Itzehoe „Klosterforst“
A new district featuring approximately 530 residential units for approximately 1.500 residents as well as industry buildings and service facilities for 1.000 employees is being created by a group of investors on a former barracks site. The establishment of a call-centre creates jobs in a structurally weak region and promotes the mixing of uses in the quarter.
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Context
Source: Plate-Gruppe
The „Hanseaten-Barracks“ in Itzehoe’s north-west were built in 1935/36. Up to 1994, Bundeswehr soldiers had been stationed here. The situation of the community, which had already come under economic strain due to the structural change, worsened with the departure of the army from the site. In the middle of 1995, the site was taken over by a private company. Ever since then, the „Plate 6 Partner Group” is developing the new district “Klosterforst” in individual stages. An outline agreement with Itzehoe Council regulates planning, construction procedure and cooperation issues. A steering committee involving all the participants regulates the structural realization.
Project description
Source: Plate-Gruppe
The sire measures approximately 20 ha and has been largely unsealed; individual buildings have been pulled down, others were thoroughly converted and redeveloped. The new 4-storey buildings were constructed in compliance with the sustainability targets specified in the outline contract. They were created in a dense, ecological architecture (for example low energy standard, rainwater utilization), using environment-compatible building materials (for example recycled concrete from the demolition rubble on the site) and energy-saving domestic engineering (solar facilities, district heating plant). Regional tradesmen were commissioned with the execution. All the buildings in the district are equipped with the latest telecommunication technologies and (via glass fibre cables) mutually networked.
An important objective of the development was the achievement of mixed use on a district level as well as a building level. Besides 580 residential units, 11.000 m² of office and business space are also to be created. The largest employer is the call centre „conTakt“ located in the Klosterforst district itself. It was established by the initiators of the conversion measure and is engaged in telephone and online marketing. Approximately 70 of the 400 employees live in the district. The company health insurance fund Novitas has also become an important employer for the area by now. Additional jobs were furthermore created in retail and service operations, in leisure and in catering.
The second aspect is the heterogeneity of the resident population. In order to address a broad range of residents, a mixture of publicly and privately financed owner-occupier and rented apartments of all sizes has been realized. The development comprises multi-storey housing, apartment buildings, town villas and terraced houses. Further elements include numerous community amenities and special child-, elderly- and disabled-compatible service offers such as assisted housing, day-care centre, janitor, garden services, a health centre with various medical specialists as well as other medical services. And furthermore: the district’s own district parson and VitaVis, an association for the needs of the elderly with offers extending up to assisted journeys to foreign countries.
Project chronology
Year | Event |
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1991 | Military use is discontinued |
1995 | Purchase and outline agreement between the council and the investors |
Autumn 1995 | Demolition of individual buildings and construction start (1st stage) |
1996 | Cooperation agreement with the protestant church (project parish) |
1998 | Official handover of the 1st construction stage to the council and start of 2nd construction stage (town houses, terraced residential and office buildings) |
1999 | Conversion and change of use of 2 accommodation buildings into a boarding-school-type training facility (offices, seminar and residential spaces) |
2005 | Laying of the foundation stone for the old people’s and nursing home Sept. 2006) |
2006 | Under the name QUADRATA, favourably-priced, high-quality housing is created to promote owner-occupancy amongst young families by combining tried-and-tested building methods with the latest technologies. |
2006 | Finalization of the conversion measure with the completion of the QUADRATA buildings |
Aims
- Change of use of an inner city wasteland
- Realization of mixed use on a district and building level
- Establishment of a call centre to create jobs
- Extensive housing and residential service offer
Types of measures
Source: Plate-Gruppe
- Construction of 12 multi-family buildings with 200 residential units
- Establishment of a hotel with conference rooms, restaurant and bar
- Construction of the „ParkCenter“ with apartments, shops, surgeries, office spaces for service companies
- Change of use of accommodation buildings into day-care centres, fitness centre, restaurant, educational facility etc.
- Construction of town houses and terraced houses with “telecommunication workplaces” (“telecommunication villas”) as well as energy-saving residential buildings with solar facilities
- Construction and operation of assisted apartments for the elderly
- Promotion of district development activities and social work and partial funding of a district parson
Innovations
Source: Plate-Gruppe
This holistic, complex urban development project aimed for a functional, social and architectural mixture in equal measure. The result, via private business commitments, is a new urban district whose developers not only provided housing, but also jobs, utility and leisure amenities, as well as looking after the social interests of the residents.
Sources
- Plate und Partner Gruppe (n. y.): Konversion und Telekommunikation. Chancen für die Zukunft (Conversion and Telecommunication. Opportunities for the Future). n. p.
- Plate und Partner Gruppe (n. y.): KlosterForst. Modernes Wohnen und Arbeiten (Klosterforst. Modern Living and Working). Itzehoe
- Plate und Partner Gruppe (2001): Press response. 1996-2001. n. p.
Further information
- RAVENA data base (space-transport-sustainability), Dortmund University
The projekt site ist to be found at postal code: 25524 - town: Itzehoe - street: Haydnstraße, Langer Peter, Beethovenstraße, Paslekerstraße.
Poject site on Google-Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/f1CJkCLnssG2
Last update: 14.03.2018