Hanover Congress Center

Aerial photo of the Hannover Congress Centrum in 2014

The Hanover Congress Centrum , abbreviated to HCC, is a congress and event center around the city ​​hall of the Lower Saxony state capital Hanover . The city hall with the domed hall is one of the most striking buildings in the city.

building

Frontal view of the HCC town hall

Side view of the town hall

The interior of the domed hall

City hall with Niedersachsenhalle (right) 1915

Frontal view of the Lower Saxony hall of the HCC

The Hannover Congress Centrum consists of these buildings, halls and halls, which are all connected to one another:

• Domed hall
• Leibnizsaal (formerly Beethovensaal)
• Eilenriedehalle
• Niedersachsenhalle
• Glass hall
• over 30 conference and seminar rooms
• Congress Hotel am Stadtpark

location

The HCC is located east of the city center in the Zoo district near the Eilenriede and the Eilenriedestadion . There it is located directly at the Hannover City Park with the Japanese tea garden and the rosarium. In terms of transport, the Hanover Congress Center is easily accessible via the Messeschnellweg as well as by tram and bus. The tram stop was equipped with a pagoda-shaped shelter by Óscar Tusquets Blanca as part of the art project BUSSTOPS .

Events

In addition to congress events as well as specialist and contact fairs, the HCC is a central location for large-scale events in a wide range of corporate sectors. Over 500 congresses and smaller trade fairs take place at the HCC every year. The dome hall is the largest concert hall in Lower Saxony with 3,600 seats. The CeBIT computer fair was also opened annually in the dome hall . The largest trade fairs include the gemstone fair NORD-GEM , the wedding days , the esoteric days , Northern Germany's largest hairdressing fair Beauty & Style , the health fair Hanover and Northern Germany's largest terrarium exchange, Terrarium Exchange Hanover .

history

The town hall was designed by the architects Paul Bonatz , Friedrich Eugen Scholer and Michael Kott and built between 1911–1914. It can be assigned to the style of neoclassicism . The dome is based on the Pantheon in Rome. During the air raids on Hanover during the Second World War , the town hall suffered considerable damage and was rebuilt in a modified form with the help of the original architect Bonatz. During the reconstruction there were deviations from the original construction in terms of the roof pitch and the height of the drum (see adjacent pictures). After the state of Lower Saxony was founded in 1946 and Hanover was designated as the state capital , the state parliament met from 1947 to the completion of the new parliament building in 1962 (the parliament moved to the Leineschloss, which was rebuilt and rebuilt after war damage ) in a side wing of the city hall of Hanover.

The domed hall was restored, renovated or modernized from summer 2015 to January 2016.

literature

• Wolfgang Neß : City Hall. In: Hans-Herbert Möller (Hrsg.): City of Hanover, Part 1. (= Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony , Volume 10.1.) Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 155ff .
  • Addendum Zoo In: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), as of July 1, 1985. City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p.
• Doris Appell-Kölmel: The Hannover City Hall. A building by Paul Bonatz and Friedrich Eugen Scholer in its architectural and urban history context . Schlütersche Publishing House, Hanover 1989.
• State capital Hanover (Ed.): 50 years city park. 1st Federal Garden Show 1951. Hanover 2001.
• Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Theodor-Heuss-Platz 1-3. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , pp. 203ff.
• Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Hanover - H. Congress Center (HCC). In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 254.
• Birte Rogacki-Thiemann: “The actual dome hall makes a tremendous impression ...” In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series , Volume 68. Wehrhahn-Verlag, Hannover 2014, ISBN 978-3-86525-438-2 , p. 3 -18.
• Sandhya Wilde-Gupta (Ed.), Sigrid Krings (Red.): 100 HCC Hannover Congress Centrum. 1914 to 2014. Impressions of a century. (Anniversary brochure with 30 pages) Hanover 2014.
• Jörg Friedrich, Annett Mickel-Lorenz, Christoph Borchers (eds.): Dome room dream. A philharmonic for Hanover. Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86859-341-9 .

Web links

Commons : Hannover Congress Centrum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Hannover Congress Center
• Interactive 360 ​​° panorama photo of the Hannover Congress Center and the surrounding area
• Hannover Congress Centrum: Niedersachsenhalle as a 3D model in SketchUp's 3D warehouse

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City wants to renovate the domed hall cheaply In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of June 4, 2010 .
2. ^ Waldemar Röhrbein: Hanover. Small city history. Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2015.
3. ↑ Brochure 100 HCC Hannover Congress Centrum
4. ↑ Dome hall shines in new splendor | Latest news and events | State capital Hanover | Press & Media | Service | Hannover.de | Home - hannover.de. In: www.hannover.de. Retrieved January 29, 2016 . 

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 33 ″  N , 9 ° 46 ′ 10 ″  E