Marler Stern

Machine-translated from the German article

The shopping center in the city center of Marl in North Rhine-Westphalia, known as the Marler Stern, has a sales area of around 58,000 m² and is thus not only the largest shopping center in the region between Essen and Münster, but also one of the largest inner-city shopping centers in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Marler Stern was built at a time when the city, through the booming chemical and mining industries, had an ever-growing population, and the town that had developed from several villages needed a new town center on greenfield land. It was therefore decided, in the 1960s and 1970s, to build a complex consisting of a shopping center, town hall, city park, and several residential high-rises.