Fairground (Karlsruhe)
| Fairground | |
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 Black Forest Hall |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Karlsruhe |
| District | Southwest town |
| Created | 1927 |
| Confluent streets | Ettlinger Strasse, Hermann-Billing-Strasse, Beiertheimer Allee |
| Buildings | City hall, concert hall, Black Forest hall, garden hall, Nancy hall, congress hotel, Vierordtbad |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic |
| Space design | Fountain, water features |
The fairground is an approximately 10,000 square meter space in Karlsruhe southwestern city . The Karlsruhe Congress Center with the city hall , the concert hall , the Black Forest Hall , the Garden Hall and the Nancy Hall , as well as the Novotel Kongresshotel and the Vierordtbad are located on the fairground . Since the square is also regularly used for events , such as the city's birthday, as a destination for the carnival parade or for vintage car presentations, it is sometimes regarded as one of the city's most important figureheads.
There is an underground car park under the square . The underground congress center stop is being built nearby as part of the combined solution transport project .
Naming
The square got its current name in 1927. In 1930 the square after the politician was Gustav Stresemann in Stresemannplatz renamed, was the beginning of the Third Reich in 1933 but again the name fairground . In 1937 it was renamed Platz der SA . After the end of the Second World War , the original name Festplatz was restored and has not been changed since then.
history
First use
At the time Karlsruhe was founded in 1715, the area of today's fairground was outside the original city area. At first there was a firing range there. In the course of the steady expansion of the city to the south, Karlsruhe's old train station was opened in 1843 east of today's fairground, so that the railroad tracks were laid along the meadow. The Karlsruhe Mess' took place on the site between 1872 and 1898.
In the 1870s, extensive developments were carried out on the fairground. In 1873 the Vierordtbad opened on the south-eastern edge, in 1877 the festival hall was opened by Josef Durm . A provisional exhibition hall was also built in 1877, which was rebuilt in another location in 1886 and used for circus and theater events. In 1913 this was demolished. A short time later, in 1915, the concert hall on the Festplatz was inaugurated.
From 1894 to 1906, a round building with a diameter of over 30 meters stood on the square, which was used for the exhibition of circular panorama pictures , about 100 meters long , and the like. a. with the Battle of Orléans as a motif. In 1904 a Bismarck monument created by Friedrich Moest was erected on the square. The standing figure, parts of which were melted down in World War II, was moved in front of the Bismarck-Gymnasium in 1953 .
At the end of the 19th century, the Albtalbahnhof was put into operation on today's fairground. In the years that followed, it was relocated several times until it found its current location in Ebertstrasse in 1915. In 1913 the new main train station was opened on the southern outskirts, so that the previous main train station east of the fairground was used as a market hall.
About World War II
In 1927 the place was named as a fairground. In 1933, with the rise of the Third Reich, the square was renamed Platz der SA . This renaming was reversed in 1945 after the end of the Second World War. During the Second World War, the area around the square was the target of several attacks, so that the festival hall and parts of the art gallery were destroyed.
In 1950 the town hall was restored. Since the previous theater building of the Badisches Staatstheater had been destroyed in the Second World War, the town hall was used as a provisional theater until 1975. In the following years, with the opening of the ballroom and the construction of the Black Forest Hall in the 1950s and the construction of the Nancy Hall in the 1960s, further redesigns of the square were carried out.
In 1967 the Federal Garden Show took place in Karlsruhe, including in the zoological city garden south of the fairground. For this purpose, a temporary observation tower was built on the fairground.
Since 1990
Some redesigns took place again in the 1990s. In 1981 the town hall was torn down, whereby the listed colonnade was preserved and became part of the new building that was inaugurated in 1985. In 1989 the central heating plant at the fairground was demolished. Only the listed chimney remained and is now integrated into the garden hall, which was opened in 1990.
At the end of 1999, the Karlsruhe municipal council decided in favor of a congress hotel on the Festplatz after using the former post office on Ettlinger Strasse as a hotel was out of the question. In contrast, resistance arose in parts of the population, among other things with the citizens' initiative "Hands off the fairground". Finally, the congress hotel was opened in 2002.
Development
There are some fountains or water features on the fairground . The Hygieía fountain is located in the southeast corner of the square, in front of the Vierordtbad. The fountain, which as a cultural monument under monument stands was between 1905 and 1909. by John Hirt created and Wilhelm Klose donated.
The four long pools created in 1982 are water features on the eastern edge of the square along Ettlinger Strasse, from which fountains emerge. There is also another fountain on the square with the fountain .
The Phoenix over Europe monument , also known as the Europabrunnen , has stood next to the town hall in the northeastern part of the fairground since 2000. From 1979 until the post gallery was set up, the memorial created by Walter Maria Förderer was located on Europaplatz .
On the southern edge of the fairground, between Nancyhalle and Schwarzwaldhalle, there is a till of the zoological city garden .
City Hall
Concert hall
Vierordtbad
literature
- Manfred Koch (ed.): City squares in Karlsruhe . Publications of the Karlsruhe City Archives Vol. 26, Info Verlag, Karlsruhe 2003.
- Franz Sales Meyer : The capital and residence city of Karlsruhe, a guide for their guests . Self-published by the city, Karlsruhe 1898.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Local council - what else was discussed. ka-news , October 20, 2010, accessed December 9, 2014 .
- ^ City of Karlsruhe (ed.): Street names in Karlsruhe (= Karlsruhe contributions. No. 7). Karlsruhe 1994, ISBN 3-7650-0407-3 ( online ).
- ↑ Database of cultural monuments. Bismarck monument. City of Karlsruhe, accessed on December 13, 2014 .
- ↑ Database of cultural monuments. Colonnade of the former town hall. City of Karlsruhe, accessed on December 13, 2014 .
- ↑ City Chronicle Karlsruhe. City of Karlsruhe, March 6, 2013, accessed on December 13, 2014 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 9.4 ″ N , 8 ° 24 ′ 4.1 ″ E