Municipal ice rink Landshut

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Municipal ice rink Landshut
Municipal ice rink Landshut
Municipal ice rink Landshut
Data
place Gutenbergweg 32 84034 Landshut , Germany
GermanyGermany
Coordinates 48 ° 31 '47 "  N , 12 ° 8' 19"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '47 "  N , 12 ° 8' 19"  E
owner City of Landshut
operator City of Landshut
opening 1957
Renovations 1967
surface Ice surface
capacity 4,139 seats (of which 1,573 seats)
playing area 60 × 30 m
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Events

The municipal ice rink Landshut (also ice rink on Gutenbergweg ) is an ice rink in the Lower Bavarian capital Landshut . In addition to the ice rink for professional sports, the building complex consists of a second ice rink, an extensive bowling area , the “EVL Sportsbar” restaurant and the administrative building in the north of the building. The main user of the stadium is the EV Landshut with its youth teams and its professional department, which has been outsourced to a GmbH and has been playing in the DEL2 again since 2019 .

history

Although the history of ice hockey in Landshut goes back to the 1930s , there was no artificial ice rink in Landshut until 1957. With the rise of EV Landshut in the league, however, a weather-independent training and game facility became necessary. For this reason, the foundation stone of the artificial ice stadium Landshut was laid in the spring of 1957 at its current location on Gutenbergweg next to the banks of the Isar . A large part of the work was already completed in late autumn of the same year, so that on November 10th the stadium opened against EC Kitzbühel in front of 5,000 spectators. Ice hockey was played in the open air on Gutenbergweg for ten years before the stadium was roofed over and converted into a hall in 1967. At that time, the ice rink on Gutenbergweg was the first club's own ice rink in Germany. For some top games, the number of spectators was around 10,000 during this time. Over the following years, it became more and more difficult for the club to pay for the high operating costs. That is why the complex was acquired by the city of Landshut in 1981, and a “usage and leasing contract” ensured that EV Landshut would run regularly.

In the mid- 1980s the stadium was completely refurbished and a second ice rink was built as part of the expansion into the “ State Ice Hockey State Center ” of the Bavarian Ice Sports Association (BEV). The official audience capacity in Hall 1 after the renovation was 6,750 seats, including 1,600 seats. According to the city, the training hall has a standing room capacity of 800 spectators. After structural engineers discovered deficiencies in the roof structure of the second ice rink in the late 2000s , the hall was rejected beyond the 2010/11 season. Landshut city council then voted at the end of October 2010 for the general renovation of the second ice rink, which comprised almost three million euros. The only parts of the stadium that were not replaced in the course of the renovation are the ice surface itself and the concrete supports that also support the new roof. Banners , lighting and sound technology, displays and a covering of the area that had been open on three sides were newly built . The changing rooms were also renovated. The project started in spring 2011 and was completed in time for the 2011/12 winter season.

In December 2010, the city of Landshut reduced the stadium capacity to 4,996 seats. These included 1,696 seats. The trigger for the reduction was the entry into force of the new Venue Ordinance of 2008, which included special regulations for stadiums with a capacity of over 5,000 seats. While important issues such as the loudspeaker system, the operations center for the police and rescue workers or the marking of escape routes were not a problem for the ice rink, the anchoring of the breakwater in the standing area should have been renewed. Against the background of the low attendance figures for Landshut Cannibals at the time, the cost-intensive project was abandoned for the time being. The structural changes planned for the first time in 2011 to increase the reduced audience capacity were completed with a delay in time for the 2013/14 play-offs . The city of Landshut invested around 150,000 euros in a new breakwater, loudspeaker system and police operations center. This increases the maximum number of spectators to 6,737 (1,573 of which are seats).

In January 2019, it was decided to renovate the Landshut ice rink by 2022 for around EUR 20 million.

use

The main user of the Landshut municipal ice rink is on the one hand the Landshut ice skating club with its numerous youth ice hockey teams, a bowling department and a figure skating department . On the other hand, the professional ice hockey department of EV Landshut, which has been outsourced to EVL Spielbetriebs-GmbH, uses the building complex for their home games and for training purposes.

Since the stadium is the Bavarian state performance center for ice hockey, the Bavarian Ice Sports Association (BEV) is one of the other important users who hold various tournaments and training units on Gutenbergweg. In addition, the complex's training hall is available daily for public runs and school sports. The halls are not only rented to various ice hockey teams as part of the Landshut Hobby Leagues.

In the summer months street hockey is played in hall two of the ice rink and inline hockey is played on a special floor in hall one .

From May 26 to June 2, 2007, the municipal ice rink in Landshut was, alongside the ice arena in Passau, one of two venues for the 2007 Inline Hockey World Championship organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation .

gallery

  • Ice rink before a LES game

  • Training hall before the renovation in 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Stolzenberg: "In autumn a completely different discussion". Landshuter Wochenblatt No. 25, June 23, 2010
  2. ↑ Michael Stolzenberg: 3 million for ice hockey. Landshuter Wochenblatt No. 44, November 3, 2010
  3. ↑ wochenblatt.de Help, my stadium has shrunk
  4. ↑ Capacity of the ice rink increases to 6,737 spectators for the play-offs ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) idowa.de
  5. ↑ Ice stadium project worth millions: almost as good as new. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .