After twenty years, the site in Riem is finished 614 000 square meters now. But how big is it actually? How often is the Allianz Arena would fit in? The City Hall? And the Milchhäusl?
Pia Ratzesberger Pia Ratzesberger
the study of Economics, politics and Intercultural communication in Erlangen, Bologna and Munich. Scholarship holder at the Institute to promote journalistic talent (Ifp). Traineeship at the SZ with stops in Berlin and Brussels.
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follow The first major exhibition in Munich was held on the Theresienhöhe, in the sixties. There are photos of men with flat caps along marvel vehicles with open Seats and stroll to rocket, particularly fascinated the audience was the so-called circular-building cinema. That should convince the visitors that they can travel just by train – a great Experiment, said the inventor at the time, because you could not exclude the possibility that the a or other guest poorly. The mirror wrote about the show: “Total fun”.
this year, the International transport exhibition in 1965, the Munich-based trade fair for the first Time beyond the borders of the country, in addition to the attention, and now another historic day. On the site in the East of the town and the Conference Center is North, upstream of the two halls will be dedicated on Thursday, the two new halls C5 and C6. What is crucial is that there are two new halls as you the site of the Munich trade fair is now finally finished, just as twenty years ago, devised.
in 1998 moved the company from “Theresienhöhe” to the site, according to Riem, where the Munich airport was the first location had reached its limits, there could not have been more build. So it is now with the center in Riem, the fair no longer will be able to grow.
The two new halls make 20 000 square meters, there are a total of 18 halls with about 200 000 square meters, and out again 414 000 square feet of open space. The site of the fair is now larger than the animal Park Hellabrunn and is about 16 Times as large as the Allianz Arena. The Milchhäusl the English garden would even fit 12 531 Times on the surface.
If next year’s Bauma, the international trade fair for construction machinery, which is the largest Bauma, which has organized the fair ever. In the past years, the fair had to always back companies reject, would like to have issued because there was no room on, but that should change. The new halls to build, took almost two years and 105 million Euro cost. The sum you have to be able to pay, it is, in the Messe München, the shareholders, among other things, the city of Munich and the free state of Bavaria. On Thursday, the site is dedicated, rockets, and around the cinema is not there then probably, but fun to have, Messe München GmbH are probably the same, if you can conclude, what has lasted two decades.
