Tower forum

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Tower of Stuttgart Central Station

An exhibition in the tower of Stuttgart's main train station that promoted the Stuttgart 21 project and the new Wendlingen – Ulm line was designated as the tower forum .

The exhibition opened on June 16, 1998. By September 2012 2.8 million visitors were counted. According to the company, the exhibition has more than 15,000 visitors a month (as of November 2012).

The tower forum closed on July 28, 2019. In the 21-year period of operation, more than 4.3 million visited the exhibition. A follow-up exhibition called InfoTurmStuttgart should be opened in spring 2020 . Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany , the opening was initially postponed indefinitely and finally took place at the end of May 2020.

construction

The exhibition is divided into different subject areas and uses levels 3, 5, 6 and 7 of the 56 m high station tower. A bistro was available on level 8 and a conference room on level 9. There was a viewing platform at the top of the tower.

Entry was free.

history

background

In 1944 the station tower burned down after a bombardment and was provisionally restored after the Second World War . It served gastronomic purposes and as a viewing platform. Before the opening of the tower forum, the tower was open to the public for the last time in 1984. It was closed after a suicidal woman jumped from the observation deck. From the mid-1980s, various offices of Deutsche Bahn and other companies were housed in the tower.

planning

At the end of December 1996, plans became known to open a pavilion in the large counter hall of Stuttgart's main train station as well as its station tower to advertise Stuttgart 21. An official decision was expected by the end of January 1997. On January 13, 1997, railway boss Heinz Dürr and Stuttgart's Lord Mayor Wolfgang Schuster agreed to implement the concept.

At the end of February 1997, the opening of the exhibition in the station tower was planned for the second half of 1997. In the meantime, DB and the city wanted to set up an association as a common platform for Stuttgart 21's public relations work. Some of the planned renovations, including a two-story glass structure and changes to the facade (for more daylight and advertising), did not meet with the approval of the city's conservationists. The opening date was postponed from autumn 1997 to the end of 1997.

On June 24, 1997, the Environment and Technology Committee of the Stuttgart City Council approved the establishment of the information center, which, according to plans at the time, was to open in early 1998. The concept was finalized at the end of August 1997. The opening was expected in March 1998. The glass structure had meanwhile been discarded as was the planned pavilion in the large counter hall. The implementation was supervised by the Forum Stuttgart 21 association , which DB and the city had founded. In early 1998, the opening was expected on May 21, 1998.

The station tower was renovated and rebuilt for 2.5 million DM for the exhibition. The exhibition cost another 1.5 million DM. While Deutsche Bahn AG bore the cost of the station tower alone, the exhibition was financed jointly by DB AG and the city. The operating costs, which were initially estimated at DM 800,000 per year, were also divided. In addition to an exhibition manager and two permanent employees, the Turmforum employed students who had previously supervised various Stuttgart 21 exhibitions.

opening

An opening ceremony with a speech planned for June 15, 1998 was canceled after the ICE accident in Eschede . The exhibition was open to the public from June 16, 1998 and was initially open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The bistro had its own opening times. A conference room set up in the tower could hold up to 80 people and was rented for DM 480 per day. Initially, three exhibition levels and a so-called Bistro 21 were offered.

Further development

At the beginning of October 1998 the 100,000. Visitor welcomed. Around 200,000 visitors were counted in the first nine months.

Until the beginning of January 1999, a special exhibition on the discussion about the Stuttgart main train station, which opened in 1927, was shown under the title The Long Way to Bonatz Train Station.

Up to November 2010, 2.4 million visitors were counted (up to the end of 2007: around two million visitors). According to information from Deutsche Bahn, around 20,000 visitors a month were counted in mid-2012. The city of Stuttgart contributes 300,000 euros per year to the financing. That corresponds to a third of the cost of the tower forum. In 2007, too, total costs of around 900,000 euros were stated, which the railway and the city would share in a ratio of two to one.

The exhibition was completely redesigned in the first quarter of 2013 and opened on March 14, 2013. Up to then 2.8 million visitors had been counted. The redesign of the exhibition cost 639,000 euros.

The exhibition was visited by more than 230,000 visitors in 2014.

In 2015, 245,000 visitors and 859 guided tours were counted in the Tower Forum and 468 on the construction sites.

The budget of the Bahnprojekt-Verein, which also runs the Turmforum, was funded in 2015 from funds from Deutsche Bahn (2.5 million euros), the state (600,000 euros), the city of Stuttgart (300,000 euros), the city of Ulm and Stuttgart Airport upset. The city of Stuttgart is contributing 300,000 euros each to the financing of the tower forum in 2016 and 2017. A viewing platform into which an exhibition will be integrated is being considered.

