International plastic house exhibition in the world

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The international plastic house exhibition of the world (short: ika ) was an exhibition in Lüdenscheid - Höh on a specially prepared area on the subject of plastic houses . It took place from 1971 to 1973 and was considered a flop. The sponsor was the Sauerland leisure and recreation facilities building company ( SABAG ) . The area was 70,000 m². It was visited by around 500,000 people, but the sales exhibition was not financially successful. “The concepts of the plastic house were not accepted by the general public.” In addition, the 1972 oil crisis resulted in enormous plastic prices. The company generated a deficit of 3 million marks . SABAG then filed for bankruptcy , whereupon the objects were foreclosed in 1975. Today you can't see anything of the exhibition. The property was largely recaptured from nature. Many newspapers reported on this event, including Der Spiegel. High-ranking politicians like Willi Weyer and Willy Brandt came .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stadtwerke Lüdenscheid (ed.): Lüdenscheider memories . Pictures from the Stadtwerke calendars 1986-2000. Stadtwerke Lüdenscheid , Lüdenscheid.
  2. ↑ a b c d Susanne Illhardt: The future ended 1975. Westfälische Rundschau , July 11, 2008, accessed on December 13, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Susanne Illhardt: "We fell on the face with ika". Westfälische Rundschau , August 13, 2011, accessed on November 13, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Olaf Moos: Broken dreams of life in plastic. Lüdenscheider Nachrichten , August 5, 2011, accessed on December 13, 2011 .
  5. ↑ CONSTRUCTION AFFAIRS. Dream of the house. In: 47/1974. Der Spiegel , November 18, 1974, accessed December 13, 2011 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 19.9 ″  N , 7 ° 38 ′ 47.2 ″  E