Fučík Square Exhibition Center
The Exhibition Center Fucikplatz - and Exhibition Center at Fucikplatz and Exhibition Center Strasbourg court - was a complex of buildings on the site of the Second World War destroyed the Municipal exhibition center of Dresden was built. The name is derived from Fučíkplatz ( Julius Fučík ), the former Stübelplatz and since October 1991 Strasbourg Square .
Today the Gläserne Manufaktur , a car factory , is located on the site of the exhibition center .
Building and area
In 1969 two halls and functional buildings were opened under the name Fučík Square Exhibition Center. When it opened, it had 4,000 square meters of exhibition space and 11,200 square meters of open space as well as 8,200 square meters of parking space. The final planned solution for the long-term temporary exhibition in the town hall on Nordplatz (now the Military History Museum ) was found. It consisted of two halls connected by two glass corridors. The main entrance was in these passages. The special feature of this approximately 100 meter long double hall was the supporting structure of the roof. Two pylon constructions held the roof in the desired position and enabled a column-free usable space underneath. That was an ideal space requirement for the exhibition practice. There was also an administration and warehouse building as well as small technical buildings. There was a paved area between the halls and the administration building, which was used as an open exhibition space as required. In addition, Dresden's largest folk festival took place here several times for a few weeks every year up to 1991, see Dresden bird meadow .
The expansion of the exhibition center encompassed the entire area of the former exhibition grounds before 1945, which stretched between Stübelallee and Herkulesallee in the Great Garden and between Lennéstrasse and the Botanical Garden . In place of the art exhibition building, which was also destroyed in the war, there was the track loop and a station for the pioneer railway at the time .
Planning and construction
The destroyed City Exhibition Palace had left a painful void for the exhibition work in Dresden, which began again immediately after the end of the war. The search for a functional solution soon began. Around 1957, municipal exhibition staff started to think about building a new multi-purpose hall and even sought specific advice in Germany and abroad. For the exhibition halls that were later built on Fučíkplatz, the Urban Development and Architecture Department of the City Council commissioned the independent architect Günter Fischer from Dresden to carry out appropriate studies. In 1966, the City Council of Dresden was able to present a plan called the “Dresden Exhibition Hall”, which was very similar to the two halls opened a few years later. In contrast to the realization, the main entrance in the direction of Lennéstraße was planned.
Opening and activities until 1989
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The opening of the exhibition center took place on October 5, 1969 with the now inconspicuous first teaching and performance exhibition of the Dresden district . The opening event was attended by Manfred Scheler , the chairman of the Council of the district , started with a speech Dresden. Reference was made to the importance of the Dresden district for its share (13 percent) of the annual industrial production in the GDR and an appreciation for the planning and construction of the exhibition center was given.
A year later, an event took place in Dresden in the Kulturpalast and on this area, which attracted a lot of attention. The 5th World Grain and Bread Congress in 1970 (May 24th to 29th) with its extensive specialist exhibition brought the newly built exhibition center national and international attention.
The operator of the complex was the VEB (K) exhibitions of the city of Dresden. This was based on Schnorrstrasse in the Südvorstadt and designed and organized an annual exhibition program, which now mainly took place in the new site. The municipal exhibition system existed in this form of operation until December 31, 1978. At the beginning of 1979, all operational structures in VE event operations were merged. This was founded in 1969 and emerged from the former VEB Kulturpark Großer Garten, which was created in 1958.
The diversity of the exhibition had already decreased at the beginning of the 1970s and had to accept further cuts in VE event operations. A diverse exhibition life, which occasionally attracted international attention, was not planned for Dresden from this period in the GDR. Only a few individual activities generated a national impact.
With the takeover of the VEB exhibitions of the city of Dresden, an independent "exhibition policy" was also given up in Dresden, because the newly integrated department in the event business was seen as a service area and was now operated in this way.
