Mannheimer Rosengarten
The Mannheim Rosengarten ( official name: m: con Congress Center Rosengarten ) is a convention and conference center in the inner city of Mannheim.
History
The building was built in 1900-1903 after a design by the architect Bruno Schmitz by the company Joseph Hoffmann & Sons as urban festival hall in the Art Nouveau style. The Nibelungensaal was with a capacity of 6,000 seats and one of the largest halls in Germany. Wendelin Weißheimer writes 1904 thrilled with his " huge success " in the " big building ". The rose garden is located on the north side of the Art Nouveau plant Friedrich square opposite the Mannheim landmark, the water tower. With its characteristic roof made of green glazed clay tiles of the rose garden dominates the cityscape as an important landmark. During the Second World War, the rose garden was badly damaged. The historic front end with the Musensaal was externally restored. Instead of not rebuilt Nibelungen hall was built behind the old building in 1974 a modern new building designed by the architect Karl Mannheim Schmucker, in which the Mozart Hall is, since the largest hall. In 2006 /07 the building according to the plans of Andrew Schmucker, son of Charles Schmucker was widened significantly. The back to the part of the building from 1974 has been transformed so that the total area nearly doubled.
Use
The rose garden is from the m: con - mannheim: congress GmbH operated, which is owned 100 per cent of the city of Mannheim.
Events such as the Annual General Meeting of the German Association of Cities, in general shareholder meetings of companies including BASF, MLP, party conventions, and large medical conferences such as the Annual Meeting of the German Society of Cardiology have contributed to the m: con Congress Center Rosengarten, one of the most successful congress centers in Germany is. According to a ranking of the magazine " HV Magazine " (November 2006) it is the leading conference center for general meetings in Baden- Württemberg. Medical and scientific conferences will also take place in large numbers, for example, the "Neuro Week ", organized by the German Society of Neurology. Nationwide, the Mannheim house is according to the convention centers in Frankfurt, Berlin and Hamburg in fourth place for international and national congresses. In addition to conferences and annual general meetings to concerts, held fundraisers and gala evenings in the Rosengarten Mannheim. The Mozart Hall at the Rose Garden is the venue for the traditional National Theater Orchestra of the Musical Academy in Mannheim. The various ensembles of the SWR hold there own concert series. The Mozart Hall is also used by the great symphony orchestras of the world as a guest venue. The State Philharmonic of the Rhineland -Palatinate, however, leads her Mannheim concert series primarily at Musensaal.
Space
The Mozart Hall can accommodate up to 2,300 people. The Hall of the Muses in the historic old building can accommodate up to 1,360 visitors, the next Stamitzsaal about 250 people. The wooden farmhouse room in the underground Vario Hall is arbitrarily divisible and can accommodate up to 900 people. Directly connected to the building are three parking garages with a total capacity of 1,400 parking spaces: Rose Garden underground parking ( 700 parking spaces ), Water Tower parking garage (450) and Dorint underground parking (250).
Extension 2006/2007
In essence, the expansion created according to the plans of the Mannheim architect Andres Schmucker a glass cube. It includes two new page foyers, ten additional seminar rooms, an auditorium for 500 people, four multi-purpose rooms and twelve new conference rooms. To this end, a floor was placed on the foyer to the 1974 built the Mozart Hall. In the Mozart hall itself was nothing attached. The total height of the building is now 23 meters. On both sides of the building enlarged to a length of 65 meters by 15 per meter in width. Overall, the m: con Congress Center Rosengarten since the expansion of 44 rooms with a total area of 22,000 square meters. Up to 9,000 participants per conference can in the m: con Congress Center Rosengarten days. In order to bring these comfortable in their meeting and work shop areas, escalators have been incorporated into the house. m: con invested a total of 53 million euros for the construction project. Of the total investment accounted for 40 million euros to the pure construction project, ten million euros were invested in technical equipment.