Výstaviště Praha

Vıstaviště Praha is an exhibition site, which lies on the line C in the seventh district of Prague not far from the station Holešovice the Prague Metro. The area serves as a venue for exhibitions, concerts and other cultural events. In the immediate vicinity there is a park, which is known under the name of the people of Prague Stromovka and in the spring carnival is organized Matejska pout.

History

The exhibition grounds in Holešovice originated in 1891 at the Prague Jubilee Exhibition of 1891 ( Jubilejní Zemská výstava ), from whose occasion also the observation tower Petrin, the Petrin funicular, the Letna funicular and finally with Electric Railways of Belvedere and the first electrified railway in the Czech lands emerged. Center of the exhibition area is the built in neo-baroque style Průmyslový palác. This was designed by the architect Bedřich Münzberger and František Prášil and was opened on 15 March 1891. The building was at that time at a cost of 500,000 gold coins the most expensive buildings on the site. The construction was under the První Českomoravská strojírna piston Danek in cooperation with the construction company of the architect František viska and took despite poor weather conditions just five months. The iron structure of the building had a weight of 800 tons, the iron girders sticking up in the height of 38 meters up. The building it was one of resulting in the Czech lands in iron girder design buildings. Architecturally, the building completes the Výstavní třída, where you will also Veletržní is palác. Among the attractions of the area included the electrically illuminated Křižíkova fontána, which was renewed in the 1990s. During the exhibition, between May 15 and October 18, 1891 2.5 million visitors visited the site.

In the communist era, the area in honor of Julius Fučík in na was " Park kultury a oddechu Fučíka Julia " renamed and the Průmyslový palác was called " Sjezdový palác ".

Currently ( 2008) the exhibition area has an area of ​​36 hectares The property is leased from the city of Prague in the long term to the Company Incheba Praha.

Fire

On the evening of 16 October 2008 broke the left wing of Průmyslový palác a fire out. The part of the building was completely destroyed by the flames. The use of the fire department was able to prevent it from spreading to the middle wing and the rest of the complex. The cause of the fire is the subject of speculation and investigation.