Ice hockey in Berlin

Berlin is considered the birthplace of German ice hockey : not only was the German National Ice Skating Association founded here in 1888 (afterwards several renaming, from 1949 to the dissolution of the German Ice Sports Association , DEV for short) as the first ice sports association in Germany. February 1897 also the first official ice hockey game in Germany on the Halensee . The academic sports club won after 2 × 20 minutes over a student team.

history

Teams of the first ice hockey tournament in Germany

Princes Ice Hockey Club

Club des Patineurs de Paris

Berlin ice skating club

Berlin hockey club

SC Charlottenburg

The beginnings (until 1908)

The first mention of the Berlin ice sports there was from the year 1865, in which the former clubs Berliner Schlittschuhclub , Berlin Skating Association in 1886 and the Skating Club Berlin mainly art and high-speed operation. At first, the bandy sport was very popular, which was reflected in the existence of numerous clubs. As early as 1900, ice hockey was played in the BSchC and other teams and the Berlin city championships were held. The pioneer of ice sports and ice hockey in Berlin was Hermann Kleeberg , who played a key role in the founding of the BSchC . After the Berlin Ice Palace was opened on August 31, 1908 in Martin-Luther-Straße in Charlottenburg , Kleeberg contracted ice ages for "his" club, which from then on owned a training facility in the areas of figure skating and ice hockey . In the absence of opponents, however, the ice hockey division was unable to maintain regular play operations, as the majority of the clubs followed the bandy at that time. Only European metropolises like Paris , London or Brussels had the infrastructure of an artificial ice rink, which was beneficial for Canadian ice hockey.

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A short time after the Ice Palace went into operation, Kleeberg organized an international tournament that is now considered to be the birth of ice hockey in Germany. On November 2, 1908, the Berlin Ice Skating Club and the Charlottenburger SC faced each other in the Ice Palace as part of this tournament, the BSchC won the game 13-0.

The first Berlin championships (1909–1914)

Ice hockey team of the Berlin Ice Skating Club, 1912

Berlin Masters 1910–1914
1910	Berlin ice skating club
1911	BFC Prussia
1912	BFC Prussia
1913	Berlin ice skating club
1914	Berlin ice skating club

In 1909 the so-called "Berlin Ice Hockey District" was founded, which hosted the first Berlin championship and from which the Berlin Ice Skating Club became one of the leading teams in Europe before the outbreak of the First World War . During the war, some players left the club, on the one hand because they were recruited into the army, on the other hand, foreign players went into political exile . In 1913 the Ice Palace experienced its financial ruin and had to be closed. The alternative venue was the Admiralspalast , which despite the ban - according to the instructions of the German Ice Skating Association, no sporting events were allowed to take place during the war - served as a training facility.

Berlin ice hockey between the world wars (1918–1939)

Berlin Masters 1921–1938
1921	Berlin ice skating club
1922	Berlin ice skating club
1923-1926	unknown
1927	SC Charlottenburg
1928	Berlin ice skating club
1929	SC Brandenburg
1930	Berlin ice skating club
1931	none
1932	Berlin ice skating club
1933	Berlin ice skating club
1934	Berlin ice skating club
1935	Berlin ice skating club
1936	?
1937	Berlin ice skating club
1938	Berlin ice skating club

Teams from the Berlin Ice Skating Club and the Charlottenburg Sports Club from the 1918/19 season

The first game after the war took place in the Admiralspalast on December 27, 1918. The BSchC competed in this game against BFC Preussen and won the game 5-1. However, the dimensions of the ice surface in the Admiralspalast were so small that instead of the usual seven players per team, only five could face each other. From the 1918/19 season onwards, regular games took place again and so the BSchC was able to successfully walk off the ice again at the German Championships in Munich in 1920.

With the acquisition of the property on Thüringer Allee near Reichskanzlerplatz , an ice rink was created next to a tennis facility in 1920, which kept the game going and attracted attention throughout Germany. Despite the subsequent inflation due to the global economic crisis , the BSchC could be kept debt-free and with the renovation of the Admiralspalast there was also another venue. Thanks to Hartmann's relationships with European ice hockey clubs, the German Ice Skating Association allowed well-known foreigners to play in the team of the ice skating club for the German championship at this time. Gustav Jaenecke emerged as a playful symbolic figure of this era , who delighted the Berlin audience with his achievements. Due to the numerous events that the club held, it became the most famous club in Germany, was allowed to compete with the best teams in Europe and became a figurehead of the early Weimar Republic . Many German, European and world championships were held in the "Hohenzollern" sports palace . The sporting successes came in the " Golden Twenties " in Berlin. Until 1933 - with the exception of 1922, when MTV Munich defeated the BSchC, and 1927, when the BSchC did not compete - all German championships were awarded to Berlin. After the " seizure " of the Nazis were the DC circuit players of Jewish descent prohibited the emergence in the team and a lot of foreign players left the club. This weakened the team considerably and did not win any more championships until 1936.

