Cannstatter Wasen

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Fruit column with ferris wheel
Bon Jovi live on the Cannstatter Wasen on June 22, 2001
Cannstatter Wasen

The Cannstatter Wasen is a 35-hectare festival site on the banks of the Neckar in the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart . The name of the area is a name for a grassland . Colloquially, the term is also used as a synonym for the two large folk festivals, the Cannstatter Volksfest and the Stuttgart Spring Festival , which take place every year on the festival site. The Cannstatter Wasen celebrated its 200th anniversary as a festival and exhibition area in 2018.

The Cannstatter Wasen is part of the Neckarpark event site . Until 2005 the name "Cannstatter Wasen" was still officially used for this entire area. The Neckarpark forms the largest part of the “Wasen” district, which also includes part of the Mercedes-Benz plant in Untertürkheim .

use

In addition to the two folk festivals, numerous other events, such as circus performances , sports and agricultural fairs, in particular the main agricultural festival and open-air concerts, take place on the Wasen at irregular intervals . The festival area is used as a parking lot for other events in the Neckarpark.

In 1907, an international mass meeting for peace among nations and people's liberation took place here at the beginning of the Socialist Congress in Stuttgart , in which 60,000 people took part. When commercial aviation began, the Cannstatter Wasen also served the city of Stuttgart as an airfield and zeppelin landing pad for several years. In 1911 Ernst Heinkel took off from here in a self-designed aircraft, and in 1919 a landing pad was created. From 1921 to 1924 Paul Straehle carried out mail flights from Wasen; regular civil flight operations did not take place. From 1925 Böblingen Airport was used for all flights .

On the Wasen 2015 there was 56 tons of waste.

Traffic to major events

The Cannstatter Wasen stop is located on the premises and is served by lines U19 of the Stuttgart city railway during the week and U11 during events.

Regular major events

literature

  • Andrea Hartl: Oktoberfest and Cannstatter Volksfest - from national festival to mass entertainment. Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8316-0934-5 .

Web links

Commons : Cannstatter Wasen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Franz Biekert: 75 Years of Stuttgart Airport - From Sheep Pasture with Landing Options to Modern Transport Service Provider (PDF; 221 kB) State Capital Stuttgart, Statistical Office. October 1999. Retrieved October 26, 2009.
  2. Wenke Böhm: The beer tanker comes in the night . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . No. 232 , October 6, 2016, p. 22 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 48 '  N , 9 ° 13'  E