CongressPark Wolfsburg

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CongressPark Wolfsburg, from the north

The CongressPark Wolfsburg (until 1987 Stadthalle ) is an event center in Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony .

Location and use

The CongressPark is located at the foot of the Klieversberg at the southern end of the city ​​center , in the immediate vicinity of the Scharoun Theater and the planetarium . The postal address is Heinrich-Heine-Straße, but the building is on Klieverhagen street.

The CongressPark has three halls for public events, the "Great Hall" with up to 2,044 seats, the "Mirror Hall" (up to 574 seats) and the "Small Hall", also known as the "Black Box" (maximum 1100 seats), as well as seven Conference rooms. The halls are used for concerts, congresses and balls, among other things. Exhibitions and trade fairs take place in the foyers; they are also used for catering.

The house offers 4,741 m² inside and around 6,000 m² outside, where exhibitions, exchanges and trade fairs take place. A two-storey foyer forms the entrance area.

The “Klieversbergsaal” of the CongressPark is used by the nearby “New School” as a cafeteria .

The CongressPark is owned by the City of Wolfsburg and is managed by Congress Park Wolfsburg GmbH.

history

prehistory

The first large multi-purpose hall for events was the Tullio-Cianetti-Halle , built in 1938, the year the City of the KdF-Wagons was founded (renamed Wolfsburg in 1945) . It offered space for 5000 visitors, but burned down in 1945.

In 1947/48, the city planner Hans Bernhard Reichow planned the construction of a town hall on an island in the Großer Schillerteich , which was supposed to be accessible from the extended Stresemannstraße, but this was not realized.

From September 1947 Wolfsburg owned the “Stadthalle” on the corner of Kleiststrasse and Robert-Koch-Platz, which soon no longer met the requirements and was closed at the end of 1957.

City Hall

1957 to 1958 - on the site of today's CongressPark - the "Stadthalle" was built according to a design by Peter Koller as a multi-purpose hall for a maximum of 3,134 people. It was intended not only for concerts and exhibitions, but also for sporting events, including physical education at a nearby school. In addition to the “Great Hall”, the town hall also had a teaching pool and bowling alleys in the basement. On May 4, 1958, it was opened with an exhibition about the painter Lovis Corinth .

In 1962/63 the town hall was expanded to include the mirror hall with the exhibition room below and the sports hall; the facade was renewed in a representative form. The relief on the east facade was designed by Peter Szaif . On July 1, 1963, on the occasion of the city's 25th anniversary, the now expanded city hall was reopened.

CongressPark

In 1986 the town hall was rebuilt again. The cost was 27 million DM. In the following year the city hall was renamed CongressPark. In 2013 it was decided that the theater director Rainer Steinkamp would also head the CongressPark as the second managing director, from 2014 as managing director. He retired on December 31, 2016.

In 2013, 138,203 people visited the CongressPark.

literature

  • City of Wolfsburg (ed.): Wolfsburg 1938–1988. Wolfsburg 1988, p. 93.
  • Adolf Köhler: Wolfsburg. Building a city. 1948-1968. Wolfsburg, undated (around 1976), pp. 48/49.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Great Hall. congresspark-wolfsburg.de, accessed on August 30, 2019
  2. ↑ Small hall. congresspark-wolfsburg.de, accessed on August 30, 2019
  3. ↑ Information on the CongressPark website ( Memento from March 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Markus Kutscher: Congress Park: Zoff between courage and laughter. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of October 17, 2019.
  5. ↑ Hans Karweik: A hall surrounded by water. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of July 20, 2018.
  6. ↑ Multi-purpose hall for 3134 people. Wolfsburger Nachrichten on May 19, 1957. In: City of Wolfsburg (Hrsg.): 50 years of Wolfsburg in the press. P. 38.
  7. ↑ Representative extension of the town hall. Wolfsburger Nachrichten on March 2, 1962. In: City of Wolfsburg (Hrsg.): 50 years of Wolfsburg in the press. P. 44.
  8. ↑ Erhard Kühlhorn (Ed.): Historical and regional excursion map of Lower Saxony, sheet Wolfsburg. Explanatory booklet, ISBN 3 7848 3626 7 , Hildesheim 1977, p. 158.
  9. ↑ City hall reopened in new splendor. Wolfsburger Kurier on April 30, 1986. In: City of Wolfsburg (Hrsg.): 50 years of Wolfsburg in the mirror of the press. P. 89.
  10. ↑ CongressPark Wolfsburg. Wolfsburg Rundblick on March 28, 1987. In: City of Wolfsburg (Hrsg.): 50 years of Wolfsburg in the mirror of the press. P. 92.
  11. ↑ CongressPark: Theater-Intendant becomes second managing director ( Memento from May 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at waz-online.de on June 21, 2013, accessed on September 12, 2013
  12. ↑ Statistics page of the city of Wolfsburg ( Memento from July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), accessed on May 20, 2014

Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 2.3 ″  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 46.4 ″  E