Karlsruhe Congress Center

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The Karlsruhe Congress Center is the largest inner-city congress center in Germany and is operated by the Karlsruhe Messe- und Kongress GmbH . It is located in walking distance of the main train station and comprises around 20,000 m² of exhibition space in four halls, which are arranged around the 10,000 m² fairground .

Until the opening of the Karlsruhe Exhibition Center in 2003, the congress center was also used to hold trade and public exhibitions . The large regional trade fair Offerta and Learntec took place here. In 1980 the founding party convention of the Greens was held in the town hall.

The congress center consists of the town hall, the concert hall, the Black Forest hall and the garden hall. The heart of the congress center, the town hall, has been under renovation since mid-2017 and is closed. The Nancyhalle is no longer part of the congress center.

building

City Hall

City Hall

The town hall has 5 event halls for 4,000 people, 5 conference rooms as well as 17 seminar rooms and 3 foyers with a total of 6,000 m². The listed pillared vestibule was taken over from the previous building originally built in 1915 by Robert Curjel and Karl Moser as an exhibition hall. Today's town hall, built as a house within a house according to plans by Herman Rotermund and Christine Rotermund-Lehmbruck , was opened in 1985.

Concert hall

Concert hall

The neoclassical concert hall was built between 1913 and 1915 according to plans by the architects Robert Curjel and Karl Moser. The listed hall has a large and a small hall as well as three seminar rooms and two foyers.

The column portico , which was destroyed in World War II, was not restored until 1993/94. Since 1996, a concert scene by Stephan Balkenhol with six musicians made of glazed ceramic has replaced the relief Birth of Venus originally placed in the pediment . After the destruction of the theater at Schlossplatz in 1944 and until the opening of the new building at Ettlinger Tor in 1975, the concert hall served as a provisional venue for the Baden State Theater .

Black Forest Hall

Black Forest Hall

The listed Black Forest Hall was designed by Erich Schelling and Ulrich Finsterwalder and opened on August 19, 1953 after only six months of construction. The cantilevered suspended roof of the hall is remarkable, consisting of a six centimeter thick, prestressed concrete shell, which was built for the first time in such a size and received worldwide attention. Inside there is 2,575 m² of column-free exhibition space, alternatively there is space for up to 3,500 people. The Black Forest Hall is connected to the Garden Hall.

Garden hall

Garden hall

The garden hall has an area of ​​5,000 m², a ceiling height of up to 10 meters and a very high floor load capacity, which makes it suitable for exhibitions of heavy machinery. It was opened in 1990 on the site of a previous building and is therefore the newest hall in the congress center. The listed chimney of an old thermal power station is integrated into the building.

literature

  • Ulrike Plate: wafer-thin tension. The Black Forest Hall at the Karlsruhe fairground. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg , 32nd year 2003, issue 2, p. 184 ( PDF )

Web links

Commons : Congress Center Karlsruhe  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ messe-karlsruhe.de , accessed on January 24, 2016.
  2. ^ Karlsruher Messe- und Kongress-GmbH - City Hall . Website of the Karlsruher Messe- und Kongress-GmbH, accessed on January 24, 2016.
  3. ↑ History: The new town hall opened 25 years ago. In: Stadtzeitung Karlsruhe from August 27, 2010, accessed on February 7, 2014.
  4. ↑ Kulturdenkmale Südweststadt, Festplatz 9 , accessed on February 7, 2014
  5. ^ Karlsruher Messe- und Kongress-GmbH - Konzerthaus . Retrieved January 24, 2016.
  6. ^ Helmuth Bischoff: Karlsruhe. DuMont Reiseverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7701-6505-6 , p. 79.
  7. ↑ Concert hall in new splendor. In: Focus No. 26 of June 24, 1996.
  8. ^ History of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe , accessed on February 7, 2014
  9. ^ Karlsruhe: City Chronicle . Website of the city of Karlsruhe, as of March 6, 2013, accessed on February 7, 2014.
  10. ↑ Clemens Kieser: Black Forest Hall - A masterpiece of architecture and engineering in the post-war period . Website of the city of Karlsruhe, as of October 2, 2012, accessed on February 7, 2014.
  11. ^ Karlsruher Messe- und Kongress-GmbH - Black Forest Hall . Retrieved January 24, 2016.
  12. ^ Karlsruher Messe- und Kongress-GmbH - garden hall . Retrieved January 24, 2016.
  13. ↑ Stadtchronik Karlsruhe , accessed on May 17, 2011

Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 9.7 "  N , 8 ° 24 ′ 4.5"  E