Harenberg City-Center, Office building in Innenstadt-West, Germany
Harenberg City-Center is a 70-metre-high building at the southern station forecourt, with 19 above-ground and 2 underground floors. Its central hall opens toward Königswall. The building provides around 29,000 square metres of gross floor area for about 600 employees from 20 companies.
The Harenberg City-Center opened in April 1994, built by Hochtief on Dortmund's southern station forecourt, a square laid out in the 1950s. Its western side stayed empty until a second tower was added to answer the high-rises already standing there. The building belongs today to GEG German Estate Group, a subsidiary of DIC Asset AG.
The Harenberg City-Center hosted appearances and exhibition openings by international figures: actor Peter Ustinov, film actresses Maria Schell and Liselotte Pulver, actors Will Quadflieg and Otto Sander, sculptors Günther Uecker, Alfred Hrdlicka, Rainer Fetting, George Rickey and Federico Schiaffino, singers Waltraud Meier and Thomas Quasthoff, and pianists Alfred Brendel and Pierre-Laurent Aimard.
The building is within walking distance of the train station and easily accessible, with spacious ground-floor areas that offer flexible use. Visitors should note that entrances to different parts of the complex are accessible from Königswall.
The building is nicknamed the "house with the railway connection" because of its position directly on the southern station forecourt. Its central hall opens toward Königswall, and the tower was planned as a counterpart to the high-rises already standing around the square.
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