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Frankfurt exhibitions ground: a city within a city

1 Dec 2022

Located at the heart of financial and business centre Frankfurt, the exhibition grounds are among the largest and most modern worldwide with some 372,000 m² of hall area and almost 67,000 m² of free space at their disposal. Thanks to their excellent infrastructure, Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main region have very good international connections and can be reached easily from anywhere in the world.

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Guests can travel to the exhibition venue quickly and comfortably by air, rail or road using public transport. The S-Bahn suburban train station “Messe” stops in the centre of the exhibition grounds, the U-Bahn underground train station and the Strassenbahn tram station are located directly at the City Entrance/Festhalle. The Rhine-Main region offers an excellent hotel infrastructure with an estimated 110,000 beds. Visitors and exhibiting companies can choose from a wide range of hotels within walking distance of the exhibition grounds. Mobility-impaired visitors can move about easily: the Via Mobile covered moving walkway is a barrier-free access and connection network that joins together all halls on the exhibition grounds.

With their unique designs, renowned architects such as Helmut Jahn, Oswald M. Ungers and Nicolas Grimshaw gave Messe Frankfurt’s exhibition grounds an unmistakeable look that dovetails perfectly with Frankfurt’s modern cityscape. Messe Frankfurt’s guests set great store by the highly functional nature of its halls and conference facilities, which are ideal for hosting a broad cross-section of events. With the Congress Center and Kap Europa, the company operates two congress centres as well.

The Operation & Security Center is the central control room for all security-related matters. First aid station, police, security and all other security partners and service providers are found here under one roof.

Even during pandemic times, events can still be held safely with state-of-the-art air-conditioning technology, careful monitoring and additional safety and hygiene measures.

Information about the most recent protective measures on the Frankfurt exhibition grounds can be found at the following link:

Protection and hygiene concept (messefrankfurt.com)

Overview of trade fair halls, service and administration buildings (Gross exhibition area in m²)
City Entrance & Hall 1	1989	18.000 m²	Helmut Jahn
Festhalle (Hall 2)	1909	5.600 m²	Friedrich von Thiersch
Forum	2001	Areal hall / Panorama hall 2,300 m² each	KSP Engel / Zimmermann
Hall 3	2001	38.000 m²	Nicolas Grimshaw
Hall 4	1983	43.000 m²	Architects Otzmann, Maurer, Groethuysen and Wirsing
Hall 5	Dismantling as of end of November 2019 New building; completed by January 2023	21.000 m² 18.000 m²	Martin Schoenmakers Gruber + Kleine-Kraneburg
Hall 6	1961 / 1963 / 1971 / 2019	(originally 35.000 m²) 26.000 m²	Martin Schoenmakers
Torhaus main building / Torhaus Süd (South) / Torhaus Nord (North)	1984 / 1989 / 1997	117 m high / 30 storeys	Oswald M. Ungers
Hall 8	1967	30.200 m²	von Steinbüchel-Rheinwall
Hall 9	1981 /1982 / 1996	56.200 m²	Oswald M. Ungers
Galleria	1983	Between Hall 8 and Hall 9 / 100 metres long and 30 metres high	Oswald M. Ungers
Hall 10	1973 / 1978 / 1992	64.700 m²	Martin Schoenmakers / Oswald M. Ungers
Congress Center	1996	15,000 m² / 4 levels / 9 congress halls	Helmut W. Joos
New Dependance	2005	5 floors	Nicolas Grimshaw
Cargo Center	2007	5.500 m²	Kölling Architekten Gbr
Hall 11 & Portalhaus	2009	23.000 m²	Hascher Jehle Architektur
Kap Europa	2014	7.700 m² / 4 Ebenen / 14 Tagungsräume	Dipl.-Ing. Architekt Klaus Lenz ECE Projektmanagement GmbH & Co. KG
Operation & Security Center (OSC)	2014	2.200 m²	hhp-Architekten
Hall 12	2018	33.600 m²	Kadawittfeldarchitektur GmbH

Background information: Sustainable Messe Frankfurt

The Messe Frankfurt Group is one of the world’s leading trade fair, congress and event organisers with their own exhibition grounds. With a workforce of some 2,200* people at its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main and in 28 subsidiaries, it organises events around the world. Group sales in financial year 2022 were around €450 million*. We serve our customers’ business interests efficiently within the framework of our Fairs & Events, Locations and Services business fields. One of Messe Frankfurt’s key strengths is its powerful and closely knit global sales network, which covers around 180 countries in all regions of the world. Our comprehensive range of services – both onsite and online – ensures that customers worldwide enjoy consistently high quality and flexibility when planning, organising and running their events. We are using our digital expertise to develop new business models. The wide range of services includes renting exhibition grounds, trade fair construction and marketing, personnel and food services.
Sustainability is a central pillar of our corporate strategy. Here, we strike a healthy balance between ecological and economic interests, social responsibility and diversity.

For more information, please visit our website at: www.messefrankfurt.com/sustainability

With its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, the company is owned by the City of Frankfurt (60 percent) and the State of Hesse (40 percent).

For more information, please visit our website at: www.messefrankfurt.com

* Preliminary figures for 2022