The exhibition area operated under this specific constellation until 1989. During this period, three art exhibitions in the GDR ( 8th , 9th and 10th art exhibition ) were held, parts of which were on view in the exhibition halls on Fučíkplatz. These art exhibitions achieved a remarkable response for GDR standards with around one million visitors each and were organized by the Center for Art Exhibitions in Berlin .
On April 1, 1989, VE event operation celebrated its 20th anniversary with a ceremony. This occasion was perceived as part of the exhibition Blumenfrühling Dresden 1989 in the exhibition halls for the public.
Activities after 1989
After the social and political changes in the years of transition in 1989/90, the thematic range of the events was able to expand qualitatively again and the term "Dresden Exhibition Center" and later "Dresden Exhibition" became established in common parlance. First, the municipal exhibition work ran in -house operation similar event operation Dresden continue until 1 January 1994 establishing the Dresden exhibition mbH was the only partner with the state capital Dresden. In the temporary and cramped-looking exhibition halls, a nationally recognized and thematically interesting exhibition and trade fair location could be developed again in a short time. Two years later, the Dresden exhibition system celebrated the 100th anniversary of the city's exhibition activities with a ceremony and a special exhibition dedicated to its own history.
Other institutions in Dresden such as the State Art Collections or the German Hygiene Museum made a further contribution to the development of the exhibition system in Dresden through their own exhibitions, independent of the municipal exhibition center.
With the revival of larger exhibition projects on Fučíkplatz / Straßburger Platz after 1989, the problem of a lack of space, which had already been felt in the 1920s, returned to practice. As a result, this topic had to be taken up and considered again from an economic and urban planning perspective. As early as December 13, 1990, the city council passed a resolution to reorganize the development and traffic routing on Straßburger Platz, which contained a development plan for this urban area. In 1992 the city council then dealt with a proposal for a resolution to build an exhibition and congress center on Straßburger Platz. This was based on two comparative studies and concepts.
The traffic problems in the vicinity of such a functional complex, which are difficult to solve in this inner-city area, inevitably led to new considerations of the location. This same conclusion had already emerged from the alternative planning promoted by City Planning Officer Paul Wolf in the mid-1920s. This new knowledge resulted in different usage considerations for the area at the northwest corner of the Great Garden.
In order to meet the growing demand for exhibition space, the Dresden Exhibition Company had an additional lightweight hall group built around 1995 with a floor area of 8,500 square meters. Although this further reduced the available free space and parking space, it met the urgent request of external exhibition partners. A total of 13,000 square meters of covered space was now available. This structural development corresponded with an increase in annual events. In 1993 there were 21 events at the Dresden exhibitions, the number rose to 35 in 1995. The lack of vehicle parking spaces continued to worsen.
In the course of the decision to build the Gläserne Manufaktur , a new space had to be found for the exhibition area, which was found as part of an urban development and landscape conservation ideas competition (1995) in favor of a redesign on the site of the former Erlwein cattle and slaughterhouse in the Great Ostragehege . Events are offered here under the name of Messe Dresden .
The last exhibition at the exhibition area, which is historically significant for Dresden and has been used for this purpose since 1896, was the Deutsche Theater Messe from April 23 to 25, 1999.
literature
- Peter Emmrich, Anette Friedrich, Jörn Walter (Red.): Urban planning framework, large eastern enclosure and surroundings . State capital Dresden, Dresden 1998.
- Alfred Hahn, Ernst Neef: Dresden, results of the local history inventory . Series values of our homeland , vol. 42. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1985.
- Karlheinz Kregelin: Dresden. The name book of the streets and places in the 26er Ring . Fly Head Verlag, Halle / Saale 1993, ISBN 3-930195-01-1 .
- Festschrift: 20 years of VE event operations . Dresden 1989.
- Forum for your success . Special advertising lettering from Dresdner Ausstellunggesellschaft mbH, approx. 1996.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 40.2 " N , 13 ° 45 ′ 20.4" E