Freiburg Exhibition Center
| Freiburg Wirtschaft Touristik und Messe GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| Seat | Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany |
| management | Hanna Böhme, Daniel Strowitzki |
| Branch | Exhibition, trade fair and goods market facilities |
| Website | www.messe.freiburg.de |
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The Messe Freiburg is an exhibition and convention center in Freiburg .
history
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Markets are inextricably linked with the history of the city of Freiburg , the founding of the city in 1120 coincides with the market rights granted by Konrad von Zähringen , the first fair was permitted by King Wenceslaus of Prague in 1379 , and Freiburg became an international market several times a year Trading center. The Münsterplatz , and later also the Stühlinger Kirchplatz as a place for entertainment fairs, were important centers. Between 1885 and 1914 at least six Völkerschauen took place at the Freiburg spring and autumn fair , at which people from Africa and today's Sri Lanka were exhibited, a not uncommon event at trade fairs at the time. In 1929, today's Alte Messplatz , which had previously been used for sporting purposes, was inaugurated in the east of the city . To the east of it, the town hall was built in 1954 on Schwarzwaldstraße based on a design by Albert Maria Lehr. In the five decades of its use, congresses, sporting and social events, festivities, concerts, exhibitions and trade fairs have taken place here. After being used as a provisional university library from autumn 2008 until the new library was completed in July 2015, it has served as an emergency shelter for refugees since the end of 2015. The hall is now a listed building .
The move of the trade fair to the north of the city was decided in the mid-nineties: The first construction phase with its three exhibition halls and a total of 18,500 m² of usable and service space was completed in just under one and a half years and on January 17, 2000, three years after the corresponding municipal council resolution, put into operation. By relocating the trade fair, a building area was also created on the "Old Messplatz". This now enriches the surrounding districts of Wiehre , Oberau , Waldsee and Littenweiler with 180 new residential units and a shopping center (Oberwiehre center).
In autumn 1999, the first public festival, the Freiburg Autumn Mass , took place on the new outdoor area . With the investment of around 75 million euros, Freiburg had four times as much exhibition space available as before. Cultural events could now be held in Hall 2 with up to 10,000 spectators. On March 25, 2003, the Freiburg municipal council decided to build a fourth hall. Construction began in November 2004. The state supported the second construction phase of the trade fair with a grant of 2.9 million euros from the support program for trade fair investments. The total investment for the fourth hall was around 22.9 million euros, most of which was spent by regional companies. The construction of the first three exhibition halls and the subsequent fourth with the foyer extension were an award-winning design and the realization of the Freiburg architect Detlef Sacker . The first name sponsor was the Badische Staatsbrauerei Rothaus and so the hall was called Rothaus-Arena until 2016 . In January 2017 it was for the next ten years in Sick -Arena renamed.
The first pop star to appear here on October 8, 2006 was the singer Pink in front of 4500 spectators. For the concert, the Rothaus-Arena, which usually holds 9,000 people, was limited to around 5,000 seats by a curtain. The new hall was inaugurated at the start of the international trade fair " Intersolar " in 2006.
The Badische Staatsbrauerei Rothaus contributed around 12.5 million euros to the investment volume for the first construction phase of the exhibition stand as well as the necessary road and public transport connections and all other costs, around 4 million euros came directly from the state of Baden-Württemberg, 7 million . from land sales by the city in the country for the expansion of the university into the city treasury, the city provided more than 10.5 million euros as a contribution to the exhibition object carrier company. The marketing of the old measuring site in the east of the city, where a district and a shopping center were being built, brought in almost 12 million euros. For the external development of the fair and the demolition of the old exhibition halls at the old location, the city brought in more than 9 million euros, the federal and state governments contributed around 10 million euros. During the construction, all time and cost plans were adhered to.
The then announced doubling of the trade fair turnover to six million euros by 2010 was exceeded in 2007 with over 7.9 million euros, in 2010 with 15 million euros. The indirect profitability for the Freiburg economy, trade and gastronomy that results from the trade fair industry has tripled to over 60 million euros per year during this time. The biggest events of the last ten years included the tour de France guest appearance in 2000, a Herbert Grönemeyer open air concert with 54,000 visitors, the visit of the 14th Dalai Lama and television shows ( Wetten, dass ..? , Candid Camera , Musician barn , ...) and the world Championships in indoor cycling in 2005 and in artistic roller skating. The number of occupancy days rose between 2005 and 2007 from around 220 to around 330.
As part of the Pope's visit to Germany in 2011 , Benedict XVI celebrated . on September 24, 2011, a prayer vigil with 28,000 young people at the exhibition center in Freiburg.
Location, traffic and infrastructure
The Freiburg Exhibition Center is located 2.5 km northwest of Freiburg's old town and in close proximity to the airport , the Freiburg freight yard and parts of the university , the university clinic and the northern industrial area. It is connected to the Breisgau S-Bahn ( Breisacher Bahn ) via the Freiburg Messe / University stop . In addition, since December 2015, line 4 of the Freiburg urban railway has been in operation . This line will be extended by two more stops to Madisonallee by 2020. 4,000 parking spaces are available for visitors with cars.
