Koelnmesse

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Type	GmbH
Genre	congress and trade fair organizer
Founded	1922
Headquarters	Cologne, Germany
Key people	Gerald Böse, Chief Executive Officer
Number of employees	around 600, 500 in Cologne and 100 wordlwide (2013)
Website	http://www.koelnmesse.com

Koelnmesse North Entrance

map of the Cologne trade fair grounds (marked Messegelände)

Koelnmesse (Cologne Trade Fair or Cologne Exhibition Centre) is the name of the international trade fair and exhibition center located in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With around 75 trade fairs and over 2,000 conferences annually, Koelnmesse is one of the country's largest trade fair organizers^[1] and with 284,000 m² exhibition floor area the third largest by area.

The Cologne Trade Fair ground was founded in 1922. Until 2005, the trade fair was based in the historic Rheinhallen, and since then moved into new premises next to them. The old Fair Tower Cologne (Messeturm Köln) is a landmark building from 1928 and features a tower restaurant on the top floor.

Trade fairs

Among others the following trade fairs are held in Cologne:

Anuga, the world's most important food and beverage trade fair
Anuga FoodTec, the supplier fair for the food and drink industry
Art Cologne
Dmexco, the leading international exposition and conference for the digital industry
EuVend, the international trade fair for the vending industry
Gamescom, most important trade fair for interactive games and entertainment in Europe
Imm Cologne, leading trade fair for the furniture sector
Intermot, international motorcycle, scooter and bicycle fair
Internationale Süßwarenmesse (ISM), world's largest confectionery trade fair
Photokina, the world's leading fair for photography and imaging

Location

Köln Messe/Deutz station

The trade fair grounds lie in Cologne's right-Rhenish district of Deutz, directly adjacent to Köln Messe/Deutz station to the south. Among others, the station has ICE connections by Deutsche Bahn to Köln Hbf and Cologne/Bonn Airport. West of the trade fair grounds lies the Rheinpark, a 40 hectare large park on the River Rhine, and Tanzbrunnen,^[2] an open air theater.

Apart from the Köln Messe/Deutz station to the south, the Cologne trade fair center is also served by the Cologne Stadtbahn station Koelnmesse to the East.

Preceding station		KVB		Following station
Köln Messe/Deutz toward Mengenich Ollenhauerring		3		Stegerwaldsiedlung toward Thielenbruch
Köln Messe/Deutz toward Bocklemünd		4		Stegerwaldsiedlung toward Schlebusch