Lokhalle Göttingen

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LOKHALLE Göttingen
Logo Lokhalle Göttingen
Lokhalle Göttingen (exterior view)
The Lokhalle Göttingen (exterior view)
Data
place Bahnhofsallee 1 37081 Göttingen , Germany
GermanyGermany
Coordinates 51 ° 32 '11 "  N , 9 ° 55' 18"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '11 "  N , 9 ° 55' 18"  E
owner GWG Society for Economic Promotion and Urban Development Göttingen mbH
operator GWG Society for Economic Promotion and Urban Development Göttingen mbH
start of building 1917
opening 1998 (multi-purpose hall)
surface Concrete
parquet
capacity 7500 people (without
seats, maximum) 4000 people (with seats, maximum)
divided into 3 halls
playing area 9400 m²
Societies)
Events

The Lokhalle Göttingen (own spelling: LOKHALLE ) is a multi-purpose hall in the university town of Göttingen in Lower Saxony . It is located on the side of the train station facing away from the city center in the Weststadt . The operator of the Lokhalle is the Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftsförderung und Stadtentwicklung Göttingen mbH (GWG) , which also manages the Göttingen Stadthalle .

history

In 1855 a machine workshop for steam locomotives was opened in Göttingen . Before and during the First World War , the railway facilities in Göttingen were then considerably modified and expanded. As part of this development, the building of today's locomotive hall was erected between 1917 and 1920 as a locomotive straightening hall in the repair shop for railways . Major repairs were carried out here, especially on locomotives that were used from Göttingen on the north-south route and the Dransfeld ramp . The locomotive shed 'opposite' belonging to the depot was demolished in 2006.

After the plant was closed and dismantled in 1976, the Deutsche Bundesbahn sold its 85,000 m² site in 1983 to the contractor Ebel. With the exception of the Lokrichthalle, which was included in the provisional list of architectural monuments in 1981, and an office building that is still in use today, Ebel Bau tore down the buildings on it in 1984. In 1987 the highly indebted city of Göttingen bought the site between the train station and Leine and transferred it to the GWG in 1995. In a usage concept for a significantly larger area, based on designs by the Göttingen architect Jochen Brandi , a much larger western entrance to the station, a tower bridge over the station avenue as a connection to the locomotive hall, a leisure pool and a shop center in the locomotive hall were planned. First of all, a much larger western entrance to the train station (already expanded to include ICE tracks) including parking lots, a multi-storey car park and the 'Bahnhofsallee' street including bridges were built, including several multi-storey residential buildings (including a former hotel and a car dealership) on Groner Landstrasse were demolished. The industrial monument, which had not been destroyed in a number of air raids , fell into disrepair over two decades. In 2010, at the request of the CDU, a place at the locomotive hall was named Jochen-Brandi-Platz, which was extended in 2016 and a small wood was thinned to the leash.

Todays use

In 1993 there were again specific plans for the use of the locomotive repair hall. A six-story labor exchange complex was built. In 1996, Hans-Joachim Flebbe opened one of his CinemaxX large cinemas ( multiplex cinema ) with nine halls in a renovated northern quarter of the huge hall , which led to the death of a cinema. The event area in the southern area of ​​the Lokhalle opened in December 1998. In 1999, the new building of the adult education center and the media house followed, into which the regional studio of the NDR moved in September 1999 . An InterCityHotel opened in 2000 and, many years later, a building next to it that was mainly used as a medical center. On the site of the former repair shop there are restaurants, a snack bar, streets and parking lots.

Events

On February 18, 2001, the show “ Wetten, dass ..? “Held in the Lokhalle. For this purpose, an open-plan stage and an auditorium for 1,200 people were built in the 5400 m² multi-purpose hall. Host Thomas Gottschalk received guests such as Günther Jauch, Peter Maffay, Ronan Keating, David Copperfield and Michael Schumacher on his betting sofa.

