Range of rooms
At the Congress Park Hanau
The best conditions for a wide variety of events in Hanau: At the CPH with a total of 4200 m2 of event space, almost any format can be arranged. In the two large halls, a chamber music hall, five conference rooms and spacious foyers, trade fairs, congresses, meetings, product launches, kick-offs, roadshows, concerts, musicals, theatre and gala events take place throughout the year.
All halls and conference rooms have parquet floors and offer daylight conditions thanks to large glass fronts. The five conference rooms on the ground floor have direct access to the Schlossgarten park and can be converted into a larger room. The entire Congress Park Hanau is barrier-free and largely accessible by car. All rooms are air-conditioned and equipped with the latest conference technology.
Organisers from all sectors appreciate the CPH because of the successful integration of historic building sections into the multifunctional congress centre. Hanau's stylish event location is completely barrier-free, from the underground car park to the conference areas on the upper floor and the Concert Hall gallery. A powerful goods lift carries entire cars to the exhibition areas on the first floor or to the Concert Hall stage.
Concert and Theatre Hall
The Virtuoso
The Concert and Theatre Hall of the CPH has been named after Paul Hindemith and, because of its acoustics, is considered by experts to be one of the best concert halls in Hesse. The Paul Hindemith Hall offers 619 m2 of event space and a total of 800 seats in the stalls and gallery.
Capacities of the conference rooms and foyers
Brothers Grimm Hall conference capacities
| wdt_ID | Area | sqm | Height | Seating | Parliamentary | Banquet | Reception |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Total | 871 | 6,00 | 1.033 | 448 | 612 | 1.200 |
| 2 | Section A | 496 | 6,00 | 513 | 260 | 336 | 600 |
| 3 | Section B | 185 | 6.00 | 180 | 96 | 140 | 300 |
| 4 | Section C | 192 | 6,00 | 200 | 98 | 140 | 300 |
Paul Hindemith Hall conference capacities (partly increasing)
| wdt_ID | Area | sqm | Height | Seating | Parliamentary | Banquet | Reception |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Total | 619 | 10,00 | 800 | 309 | 456 | 1031 |
| 2 | Parterre | 403 | 10,00 | 548 | 224 | 336 | 780 |
| 3 | Balcony | 216 | 5,00 | 215 | 85 | 120 | 251 |
| 4 | Main stage | 260 | |||||
| 5 | Forestage | 30 |
Landgrave Alexander Friedrich of Hesse Hall conference capacities
| wdt_ID | Capacity | sqm | Height | Seating | Parliamentary | Banquet | Reception |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 147 | 5,50 | 177 | 82 | 100 | 280 |
Capacities CPH-Lounge
| wdt_ID | Capacity | sqm | Height | Seating | Banquet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 | 3,20 | 40 | 70 |
Conference capacities of conference rooms
| wdt_ID | Capacity | sqm | Height | Seating | Parliamentary | U-Form | Banquet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conference room 1 | 37 | 3,20 | 35 | 12 | 10 | |
| 2 | Conference room 2 | 37 | 3,20 | 35 | 12 | 10 | |
| 3 | Conference room 3 | 37 | 3,20 | 35 | 12 | 10 | |
| 4 | Conference room 4 | 37 | 3,20 | 35 | 12 | 10 | |
| 5 | Conference room 5 | 55 | 3,20 | 55 | 24 | 14 | |
| 6 | T -2/2-3/3-4 | 75 | 3,20 | 63 | 24 | 20 | |
| 7 | T 1-3 bzw. 2-4 | 114 | 3,20 | 99 | 24 | 32 | |
| 8 | T 1-4 | 151 | 3,20 | 144 | 60 | 48 | 88 |
Foyers
| wdt_ID | Foyer areas | sqm |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Entrance foyer ground floor | 531 |
| 2 | Foyer Anton Wilhelm Tischbein upper floor | 298 |
| 3 | Intermediate foyer ground floor | 408 |
| 4 | Foyer Henriette Westermayr ground floor | 427 |
| 5 | Klaus Remer foyer ground floor | 259 |
Our rooms have been named after well-known people
The 10 rooms and 5 foyers of the CPH have been named after people who provided an impetus for science, art, culture, social affairs, business or politics. What they have in common is that they were either born in Hanau or lived for a while in the town of the Brothers Grimm.
Let us introduce you here to the names of our rooms:
Karoline von Günderrode (1780-1806)
As early as the
nineteenth century, she was called the “Sappho of Romanticism” — Karoline von Günderrode, one of the most dazzling figures of German Romanticism. Her family was closely connected to the town; her grandfather was a member of the government and court judge in Hanau. She herself lived in Hanau from 1786 before she was accepted into the Cronstetten-Hynsperg´sche Stift Frankfurt at the age of 17. Karoline's work is "eclipsed" by her love stories to this day. Torn between love and her desire for freedom, her life reflects the situation of women of the bourgeois elite around 1800. The radical way Karoline von Günderrode tried to live out her feelings fascinated even her contemporaries. At the age of 26, she committed suicide by stabbing herself. After her death, several selected volumes of her poetic work, especially her letters, were published. In the 1970s, Karoline became a role model of the women's movement.
