Wedding hall · Westerfilde, Dortmund
Hall, chairs, tables, kitchen. €790.
Saal Vier is a plain hall with a good floor, 220 chairs and a kitchen you are actually allowed to use. No corkage. No minimum spend. No fee for bringing your own cook. A big day without a big bill.
- seats, one room
- 220seats, one room
- the hall is yours
- 09:00–02:00the hall is yours
- corkage, ever
- €0corkage, ever
- walk from S-Bahn Westerfilde
- 6 minwalk from S-Bahn Westerfilde
01What's included
What €790 actually buys
This is the whole list. Nothing on this page is an upsell, and if something is missing from the list we do not quietly charge for it either — ask and we will tell you straight.
The hall from 09:00 to 02:00
Seventeen hours. Set up in the morning, dance until two. Not a four-hour slot with an overrun fee waiting at the end of it.
220 chairs and 26 tables
Stacked in the side room and yours to arrange however you like. Ralf will help you carry them and will not invoice you for it.
The kitchen
A six-ring range, two ovens, a 900-litre fridge and a dishwasher that clears a rack in three minutes. Bring your own caterer, or your own aunt.
Bar, glassware, ice
Glasses for 220, an ice machine and a cold room. Bring your own drinks — we do not sell any, so there is no corkage to invent.
Sound and house light
A PA with two speakers and a wired microphone, plus dimmable house light. Your DJ plugs in with a jack lead and gets on with it.
40 parking spaces
Free, on site, unbarriered. Westerfilde S-Bahn station is a six-minute walk for anyone who would rather not drive home.
The key the evening before
Collect it at 18:00 the day before at no extra cost, so you can decorate slowly instead of at seven in the morning.
A caretaker who answers
Ralf lives two streets away and picks up the phone until midnight. He has fixed a blown fuse in a wedding dress before.
02Prices
Three prices. That is all of them.
What you pay depends only on the date. Not on your guest list, not on your budget, not on how the conversation goes. The calendar below works the same numbers out for any day you like.
Summer Saturday
Saturday, May to September
€1.290
The busiest twenty-two dates of the year. If you want one, ask early — most go a year ahead.
Weekend rate
Friday and Sunday all year · Saturday in April and October
€890
The same hall, the same hours, the same everything. A Sunday wedding is the best-kept secret in Dortmund.
Winter and weekdays
November to March any day · Monday to Thursday all year
€790
Our lowest rate, and the one on the sign outside. Winter weddings here are warm, bright and half-empty of other people's weddings.
The only extras
- Chair covers
- White, laundered, entirely optional. Most people look at the chairs and skip them.
- €1,50 each
- Final cleaning
- Or sweep and mop it yourself before you hand the key back and pay nothing at all.
- €120 flat
- Key the evening before
- Included. We list it here because other halls charge for it.
- €0
- Deposit
- Held against damage and refunded to your account within five working days.
- €250
All prices include 19% VAT. There is no service charge, no corkage, no minimum spend, no kitchen fee and no per-guest fee.
03Calendar
Half-price dates
Every Sunday. Every Saturday from November to March. Those days are green below.
We call them half-price dates. Strictly it is 39% and 31% off a summer Saturday, and “roughly a third off” never fitted on the sign outside. The exact euro figure is printed on every single day in the calendar, so you can hold us to it.
November 2026
How to read the calendar
- €1.290 — summer Saturday
- €890 — Friday, Sunday, shoulder Saturday
- €790 — winter and weekdays
- Half-price date
- Already booked
- Closed
Come and look at it
The first Sunday of every month, 11:00 to 14:00, the doors are open and nobody has to make an appointment. Ralf will be there with the lights on and the chairs out.
- 6 December 2026 · 11:00–14:00
- 3 January 2027 · 11:00–14:00
- 7 February 2027 · 11:00–14:00
Add to your calendar by simply turning up.
04The hall
One hall, two setups
Saal Vier is a 1974 community hall on Speckestraße: a sprung parquet floor, four tall windows facing south, a five-metre ceiling and a row of paper lanterns that were put up in 2009 and have stayed because people like them. It is a plain room. That is precisely the point — it takes decoration beautifully and costs almost nothing to have.
The room, in numbers
- Floor area
- 340 m²
- Ceiling height
- 5.8 m
- Floor
- Sprung parquet, 1974, refinished 2021
- Access
- Step-free from the car park
- Side room
- 48 m² for gifts, coats and the cake
- Power
- Two 16 A CEE outlets for a band
Two ways to lay it out
Banquet
140 seatedFourteen round tables of ten, with a dance floor left standing at the window end. Nothing has to be moved during the evening.
