The General German Industrial Exhibition was designed to demonstrate German industry to a global audience, but was adversely impacted by a cholera epidemic.[1]
It ran from 15 July 1854[2] until 15 October.[3] There more than 5,000 visitors a day[2]
with more than 90,000 visitors on the first day.[3]
The building, the Glaspalast, followed the architecture of The Crystal Palace three years earlier in London.[4] It was made of glass and cast iron, over two levels inspired. It had two stories and over Шаблон:Cvt of floor area, and was Шаблон:Cvt tall.[3]
Cholera
There had been global cases of cholera (the third cholera pandemic before the festival, but the risk of it was downplayed and the exhibition[2] and a concurrent festival still took place.[1] By August the epidemic hit Munich, 3,000 people eventually died of cholera and some contracting it at the exhibition including a woman from Thaining visiting Munich to see the exhibit.[1]
The Glaspalast had been intended to be used as a botanic garden, but was used for exhibitions which helped establish Munich's reputation,[6] until it burned in 1931.[5] The Шаблон:Illm was moved to the Haidhausen quarter.
