Festsaal Kreuzberg takes conferences, company parties and launches for up to 1,500 standing guests, 800 at mixed seating or 650 in rows across its 3,200 m² site. The venue now stands on the Arena site in Alt-Treptow, Berlin, a short walk from Treptower Park, and keeps the name of its first home in Kreuzberg.
Seminars and company events
The operator lists conferences, panels, seminars, trade fairs, summer parties and Christmas parties among its rental uses. Spaces can be booked together or one by one, so a plenary in the main hall can run alongside breakouts or a dinner in the smaller rooms. Consulting, service staff, catering and event technology come from a single team. Fixed lighting and sound, network infrastructure built to trade-fair standards and several power connections reduce what an agency has to bring in. Parking and truck access are available for productions.
Rooms and capacities
The Festsaal is the main hall: up to 1,100 people standing, 500 at mixed seating or 400 in rows. It has daylight, an 8 m ceiling, mechanical ventilation and its own entrance, cloakroom, bar and toilets, and it can be combined with the Kaminzimmer and the Biergarten. The other spaces listed on the site are the Kaminzimmer (fireplace room), the Ostflügel (east wing), the Biergarten and the Gewächshaus (greenhouse). Booked as one venue, the whole site holds 1,500 standing, 800 at mixed seating or 650 in rows. A floor plan of the Festsaal and a 3D tour of the venue are available online.
Catering
Catering is arranged by the venue as part of its one-stop service, together with staff and technology, and each space has bar service. The site does not publish set menus, so organizers agree the food concept with the events team.
History and setting
The Festsaal began in 2004, when a group of event organizers took over a former wedding hall in an old vegetable market on Skalitzer Straße near Kottbusser Tor. It became a stage for concerts, parties, readings and debates, and its founders opened bars and clubs nearby. In July 2013 a technical defect caused a fire that destroyed the building, and rebuilding on the same plot failed because the landowner planned offices there. In 2017 the Festsaal reopened on the Arena site in Alt-Treptow and kept its name. It still runs its own concerts and talks alongside private hires.
Getting there
Treptower Park station on the S-Bahn ring (S41 and S42) is about 800 m away, around ten minutes on foot. Schlesisches Tor on U1 and U3 is about 900 m away. Bus lines 165 and 256 stop at Heckmannufer. All entrances are step-free, with a wheelchair platform, an accessible toilet and a disabled parking space. There are no car parks for visitors, so guests should come by public transport, bicycle or on foot.
