Armin Wolf Arena
| Armin Wolf Arena | |
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| The arena at the 2009 World Cup | |
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Regensburg , Germany
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 1 '33 " N , 12 ° 8' 22" E |
| start of building | September 1, 1997 |
| opening | July 21, 1998 |
| First game | July 21, 1998 |
| Extensions | 2014 |
| surface | race |
| costs | 1 million euros |
| capacity | 3,100 |
| Capacity (internat.) | up to 11,500 |
| playing area | Left Field: 321 ft (98 m) Center Field: 403 ft (123 m) Right Field: 321 ft (98 m) |
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The Armin Wolf Arena in Regensburg is the largest baseball stadium in Germany. It is located in the Baseball Express Park and has been the venue for the Regensburg Legionnaires since 1998 . The stadium has a capacity of 1100 seats and 2000 standing places and was named after the sports reporter Armin Wolf ( Funkhaus Regensburg ).
As an officially recognized Bavarian state baseball center and federal base south , the stadium in the east of Regensburg also houses the selection teams of the Bavarian Association and the national youth team.
Construction phase
On September 8, 1996, the extraordinary general meeting of the Bavarian Baseball and Softball Association decided to award the state performance center to Regensburg. Twelve days later, the Bavarian State Ministry for Education, Culture, Science and Art recognized Regensburg as the official state performance center.
After the early building permit from the city of Regensburg and the Free State of Bavaria, construction began on September 1, 1997.
After a construction period of ten months and a construction cost of 1 million euros, the Armin Wolf Arena was ceremoniously opened on July 21, 1998 as part of the B-European Cup Winners' Cup, which the legionaries were then able to win.
The stadium was rebuilt and expanded to host some games of the 2009 World Baseball Championship in Europe. The foundation stone of the new Armin Wolf Arena was laid on November 13, 2008 by Mayor Hans Schaidinger. The audience capacity has increased from 3,100 to 11,500 seats. New changing rooms and previously non-existent, permanent sanitary facilities were also built. The renovation cost a total of 1.4 million euros.
All additional grandstands were dismantled after the World Cup, only the 1,100 installed seats on the existing seats remained.
Between 2014 and 2016, a building for the Regensburg sports boarding school with practice rooms and a second baseball field were also built on the site.
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Since then, national and international competitions have been held regularly in Germany's largest baseball stadium in addition to Bundesliga games for legionaries. The German Baseball Open invitation tournament has been held annually since 1999 , and teams from the continents of Australia, Europe and North America have already been guests. In 2004 the Regensburg Stadium was also the venue for the European Baseball Championship (B-Pool).
Since the opening of the state performance center on July 21, 1998, cadre measures for the individual Bavarian teams have been carried out regularly in Regensburg.
On February 12, 1999, on the initiative of the German Baseball and Softball Association, the Federal Ministry of the Interior recognized Regensburg as a federal base with the consent of the German Sports Association. Since then, Regensburg has also been home to viewing and training courses for German national teams.
From September 9th to 12th, 2009 one of the World Cup preliminary round groups with the countries USA, Germany, China and Venezuela played in the enlarged stadium to advance to the next round.
The Buchbinder Cup has been held annually in the Armin Wolf Arena since 2010. Four German professional teams play against each other on one weekend. Since July 2010 there has been an open-air cinema event every day in July and August.
In 2012 Regensburg hosted one of the World Baseball Classic qualifying rounds, which took place from September 20 to 24 in the expanded Armin Wolf Arena.
From September 12 to 16, 2014, part of the 2014 European Baseball Championship was held in the Armin Wolf Arena. The games of group A, in which the German national team was seeded, took place here.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Image enhancement for baseball players . Mittelbayerische Zeitung - Mittelbayerischer Verlag KG. November 24, 2008. Retrieved November 30, 2008.
- ↑ Radio Charivari: Ceremonial laying of the foundation stone at the Armin-Wolf Arena ( Memento from December 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Ceremonial laying of the foundation stone at the Armin-Wolf Arena
- ↑ Ticket sales start for the baseball World Cup in Regensburg ( Memento from September 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Important stage victory for the legionaries . Mittelbayerische Zeitung - Mittelbayerischer Verlag KG. April 1, 2014. Retrieved April 15, 2014.
- ↑ The boarding school of the legionaries is open . Mittelbayerische Zeitung - Mittelbayerischer Verlag KG. April 16, 2016. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
- ↑ Open Air Cinema in the Armin Wolf Arena
- ↑ European Baseball Championship 2014. Accessed on June 16, 2014 (German).