Congress Center Hamburg

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Aerial view of the Congress Center Hamburg with the CCH logo on the roof and the Alster in the background (2007)

The CCH - Congress Center Hamburg (until 2004 Congress Centrum Hamburg ) was opened on April 14, 1973 in Hamburg as the first congress center in Germany . It is in the immediate vicinity of the Dammtor train station . The areas and halls of the CCH are used for congresses, trade fairs, concerts or exhibitions and were expanded and rebuilt again until 2007.

The CCH is operated by Hamburg Messe und Congress  GmbH, which also includes Hamburg Messe . Since 2017 the CCH has been renovated by the owner CCH Immobilien GmbH & Co. KG , for which costs of 194 million euros have been estimated. In advance it turned out that the congress center is contaminated with pollutants, which should be removed in the course of the renovation. The reopening is planned for 2020.

history

CCH May 1973, back on the railway line

After a planning phase in 1968/1969, the then mayor of Hamburg, Herbert Weichmann , laid the foundation stone for the Congress Center Hamburg, or CCH for short, on March 5, 1970. The Latinized spelling Congress Center was once elected to the preloaded abbreviation " KZ prevent -Hamburg". This was followed by a three-year construction phase in which 17 halls for a total of 10,000 guests were created. On April 14, 1973, the 100 million D-Mark building was officially opened.

In order to achieve an internationally uniform spelling, the CCH was renamed “Congress Center Hamburg” in 2004. The expansion of the CCH began in 2005. Since the end of 2006, the CCH has had 23 halls (some of which can be divided) with a total of 12,500 seats, 3,000 of which are in the previous Hall 1 and 6,240 in the new Hall H. The first beneficiary of this new exhibition hall (7,000 m²) was in September 2006 the acqua alta . In the second half of 2007, the expansion of the conference area was completed with the completion of Hall G, so that a total of more than 10,000 m² of exhibition space is available.

Events

Every year around 280 congresses, meetings, general meetings, cultural and gastronomic events with more than 320,000 participants take place in the CCH.

A large number of concerts have taken place since the opening, including by ABBA , Bonnie Tyler , David Bowie , Chris de Burgh , David Byrne , Maria Callas , Howard Carpendale , Joe Cocker , Phil Collins , Celine Dion , Deep Purple , Dixie Chicks , Bryan Ferry , Genesis , David Gilmour , Tom Jones , Alicia Keys , Kraftwerk , Daliah Lavi , Helmut Lotti , Manfred Mann , Luciano Pavarotti , Prince , Queen , Lou Reed , Bruce Springsteen , Truck Stop , U2 , Brian Wilson , Frank Zappa , ZZ Top , Sade .

Other types of events such as the Echo Award Ceremony, the SPD Federal Party Congress , the ZDF Hanseatic Meeting or the Chaos Communication Congress were also held here.

hotel

At the same time as the CCH, a hotel was built that forms a structural unit with the Congress Center. The Radisson Blu Hotel in Hamburg is 108 meters high, the tallest hotel and one of the tallest buildings in the city. It has a total of 32 floors. The hotel was built between 1970 and 1973 by the architects Jost Schramm and Gert Pempelfort on behalf of the United Hotel Holding GmbH. When it opened, it was called Hotel Loew's Hamburg Plaza , was renamed several times and is now called the Radisson Blu Hotel .

The four base floors of the hotel connect to the CCH and continue its horizontal structure. They house all public rooms, restaurants and ballrooms, kitchen and utility rooms and a wellness area. Your own congresses can be held in the hotel's conference rooms.

The high-rise bed building made up of seven mutually offset segments rises vertically above the southeast side.

Web links

Commons : Congress Center Hamburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Gaßdorf: CCH contaminated with asbestos - from 2017 the building will be renovated. In: Abendblatt.de. October 8, 2014, accessed on January 4, 2016 (German).
  2. ↑ The Stage to the World - The New CCH. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Carina Braun, Ulrich Gaßdorf and Rike Lohmann: The Elbphilharmonie of the Seventies is falling into disrepair . In: Hamburger Abendblatt, July 30, 2011. Retrieved July 31, 2011.
  4. ↑ Rooms in the Congress Centrum Hamburg
  5. ↑ Exhibition space in the Congress Centrum Hamburg. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
  6. ^ Official website of the CCH: Key figures
  7. ^ Official website of the CCH: Reference list for concerts
  8. ^ Engineering database structurae.de, accessed October 14, 2009.

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 42 "  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 13"  E