Billebogen

The Billebogen

Initial designs for Stadteingang Elbbrücken presented

In late September 2019, three teams of highly respected architects and landscape architects brought the second round of an unconventional “test planning procedure” to a close by presenting their ideas and visions for the new entrance to central Hamburg: Stadteingang Elbbrücken. Elements of the three designs can now be combined flexibly with one another to create a frame of reference for subsequent phases of the planning process.

Stadteingang Elbbrücken

It only takes ten minutes to get from the striking bridges of Stadteingang Elbbrücken – literally “City Entrance Elbe Bridges” – to central Hamburg. Despite connecting the districts of Rothenburgsort, Hammerbrook, HafenCity and Veddel at the point that marks the entrance to the city centre, the area has to date tended to be perceived as a place of transit characterised by major roads and rail links. Its prospects now appear brighter thanks to a test planning procedure initiated in 2019.

The Billebogen

Despite being located at the point where Elbbrücken – literally the “bridges over the Elbe” – announces the southern entrance to central Hamburg, Billebogen generally makes little more than a fleeting impression on those that pass through it. Although many only see the urban area in the western section of the district of Rothenburgsort in the borough of Hamburg-Mitte as a place of transit on the route towards the nearby city centre, the new HafenCity district and eastern Hamburg, it is in fact characterised by huge potential and a wealth of pre-existing infrastructure and landmarks.

Neuer Huckepackbahnhof

500 metres to Elbbrücken and HafenCity, 2.5 kilometres to City Hall: Neuer Huckepackbahnhof is ideally located at the heart of a modern urban landscape that is still taking shape. Once completed, the 11-hectare site between Billhorner Brückenstraße, Billstraße and Rothenburgsort commuter rail station will offer outstanding commercial premises, excellent accessibility and a highly dynamic business environment. Urban production and 21st-century commerce will be just as at home here as providers of production-related services, start-ups, maker spaces, creative firms and think tanks.