Opened on 18 May 1990, the hall is Rastatt's central venue and is run by Wirtschaft & Veranstaltungen, an independent enterprise of the town. The large hall takes 1,100 seated or 2,100 standing; 1,600 square metres of exhibition space, meeting rooms for thirty to three hundred and banqueting for up to eight hundred fill out the building. Concerts and touring theatre share it with congresses and trade fairs — the town's other stages, the Kellertheater and the Theater in der Reithalle, are much smaller.