In the course of Hermann Kleeberg's involvement, numerous new artificial ice rinks were built in Germany that were intended to establish ice hockey as a popular sport. In Berlin, the later destroyed ice rink Friedrichshain was built in Langenbeckstraße next to the Volkspark Friedrichshain during the construction program .

Ice hockey in World War II (1939-1945)

After the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, the ice sports events were increasingly misused for propaganda purposes, which were subordinate to the program “ Strength through Joy ”. In the first final round after the entry into the war, the Berliner SC and the LTTC Rot-Weiß Berlin took part in group A and the Zehlendorfer wasps in group B. The Wasps reached fourth place in the final round in the Sportpalast, while the Berliner SC lost the final 1-0 to EK Engelmann Vienna . The team was able to confirm this place in the following year. In 1941, in addition to the established BSC and Rot-Weiß, the SC Charlottenburg also took part in the German championships , but could not qualify for the semi-finals. In this, the LTTC prevailed against the Wiener EG , but had to admit defeat to SC Riessersee in the final on March 15, 1941 in Cologne .

Because of the war events, the championship in 1942 and 1943 was only played up to the semi-finals - the final set by the association Rot-Weiß Berlin against the Mannheim ERC was canceled 24 hours before the start of the game. For the championship of 1944, the war syndicate formed KSG Brandenburg Berlin / Berliner SC , who met in the final to local rivals Red White and this on February 27 in the ice stadium in Berlin-Friedrichshain  - until then used the Sports Palace was the Allied bombing victim - with 4: 3 defeated and thus became the last German champion. On August 4, 1944, the National Socialist Reich Association for Physical Exercise announced that the Reich Championships in German sports would be discontinued and that no more sports competitions were held in the final months of the war.

Lineup of the last ice hockey game in Hitler's Germany
LTTC Rot-Weiß Berlin	KSG Brandenburg / Berlin Ice Skating Club
Hoffmann - Hoffmann, Trautmann - Hintermaier, Wehling, Nowak, Schwarz, Winger, Hentschel, Judith	Rohde - Schwinghammer, Dicker - Gustav Jaenecke , Freistritzer, Demmer, Rödiger, Cissewski, Hillmann, George, von Massenbach

Goal sequence
4th August 1944	Nowak Winger Nowak	3: 4 (0: 2, 1: 1, 2: 1)	Schwinghammer Demmer Freistritzer unknown	Ice stadium Berlin-Friedrichshain , Berlin-Friedrichshain

Ice hockey in the divided city (1945–1990)

Final of the "East Zone Championship" between SG Grün-Weiß Pankow and SG Frankenhausen

After the end of the Second World War, no adequate training and playing facilities were available due to the destruction of the ice rinks. Natural ice rinks were created and the entire Berlin championships were held there until 1951, mainly in the ruins of the sports palace. By decree of the victorious powers, all sports clubs had to be dissolved and there was the possibility of founding “communal sports groups”. So the BSchC experienced a temporary name change to SG Eichkamp . This club also won the first post-war championship in an internal tournament against SG Tempelhof, SG Pankow and SG Neukölln. After the Sportpalast was closed in 1947, further Berlin championships were held on alternative ice surfaces until 1951, all of which were won by SG Eichkamp.

The SG took part in an all-German tournament in 1947 and, after the withdrawal of the Krefelder EV and the Düsseldorfer EG, stood in the final against SC Riessersee , which the team lost 1:10 against Upper Bavaria. In the eastern part of the city , SG Grün-Weiß Pankow was runner-up in the "East Zone Championship" because only SG Frankenhausen was allowed to compete against the Berliners.