Image: Image Archive, Hanau Media Centre
Today, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim's works can be found in all major art collections around the world. Born in Hanau's Jewish quarter (today Nordstrasse), he attended the Hanau Electoral Drawing Academy from 1810. There, the painter and engraver Conrad Westermayr and his wife Henriette taught him drawing and painting. From 1820, Oppenheim studied at the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt. He was the first Jewish artist to receive academic training.
Born in Großauheim, the sculptor August Gaul is one of the most important modern artists. After training at the Hanau Drawing Academy, Gaul moved to Berlin in 1888. He concentrated on animal motifs and designed monolithic sculptures in stone and bronze, but also ones that were small to very small in size. His outstanding works for public areas include the two portal figures “Lying Wisente” in front of the Kunsthalle Kiel as well as a versatile building sculpture at the Klöpperhaus in Hamburg. In its newly designed section, the Großauheim Museum is showing a selection of early drafts and castings, including the only early cast of the large “Standing Lioness”, which is considered to have paved the way for modern German sculptures. Further works by August Gaul can be found in the historical museum Hanau Schloß Philippsruhe.
The expressionist painter and sculptor was a teacher at the drawing academy in Hanau from 1921 to 1933 and from 1949 to 1963. Inside the parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Dettingen, built in 1922/23, Ewald created an impressive cycle of large-format wall paintings depicting the Passion of Jesus and the life of Mary. The construction and painting of the Dettinger Church together form an expressionist work of art. In 1937, the Nazis confiscated Ewald's paintings as degenerate art. During the war, he worked in a glassworks in Upper Lusatia. Recruited to the Volkssturm, the Nazi's last-ditch defence in the last days of the war in 1945, he deserted and hid in the tower ruins in Wilhelmsbader Park.
When Pauli Schmorell came to Hanau at the age of twelve, she devoted herself as a teacher and educator to music and youth education. After the end of World War II, she made connections with choirs and dance groups in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and England. This was based on the realisation that international contacts and the mutual understanding that goes with them contribute significantly to securing peace. In 1946, she founded the “Wilhelmsbader Kreis”, which brought happiness into many people's everyday lives in cities and districts during the difficult post-war years through music and dance, gigs and performances in old people's homes and hospitals. Through contributing with music and singing in the Hessian Broadcasting Service and participating in large singing competitions, her work also became known nationwide. In 1971, she received the 1st Class Cross of Merit and on her 90th birthday, Pauli Schmorell was honoured with the August-Gaul-Plakette prize, the highest cultural award of the town of Hanau.
Hanau is where Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were born, the starting point of their path through life that took them to many places in Germany and Europe. The world-famous brothers were born in Hanau and spent their childhood in the town until 1791. The house they were born in stood where Freiheitsplatz is today, which like the entire town centre, was bombed in 1945 during World War II. Although Grimm's “Children's and Household Tales” have been translated into many languages and are only topped by the Bible in terms of number of copies printed, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were far more than fairy tale collectors. They were German scholars, linguists, democrats and freedom fighters. In addition to their “German Grammar”, their “German Dictionary” is their greatest work. The town of Hanau has been awarding the prestigious Brothers Grimm Prize for literature every two years since 1983. The Brothers Grimm Festival in the amphitheatre has been around since 1985 and has been attended by over one million guests from near and far.
Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht Georg of Hesse from the Hessen-Kassel-Rumpenheim line of the House of Hesse was titular Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel and composer. He loved music and art and promoted the music from composers of the Romantic and Modern eras. His own musical work began at a very early stage. In Frankfurt, where he spent the winter months with his mother, he got together with artists such as Joachim Raff, Clara Schumann and Robert Schumann, Engelbert Humperdinck and Johannes Brahms and was himself active in the music scene. He sought the likes of Franz Liszt, Edvard Grieg and Richard Wagner, all. composers of the so-called New German School. His very bad vision forced him to write his compositions in Braille music script. Some of his musical works remain unexplored to this day. Alexander Landgrave of Hesse was the last family member to live in Philippsruhe Palace. In addition to the Chamber Music Hall at the Congress Park, Alexanderstrasse in Hanau-Kesselstadt has been named after him.
Anton Wilhelm was a German painter from the Tischbein family of artists. To distinguish him from other family members, he was also called “Hanauer Tischbein”. He came to Hanau in 1769 as court painter to Prince Wilhelm, heir to the throne, where from 1772 he was involved in establishing the drawing academy as a member and teacher. In addition to members of the royal family, Anton Wilhelm Tischbein also painted wealthy patricians from the imperial city of Frankfurt, for example, Johann Christian Senckenberg or members of the Brentano and La Roche families. Although portraits are his main works, “Hanauer Tischbein” decorated the castle in Wilhelmsbad as a building painter.
Henriette followed her husband Conrad Westermayr from Weimar to Hanau in 1806 when he became a professor at the Academy in Hanau. She played a key role in helping the dilapidated drawing academy flourish again. In addition to embroidery and drawings, she painted in oil, gouache, watercolour and sepia. She also mastered the techniques of etching and copper etching. In Hanau, Henriette Westermayr mainly painted portraits and landscapes and made embroideries on a large scale.