Exhibition grounds (Berlin)

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Exhibition building with entrance hall on Hammarskjöldplatz on Masurenallee , the left wing is the former East Prussia Hall

The Exhibition Center (since 2011 Berlin Expo Center City called) is located in the Berlin district of Westend the district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf between the Masurenallee (opposite the House of Broadcasting ), the Messedamm , the Thuringian Avenue and Jafféstraße.

history

House of the radio industry at the Great German Radio Exhibition , 1924
The first automobile hall at the International Motor Show , 1928
View from the radio tower to the summer garden and the Mommsenstadion (left in the background), 1952

The first exhibition hall, completed in 1914 for automobile exhibitions, was located north of today's exhibition center on the parking lot between the central bus station and the S-Bahn ring . However, because of the First World War, it was not opened until the German Motor Show on September 23, 1921. The next day the first car race took place on the nearby AVUS . Another exhibition hall was built in 1924 based on plans by Jean Krämer and Johann Emil Schaudt on the site of the bus station. The present area has been the Berlin trade fair location since 1924, as the wooden "Haus der Funkindustrie" (also called "Funkhalle", not to be confused with the later-built Haus des Rundfunks ) west of the Messedamm on the site of today's Hall 14 for the first Great German Radio exhibition was opened. The architect was Heinrich Straumer , who was also responsible for equipping the neighboring radio tower . The name of the exhibition halls on the Kaiserdamm , established by the first two halls, only gradually gave way to the now common name of the exhibition halls on the radio tower . In a major fire in 1935, the building of the radio industry burned down and severely damaged the radio tower. The other two halls north of Masurenallee were destroyed by bombs in World War II. The basic framework of today's exhibition center, designed by the architect Richard Ermisch , was built in 1937 along Masurenallee and Messedamm with the distinctive entrance building on Hammarskjöldplatz .

The interior of the site, known as the “summer garden”, in the form of a stadium-like green area, was also created during the redesign in the mid-1930s.

From 1954 to 1969 the Federal Assembly elected the German Federal President in the East Prussian Hall on the exhibition grounds (today: Hall 18) .

Current condition

Looping, 1992, large sculpture by Ursula Sax on the exhibition grounds
South entrance to the Berlin exhibition center during IFA 2003

There are 26 exhibition halls with around 180,000 m² of hall space on the exhibition grounds. The total area including the new transfers on Jafféstraße from 1997 comprises around 550,000 m².

The halls are connected to one another and it is possible to combine several halls for certain events - depending on the size. A flexible guidance system offers the visitor orientation when visiting the fair.

The buildings dating from the 1930s and 1950s are listed buildings .

There is a siding on the open-air site that is connected to the public rail network. Rail vehicles can be presented on it without having to bring them onto the site by truck.

expansion

In January 2017, the supervisory board of the exhibition company decided to build a new exhibition hall. The hall should have over 10,000 m² of column-free event space and outside of large trade fairs it should also be able to be used for conferences. It will be numbered 27 and appropriately named hub27 . In addition to the main hall, it will also have its own entrance foyer and two levels above with 20 conference rooms. A 200 m² roof terrace will be built on the roof. The hall is to be connected to the existing Halls 1 and 25 via two new connecting corridors.

The construction of the hall is necessary in order to be able to renovate older halls without reducing the capacity of the site. Following the modernization, the hall will permanently increase the capacity of the fair.

Events

The most important major Berlin trade fairs on the exhibition grounds are:

Formerly important trade fairs were:

Transport links

Railway tunnel between the exhibition grounds and the connecting curve to the Ringbahn freight line

The exhibition grounds can be reached by S-Bahn via the Messe Süd ( Eichkamp ) or Messe Nord / ICC ( Neue Kantstrasse ) stations, and by underground from the Kaiserdamm and Theodor-Heuss-Platz stations . In addition, several drive buses of BVG exhibition grounds. A total of 12,000 parking spaces are available, which are connected to the radio tower triangle ( A 100 and A 115 ). The parking lot in front of the Olympic Stadium can be used for major trade fairs , from which shuttle buses run to the exhibition center.

Neighboring locations

The exhibition grounds are connected to the International Congress Center (ICC) by a bridge. Thus, let congresses and fairs together combine . However, the ICC is currently closed and its future has not yet been clarified. The radio tower is also located on the exhibition grounds , to the south of which was the Deutschlandhalle , which had to make way for the CityCube Berlin .

South of Berlin, in Selchow - directly attached to the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport - with the Berlin ExpoCenter Airport (accordingly the exhibition center is then called Berlin ExpoCenter City ), a second exhibition center with 20,000 m² of indoor and 129,000 m² of open-air space opened in 2012 at trade fairs in the aerospace industry (such as the ILA ).

Movies

  • Mysterious places. The exhibition grounds at the radio tower. In: RBB -Fernsehen, shown on September 10, 2019, 8:15 p.m., 45 min, Germany 2019 (history of the buildings and trade fair events).

Web links

Commons : Messegelände Berlin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Messe Berlin - Facts. In: messe-berlin.de. Retrieved January 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Leaflet: Stand structures in the outdoor area. (PDF) Messe Berlin GmbH, January 2015, accessed on January 17, 2017 .
  3. ↑ hub27 Berlin. Retrieved July 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ The trade fair supervisory board decides to build a new hall (January 13, 2017). In: messe-berlin.de. Archived from the original on January 17, 2017 ; accessed on January 17, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Kasupke says how it is . In: Berliner Morgenpost , August 28, 2011
  6. ↑ Completely unnecessary renaming . In: Berliner Morgenpost , August 25, 2011
  7. ↑ The ILA treats itself to a new exhibition center . Welt Online , August 18, 2011

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 14 ″  N , 13 ° 16 ′ 24 ″  E