{"id":109783,"date":"2026-06-17T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/109783\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T06:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:58:00","slug":"cassiopeia-faces-eviction-in-2-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/109783\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassiopeia faces eviction in 2 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/imago378451797-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden wp-image-182391\"  \/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/imago378451797-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-182391\"  \/>IMAGO \/ J\u00fcrgen Held<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plight of RAW Gelande has never been this dire. The dispute over the future of the site \u2013 widely regarded as Berlin\u2019s subcultural hotspot \u2013 has been ongoing since the Kurth Group purchased it back in 2015 with the intention of developing it for commercial and residential use. It accelerated at the beginning of this year when the investors employed the so-called \u2018construction accelerator\u2019 to allow housing construction despite the zoning process for the site not being finished yet. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They simultaneously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-berliner.com\/english-news-berlin\/six-companies-on-raw-site-face-closure\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">issued a ban on use for six venues<\/a> occupying the \u2018Sociocultural L\u2019, citing their insufficient fire protection measures in light of the recent disaster in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. Several operators contradicted this claim and presented evidence for having sufficient fire protection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The atmosphere between the Kurth Group and the club operators has been increasingly tense but reached a new height yesterday. Even though it seemed that a compromise solution was on the horizon, which would have seen the clubs\u2019 rents secured for 30 years in exchange for the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district office allowing residential construction on the site, the Kurth Group retreated from the negotiating table. Instead, they issued eviction notices to several venues on their land. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among these venues is Cassiopeia, which now has until the end of June to vacate their premises. The club is considered crucial for the functioning of several other projects on the site and its closure would be disastrous to the local cultural ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without the compromise solution outlined above, the Kurth Group will not be allowed residential construction on RAW West but can still develop it for commercial activity such as offices. Both the local district office and the State of Berlin are aware of the cultural significance of RAW and its role in attracting tourism to the city; as such, the Senate has previously indicated openness to co-financing noise protection measures for the planned residential construction in order to prevent future neighbours\u2019 noise complaints from forcing the established clubs to close.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the Kurth Group unilaterally declaring the RAW West development plan process a failure and retreating from negotiations with the Senate and district office \u2013 thus essentially declaring all-out war on Berlin\u2019s cultural scene \u2013 the city remains open to dialogue and implores the investor to return to talks. \u201cI appeal to the Kurth company to return to the negotiating table,\u201d says Florian Schmidt (Greens), Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg\u2019s building councillor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IMAGO \/ J\u00fcrgen Held The plight of RAW Gelande has never been this dire. 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