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A NEW DISTRICT RIGHT BY PRATTELN RAILWAY STATION 3 Prologue Switzerland is growing. This is affecting the large urban conurbations in particular. Around 20 000 new jobs are to be created by the year 2035 in Basel City alone. This development is not failing to leave its mark on Pratteln. Here, the number of employed persons has risen by around 2500 in the last 10 years and the population has grown by around 1500. This entails a demand for additional housing, along with workplaces and all kinds of infrastructure. All of this needs space. The requirements to be met when providing this space are no longer what they were: The focus is no longer on the idyllic location surrounded by greenery, but on optimal provision of access via all modes of transport. It is no longer about the view, but about quick reachability, as well as inward densifica- tion, so as to counteract Switzerland‘s urban sprawl. The site formerly occupied by the firms Buss AG and Rohrbogen AG on the north side of Pratteln railway station is an ideal place to create new, modern and attractive living space. Neighbourhood plans, currently being developed in close cooperation with the municipal and cantonal authorities, are to govern the nature of the conversion of the two plots. In these neighbourhood plans, the building regulations for the site are being redefined. They will include rules on uses, buildings, paths, squares and open spaces, as well as a plan for their spatial positioning. They shall encompass an explanatory report and documents on various other subjects. The guideli- ne project shows the neighbourhood plans that have to be approved by the municipality at a given point in time. In PROLOGUE 3 parallel, an infrastructure contract between the municipality HISTORY 6 and the building contractor is to be signed. This contract governs which infrastructural installations must be realised PLANNING PRINCIPLES 10 and how these are to be financed. URBAN DEVELOPMENT 12 The guideline project is presented in detail in this brochure. It SECTIONAL VIEWS 22 is intended, firstly, to show the pursued goals and, secondly, to USES AND USERS 24 clarify what specifically could be built on the basis of the neighbourhood plans. In short, the guideline project marks out QUALITIES IN DETAIL 28 the route for development of the neighbourhood plans and SUSTAINABILITY 30 visualises how the new district is eventually to present itself. This work-in-progress report is therefore a snapshot (taken on IMPLEMENTATION 32 June 2019) of a process, in which the public can participate at EPILOGUE 36 a given point in time. IMPRINT 38 Pratteln is just outside the city of Basel, directly on the Rhine. The bottom left of this aerial view shows a part of the Pratteln residential area that has already changed greatly in recent years. The industrial area, characterised by logistics and manufacturing, is seen on the right. The Bredella neighbourhood planning zone is in the middle of the picture, by the railway station and directly beside the tracks. 6 7 History 1850 Pratteln, the farming village. The railway line is not opened until 1854. Pratteln was first mentioned in the year 1103, as Bratello“. To this day, the historical village centre is still reminiscent of the time when Pratteln was a farming village, owned by the lords of Eptingen. After the discovery of salt and the installation of saltworks, as well as the construction of the railway and the connection to Basel‘s city tram network, the rural village became a place of industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. After the Second World War, the construction of the motorway accelerated600m4002000 the development of the whole region. 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Factories© swisstopo getting bigger – the Basel metropolitan area formed. appear and grow. Since then, conditions have changed somewhat: Manufacturing has been shifted to more cost-effective locations and highly automated. Today, manufacturing occurs on a just-in-time basis, much more quickly than before. This development has entailed a decrease in both the demand for space and the number of employees required. On the other hand, all kinds of services have become much more important. The population continues to grow. Sustainability is an increasingly important subject. Hardly any more land can be assigned to building zones. The call for inward densification is getting louder. 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The resulting hard division is now begin- ning to dissolve more and more: On both sides of the railway, new large-scale developments and high-rises have emerged, which are increasingly similar in terms of form and visual effect. Central Pratteln is to be significantly upgraded by the projects Zentrale, in the former Coop centre, and Bredella, on the plots formerly occupied by the firms Buss AG and Rohrbogen AG. The two sides of the railway will then, at the latest, be perceived as one new whole. It will be possible to see and experience urban Pratteln as having an identity of its own. 600m4002000 2018 Massstab 1: 25,000 Gedruckt am 08.03.2019 14:15 Pratteln is changing. 1970empty text https://s.geo.admin.ch/8088cc49ad The suburb becomes www.geo.admin.ch ist ein Portal zur Einsicht von geolokalisierten Informationen, Daten und Diensten, die von öffentlichen Einrichtungen zur Verfügung gestellt werden increasingly urban. (BA190069) swisstopo from permission with Reproduced Haftung: Obwohl die Bundesbehörden mit aller Sorgfalt auf die Richtigkeit der veröffentlichten Informationen achten, kann hinsichtlich der inhaltlichen Richtigkeit, Genauigkeit, Aktualität, Zuverlässigkeit und Vollständigkeit dieser Informationen keine Gewährleistung übernommen werden.Copyright, Bundesbehörden der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft. http://www.disclaimer.admin.ch © swisstopo 600m4002000 Massstab 1: 25,000 Gedruckt am 08.03.2019 14:15 2018empty text https://s.geo.admin.ch/8088ccb8ee www.geo.admin.ch ist ein Portal zur Einsicht von geolokalisierten Informationen, Daten und Diensten, die von öffentlichen Einrichtungen zur Verfügung gestellt werden Haftung: Obwohl die Bundesbehörden mit aller Sorgfalt auf die Richtigkeit der veröffentlichten Informationen achten, kann hinsichtlich der inhaltlichen Richtigkeit, Genauigkeit, Aktualität, Zuverlässigkeit und Vollständigkeit dieser Informationen keine Gewährleistung übernommen werden.Copyright, Bundesbehörden der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft. http://www.disclaimer.admin.ch © swisstopo 8 9 Site DThe Bredella neighbourhood planning encompasses the connected plots formerly occupied by Buss AG and Rohrbogen AG. The site is bordered by the streets Hohenrainstrasse to the north and Gallenweg to the east, the railway line to the south, and the streets Wasenstrasse and Salinenstrasse to the west. In 1884, Albert Buss founded his firm Albert Buss & Cie in Basel. From 1893 onwards, he relocated the majority of manufacturing to Pratteln. Already in its early years, the company had a reputation as a „bone masher“: Staff would slip into the enormous stamping machines, and falling beams would crush feet, as steel-capped boots were still a long way off. Nevertheless, the business flourished and played a major role in shaping Pratteln‘s industrial landscape. In the end, there were around 1100 people working at Buss in Pratteln, many of whom would begin as trainees and work through to retirement. The oil crisis at the start of the 1970s brought about its downfall. In 1979, Georg Fischer AG from Schaffhausen took over the majority of Buss shares. The company was then divided according to its lines of business