Berlin ice hockey in the western part

After the reopening of the Sports Palace on October 26, 1951, the BSchC competed against the newly formed national team in a friendly match. In the coming years, however, the club got into sporting and financial difficulties, so that the LTTC Rot-Weiß Berlin poached three top performers. In addition, there were disagreements between the players and the presidium, which resulted in the team not appearing and thus winning the 1952 Berlin championship of the LTTC Rot-Weiß. As a result, the Charlottenburg team became a new beacon of hope for Berlin ice hockey, which they initially lived up to. She succeeded in qualifying for what was then the highest German league, the Oberliga, and after two victories it was to come to the decisive duel against the Düsseldorfer EG in the home sports palace. However, the LTTC now had financial problems with the operator of the venue and the game was not played. Because of the high costs during home games, mainly away games were played in the following season. During the season, the LTTC was also awarded the Berlin championship at the “ Green Table ”, which met with considerable protests and the Berlin Ice Skating Association set a playoff against the BSchC, which the LTTC ultimately won 6: 4 after extra time. In the promotion games to the league , the team failed again and after the season, the sporting retreat followed.

Meanwhile, the BSchC was working on a fresh start and the team was reinforced with local players from the TC Grunewald and the dissolved LTTC. The duel for the unofficial Berlin championship was won by SG Dynamo Berlin from the eastern part of the city, which with the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle had the better infrastructural conditions for regular training operations. On the initiative of Hermann Kleeberg, the West Berliners were allowed to play four more games against the Ostclub and also use their training facility. In 1954 the "founding father" of Berlin ice hockey died. In the same year, the BFC Preussen was founded again and with the SC Einheit Berlin a new club grew up that trained young local players. Despite the meanwhile three West Berlin clubs and the renewed win of the Berlin championship of the BSchC, there was no ice rink on which one could train all year round. This changed under pressure from Heinz Henschel and so in 1956 the foundation stone was laid for the first pure ice rink in the west of the city, the Neukölln ice stadium, in which the BSchC from then on played its home games.

In terms of sport, the club stagnated in the next few years in the second-rate league and only got competition from within the city at the end of the 1960s. After the departure of numerous players, the BSchC was relegated to the regional league in 1969/70 and so BFC Preussen from Lankwitz became number one in the west , who had played in the shadow of Eichkämper all the years . With Heinz Lambrecht, the BSchC had a president who actively campaigned for the continued existence of the association despite the relegation. His goals were to strengthen the club and create a new home. With the merger of the ice hockey department of BFC Preussen and Hertha BSC on July 13, 1971, the basis for these goals was created. The venue was the newly created ice rink in Wedding , which, due to its increasing success, was again visited by the population in large numbers. At the end of the 1971/72 season, he was promoted back to the Bundesliga.

With the engagement of the trainer Xaver Unsinn and the publisher Axel Springer as patrons in the following season, the ice-skating club had become attractive for numerous players and with the DEB decision that foreigners who had lived in Germany for 36 months should not be included in the foreigner quota fall, the Berliners were able to achieve sixth place in the final ranking. In the following year, the Berlin Senate approved the construction of a multi-purpose hall on Jafféstraße and the then most modern ice rink in Germany was built with a capacity of 6000 spectators. In its first season, the BSchC reached the championship and was able to repeat this in 1976. Because of the immense financial contributions to the ice hockey department, the parent club had to regularly post club-internal allocations, the Bundesliga team was spun off from the parent club and re-established under the name Berliner Schlittschuh-Club Eishockey . The independent ice hockey section was still tied to the parent club by a cooperation agreement, but could not prevent financial loss at the end of the 1981/82 season. Massive money problems finally prevented the game in higher leagues and so the successor team of the BSchC acted in the following years in the regional , top and state leagues. In 2007, the main association finally had to register insolvency.

With the “Berliner Schlittschuh-Club-Preussen-Eishockey e. V. ”, or BSC Preussen for short , a new ice hockey club was founded in Berlin on April 29, 1983 from the bankruptcy assets of the BSchC and BFC Preussen. This united the two clubs that held the first Berlin championship. The BSC Preussen started in the 1983/84 season in the 2nd Bundesliga. After four seasons in this division, the club rose to the 1st Bundesliga in 1987, to which it has belonged ever since.

Berlin ice hockey in the eastern part

In the eastern part of Berlin numerous clubs gained importance. The SG Grün Weiß Pankow earned a second place in the first East German championship in 1949, which the successor team BSG Empor Berlin was able to repeat a year later. From 1951 they were called BSG Einheit Berliner Bär , which was repeatedly GDR youth champion in the mid-1950s. At that time, Joachim Ziesche was among the squad .

