Responsible Event Planning at the Kurhaus Wiesbaden
Kurhaus Wiesbaden – historic, magnificent, centrally located. Learn how the Kurhaus Wiesbaden, a historic landmark and event venue, is working to achieve its environmental goals.
As a historic landmark event venue, the Kurhaus Wiesbaden combines historic architecture with modern operations. Initiatives in the areas of energy, resource management, mobility, and waste management are continuously being refined.
The Kurhaus Wiesbaden’s central location allows for easy accesson foot to conference hotels, shopping and dining options, as well as the extensive network of buses, regional trains, and long-distance trains.
Mobility is one of the main factors contributing to high CO2 emissions at events. We support event planners in encouraging guests and staff to travel by public transportation or bicycle.
From Wiesbaden Central Station, it’s five bus stops to the Kurhaus.
It is approximately a 20-minute walk (one and a half kilometers) from the main station. This ensures quick arrival and departure for event organizers, visitors, and staff.
Through partnerships with the RMV and Deutsche Bahn, we offer “event tickets” that allow you to provide attendees at your event at the Kurhaus with a combined ticket from the Rhine-Main Transport Association (RMV), thereby helping to reduce the carbon footprint by encouraging people to leave their private cars at home during multi-day events and reducing traffic congestion.
Use of electricity from renewable energy sources in the event rooms and in the company's additional office space
Use of energy-saving LED technology in the event venues
Monitoring: Continuous monitoring of consumption and technically optimal control of heating and cooling enables optimization and compliance with performance. We participate with the Kurhaus and the RMCC in the Energy Efficiency and Climate Protection Networks and Ökoprofit initiative, which involves regular energy audits.
Consistently switching off unnecessary appliances and lighting: In addition, we also set an example for the conscious use of energy resources with our annual participation in Earth Hour at our event locations.
Use of natural light: Lower electricity requirements for lighting through the use of daylight. Daylight available in all conference rooms in the Kurhaus.
Energy-optimized air conditioning and heating technology
Waste and water
Waste avoidance and waste separation
Whether during setup, takedown, or during the event itself, waste prevention and separation apply to all service providers, partners, employees, and visitors/guests of the facility. Therefore, the facility’s operational waste and resource management takes a wide variety of areas into account and relies on close communication with the parties involved.
Sanitary technologies to reduce paper consumption: By installing hand towel dispensers in all restroom areas of the Kurhaus as well as in the office spaces to prevent paper towel waste.
Water efficiency
The Kurhaus Wiesbaden is equipped with toilets with a water-saving function and automatic taps at the washbasins.
Accessibility
Parking spaces for people with disabilities in the underground garage, near the entrance. Access is provided by elevator.
The entrance and all rooms and facilities that can be used by guests are accessible without steps or can be reached via an elevator.
Passages and doors are at least 90 cm wide.
Access to the spa gardens is guaranteed via a ramp.
WCs for people with disabilities are available and located on the first floor.
An induction loop is available in the Friedrich-von-Thiersch-Saal for hearing-impaired visitors with hearing aids, enabling them to follow the action on stage acoustically.
Wiesbaden Congress & Marketing GmbH pursues a company-wide sustainability strategy and has developed environmental guidelines for its event venues. These guidelines include, among other things, the efficient use of resources, compliance with legal requirements, consideration of sustainability factors in procurement, and the continuous improvement of operational processes.
Take the quiz. How well do you incorporate sustainability considerations into your event?
We recommend the CO2 calculator - specially designed for events - from the Federal Environment Agency and our sustainability checklist to help you keep track.
Sustainability consulting
Last but not least, a sustainability consultant trained by GCB e. V. is available to assist event planners with any questions regarding the organization of green meetings. Please contact us!
We’d be happy to advise you on how you can sensibly and effectively reduce your own carbon footprint in Wiesbaden—and specifically here at the Kurhaus—through additional measures. Please feel free to schedule an appointment with our sustainability manager.
