The Freiheit Emscher area qualifies as a central development hub thanks to a remarkable unique selling point: five former mining sites with a total of around 150 hectares of development land form one of the last large land reserves in the Ruhr area.
The vision goes far beyond the revitalisation of these old industrial wastelands. Freiheit Emscher stands for urban transformation in all its diversity. Our thematic agenda includes key areas of modern urban change that we are tackling together with the participating cities and partners from science and industry, including climate resilience, green energy, sustainable mobility, future technologies, digitalisation and biodiversity.
On one of these five sites, in the Welheimer Mark district, research institutes and knowledge-based companies are to find a new home on around 11 hectares. Under the title ‘Reallaborcampus Wertwasser’ (Wertwasser Real-World Laboratory Campus), the project partners are currently developing a joint location concept in which future technologies in the field of ‘water’ are to be researched, further developed and brought to market maturity directly on site.
Real Estate Facts
- Location/address of the project: In Welheimer Mark, inter-municipal development project Bottrop/Essen/RAG MI
- Motorway connections including travel times: A42 ‘Essen-Nord’ (5 min.), A2 ‘Essen/Gladbeck’ (10 min.)
- Distances to railway stations: Essen Central Station (25 min.), Bottrop Central Station (10 min.)
- Distances to airports: Düsseldorf (40 min.)
- Welheimer Mark site size: Development area approx. 18 ha
- Marketing area: approx. 11 ha
- Availability: From approx. 2029
- Development plan: No. 7.09/1 ‘Welheimer Mark commercial area’ in preparation
- Designation: GE
- Preferred uses: Knowledge-based industry/Wertwasser real-world laboratory campus
- Owner: RAG Montan Immobilien GmbH, prospectively Freiheit Emscher Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH
- Status: Under development
- Construction period: 2027–2029 (development facilities)
- Special features: Ongoing feasibility study for Wertwasser real-world laboratory campus
- Land development: Freiheit Emscher Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH -> Development and marketing
Contact person
Freiheit Emscher Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH
Gernot Pahlen
+49 201 5657740
gernot.pahlen@freiheit-emscher.de