According to its own information, Messe Freiburg had four halls with an area between 2,400 m² and 4,800 m² with a total area of 21,500 m². There are also 11 conference rooms for up to 420 people, 14 rentable offices and service rooms and an outdoor area of around 80,000 m², which is used for folk festivals, open-air concerts and trade fair events and is available as a parking space. Three kiosks and a restaurant are available in the catering trade. As an event and concert hall, exhibition hall 4 has various spatial design options and a variable grandstand construction. A maximum of 9,000 standing places are available for concerts in hall four.
In 2006, Goldbeck Solar GmbH installed a photovoltaic system with an output of 254 kilowatt-peak (kWp) on the 6,500 square meter flat roof of exhibition hall 4 . Its 1,210 modules are expected to generate around 235,000 kilowatt hours of renewable electricity annually. Together with the solar roof on the first construction phase of the Freiburg Exhibition Center, built by SAG Solarstrom in Freiburg, around 650 kWp of electricity can be generated on the exhibition roof.
In continuation of Freiburg traditions, paving mosaics and a brook were created. The latter is now dry and covered with grids.
operator
The operator of the fair is Freiburg Wirtschaft Touristik und Messe GmbH & Co. KG (FWTM), which is wholly owned by the city of Freiburg . It was created in 2005 from the merger of Messe Freiburg and Freiburg Wirtschaft & Touristik GmbH & Co. KG (FWT). In addition to the trade fair, the FWTM in Freiburg also operates the Freiburg Concert Hall and various other event locations as well as business and tourism promotion. The managing directors of FWTM are Hanna Böhme and Daniel Strowitzki, the chairman of the supervisory board is Freiburg's Lord Mayor Martin Horn .
Events
Around 400,000 visitors come to the trade fairs and events of Messe Freiburg every year. Between 2002 and 2008 the annual events increased from 72 to over 100.
From the beginning, one of the pillars of economic success was the Intersolar trade fair , which moved from Pforzheim to Freiburg in 2000 thanks to the newly created infrastructure, until it moved to Munich due to its growing size under the leadership of FWTM and its partner Solar Promotion, where it is today is still organized from Freiburg. FWTM is now represented with Intersolar in the USA and India and the fair generates more than half of the sales of Messe Freiburg. In addition to Intersolar , the international trade fair Interbrush, the world's leading trade fair for the brush and paint brush industry, takes place in Freiburg every four years .
The exhibition and trade fair committee of the German economy (AUMA) attests to the Freiburg trade fair a national importance and an international charisma that extends far beyond the direct catchment area in the triangle with its nearly three million people.
In the area of in-house events , the trade fair is increasingly relying on special-interest fairs such as the gourmet fair Plaza Culinaria , the international culture exchange , the building and renovation fair building energy technology or the real estate fair IMMO . In the field of consumer fairs, there are also the traditional Baden fair, the CFT - camping, leisure and tourism, the automobile , the model making as well as two used car shows and numerous guest fairs. Twice a year, the Freiburg trade fair takes place on the open-air site as the largest folk festival in the region with up to 170,000 visitors. There are also various markets, circuses and congresses.
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literature
- Peter Lepold: Freiburg Fair: ... a stroll through its history. Promo-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1984
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manuel Armbruster: "Völkerschauen" around 1900 in Freiburg i. Br. - Colonial exoticism in a historical context . Freiburg 2011, p. 39 ff. ( PDF; 1.6 MB ).
- ↑ Joachim Röderer: Freiburg: Oberwiehre: three-course menu and Arabic rock: New Year's Eve party for refugees in the old town hall. Badische Zeitung, January 2, 2016, accessed on January 27, 2016 .
- ^ Monument Preservation Baden-Württemberg: Freiburg City Hall is a monument. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on March 10, 2015 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Old measuring station - projects . Website Melder & Binkert. Retrieved May 6, 2015.
- ↑ Sacker Architekten, Neue Messe Freiburg: Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ bz: Waldkirch: Exhibition hall 4 in Freiburg is now called the Sick Arena. Badische Zeitung, February 10, 2017, accessed on February 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Name sponsoring exhibition hall 4. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 18, 2016 ; Retrieved November 18, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ David Weigend: Pink on Rothaus. fudder.de, October 9, 2006, accessed November 20, 2016 .
- ↑ badische-zeitung.de: Freiburg: Photos: Youth vigil with Pope Benedict in Freiburg , September 24, 2011, accessed on October 12, 2011
- ↑ messe.freiburg.de: Overview of the various buildings and halls on the exhibition grounds (German, accessed on July 1, 2016)
- ↑ goldbeck.de: Reference Neue Messe Freiburg ( Memento from November 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ FWTM - Imprint. Retrieved August 16, 2018 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 56.7 " N , 7 ° 50 ′ 25.4" E