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Dirty shopping street in the train station gives way to the city’s largest hotel

The demolition at the main train station begins. For the construction site, pedestrians have to take an “emergency route”, and Bahnhofstrasse becomes a one-way street. Here is a look at a first draft of the hotel.


Joachim Uthmann

05/21/2021 | As of May 20th, 2021, 7:09 p.m.



Bielefeld. The history of the row of shops at the main train station is eventful. It was often criticized – there was talk of “dirty mile” and “eyesore”. Last time it ran so tolerably, it has been empty for months. Now the demolition excavator is here – to make room for the largest hotel in Bielefeld. Names like Gummi Kalmann or Bahnhofsrestaurant associate the people of Bielefeld with the low row of houses from the 1950s. There were barely a dozen shops here on a street front of a good 100 meters …

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