Mülheim City Hall

DALI, but simple: High-visibility staging with BEGA Connect

The staging of Mülheim City Hall relies on the user-friendly and extremely reliable BEGA Connect lighting control system.

The imposing structure and event location was built in the 1920s in the Ruhr region. It was almost completely destroyed during the Second World War, and was reconstructed in the 1950s. Since then, the building complex with its twelve event spaces has been a distinctive landmark of Mülheim’s cityscape. BEGA floodlights illuminate the neoclassical sandstone façade during the evening hours. 

The recent update of the illumination and control system has taken into account various requirements in full compliance with local guidelines: The scenic illumination highlights numerous historic details of the listed building. Sustainability, energy-efficiency based on LED luminaires, and environmental-friendliness are essential.

Together with the electrical contractor, the city of Mülheim has come up with a completely customized light staging design, taking environmental concerns into consideration. 

BEGA high-performance floodlights illuminate the lower part of the façade with a color temperature of 2200 Kelvin. The rectangular high-performance floodlights enable wide-area illumination at short distances. BEGA compact floodlights emphasize the pillars of the architecture. For these, a color temperature of 3000 Kelvin was selected.

Eighty-nine linear façade floodlights provide additional wide-area illumination of the recessed structure above. The façade floodlights are placed very close together directly on the façade, creating a homogenous lighting effect. 

The BEGA Connect light control uses the existing IP infrastructure with the DALI connectors and connects the lighting system to the cloud, allowing the programming and selection of different scenes from any location. A variety of scenes have already been saved, while additional ones can be conveniently created in just a few steps using the BEGA Connect app.