Moon Palace Arena
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| The Mondpalast Arena (May 2008) | |
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Stadium in the Wanne-Süd sports park (until 2009) |
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| place | Im Sportpark 20 44652 Herne , Germany
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 31 '19.2 " N , 7 ° 10' 18.8" E |
| opening | 3rd July 1955 |
| First game | July 3, 1955 Yugoslavia - Czechoslovakia (field handball) |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 13,500 seats |
| playing area | 105 m × 68 m |
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The Mondpalast Arena is a football stadium with an athletics facility in the Wanne-Süd district of the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Herne . It is mainly used for the football matches of the DSC Wanne-Eickel and holds 13,500 spectators. Formerly known as the stadium in Sportpark Wanne-Süd , the stadium was renamed on August 9, 2009. It is the first football stadium in Germany to bear the name of a theater. The sponsorship with the Volkstheater Mondpalast will initially last three years. Rudi Assauer carried out the inauguration as godfather.
The facility in Sportpark Eickel was opened on July 3, 1955 with a field handball game between Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia in front of 11,000 spectators. In the early 1990s, the sports facility was expanded with a covered grandstand. The clubhouse was completed in mid-2007.
Since the second team of FC Schalke 04 could not find a stadium suitable for the regional league in Gelsenkirchen, they played their home games in the Regional League West from 2008 to 2017 in the Mondpalast Arena. Conversion measures were implemented for this purpose. For example, a guest block with a separate entrance has been created. From 2019 until the completion of the Parkstadion , the Mondpalast-Arena and the Bottrop Jahnstadion will be used again as home arenas for the Schalke amateur team.
Web links
- stadionwelt.de: Detailed picture gallery at stadionwelt.de
- Stadium Wanne-Süd, Herne ( Memento from September 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Data on the stadium
- groundhopping.de: Visitor report from 2002
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kick- off in the Mondpalast Arena ( Memento from October 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ reviersport.de: Assauer as the famous godfather of the Arena Article from August 6, 2009