In addition to the already successful SG Dynamo Berlin , formerly the Sports Association of the German People's Police , and the SC Einheit Berliner Bär , a new association was formed in the early 1950s with the University Sports Association Science Humboldt-Uni Berlin . This was founded by a student initiative who participated in the construction of the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle and were allowed to complete courses on the ice as a reward for their achievements. Then the club reported for the game operation and qualified in their first season for the second-rate GDR league. Because the SG Dynamo was dissolved, the HSG rose to the highest GDR league, the Oberliga . Thanks to the expansion of the league for the 1953/54 season, the team held the class and booked a fourth place in the season and was allowed to compete in the 1954/55 league season, now reduced to four teams. At the same time, however, a wave of emigration hit the HSG as many players finished their studies or switched to the newly founded sports clubs. In 1956, the team finally disintegrated and stopped playing. To start with the decision, from 1954, only state-organized sports clubs, there was in the GDR thus three hockey clubs, who kept the game mode: the SC Dynamo whose support was the People's Police, the SC unit , the Berlin East from the magistrate was supported and the SC Motor, which received finances from the metalworking industry. The SC unit initially retained its successful position, but was replaced by the SC Dynamo from the 1960s. The resurgence of the newly founded TSC was prevented by the consequential DTSB decision, which said that only medal-rich sports were allowed to be promoted in GDR sport. All teams previously participating in regular operations were demoted to hobby teams and were not allowed to participate in league operations. In addition, all financial contributions were canceled and the GDR upper league was reduced to two teams, which did not change until 1990. Thus only SG Dynamo Weisswasser and SC Dynamo Berlin played the GDR championships in the "smallest league in the world". All other Berlin ice hockey teams were dissolved and from then on only played in leisure leagues , such as the BSG Monsator Berlin , Spartakus Berlin or the Berlin Academy of Sciences .

See also : Ice hockey in the GDR

Ice hockey in reunified Berlin (since 1990)

After the political change , the functionary of the SC Dynamo, Rüdiger Noack , made contact with the German Ice Hockey Federation and initially managed to get the club into the 2nd Bundesliga North. This was supposed to be decided at a members' conference, but failed due to the veto of individual clubs. Representatives of the 1st Bundesliga then unanimously decided to include the two Eastern clubs, SC Dynamo Berlin and SG Dynamo Weißwasser, in the top division.

This resulted in the first mandatory duels in the German championships between the newly founded East Berlin EHC Dynamo Berlin and the West Berlin SC Preussen . The explosiveness of the inner-city comparison continued through numerous games and name changes up to 2002.

Berlin local derbies in professional ice hockey (since 1990)

Local derby between the polar bears and the Capitals, 1997

In the very first season there were victories for both teams, with BSC Prussia causing the Dynamos to suffer the highest defeat in the club's history with 12-0. The 1990/91 season also saw the game, which was regarded as a "scandalous game", in which two players on both sides had to leave the ice with a match penalty after a mass brawl and the unsportsmanlike appearance on the ice passed to the spectators. Fireworks exploded in the corrugated iron palace and, following the mass brawl on the ice, there were also riots in the stadium. As a result of this game, there were often arguments between the fan groups. In addition, the games were monitored by a large police force for years.

Since 1990 there have been a total of 48 local derbies in competitive matches, 24 each in the Sportforum Hohenschönhausen and in the ice rink on Jafféstraße and in the 2001/02 season in the Deutschlandhalle , in which the polar bears or Dynamo won the ice 18 times and 28 Times the Prussians or Capitals. The two teams drew twice. What is remarkable about the derbies is the performance of the then Prussian goalkeeper Klaus Merk , who managed to score one goal in two games against the polar bears.

Berlin local derbies in professional ice hockey (since 2005)

Reception of the two German champions 2006, Eisbären (men) and OSC Berlin (women), in the Rotes Rathaus

After the final exit of the Berlin Capitals, the Berlin city derbies moved from the 1st Bundesliga (DEL) to the fourth-class regional league, where the teams from FASS Berlin and the ECC Preussen Juniors Berlin have been fighting for several years .

Due to the similarity in name to the earlier “Prussian teams”, the ECC managed to develop a small financial and thus a team advantage, so that the derbies often go out to favor the Prussians.

