The Maimarktgelände (May Market Grounds) is an exhibition site located in Mannheim , Germany, which covers a surface of 210,000 m. It hosts the annual Mannheim May Market as well as open-air concerts and other events. Starting in April each year, 47 exhibition halls with a surface of 42,000 m are developed on the apron of the site. With approximately 1,500 exhibitors and around 400,000 visitors annually, the Maimarktgelände is a major German regional exhibition. In 1989, the 12,500-capacity Maimarkthalle (7500 m) was built as the first permanent exhibition hall, which is used all year round for concerts.
3-819: The area has good transport connections because the Mannheim motorway interchange is nearby and the A 656 and the B 38a can be reached directly. The Mannheim Arena/Maimarkt stop on the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn is 1,000 m away. The park area enclosure has 12,000 parking bays and on Sundays and holidays parts of the neighboring Mannheim City Airport is available with around a further 8,000 parking bays. Notable past performers have included Iron Maiden , Aerosmith , Anastacia , Bon Jovi , Queen , The Rolling Stones , U2 , Metallica , Red Hot Chili Peppers , Dream Theater , Black Sabbath , Pink Floyd , Guns N' Roses , ZZ Top , Prince and Genesis . The Maimarkt-Turnier Mannheim
6-708: Is an annual international horse show held during the Mannheimer Maimarkt since 1964. 49°28′09″N 8°31′32″E / 49.46917°N 8.52556°E / 49.46917; 8.52556 Bundesautobahn 656 Bundesautobahn 656 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 656 , short form Autobahn 656 , abbreviated as BAB 656 or A 656 ) is an autobahn in Germany . It leads from Mannheim-Neckarau to Autobahnkreuz ( motorway junction ) Heidelberg. The planning for an Autobahn between Mannheim and Heidelberg began as early as 1926. It
9-526: Was taken into account in the planning for the HaFraBa ( Hamburg - Frankfurt - Basel ). The motorway was opened in 1935 under the Third Reich as a Reichsautobahn ). It originally stretched from the eastern end of Mannheim (Schwetzingerstadt/Oststadt) to Heidelberg (Bergheim), Bergheimer Strasse. The end sections of the autobahn became part of State Highway ( Bundesstrasse ) B 37 in the 1990s, thus shortening
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