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Venue Name: Leipziger Messe
Category: Venue
Location: Leipziger Messe GmbH, Messe-Allee 1, 04356 Leipzig, Germany
Phone: +49 341 678 0
Email: info[at]leipziger-messe.de
www: www.leipziger-messe.de
Timings: 09:00 AM – 17:00 PM
Leipziger Messe: Overview
The Leipzig Trade Fair (German: Leipziger Messe) is a major trade fair, which traces its roots back for nearly a millennium. After the Second World War, Leipzig fell within the territory of East Germany, whereupon the Leipzig Trade Fair became one of the most important trade fairs of Comecon and was traditionally a meeting place for businessmen and politicians from both sides of the Iron Curtain. Since 1996, the fair has taken place on the Leipzig fairgrounds, located about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north of the city centre.
In 1996, a new trade fair ground was opened. The Congress Center Leipzig was also opened, built after designs by Gerkan, Marg and Partners. The old trade fair ground is used for shops, events, supermarkets, and figure skating events, although many areas are empty and unused. Today, the most important fairs are the Leipziger Buchmesse, and the Auto Mobil International.
The new Leipzig Trade Fair was built between 1995 and April 1996. The new fairground consists of six halls: five exhibition halls, which have a size of 20,000 square metres (220,000 sq ft), and the world’s largest levitated glass hall, designed by Ian Ritchie Architects. The fairground has about 14,000 parking spaces and is accessible by tram, train, bus, or car.
Fairgrounds:
Around 40 trade fairs, 100 congresses and other events with a total of 10,000 exhibitors and 1.3 million visitors are currently held at the Leipzig Exhibition Center every year.
272,300 m² of the almost 99 hectares available at the New Leipzig Trade Fair Center have been developed. In the center of the exhibition center is a 19,446 m² glass hall, to which five exhibition halls and a congress center ( Congress Center Leipzig – CCL) are connected via tubes. The halls and the congress center are directly connected to each other by passageways.
Glass Hall:
The New Exhibition Center at night
The glass hall of the Leipzig Trade Fair is 238 meters long, 80 meters wide and 30 meters high. It was a collaboration between architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners and architect Ian Ritchie. The steel and glass arch construction is compared to Joseph Paxton’s “Crystal Palace” for the 1st World Exhibition in London in 1851. The glass hall of the new exhibition center received the Outstanding Structure Award from the IABSE in 2000. The glass hall is used for logistics and accompanying and reporting events during trade fairs, for example for publicly accessible television studios and talk shows. However, it can also be used without the adjoining exhibition halls for general events with up to 4500 people.
Exhibition Spaces:
Each of the five exhibition halls has a floor space of 20,500 m² that can be used for trade fairs and exhibitions. Together with the usable 70,000 m² of the outdoor exhibition area and the usable 5,900 m² in the glass hall, this results in a usable total area of 178,400 m² for trade fairs and exhibitions. The part of the open-air site that cannot be used for exhibitions has been partially developed as a park and lake landscape and is intended for deliveries, logistics or parking spaces.
Convention Center:
The CCL Congress Center has a floor area of 8337 m²; A total of 21 rooms (including 5 halls) offer space for almost 3900 people. Rooms in the adjoining exhibition center (7 rooms, up to 1112 people) are also available for congresses. For very large congresses, the glass hall (4,500 people) and exhibition halls 1 and 2 (10,000 people each) can also be used. The (theoretical) total capacity for large congresses is almost 30,000 people.
HALL:ONE
Exhibition hall 1 can be used for major events (such as rock concerts), which allows several partial events to be held at the same time via an extendable and detachable grandstand system and offers space for up to 15,000 people. Exhibition Hall 1 is marketed for major events under the HALLE:EINS label.