Even if there are currently no east-west derbies, the derbies of local rivals are often protected by police forces. The reason for this is the cooperation between FASS and the Berlin polar bears . After the men's team of Eisbären Juniors Berlin was dissolved , many players found accommodation at FASS Berlin.

Ladies ice hockey in Berlin

Women's ice hockey has been played in Germany since the mid-1970s . In 1975/76, the first independent women's ice hockey club DEC Eishasen Berlin was founded at the suggestion of the then trainer of the Berlin ice skate club and German trainer legend Xaver Unsinn . The "Ice Hare" played their first game against their only opponent at the time, the EV Füssen women's team , and lost this game 3: 6. In February 1979, the Berlin ice hare was entered in the club register as the first independent women's ice hockey club. Over the years the sport became more popular with women and a second Berlin club was founded. A women's ice hockey department emerged from the OSC Berlin , which was able to achieve the first championship title for a Berlin women's team in 1990/91 . In addition to the national championships, internal duels were held in the city, in which the "ice hare" came out victorious in 1986 and 1987 and in 1985 and 1988 the "ice ladies" from the OSC won.

Reception of the 2006 German women's ice hockey champions, the OSC Berlin, in the Rotes Rathaus

The OSC Berlin established itself in the national women's ice hockey landscape and played successfully for the German championship in the women's Bundesliga from 1988 to 2017 . The female “deer” and “ice ladies” achieved the championship title in 1991, 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010 respectively. In addition to national successes, the team also plays in international competition, including the Elite Women's Hockey League .

Due to a lack of players, the DEC Eishasen Berlin had to withdraw from the 2nd League North in 2007 and the “Eisladies” were now the only women's ice hockey team from Berlin. In June 2017, the women's department at OSC Berlin switched to Eisbären Juniors Berlin . The goal of the change should be more professional structures and more attention for the team. The arena of the polar bears is the corrugated iron palace in Sportforum Hohenschönhausen , where the women of the OSC Berlin played before.

Berlin clubs

Historically significant teams

• Berlin ice skating club (20-time German champion : 1912–14, 1920, 1921, 1923–26, 1928–33, 1936, 1937, 1974, 1976 and 1944 as a syndicate with SC Brandenburg)
• Zehlendorfer wasps
• BSC Preussen / Preussen Devils / Berlin Capitals: DEL founding member, multiple semi-finalist in the German championship, multiple junior champion. DEL-GmbH like parent association under insolvency administration
• BFC Prussia
• SC Brandenburg (German champion 1934, 1944 as a syndicate with the Berlin ice skating club)
• SC Charlottenburg
• DEC Eishasen Berlin (former women's Bundesliga team )
• OSC Berlin (former women's Bundesliga team , still state league today)

Other teams that tried their hand at higher class

• Steglitzer Tennis Club Berlin (1920s)
• LTTC Rot-Weiß Berlin (1940s)
• Hertha BSC (Regionalliga 1969/79)
• EHC North Berlin (third class 1969 to 1975)
• EG Wedding Berlin (fourth class 1975 to 1979)

Current teams (men)

class	league	societies
I.	DEL	Polar bears Berlin
II	DEL2	-
III	Oberliga Nord	-
IV	00 Regional League East	ECC Preussen Berlin , FASS Berlin , EHC Berlin Blues, Eisbären Juniors Berlin
V	00 Landesliga Berlin	BSG Eternit Berlin, ECC Preussen Berlin 1b, EHC Berlin Blues 1b, ERSC Berlin Bears, ESC Berlin , FASS Berlin 1b, FASS Berlin 1c, OSC Berlin , SC Charlottenburg , ASC Spandau
V	00State League Saxony *	FASS Berlin 1d
VI	00Baltic League +	OSC Berlin 1b

^*League of the Saxon Ice Sports Association

⁺ League of the LEV Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

In the 2019/20 season, one of Berlin's clubs plays ice hockey at a higher level, the Eisbären Berlin . Other teams play in the fourth-rate Regionalliga Ost, in which Berlin will provide four of the nine teams in 2019/20, and in the Landesliga Berlin. Two other teams take part in the play instinct of the Saxon Ice Sports Association and the LEV Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Landesliga Berlin

The focus of the regional league is camaraderie and fun in the game (here OSC Berlin)

The Landesliga Berlin is a popular sports league in which hobby ice hockey is played under the roof and according to the rules of the German Ice Hockey Federation. Although the league is the lowest organized division in Berlin ice hockey, oldies, late-season players and young players also meet here, as well as former professional players and play the Berlin regional league champions in a round-trip round, which together comprise around 15 games.

