Congress Center Suhl
The Congress Centrum Suhl (CCS) was built as a town hall of friendship in the mid-1970s in Suhl , Thuringia , in order to create a new town center in line with socialist ideals together with the surrounding high-rises and the department store of the then district capital .
City Hall
history
After Suhl became the district capital in 1952 after the dissolution of the states in the GDR and remained until reunification in 1990, large parts of the historically grown city center were demolished and redesigned under the leadership of the GDR Building Academy under Hermann Henselmann . A new city center with a cultural center, a town hall with an attached high-rise, six other high-rise buildings with 14 floors, a four-lane expressway, the Centrum department store and administrative buildings were created.
In addition to the art in the department store, there were various works of art in the town hall, for example the mural Internationale Solidarität by Willi Neubert, created in 1977/78 .
In the early 1990s, this art disappeared in the course of the renovation work to become today's Congress Centrum Suhl. The round town hall, which originally offered space for more than 5000 visitors, was rebuilt and supplemented by a parking garage, additional halls and conference rooms, as well as shopping facilities and a large, glass atrium. On December 2, 1995, the redesigned town hall with 2,350 seats in the great hall was inaugurated. Other event rooms are the Simson hall, the Kaluga banquet hall, the little tower and the cult cellar Vampir. Between the CCS and the neighboring hotel complex there is a wellness and leisure pool, the Otilienbad , which belongs to CCS GmbH.
In addition to numerous dining facilities, the atrium of the CCS includes the Tourist Information Suhl, the gallery in the atrium and the Suhl vehicle museum.
Events
Various events such as theater, musicals, concerts by z. B. Northern Lite and Saga , youth consecrations , party conferences of z. B. the FDP , flea markets, dance evenings, readings, trade fairs or comedy programs take place regularly. In addition to rock and pop concerts, the Thuringia Philharmonic Gotha-Eisenach also performs here .
Vehicle museum
The vehicle museum opened in the CCS on April 28, 2007. It shows around 170 bicycles, mopeds, motorbikes and automobiles from the 100-year tradition of vehicle construction in Suhl, mainly models from the Simson company and other manufacturers formerly based in Suhl.
There are also exhibitions about the racing history of Suhl two-wheelers and information about the native Suhl racing driver Paul Greifzu . Dixis from Eisenach are shown in a special exhibition . This factory was founded by Heinrich Ehrhardt from Zella St. Blasii .
" Greifzu " Formula 2 racing car (1951)
BMW R 35 (1938)
Simson Escort (1957), only 30 copies built for official occasions
Simson S350 (1960)
Mars A 23 (1923)
skyscraper
In addition to the four high-rise buildings built between 1972 and 1974 in Doktor-Theodor-Neubauer-Straße, two of which were completely renovated and modernized in 2006, the Erfurt construction and assembly combine built in 1977 in Friedrich-König-Straße next to the town hall and opposite from Herrenteich a residential high-rise building with 26 floors. The building protruded conspicuously over the city and, with a height of 88 meters, was the tallest building in the Suhl district. A direct connection with the town hall and its ancillary buildings was provided via the base levels. There was a two-story restaurant on the 26th floor, with mainly one-room apartments below. The Oderturm in Frankfurt (Oder) is similar with a height of 89 meters.
After the fall of the Wall, the building was mostly empty and was completely gutted in 1993 by a new investor in order to be converted into a hotel. But even during the renovation work, the investor lacked financial resources. As a result, construction work on the unprotected concrete structure was suspended for three years.
The architect Eberhard Zeidler was eventually taken over by the Europa Congresshotel GmbH & CO. KG Dortmund commissioned to continue planning the renovation. Under the management of the hotel investor Reinhard Baumhögger, they bought the gutted building in 1996 for 13.8 million marks, which were considered overpriced. This price corresponded to the liabilities still on the property from the previous owner. Baumhögger, however, only paid off debts of 10 million marks, the rest he bought from the mortgage bank in Essen for the symbolic price of one mark. A further almost 24 million marks in funding flowed from Thuringia into the then ailing shell. During its renovation work, the machine house on the roof, the top double storey and nine other storeys were removed. After the dismantling, the building, now known as the Europa-Congress-Hotel Suhl , received a modern facade, and an oval and glazed restaurant, a viewing platform and an antenna were placed on the remaining 16 floors. The former base has been reduced in size and now forms the hotel's entrance hall. At the foot of the building, direct access to the CCS was restored by a glass bridge and supplemented by a truncated glass pyramid connected to the facade.
Until the beginning of 2008, the 17-story high-rise belonged to the Mercure Accor Hotels chain and was called the Mercure Hotel Kongress Suhl . In spring 2008 the hotel was taken over by the Golden Tulip Group and renamed Golden Tulip Suhl . The 4-star hotel offers 127 rooms and 6 suites and can be used for meetings. From 2010 the building was an Arcadia Hotel , in 2017 it was forcibly auctioned for 3.5 million euros in the wake of Arcadia's insolvency.
Web links
- Congress Center Suhl
- Arcadia Hotel Suhl
- Vehicle Museum Suhl
- Ully Günther: Redeemed 39.4 million marks without consideration. In: Free Word online edition. February 20, 2006, accessed August 29, 2012 .
Individual evidence
- ^ CCS - Congress Center Suhl. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Vehicle Museum Suhl Start. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
- ^ Gerd Manig, Dieter Schellenberger: 475 years of Suhl . Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2002, p. 117
Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 37 " N , 10 ° 41 ′ 16" E