Time Warp (festival)

                                                                                                                                                             Time Warp is an annual electronic music festival in Mannheim, Germany.The festival was introduced in 1994 on the other side of the river Rhine in Ludwigshafen. As a cultural festival, the main sponsor was TDK Marketing Europe from 2005 to 2007. The new sponsor is Cosmopop.In 2002, the organizers initiated cooperation with the beverage company Storm which is exclusively served at similar festivals.2005 saw the launch of three separated festival divisions: blue for main event, red for Labelcamp and green, an area for miscellaneous events and presentations.Earlier festival locations included Prague,  Berlin and also Bremen, although most took place in Mannheim. The next Time Warp Festival will take place on December 4, 2010 Sporthallen Zuid in Amsterdam with live sets by Sven Väth, Laurent Garnier, Loco Dice, Karotte and more.This article is about the city in Germany. For other uses, see Mannheim (disambiguation).Mannheim is a city in southwestern Germany. With about 315,000 inhabitants, Mannheim is the second-largest city in the Bundesland of Baden-Württemberg, following the capital city of Stuttgart.Mannheim is located at the confluence of the River Rhine and the River Neckar in the northwestern corner of Baden-Württemberg. The Rhine separates Mannheim from the city of Ludwigshafen, just to the west of it in Rhineland-Palatinate. The border of Baden-Württemberg with the Bundesland of Hesse is just north of Mannheim, and Mannheim is just downstream along the Neckar from the city of Heidelberg. Mannheim isthelargestcityoftheRhineNeckarArea,ametropolitanareawithabout2.4millioninhabitants.Mannheim is unusual among German cities in that the streets and avenues of Mannheim's central area are laid out in a grid pattern, just like most North American and Australian cities and towns. Because of this, the city's nickname is "die Quadratestadt" (the German word for "city of the squares"). One main route through the streets and avenues runs by a large 18th century palace, the Mannheim Palace. This former home of the rulers of the Palatinate now houses part of the University of Mannheim.The civic symbol of Mannheim is der Wasserturm (the water tower), an old tower that is located just east of the city's centre.Mannheim is also the location of both the start and the finish of Bertha Benz Memorial Route.