12. - 14.04.2024
HOCKENHEIM
SPRINGTIME
THE LARGE EUROPEAN MARKET
THE VETERAMA FAIR IN HOCKENHEIM.
11. - 13.10.2024
MANNHEIM
AUTUMN
THE LARGEST MARKET IN EUROPE
VETERAMA AT THE MAIMARKT FIELD IN MANNHEIM.
12. - 14.04.2024
HOCKENHEIM
SPRINGTIME
11. - 13.10.2024
MANNHEIM
AUTUMN

NEWS

14.08.23
VETERAMA Mannheim: 13 - 15 October 2023

Europe's biggest and most iconic classic car market has been restored to its former size after a number of difficult years.

NEWS

14.08.23
VETERAMA Mannheim: 13 - 15 October 2023

Europe's biggest and most iconic classic car market has been restored to its former size after a number of difficult years.

Information

VETERAMA is a “market of veterans” which since 1975 has developed into Europe’s largest market for classical and vintage vehicles. Nowadays more than 4.000 exhibitors from all over Europe visit Mannheim on the second weekend in October. There they meet almost 50.000 collectors searching for sought-after spare parts or whole vehicles.

In order for collectors not to have to wait a full year for their next round of searches, VETERAMA also opens its gates in the springtime. For 30 years the VETERAMA spring kick-off-event was hosted by the city of Ludwigshafen, but was rather a regional event. Since 1992 the event at the Friedrich-Ebert-Park area was split into a “weekend for cars and motorcycles” and a pure “weekend for two-wheelers”.

For many years more and more exhibitors and visitors asked for another international VETERAMA weekend at the start of the season following the pattern of the Mannheim event. The search for a new exhibition area was finally successful. The Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg now is the perfect location for VETERAMA to become the “largest vintage car market in Europe” in the springtime, too.

In the pit lane, the glass pavilion, and the whole paddock you now meet not only exhibitors and collectors from all over Europe, but also all the renowned old-timer clubs present themselves. The open air spaces along the Ring become discovery sites for spare parts, accessories, reading material, service providers for all topics concerning vintage vehicles, and a lot of historical technology. Whoever is looking for new activities in his home workshop, can strike a bonanza at the Hockenheimring.

VETERAMA is THE location for finds of long sought-after parts and vehicles.

Marketplace (complete vehicles)

If you just want to sell your complete vehicle, you book a selling space in the sales hall or in one of the open air spaces.

Sales booths

You are a professional or private trader and wish to offer goods for sale or trade, then you book one of our sales booths.

Clubs

You represent a club and would like to win new members or invite active members to pit talks, then you book one of our club stands.

Newcomers

You offer new products with regard to old- and young-timers, then this is the location to meet potential new customers.

Information

VETERAMA is a “market of veterans” which since 1975 has developed into Europe’s largest market for classical and vintage vehicles. Nowadays more than 4.000 exhibitors from all over Europe visit Mannheim on the second weekend in October. There they meet almost 50.000 collectors searching for sought-after spare parts or whole vehicles.

In order for collectors not to have to wait a full year for their next round of searches, VETERAMA also opens its gates in the springtime. For 30 years the VETERAMA spring kick-off-event was hosted by the city of Ludwigshafen, but was rather a regional event. Since 1992 the event at the Friedrich-Ebert-Park area was split into a “weekend for cars and motorcycles” and a pure “weekend for two-wheelers”.

For many years more and more exhibitors and visitors asked for another international VETERAMA weekend at the start of the season following the pattern of the Mannheim event. The search for a new exhibition area was finally successful. The Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg now is the perfect location for VETERAMA to become the “largest vintage car market in Europe” in the springtime, too.

In the pit lane, the glass pavilion, and the whole paddock you now meet not only exhibitors and collectors from all over Europe, but also all the renowned old-timer clubs present themselves. The open air spaces along the Ring become discovery sites for spare parts, accessories, reading material, service providers for all topics concerning vintage vehicles, and a lot of historical technology. Whoever is looking for new activities in his home workshop, can strike a bonanza at the Hockenheimring.

VETERAMA is THE location for finds of long sought-after parts and vehicles.

Marketplace (complete vehicles)

If you just want to sell your complete vehicle, you book a selling space in the sales hall or in one of the open air spaces.

Sales booths

You are a professional or private trader and wish to offer goods for sale or trade, then you book one of our sales booths.

Clubs

You represent a club and would like to win new members or invite active members to pit talks, then you book one of our club stands.

Newcomers

You offer new products with regard to old- and young-timers, then this is the location to meet potential new customers.

Show-Arena

This area offers all owners of old-timers and of young-timers the opportunity to park their vehicles directly on the event location. The large area is situated at the so called "Querspange" of the Hockenheimring.

