City Convention Bureaus

Braunschweig

Braunschweig - international Convention Center
Location in Germany: lower saxony
Population: 240,000

Braunschweig - a congress city with perfect conditions

A huge variety of internationally renowned research institutions, universities and research institutes, excellent traffic accessibility as well as a high standard of living combined with a large cultural offer and a relaxing but at the same time lively city centre make Braunschweig an ideal congress city. As a large city Braunschweig fulfils all wishes and qualifications for a conference location. Short distances and a nice atmosphere supply a compact framework to insure that conference participants don't loose sight of each other. The broad spectrum of high quality conference and event locations is the perfect qualification for a successful event - for small as well as for large groups.

Traffic links
Braunschweig's central location in Germany makes it easily accessible by rail, road or air. There are frequent ICE (InterCity Express) train services operated by the Deutsche Bahn AG, or use the motorway (A 2, A 7 and A 39). Braunschweig's regional airports together with Hannover’s international airport close by are further optimal links. Tram and bus services are available across the entire city.

Accomodation
Braunschweig offers a wide range of accommodation, whether you are just passing through, planning a weekend break, or are looking for somewhere to stay while on a business trip to Henry the Lion's city. You can choose from a large variety of accommodation, from guest houses to well-know hotel groups such as penta hotel, Mercure or Mövenpick.

Hotel category	number of hotels	number of beds
First Class	6	1.235
Komfort	7	634
Standard	31	1.200
Hotels/Pensions with more than 1.500 Beds are also available

A selection of conference venues in Braunschweig

 

Facilities	Space m²	Seating capacity/arrangement
		Row	Conference		Banquet
Stadthalle Braunschweig
Main Hall	1,500	2,300 pers.	800 pers.		1,200 pers.
Congress Hall	400	500 pers.	220 pers.		260 pers.
Conference Room I	140	150 pers.	80 pers.		80 pers.
Conference Room II	100	110 pers.	50 pers.		60 pers.
Foyer areas: 2,500 m² / Exhibition area up to 5,000 m²
Additional rooms and room combinations for from 5 to 60 people possible
Volkswagen Halle Braunschweig
Arena	2,200	6,600 pers.	-.		1,800 pers.
Business-Foyer	500	400 pers.	-		300 pers.
Restaurant	360	250 pers.	-		250 pers.
Fürst-Lounge	190	120 pers.	-		90 pers.
Total Standing Capacity Arena: 8,000 Pers. / Max. exhibition area: 5,000 m² / 15 performers ´cloakrooms 15-50 m²
Haus der Wissenschaft
Veolia	95	50 pers.		34 pers.	-
Weitblick	50	40 pers.		24 pers.	-
Lecture hall (Veolia + Weitblick)	145	90-100 pers.		50 pers.	-
Assembly hall	200	200 pers.		-	-
Jakob-Kemenate
Room 1 (OG)	65	75 pers.		40 pers.	24 pers.
Room 2 (UG)	58	60 pers.		40 pers.	24 pers.
Hilde 27
Eventroom	260	280 pers.		200 pers.	180 pers.

Service

Braunschweig Stadtmarketing GmbH with its Convention Bureau Braunschweig offers a competent service from the original idea to a detailed preparation and organisation right through to the professional execution of the supporting programme. Together with its partners, the Convention Bureau supplies a package deal for every conference or event organiser and helps with much enthusiasm, team spirit, creativity and unusual ideas to ensure that each event will be a very special experience.

Our Services

Location
- Competent advice about the various event possibilities in and around Braunschweig
- Preparation of an individual offer
- Organisation of site inspections
- Arrangement of additional services (technical supplies, furnishings, etc.)
Hotel allocation und room reservation
- Placement of hotel and room allocations
- Booking service by telephone, written form or via Internet
- Organisation of site inspections
Hostess and Interpreter Services
- Placement of Hostesses
- Placement of interpreters and translators
Supporting programmes
- Individual suggestions and project management
- Booking and processing
- Booking of artists and entertainers
Transfer Services
- Organisation of shuttle services and train tickets
Catering Service
- Arrangement of catering services
Information Material
- Consignment of information material
- Supply of information folders for the congress participants on site
- Support of promotion and acquisition acts

Sciences, Art and Culture – City of Clever Minds

Braunschweig with its approximately 247.000 inhabitants is the biggest city in the area between Hanover and Berlin and the centre of the region Eastern Lower Saxony. Braunschweig’s history is closely linked with that of the Guelphs.  As the residence of the Guelph Duke, Henry the Lion, and later Emperor’s City under Otto IV., Braunschweig became one of the most powerful centres of commerce in the Middle Ages. Besides Dankwarderode Castle, St. Blasii Cathedral and the picturesque half-timbered buildings around St. Magni Church, it is the Lion Statue, still the heraldic animal of the city today, that reminds us of the Lion City’s thousand-year long history. The group of buildings around Altstadtmarkt (old town market square) with the Gothic Altstadtrathaus (old town hall) as well as the Gewandhaus (old cloth hall) of the drapers still bear witness to the city’s heyday as a member of the Hanseatic League. The recently rebuilt Residential Palace with its elaborately reconstructed facade documents Braunschweig’s renewed role as the residence of the Guelphs. Its quadriga is one of the largest of its kind in Europe.

Over the years the Guelphs and the Hanseatic League have influenced the city as much as many clever minds. Carl Friedrich Gauß, Agnes Pockels, Richard Dedekind and Heinrich Büssing all have their roots here and are part of the history of this modern city of science. Today, Braunschweig is the centre of one of the most research intensive regions in Europe due to its many internationally renowned research institutions, universities and businesses involved in research. According to the EU Eurostat office Braunschweig has the highest percentage of employees in research and development in the whole of Germany and is even the leading region in Europe in terms of expenditure as a share of GDP in those sectors (Eurostat, 2009). The Association for the Promotion of Science and Humanities in Germany was also impressed by the amount of science and research in the Lion City and awarded Braunschweig the title of Germany’s ‘City of Science’ in the year 2007. This dialogue between sciences, economy, cultural institutions and the population, that was started back then, now continues in the ‘Haus der Wissenschaft’ (House of Sciences).

Names like Louis Spohr, Wilhelm Raabe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Till Eulenspiegel have turned Braunschweig into a lively cultural city. The Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum was opened in 1754

 

and was the first public museum in Germany and one of the first in Europe.
An active art and cultural scene influences life in Braunschweig. The ‘Hochschule für Bildende Künste’ , the only college of art in Lower Saxony and the second largest one in Germany, always generates new creative potential. Today the State Theatre, individual artist and theatre groups, museums as well as events like the ‘Burgplatz Open Air’, the Braunschweig Classix Festival, the CityJazzNight or the international ‘filmfest Braunschweig’ provide further impulses.