Rows
220 seatedStraight rows facing an aisle for a ceremony or a service. Two people rearrange it into a buffet and a bar in about twenty minutes.
The hall as it actually looks
These photographs are untouched daylight, taken on an ordinary Tuesday. We have not put a bride in them and we have not warmed up the colours.
The kitchen. Six rings, two ovens, and yours. 
The lanterns. Up since 2009, still fine. 
The foyer. Terrazzo, coat rack, no fuss. 
The chairs, between weddings.
05Catering
Catering, if you want it
You do not have to use any of them. The kitchen is yours either way, none of these firms pay us a commission, and we do not take a cut of your food bill. They are on this page because our guests kept asking who was good.
Küçük Catering
LütgendortmundTurkish and German buffets
from €14 per head
Does 200 covers without breaking a sweat. Brings its own chafing dishes.
Fleischerei Brandt
WesterfildeCold platters, roast pork, a Currywurst stand at midnight
from €9 per head
Two streets away. Will deliver at 11:00 and collect the trays on Monday.
Tandoor Haus
MartenNorth Indian buffet, vegetarian and halal
from €16 per head
The only one of the four that also brings its own staff for the evening.
Konditorei Lemke
HuckardeWedding cakes and the afternoon coffee table
from €4,50 per head
Three tiers, no pillars, no sugar swans unless you insist.
Or cook it yourself
Two or three families a month do exactly that, and the kitchen was built for it. There is no fee for using it, no requirement to hire a chef and no list of approved suppliers. Bring your own pots if you want the big ones — ours hold 40 litres.
06FAQ
Questions people actually ask
Can we really bring our own drinks?
Yes. We do not sell drinks at all, so there is no bar income for us to protect with a corkage charge. Bring crates, bring a keg, bring your uncle's homemade Schnaps. The cold room is included and so is the ice machine.
Is there a minimum spend or a minimum number of guests?
No, neither. We have let this hall for a 34-person golden wedding and for a 214-person Turkish engagement in the same month, at the same price. The rate is for the room, not for the people in it.
How late can we play music?
Until midnight with the windows open, and until 02:00 with them closed and the terrace doors shut. Speckestraße is residential and our neighbours have been patient for fifty years, so we hold that line properly — but 02:00 is a genuine 02:00, not a polite hint at half past midnight.
Do we have to clean up afterwards?
You take your decorations, your bottles and your food waste. The floor is either yours to sweep and mop before you hand back the key, or ours for a flat €120. Most people book the €120 and go to bed.
Can we get married here, or only celebrate?
A free ceremony (freie Trauung) with your own celebrant is completely fine in the hall and costs nothing extra. The registry office itself is Standesamt Dortmund-Mengede, nine minutes away by car, and most couples sign there in the morning and arrive here at two.
Can we see the hall before we book?
The first Sunday of every month, from 11:00 to 14:00, the hall is open and no appointment is needed. If that never suits, ring Ralf and he will meet you there on a weekday evening. We have never charged anyone to look at a room.
What happens if we have to cancel?
More than 90 days before the date: you get the whole €250 deposit back. Between 90 and 30 days: we keep €125. Inside 30 days: we keep the €250. There is no further charge and no percentage of the hire fee, because the hire fee is not due until the week of the event.
Is the hall accessible?
Step-free from the car park to the floor, no thresholds inside, and a wide accessible WC with a fold-down rail off the foyer. The stage has two steps and no ramp — that is the one place we cannot yet get everyone, and we say so rather than leave you to find out.
07Enquire
Ask about a date
A person reads every enquiry and answers within one working day with a yes or a no and a price. No brochure, no “from” prices, no sales call at half past six in the evening.
Or just ring
- Address
- Speckestraße 12
44357 Dortmund-Westerfilde - Phone
- +49 231 944 82 10
- hallo@saal-vier.de
- Office hours
- Monday to Friday, 10:00–18:00. Saturdays we are usually in the hall anyway.
Where it is
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Getting there
- S-Bahn S2 to Dortmund-Westerfilde, then a six-minute walk down Speckestraße.
- By car: A45 exit Dortmund-Mengede, then five minutes. 40 free spaces on site, no barrier.
- Taxis from Dortmund Hauptbahnhof take about twenty minutes and cost around €28.