Tagungszentrum Blaubeuren takes seminars, team events, trade fairs, cultural events and company parties for up to 1,200 people, and up to 350 guests can sleep on site. The conference center occupies a former farm estate at Hessenhöfe, part of Blaubeuren, west of Ulm, with quick access to the A8 motorway.
Seminars and company events
The team handles room setup, technology, event planning and catering as one service, which suits a multi-day training, an association conference or a company summer party with its own program. Outdoor areas extend the indoor rooms: a pergola, an inner courtyard, a lawn with a barbecue area, a football pitch and a beach volleyball court, and the site mentions a marquee for larger gatherings. Table football and table tennis fill the evenings. Seminars and workshops, team and group events, cultural events, trade fairs, summer parties, birthdays and Christmas parties are among the formats the center lists.
Rooms and capacities
The Blaubeurer Alb hall covers 1,200 m² and holds up to 1,200 people. Its technical setup is designed for exhibitions, theater, concerts, sports events and roadshows. Blautopf follows at 416 m², and its section Weißer Jura can be used on its own at 32 m². The other meeting rooms are Schöne Lau (110 m²), Große Grotte (75 m²), Kleine Grotte (72 m²), Blaufels (71 m²), Mörikedom (60 m²), Wolkenschloss and Rusenschloss (54 m² each) and Glasfels (32 m²). A foyer with a bistro and bar serves as a meeting point between sessions. The site gives no seating figures by layout for these rooms, so confirm them with the team.
Accommodation
The center has 54 hotel rooms in Haus Blau and Haus Lauter, in Standard and Comfort categories for one or two people, with shower, toilet and TV, plus multi-bed rooms for up to four. Youth hostel rooms for up to ten and group lodgings for 17 or 40 people, with shared bathrooms, bring capacity to 350 overnight guests. Wi-Fi is free across the site, and a large lounge with a self-service kitchen is open to guests.
Catering
Dishes are prepared fresh on site, with produce from regional suppliers where possible. Menus run from one to four courses. For youth groups and tight budgets, the kitchen serves a single hot dish such as lasagne with salads, to be requested with the enquiry. The site also lists partner caterers.
History and setting
The estate was built around the middle of the 19th century as a planned inn, but the first owner gave up during construction and emigrated to America. Christoph Schmid and his mother bought it in 1862 and farmed it until the 1960s. A Christian congregation then used the site, for children's summer camps from 1971 and, from about 1980 to 2005, as its central conference venue, with up to 2,500 visitors in summer. It later opened to clubs, companies and commercial organizers, and TZB Service GmbH has run it since January 2018.
Getting there
By car, leave the A8 at Merklingen and drive through Machtolsheim and Berghülen to Hessenhöfe. From Ulm or Ehingen, take the B28 past Blaubeuren toward Reutlingen, then the Merklingen exit. More than 300 free parking spaces, two charging points and a motorhome area are on site. By train, travel to Blaubeuren, then take a local bus to Hessenhöfe.