Each team is entitled to at least one training period per week from October to March. Many national league clubs have proper training operations. There are still numerous "wild leagues" under the regional league, in which, however, most of the games are played according to heavily modified game rules and without an arbitration agreement.

Current teams (women)

The Eisbären Juniors Berlin are the only club in which the women play . The juniors take part in the women's ice hockey Bundesliga .

More teams

Ice hockey is or was played in various other clubs in Berlin: Berliner SV 92 , BSG Eternit, ERSC Berliner Bären, PSV Berlin, EC Berlin, EC Adler Berlin. In the 1950s and 1960s, the following clubs played in the GDR upper league : BSG Einheit Berliner Bär (later: SC Einheit Berlin ), SC Motor Berlin (later: TSC Oberschöneweide ) and HSG Wissenschaft HU Berlin. Then took part in the GDR best determination : BSG Monsator (later BSG Foron or SG Dynamo Fritz Lesch), BSG Spartakus and BSG Academy of Sciences (1990 Berliner SV Academy of Sciences).

Ice rinks and stadiums

The following list shows all ice rinks in Berlin where ice hockey has been or is still being played. The list does not include pure ice rinks that are used for public ice skating.

See also : List of ice rinks in Germany

photography	Stadion	opening	Remarks
	Ice Palace on Martin-Luther-Strasse	September 1, 1908	The first national ice hockey game, which took place as part of an international tournament, was played in the Ice Palace. In the first game, the Berlin ice skating club and the Charlottenburger SC faced each other. On November 30, 1913, the sports facility experienced its financial ruin, was initially converted into a variety theater, later had to be closed and was reopened as Scala in 1920 . Architect: Walter Hentschel:
	Sports Palace	1910	The sports palace served as the home ground of the BSchC for many years. It was considered an elegant address where the company of entrepreneurs met to watch ice hockey. After damage and partial demolition due to the consequences of the war, the ice rink without a roof was reopened on October 26, 1951, but had to be finally closed on November 13, 1973 and was demolished.
	Admiralspalast	1911	After the First World War, the Admiralspalast on Friedrichstrasse was the training and home ground of the BSchC for years. Since it was not destroyed in the war, various ice hockey games were played there even after the war, before the building was converted into a new use in the 1920s.
	The BSchC's square on Thüringer Allee	1922	With the area on Thüringer Allee, the Berlin ice-skating club created a game and training facility that was ahead of its time when it was built and served as a model for an ice rink at the time.
	Ice rink Friedrichshain	1935	In this ice rink, which was built near the Volkspark Friedrichshain , the last German championship between the LTTC Rot-Weiß Berlin and the BSchC was held in 1944. In the last year of the war it was bombed by the Allies.
	Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle	May 1950	Before the Second World War, this hall was a meat market and was only later converted into a sports hall. It acted as the home ground of TSC Berlin and was the venue for numerous international tournaments. After the fall of the Wall , it was hardly used any more and finally closed in 1992 as part of the Olympic bid. The current velodrome was built at this point .
	Germany Hall	November 29, 1935	When it opened, the hall initially served as a location for major events. After the end of the war, it was rebuilt and, due to the demolition of the ice rink on Jafféstrasse , it was converted for ice sports on August 15, 2001 in favor of the Berlin Capitals . On May 27, 2008 the Berlin Senate decided to demolish the Deutschlandhalle and build a new ice rink near Glockenturmstrasse.
	Ice stadium Neukölln	December 15, 1956	Based on Heinz Hentschel's initiative, plans were drawn up in the early 1950s for a replacement ice rink for the destroyed Friedrichshain ice rink. Two ice rinks were to be built that could be connected to each other to create a speed skating oval. These plans were not implemented due to a lack of financial problems. The ice rink still exists today and is the only stadium in Berlin that is not covered for leagues.
	Sports forum Hohenschönhausen	November 20, 1960	For the 1957/58 season of the GDR league , the artificial ice rink in the Sportforum was put into operation for the first time and the SC Dynamo Berlin team thus had its own home game and training facility.
	Corrugated iron palace	1963	The corrugated iron palace has officially been the name of Hall 1 of the artificial ice stadium in the Sportforum Hohenschönhausen in Berlin since October 6, 2001 , which was the home of the Eisbären Berlin until the end of the 2007/08 DEL season . The teams of the Eisbären Juniors Berlin and some hobby teams continue to play in the hall. The operator of the stadium, which was completed in 1963, is the city of Berlin .
	Erika Hess ice rink	1967	The Erika Hess ice rink is the fourth largest ice rink in Berlin . It was completed in 1967 and is the home of the Berlin ice hockey clubs FASS Berlin and ECC Preussen Juniors Berlin .
	Ice rink Paul-Heyse-Strasse	1999	In the course of the construction of the Velodrome, this 250-person hall was built and houses the first team of ESC 2007 Berlin, OSC Berlin and ECC Preussen Juniors Berlin .
	Ice rink on Jafféstrasse	October 28, 1973	The ice rink was built in ten months in the immediate vicinity of the Deutschlandhalle . With a capacity of 6,000 spectators, mostly ice hockey games were played there. After years of discussion, the ice rink was demolished in April / May 2001 in the course of the southern expansion of the exhibition grounds.
	Horst Dohm ice rink	November 29, 1974	The ice rink, named after the former district mayor of Wilmersdorf, Horst Dohm, was built by Werner Deyle. The first speed skating World Cup race in Germany was held there in 1985 with an Olympic-sized 400 m speed skating rink.
	Lankwitz ice rink	Late 1970s	Similar to the Spandau ice rink and the ice rink in Berlin-Neukölln, the Lankwitz ice rink is intended more for amateur and amateur sports. In winter, the Kick on Ice project supported by Katarina Witt trains here . In summer, the area is used by the Berlin Inline and Skate Hockey League (BISHL).
	Mercedes-Benz Arena	September 10, 2008	The Mercedes-Benz Arena (formerly O 2 World) is the current home of the Eisbären Berlin . In addition to ice hockey and basketball, concerts and other events take place in the hall. With up to 17,000 seats and standing room, 59 spectator suites and around 2,000 parking spaces, the Mercedes-Benz Arena is the second largest multifunctional hall in Germany after the Lanxess Arena in Cologne.
	Spandau ice rink		Former ice rink in the north of the Spandau district. The ice rink was built around 2005 and was given a tent roof in 2008, which was dismantled at the Oranienburg ice stadium . The Spandau ice rink was demolished in 2013.
	Berlin-Tempelhof Airport Hangar 3	December 5, 2009	Due to the closure of the Deutschlandhalle, the Berlin Senate created a temporary solution for the ECC Preussen Juniors Berlin
	Ice rink Charlottenburg	March 2, 2012	After the closure of the Deutschlandhalle on the former parking lot P9 on Glockenturmstrasse in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf from 2009 to 2012, the hall with 1,000 seats was built for permanent ice sports, where ECC Preussen Berlin plays its home games.

