Windhoek Show Grounds
The Windhoek Show Grounds (in German about Windhoeker exhibition grounds ) is the public trade fair and exhibition grounds in Windhoek , the capital of Namibia . Established in 1934, the site is managed by the Windhoek Show Society and has been owned by the Windhoek Show Society since 1966. It covers a total area of 26 hectares. It also organizes the largest trade fair in the country, the Windhoek Show .
The exhibition center is centrally located in Windhoek, south of downtown Central on the edge of the southern industrial area near Maerua Mall . The pure exhibition grounds cover an area of over 100,000 square meters (m²). There are also parking spaces of around 50,000 m².
Construction of the exhibition center
The exhibition center has indoor and outdoor areas with Krälen . There are four entrances to the exhibition grounds, of which the " Nedbank Entrance" and the " Bank Windhoek Entrance" are the main entrances.
The site has 13 halls, including
- Hall A (“Baobab”) - 900 m²
- Main Hall M (“Galpini”) - 930 m²
- President Hall ("Camelthorn") with an exhibition area of 1450 m² - ground floor (850 m²) and gallery floor (600 m²)
- Gourmet Hall (“Maerua”) - 1620 m²
- Culinary Hall ("Mopane") - 792 m²
- Hall B ("Makalani")
- Gondwana Hall
The outside areas with the agricultural crows in the north and the “Nedbank Harambee Village” are more than 30,000 m² in size. A large number of free public parking spaces are available at the main entrance (north-west) on Bell Strasse.
Regular events
- Windhoek Show (here since 1934; founded in 1899) - annually
- Namibia Tourism Expo (since 1999) - annually
- Games of the inline hockey team the Badgers - several times a year
- Boeremark ; once a month farmers market
- agricultural auctions
Web links
- Map of the exhibition grounds (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Calculation of the area with Google Earth with the help of GE-Path or with Google Earth Pro, May 10, 2013
Coordinates: 22 ° 34 ′ 57 ″ S , 17 ° 5 ′ 20 ″ E