 hectares, which is a central point, very close to the city and train station area, which will be useful for centralised functions such as individual trade, culture and specialised uses for the region. The immediate boundary next to the Schlobetagarten will be developed for new apartment buildings. 4.5.15 Area B is a 43 hectare area distinguished by being near the “Schlobetagarten", as well as the “Rosensteinpark". This area offers high quality apartments and is close to the planned tube station at the Mitternachtstrabetae with access to local jobs. The proposals for the 5 hectares of property of the “Post AG" will be decided during the planning phase. 4.5.16 Area C is a relatively independent region of roughly 29 hectares, surrounded by existing green areas, around the former north station, which encompasses the existing residential area of “Nordbahnhof", as well as the office developments at the “Löwenturmzentrum". Due to the enclosed location, there will be improvements to the connection of the street and linking areas during the planning phase. Bad Cannstatt 4.5.17 The project area is situated between Bad Cannstatt railway station and the river Neckar, extends over some 35 hectares and offers potential opportunities for urban development due to its excellent location. 4.5.18 The site covers the former Freight Depot of Bad Cannstatt, which was built 100 years ago. The depot developed through the extension of the railway network and the led to the construction of many housing estates for railway employees. At the end of the 1980s, however, the German railway company gave up the use of the freight depot and rented the properties to several firms. 4.5.19 A total of 27 sites covering about 16 hectares are suspected to be contaminated. In some cases, such as the site of the former gasworks, the pollution levels are quite high. 4.5.20 In 2001 the state capital of Stuttgart bought the old railway freight terminal land mainly for a planned sports village as part of a Stuttgart’s Olympic bid. The site is now the largest continuous Brownfield site in Stuttgart. 4.5.21 The project area has a number of existing, but isolated, building uses which are currently being reorganised or are underdeveloped. This area is now let to approximately 20 main tenants and with around 57 different trades acting as sub tenants on the goods yard site. The area is currently used by many companies many of which are distribution businesses and who cause extensive traffic problems across the whole area. However, initially nothing will change to affect these businesses. 0014021/JM/001 34
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