InfoTurm Stuttgart

The tower forum should remain at its location until at least 2017, before another location should be found due to the renovation work on the Bonatz building. Consideration was given to relocating the tower forum to an area of ​​the Landesbank LBBW during the tower renovation. In May 2018, considerations became known to relocate the exhibition to a new container building on the edge of the construction site of the main train station (at platform 16). The exhibition should cover around 500 square meters there. The new exhibition was originally supposed to go into operation at the end of 2019 and was called InfoTurm Stuttgart (ITS). A postponement of the opening to the end of March 2020 was also not possible due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The opening of the exhibition has been postponed indefinitely.

The new exhibition cost around 3.4 million euros.

After the opening, the operators expect an initial 20,000 visitors per month.

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ reference. ZDB -ID 2569219-7 , issue 2/2012, p. 32.
  3. ↑ Something is happening in the Stuttgart station tower. In: reference. ZDB -ID 2663557-4 , issue 3/2012, p. 30 ( bahnprojekt-stuttgart-ulm.de PDF; 2.1 MB).
  4. ↑ a b We're getting a new home! In: s21erleben.de. Archived from the original on July 28, 2019 ; accessed on July 28, 2019 .
  5. ↑ S-21 Tower Forum closes on Sunday . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . No. 172 , July 27, 2019, p. 20 (among other titles online ).
  6. ↑ a b c d Future meets present . In: Bahnprojekt Stuttgart – Ulm e. V. (Ed.): Reference . No. April 28 , 2020, ZDB -ID 2663557-4 , p. 18-22 ( PDF ).
  7. ^ Stuttgart 21st exhibition opens at a new location . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten of May 27, 2020
  8. ↑ a b Tower forum is being expanded. In: Esslinger Zeitung. December 31, 2007.
  9. ↑ a b Bahnhofsturm - 365 steps to the platform. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . June 11, 1997, p. 21.
  10. ↑ a b c Achim Wörner: From the station tower a new view of the city. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . June 16, 1998, p. 19.
  11. ↑ Planned view of Stuttgart 21 from the station tower. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . December 28, 1996.
  12. ↑ OB Schuster presents the main points of his work. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . January 14, 1997, p. 17.
  13. ↑ The city ​​breaks new ground with the Stuttgart 21 urban development project. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . February 22, 1997, p. 25.
  14. ↑ The station tower as an information center - concerns about the glass structure. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . June 10, 1997, p. 19.
  15. ↑ Achim Wörner: Monument Office President Planck confirms StZ report: "The Bonatz train station must not be trimmed". In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . June 25, 1997, p. 19.
  16. ↑ Concept for the Stuttgart 21 information center is available. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . August 27, 1997, p. 17.
  17. ↑ Thomas Durchdenwald: Stuttgart from a bird's eye view . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , January 12, 1998, p. 17.
  18. ↑ Heike Jünemann, boss in the station tower. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . June 19, 1998, p. 24.
  19. ↑ After the ICE accident in Eschede - No celebration in the new station tower. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . June 12, 1998, p. 19.
  20. ↑ a b column 5. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . October 10, 1998, p. 26.
  21. ↑ +++ 200,000 visitors in the tower forum +++ . In: Stuttgart 21. The project magazine . Spring 1999 edition, 1st edition, March 1999, ZDB -ID 1500833-2 , p. 8.
  22. ↑ The long way to the Bonatz train station. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . December 3, 1998, p. 26.
  23. ^ Bahnprojekt Stuttgart-Ulm eV: Turmforum attracts many visitors to the main station. Press release from November 24, 2010.
  24. ^ Michael Isenberg: New Stuttgart 21 advertising for 25 million euros. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . No. 194, August 22, 2012, p. 17. (similar version stuttgarter-nachrichten.de ).
  25. ^ Railway chief Rüdiger Grube in the tower forum . In: Bahnprojekt Stuttgart – Ulm e. V. (Ed.): Reference . No. 5 , 2013, ZDB -ID 2663557-4 , p. 21 .
  26. ^ Konstantin Schwarz: City pays 100,000 euros for S-21 tower forum . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . No. 256 , November 5, 2013, p. 16 .
  27. ↑ Thomas Durchdenwald: S-21 association promises more transparency . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . No. 49 , February 28, 2015, p. 1 ( online ).
  28. ^ Tilman Baur: Railway project: Overrun by inquiries . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . No. 301 , December 30, 2015, p. 17 .
  29. ↑ a b Andreas Böhme: Suddenly pretty close friends . In: Südwest Presse . December 30, 2015, ZDB -ID 1360527-6 , p. 6 ( swp.de ).
  30. ^ Josef Schunder: City of Stuttgart co-finances Turmforum . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . April 28, 2016, p. 20 .
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  32. ↑ Christian Milankovic: “Not every sack of cement is our problem” . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . tape 72 , November 19, 2016, p. 24 ( online ).
  33. ↑ Christian Milankovic: S-21 exhibition should move to the construction site . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . tape 74 , May 22, 2018, p. 18 ( online ).
  34. ↑ 3.4 million for the new S-21 show . stuttgarter-zeitung.de, November 2, 2018.
  35. ↑ New S-21 show not before the end of April . Stuttgarter Zeitung (online) from March 26, 2020