Ice stadium Neukölln Sports forum Hohenschönhausen Corrugated iron palace Erika Hess ice rink Ice rink Paul-Heyse-Strasse Horst Dohm ice rink O 2 World Lankwitz ice rink Berlin-Tempelhof Airport Hangar 3 Ice rink Charlottenburg

Ice rinks currently in operation in Berlin

Web links

• Berlin Ice Sports Association
• Information about the Landesliga Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hockeyweb: DEB history (part 1) , accessed on February 3, 2009
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Karas: 100 years of ice hockey in Berlin, fascination through tradition . 2008, p. 9 ff.
3. ↑ Back to 1908 - Berliner Schlittschuh-Club History: Back to 1908 ( Memento from May 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 16, 2009
4. ↑ Allemagne 1909/10 at hockeyarchives.info (French)
5. ↑ Allemagne 1910/11 at hockeyarchives.info (French)
6. ↑ Allemagne 1911/12 at hockeyarchives.info (French)
7. ↑ Championnat d'Allemagne 1920/21 at hockeyarchives.info (French)
8. ↑ Championnat d'Allemagne 1921/22 at hockeyarchives.info (French)
9. ↑ Championnat d'Allemagne 1930/31 at hockeyarchives.info (French)
10. ↑ Horst Eckert: Olympic bronze 1932 for the German team . eishockeymuseum.de, accessed May 16, 2009
11. ↑ lotok.de: GDR Championship - not a single thing until 1970 , accessed on May 16, 2009
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