Service

Hotels
Our partner “hotels.de” lets you easily find hotels at the respective event location. Once your hotel search was successful, you can directly book on the website.
Hotels nearby
Parking
Each year a free-of-charge market guide, prepared in cooperation with the magazine “OLDTIMER MARKT”, is available for you at the main entrance. Should you be unable to find what you were looking for, our well-trained personnel at the information desk will help you. The register of exhibitors is only available on site.
Additional information concerning the market guide as well information about how to advertise within the guide are found here:
Additional information
Market guide
Each year a free-of-charge market guide, prepared in cooperation with the magazine “OLDTIMER MARKT”, is available for you at the main entrance. Should you be unable to find what you were looking for, our well-trained personnel at the information desk will help you. The register of exhibitors is only available on site.
Additional information concerning the market guide as well information about how to advertise within the guide are found here:
Additional information
Service depot
Store now – pick up later. You purchased a heavy or bulky part at VETERAMA? The VETERAMA Service Depot lets you store those parts free-of-charge until you pick them up. Simply deliver the part, get an order number, and pick it up later during opening hours.
Shuttle-Service
To see every booth and stand at the VETERAMA, a visitor would have to walk about 20 km. Our shuttle service takes you from point A to point B without your losing rubber - from your soles.
Food and drink
Catering is organized by the VETERAMA Catering Service. Excellent food and drinks, from French fries, steaks, and sausages to pizza, pasta, and pulled-pork burgers is provided at a number of catering stands and tents. A varied cuisine and a cosy atmosphere have been firm components of this event for many years.
Toilets / Showers
Toilets can be found between the fields, showers in field 4c, a heated shower close to field 7. They are easy to find consulting the map in the guide.

Service

Hotels
Our partner “hotels.de” lets you easily find hotels at the respective event location. Once your hotel search was successful, you can directly book on the website.
Hotels nearby
Parking
The main parking lot can be reached on foot. However, there also is a shuttle service.
The largest parking lot P20 is comfortably reachable on foot. All other parking lots are labelled depending on availability. The VETERAMA event ground is in walking distance from all labelled “VETERAMA parking lots”.
Additional information
Market guide
Each year a free-of-charge market guide, prepared in cooperation with the magazine “OLDTIMER MARKT”, is available for you at the main entrance. Should you be unable to find what you were looking for, our well-trained personnel at the information desk will help you. The register of exhibitors is only available on site.
Additional information concerning the market guide as well information about how to advertise within the guide are found here:
Additional information
Service depot
Store now – pick up later. You purchased a heavy or bulky part at VETERAMA? The VETERAMA Service Depot lets you store those parts free-of-charge until you pick them up. Simply deliver the part, get an order number, and pick it up later outside opening hours. The service depot is located within the DEKRA garage in field 7.
Food and drink
Catering at Hockenheimring is organized by the VETERAMA Catering Service. Excellent food and drinks, from French fries, steaks, and sausages to pizza, pasta, and pulled-pork burgers is provided at a number of catering stands and tents. A varied cuisine and a cosy atmosphere have been firm components of this event for many years.
The “glass studio” also offers a wide selection of excellent food and drinks.
Toilets and showers
Toilets can be found between the fields, showers in field 4c, a heated shower close to field 7. They are easy to find consulting the map in the guide.

Approach

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How to find us
VETERAMA in Mannheim is located on the Maimarkt area close to the Mannheim airport in Mannheim-Neuostheim. Whether you arrive on foot, by bicycle, motorbike, car or public transport, here is how to get there.

How to get there using public transport

In Mannheim the nearest train station is “SAP-Arena/Maimarkt)”. From there it takes a 5 minutes walk to the event location. The tram #6 has a stop at the main entrance to VETERAMA.

VRN (Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar) tariff information Mo-Fr, 8 am – 5 pm, service phone 01805-8764636. 14 cents/min from the German fixed line network, max. 42 cents from mobile phones. Maimarkt hall 35, stand 3501.

S-Bahn and Deutsche Bahn service phone 0621-8301200. Travel inquiry free-of-charge: 0800-1507090. Maimarkt hall 02, stand 0201.

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S-Bahn and Deutsche Bahn service telephone 0621-8301200; Travel information free of charge: 0800-1507090 (Maimarkt Hall 02, Stand 0201)

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RNV Rhein-Neckar-Transport GmbH

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Arriving by car

If you travel on the A6 from north or south, please exit at “Mannheimer Kreuz”, direction Mannheim (A656). Exit at the special exit “VETERAMA-Ausfahrt”.

If you travel on the A5 from north or south, please exit at “Heidelberger Kreuz”, direction Mannheim (A656). Stay on that autobahn until you reach the special exit “VETERAMA-Ausfahrt”.

(Visitors please follow the VETERAMA-signs “Besucher”. Exhibitors please follow the signs “Anbieter”, “Motorrad”, and “Busse”.)


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How to get there using public transport

Hockenheim is easily reachable by train from both Mannheim from the north and Karlsruhe from the south. During major events such as VETERAMA, there is a shuttle bus departing at the Hockenheim train station towards the Hockenheimring. On foot it takes a walk of about 30 minutes from the train station to reach the event location. You may also take a public bus (Stadtbus) and get off at Waldstr./Friedhof (Saturdays until 2 pm, no service on Sundays). From there it’s a mere 500 m to the Ring.

How to get there with your car

From the north:
A6 Frankfurt / Mannheim: exit 29 “Schwetzingen / Hockenheim”
A61 Köln / Koblenz: exit 64 “Hockenheim”. Follow L 722 to Hockenheim. From there follow the pictographs to Hockenheimring and parking lots.
A5 Frankfurt / Heidelberg: exit 39 “Walldorf”. Follow B39 and signage.

From the south:
A5 Basel / Karlsruhe: exit 39 “Walldorf”. Follow B39 and signage.
A6 Stuttgart / Nürnberg / Heilbronn: At the interchange “Walldorfer Kreuz” change to A5, direction Frankfurt / Heidelberg. Next exit 39 “Walldorf”. Follow B39 and signage.

(Visitors please follow the VETERAMA-signs “Besucher”. Exhibitors please follow the signs “Anbieter”, “Motorrad”, and “Busse”.)

Opening hours & Prices

Day ticket
12th or 13th october 2019
15,00 €
Combo ticket
2 days (saturday & sunday)
22,00 €
Premium ticket
3 days (friday - sunday)
30,00 €
Family card
Parents with 2 children under 16 years - only sunday
26,00 €
Reduced fare
student or pupil identification card
13,00 €

Children up to including 15 years have free admission

Persons accompanying wheelchair users have free admission

Day ticket opening hours: Saturday 8:30 am – 6 pm, Sunday 8:30 am – 4 pm

Premium ticket opening hours: Friday 12 noon – 8 pm, Saturday 8:30 am – 6 pm, Sunday 8:30 am – 4 pm

All entry tickets can be purchased on site at the box office.


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Parking fee

Premium park ticket
friday to sunday (only cars)
20,00 €
Trailer parking day pass
per trailer
5,00 €
Trailer parking pass friday-sunday
per trailer
15,00 €
Parking day pass
saturday or sunday
6,00 €
Mobile home / camper / truck parking space
4 days – Th, Fr, Sa & Su
40,00 €
Mobile home / camper / truck parking space
3 days – Fr, Sa & Su
40,00 €
Mobile home / camper / truck parking space
day pass
20,00 €

The premium parking lot is located directly at the main entrance. Please follow the signage “Premium-Parkplatz”.

Campers please follow the signage “Camping”.

Showers are available at the VETERAMA open air space field 4c. The fee is 5 Euro/person. The opening hours are identical to the VETERAMA opening hours.

Persons with a disability certificate “AG” may park free-of-charge directly at the main entrance.


Opening hours & Prices

Day ticket
30th april or 1st mai 2021
12,00 €
Combo ticket
2 days (saturday & sunday)
18,00 €
Premium ticket
3 days (friday - sunday)
25,00 €
Family card
Parents with 2 children under 16 years - only sunday
20,00 €
Reduced fare
student or pupil identification card
10,00 €

Children up to including 15 years have free admission

Persons accompanying wheelchair users have free admission

Day ticket opening hours: Saturday 8:30 am – 6 pm, Sunday 8:30 am – 4 pm

Premium ticket opening hours: Friday 12 noon – 8 pm, Saturday 8:30 am – 6 pm, Sunday 8:30 am – 4 pm

All entry tickets can be purchased on site at the box office.


Buy your ticket now

Parking fee

Premium park ticket
friday to sunday (only cars)
15,00 €
Parking day pass
saturday or sunday
5,00 €
Shuttle
to the venue
2,00 €
Trailer parking ticket per trailer
per trailer
5,00 €
Mobile home / camper / truck parking space
4 days – Th, Fr, Sa & Su
40,00 €
Mobile home / camper / truck parking space
3 days – Fr, Sa & Su
30,00 €
Mobile home / camper / truck parking space
2 days – Sa & Su
20,00 €

The premium parking lot is located directly at the main entrance. Please follow the signage “Premium-Parkplatz”.

Campers please follow the signage “Camping”.

Persons with a disability certificate “AG” may park free-of-charge directly at the main entrance.


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