May market
| May market | |
|---|---|
| Branch | Consumer fair |
| Place of issue | Mannheim |
| First exhibition | 1613 |
| Website | www.maimarkt.de |
| Last exhibition | |
| date | April 27, 2019 to May 7, 2019 |
| Visitors | 334,000 |
| Next exhibition | |
| date | 2021 |
The Mannheimer Maimarkt is the largest regional consumer exhibition in Germany, which always starts on the last Saturday in April and lasts for eleven days. The last day is traditionally the May Market Tuesday.
history
The Maimarkt in Mannheim has a long historical background and is related to the market privileges granted by Count Palatine Johann II von Zweibrücken on September 10, 1613 , which it received six years after the city privileges . At first, the May market was primarily a market for shopkeepers and cattle dealers.
In the 18th century it was moved from the market square under the arcades of the department store on Paradeplatz . In 1876 the showcase fair was separated from the actual market and relocated to the Old Messplatz . In 1892 part of the Maimarkt moved to the newly opened slaughterhouse ⊙ . The rest followed in 1900. In addition to the old cattle and horse market, agricultural implements, as well as butchery and dairy items were now on display.
After the Second World War , the May Market in 1949 was first held in the Rosengarten event building and later again in the slaughterhouse. In 1962 it was finally relocated by the Mannheim Exhibition Company to Friedensplatz ⊙ opposite Luisenpark and brought to its present form with expanded offers. Since 1985, the Maimarkt area in Mühlfeld in the east of the city, which was then newly developed, has been the venue for the event, particularly because of the space and traffic requirements. At the now vacant Friedensplatz followed u. a. the new building of the Technoseum as a state museum for technology and work in Mannheim .
In 1989, the Maimarkthalle (7500 m²) was built as the first permanent exhibition hall, which is used all year round and can accommodate up to 12,500 visitors at pop concerts. Other permanent installations are the SWR's glass studio and several administration buildings at the main entrance. In 2005, in connection with the construction of the SAP arena, it was connected to the Mannheim light rail network . The trade fair originally planned from April 25 to May 5, 2020 was canceled due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus .
Infrastructure and transport links
The Maimarkt area covers an area of 210,000 square meters, 130,000 of which are infrastructural (water, electricity, telephone, and in some cases WiFi). In the run-up to the May Market, 47 exhibition halls with an area of 42,000 square meters are set up every year from February. The total exhibition area is approximately 75,000 square meters. With around 1,400 exhibitors for over 20,000 products and services and around 350,000 visitors annually, the Mannheimer Maimarkt is at the top of the German regional exhibitions.
The site at the Mannheim motorway junction is well-developed in terms of traffic and can be reached directly via the A 656 and B 38a . The S-Bahn -Haltepunkt Mannheim Arena / Maimarkt lies in about 1000 meters distance. The parking space now has 12,000 parking spaces and can be expanded by a further 8,000 parking spaces on Sundays and public holidays with parts of the neighboring Mannheim Airport.
With the new construction of the SAP arena 500 meters away, the site received the urgently needed tram connection directly in front of the main entrance as well as another 7,000 parking spaces in September 2005 . Before that, visitors had to change to shuttle buses at the Neuostheim tram terminus .
Events
Since 1964, the Maimarkt horse show , which has now been advertised internationally, has been taking place during the Maimarkt .
In the past, large open-air concerts took place on the Maimarkt site. Among others, Deep Purple , Queen , Genesis , The Rolling Stones , Robbie Williams , Bon Jovi , Metallica, Guns n 'Roses , Die Toten Hosen and the Festival Monsters of Rock were guests in Mannheim. The TV entertainment show Wetten dass ..? was broadcast live from the Mannheim Maimarkthalle in 1997 and 2005. In December 2011, Do you understand was fun? to guest.
Further regular events are the trade fair for work, training and further education Jobs for Future (February / March), the techno events Time Warp Festival in spring with around 14,000 visitors and Toxicator in December, the REWE Family Summer Festival with several 10,000 visitors, the Veterama ( largest classic car exhibition in Europe) with almost 50,000 visitors.
From 1995 to 2010 the annual meeting Jalsa Salana Germany of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat took place on the Maimarkt area with an average of over 30,000 participants. This event, which is also the largest Islamic gathering in Europe, has been taking place at Messe Karlsruhe since 2011.
In September 2012 violent participants broke out at an international Kurdish cultural festival on the Maimarkt site , in which 80 police officers were injured, some seriously.
literature
- Udo Wennemuth : The Mannheim May market in four centuries: the development from the local cattle and fairground to the largest consumer exhibition in Germany . von Brandt, Mannheim 2000, ISBN 3-926260-47-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Visitors to the May Market 2016 ( Memento from May 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Olivia Kaiser: These are the consequences for Mannheim. RNZ , March 11, 2020, accessed on the same day.
- ↑ “Do you understand fun?” In the citizen service. Press release of the City of Mannheim from November 17, 2011, accessed on April 29, 2019.
- ↑ Mannheim. Kurdish orgy of violence caught police cold , Die Welt on September 9, 2012, accessed on June 21, 2013
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 8 ″ N , 8 ° 31 ′ 22 ″ E