Centralstation Darmstadt, Event venue in Darmstadt, Germany

Centralstation Darmstadt is an event venue located in the city center with multiple performance spaces designed for concerts, exhibitions, and cultural gatherings. The building contains specialized areas equipped for various types of live performances and artistic presentations.

Built in 1888 as Darmstadt's first power station, planned with the involvement of electrical engineering pioneer Erasmus Kittler, it supplied street lighting, the ducal court, the court theatre and from 1897 the tramways, making Darmstadt the third city worldwide with area-wide electricity after New York and Berlin. Expanded in 1903–1905 with a new boiler and machine house, it was shut down in 1915 and served as a switchyard until 1976. In 1997 the city decided to use Hall A as a cultural venue; it reopened on 25 March 1999.

The venue hosts the award ceremony of the Ricarda-Huch-Preis of the Wissenschaftsstadt Darmstadt, the Literarischer März and the autumn meeting of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. Its programme ranges from rock, pop, hip-hop and jazz to world music and classical concerts, drawing around 300,000 visitors a year.

The ground-floor hall is over seven metres high and holds up to 1,200 guests on 450 m²; a folded steel staircase leads to the first-floor gallery. The second-floor lounge, glazed towards the hall, lets you watch events from above, and the third floor has a festive hall for up to 450 people. The venue also opens regularly as a café and restaurant.

The hall's folded steel staircase leads to a first-floor gallery, and the glass-walled American-bar lounge on the second floor looks directly onto the stage below. The building also hosts the Ricarda-Huch-Preis ceremony, the Literarischer März and the autumn meeting of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.