World Exhibition 1913 Gent
| World Exhibition Ghent 1913 Wereldtentoonstelling Ghent 1913 |
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| General | |
| Exhibition space | 130 ha |
| Number of visitors | 9,503,419 |
| BIE recognition | Yes |
| participation | |
| countries | 24 countries |
| Exhibitors | 18,932 exhibitors |
| Place of issue | |
| place | Ghent |
| terrain | Sint-Pieters-Aalst, Citadel Park Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 16.4 ″ N , 3 ° 43 ′ 12 ″ E
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| opening | April 26, 1913 |
| closure | November 3, 1913 |
| Chronological order | |
| predecessor | Turin 1911 |
| successor | San Francisco 1915 |
The 1913 World Exhibition in Ghent ( nl: Wereldtentoonstelling Gent 1913 ) was the 19th world exhibition recognized by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) . It took place from April 26, 1913 to November 3, 1913. The Sint-Pieters-Aalst district and today's Citadel Park were used as 130 hectares of exhibition grounds. 9.5 million interested people visited the world exhibition.
history
Main topics, offers, visitors
Flowers and the colonies were the themes of the 1913 World's Fair: Ghent is considered the center of floriculture and the exhibition was accordingly characterized by a lush display of flowers.
A Senegalese and a Filipino village were built in the Citadel Park by “exhibiting” 128 Senegalese and 60 Filipinos. Algeria , Morocco , Tunisia , India and the Belgian Congo had their own pavilions. The Congo Pavilion was a 15 meter high round building with a diameter of 152 meters and housed a panoramic exhibition that showed Belgian imperialism in the best light.
Nine natives died of hypothermia in the Filipino village in early November. The whole time they were housed in the huts built for different climatic conditions. It also turned out that they had been starving for a long time because the agency that had brought them to Ghent went bankrupt and stopped paying them their wages.
Other attractions included the highest water slide in the world and a replica of a medieval Flemish settlement.
24 countries were officially represented, Germany and Italy only unofficially. The exhibition in Ghent was the last world exhibition before the First World War and the last exhibition with a human zoo.
Het Kuipke
The former flower exhibition and festival hall "Floraliënpaleis" of the world exhibition was used until 1962, when it fell victim to a fire, as an event hall, known as Het Kuipke , in which the six-day race in Ghent also took place.
Picture gallery
Electric mast by Jacques de Lalaing made of bronze, manufactured for the 1913 World's Fair
Electric mast, detailed view
Bronze statue Ros Beyaert by Aloïs de Beule and Domien Ingels, made for the 1913 World's Fair
Tram line at the 1913 World's Fair
Exhibition grounds Ghent 1913
Colonial Palace of the Belgian Congo at the 1913 World's Fair
literature
- Oppenheim: The world exhibition in Ghent . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , vol. 33. 1913, pp. 398–401 ( digitized version of the Central and State Library Berlin ).
- Winfried Kretschmer: History of the world exhibitions . Campus, 1999, ISBN 3-593-36273-2 .
Web links
- World Exhibition 1913 Gent. Bureau International des Expositions (English). Retrieved March 23, 2017 .
- The German Werkbund on the world stage - Part 1 , on Germany's participation in the 1913 World's Fair, accessed on February 23, 2014
- The German Werkbund on the world stage - Part 2 , about Germany's participation in the 1913 World Exhibition, accessed on February 23, 2014