From 2007 to 2011, the home games of the Bundesliga basketball team BG Göttingen were played in the Lokhalle before they were relocated to the newly built Sparkassen-Arena . Since then, the BG has played individual games in the Lokhalle. The Final Four of the EuroChallenge season 2009/2010 was also held there from April 30 to May 2, 2010. The BG Göttingen won the tournament as host and landed the greatest success in the club's history.

On January 13, 2018 the BBL All-Star-Game took place in the Lokhalle.

Regular events include a. the Sparkasse & VGH Cup (international indoor soccer tournament for A – Juniors) and “POP MEETS CLASSIC”.

Since September 2012 the final concert "Musikszene Deutschland" of the NDR 2 event "Soundcheck New Music - The Festival" has taken place in the Lokhalle.

The tenth Bundesvision Song Contest by and with Stefan Raab took place here on September 20, 2014 .

Since 2017 the PDC has been organizing the European Darts Trophy in the Lokhalle , which is part of the European Tour.

From October 24th to 27th, 2019, the hall was the venue for the European Darts Championship and, for the first time, a PDC Darts Major tournament. In 2020 there will be no more darts tournament in Göttingen.

Awards and certifications

The industrial monument, built in 1917, was awarded the industry-known seal of approval “Location Award Winner 2015” as a top location in Germany in September 2015 in the “Historic Locations & Locations of Industrial Culture” category from over 400 participants.

After receiving the “POP MEETS CLASSIC” award for the best in-house event and winning the EVVC Award for “Best Center 2009/2010” from the European Association of Event Centers, the Location Award is already the third award for the Göttingen Lokhalle.

The Göttingen Lokhalle is certified with the international Green Globe certificate for sustainable action.

gallery

  • Entrance area of ​​the multifunctional hall

  • View from the neighboring employment agency

  • Former locomotive gates on the north side (the cinemas are now behind these)

literature

  • Günther Siedbürger: The locomotive hall and its railroad workers. Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-926920-14-9 .
  • Göttingen annual sheets. 1984 - Verlag Göttinger Tageblatt

Web links

Commons : Lokhalle Göttingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Supervisory Board of the Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftsförderung und Stadtentwicklung mbH (GWG) ratsinfo.goettingen.de, accessed on September 16, 2018
  2. ↑ An architecturally exciting complex is to be built on industrial wasteland hna.de, on January 18, 2012
  3. ↑ GWG Projektentwicklung: Alter Güterbahnhof gwg-online.de, accessed on September 16, 2018
  4. ↑ Göttingen Locomotive Hall. P. 88 ff Göttinger Tageblatt-Bücherverlag. (PDF file; 6.2 MB), accessed on September 16, 2018
  5. ↑ Göttingen Locomotive Hall. P. 93 Göttinger Tageblatt-Bücherverlag. (PDF file; 6.2 MB), accessed on September 16, 2018
  6. ↑ Jochen-Brandi-Platz will be extended - construction work will start tomorrow stadtradio-goettingen.de, on February 23, 2016
  7. ↑ Government error destroys Brandi monument - goettinger-tageblatt.de, on November 3, 2016, accessed on August 23, 2018
  8. ↑ Göttinger Tageblatt: Radical section between Leine and Lokhalle on February 24, 2016, accessed on September 16, 2018
  9. ↑ Göttingen hosts Final Four . Report on kicker.de, accessed on March 31, 2010.
  10. ↑ Göttingen host of the ALLSTAR Day 2018 easycredit-bbl.de, accessed on December 7, 2017
  11. ↑ HappyBet European Darts Trophy 2017 - PDC Europe. Accessed December 7, 2017 (German).
  12. ^ Unibet European Championship. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .
  13. ↑ The Darts EM in the Lokhalle: kiss goodbye for Göttingen. October 29, 2019, accessed November 5, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Location Award 2015 | Detail | News | LOKHALLE Göttingen. In: www.lokhalle.de. Retrieved August 18, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Awards and quality seals of the LOKHALLE Göttingen | About Us | LOKHALLE Göttingen. In: www.lokhalle.de. Retrieved August 18, 2016 .