The Lokhalle (own spelling: LOKHALLE) is a multi-functional hall in Göttingen . It is located on the downtown side facing away from the train station in the western city . Operators of Lokhalle the GWG Economic Development Corporation and Urban Development Göttingen GmbH , which is also the Stadthalle Göttingen farmedAlready in 1855 a locomotive workshop was put into operation in Göttingen. Before and during the First World War, the railways were in Göttingen then significantly rebuilt and expanded. As part of this development, the building of today's engine shed in 1917 than in Lokrichthalle was Ausbesserungswerk (AW) for railways built. Here are major repairs, especially on steam engines , made of Göttingen on the north-south route and the Dransfelder ramp were used. Following the closure of Ausbesserungswerk 1976 the plant for almost two decades has been left to decay. The entire site was eventually sold. The building located on it, with the exception of Lokrichthalle (they had been included in the provisional list of monuments 1981) and a still occupied office building were demolished until the mid-1980s. In a concept of use for the site, designed by the architect Göttingen Jochen Brandi , a much larger Enriched west entrance of the station, a tower bridge over the station concourse as a connection to Lokrichthalle, a water park and a shopping center in the Lokrichthalle were provided, among other things. From these designs the construction of a road was finally realized only.