HDI arena
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| Lower Saxony Stadium | |
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| The stadium in August 2013 | |
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Lower Saxony Stadium (1954-2002) |
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| place | Robert-Enke-Strasse 3 30169 Hanover , Germany
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 21 '36.1 " N , 9 ° 43' 52.4" E |
| operator | Hannover 96 Arena GmbH & Co. KG |
| start of building | 1952 February 25, 2003 |
| opening | September 26, 1954 January 23, 2005 |
| First game | October 16, 1954 Germany - France 1: 3 January 23, 2005 Hannover 96 - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0: 3 |
| Extensions | 1972, 2003-2004 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| costs | New building in 1952: approx. 4 million DM, expansion 1972: 26 million DM, expansion 1998: 13.5 million DM, conversion 2003/04: 63.04 million euros |
| architect | Schulitz + Partner Architects |
| capacity | 49,200 seats |
| Capacity (internat.) | 45,100 seats |
| playing area | 105 m × 68 m |
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The HDI-Arena ( proper spelling : HDI Arena ), originally and in parlance often the Lower Saxony Stadium , is a football stadium with 49,200 covered spectator seats in the Lower Saxony state capital Hanover . It is located in the Sportpark Hannover in the Calenberger Neustadt near the Maschsee . The stadium was built in 1954 as the Lower Saxony stadium for originally 86,656 spectators and has since been rebuilt several times to host various major football events. With this space it was at that time, after the Olympiastadion Berlin , the second largest stadium in the Federal Republic .
history
Build on rubble
The Lower Saxony Stadium was planned in the early 1950s by the architects Heinz Goesmann and Richard Konwiarz under city planner Rudolf Hillebrecht . The building founded in part on Frankipfählen .
During the construction of the stadium between 1952 and 1954, rubble was used to build a huge wall on which the seats of the then dominant west stand were built. The rubble came from Hanoverian buildings that had been destroyed by the air raids on Hanover in World War II. The construction costs amounted to four million DM. The upper and lower tier were a minor structural sensation at that time, the planners spoke of an "outer" and an "inner" stadium. The sports arena was inaugurated on September 26, 1954. After the handover, various sports and disciplines such as relay races , rugby , floor exercise , gymnastics and folk dance could be seen. The first soccer game was played by Hannover 96 and city rival Arminia . The 96 team won the short game 1-0 with a goal from Hannes Tkotz .
In 1962, Eduard Bargheer created a large glass mosaic on the subject of sports in the August Wagner workshops in Berlin , which is now located at the south entrance of the stadium. Until 2003 it was on the outer wall of a now demolished gymnasium next to the east stand.
The first soccer team from Hannover 96, which had previously played in the Eilenriedestadion , regularly played their home games in the Niedersachsenstadion from 1959 onwards. The clubs SV Arminia Hanover , OSV Hanover , TSV Havelse and Sportfreunde Ricklingen , which had meanwhile been promoted to the second and third divisions, played numerous games in the Lower Saxony Stadium.
Up until the renovation in 2003, the stadium had held 29 international football matches, four German championship finals, nine DFB Cup finals, two DFB Supercup finals and one game in the European Cup Winners' Cup.
Rebuilds from 1974 to 2000
The stadium was renovated for the 1974 World Cup . The number of seats was increased to 38,000 by converting the upper tier of the west stand from standing room to seated, which reduced the total capacity to 60,400 spectators. In addition, the upper tier of the west stand was roofed over. The renovation costs amounted to 26 million German marks.
For the European Football Championship in 1988 , further, but smaller, modifications were made.
Around 1994, the conversion of wooden benches to single folding seats in the east stand and the conversion of 8,000 standing places in the G-block of the south curve to single bucket seats resulted in a capacity reduction to 56,000 places.
In 1997 there were plans by a private investor to build a 40,000-seat Superdome, which ultimately failed.
In 1998, the city of Hanover decided to completely renovate the building, which was to be implemented in two construction phases for 68 million German marks. The stadium should receive athletics facilities and refurbished for international matches.
The public funds available from the state of Lower Saxony, the city and the municipal association of Hanover, amounting to a good 42 million German marks, were not sufficient for the realization, however, and a private investor to close the funding gap was not found. The realization of the second construction phase, which provided for the demolition and two-tier new construction of the east stand and finally the roofing of 80 percent of the stadium seats, was thus a long way off.
After completion in May 2000, the first phase of construction led to a capacity of around 50,000 places and cost 13.5 million German marks. The change from wooden benches to single bucket seats and the widening of the circulation behind the lower tier west, on which new wheelchair spaces were set up, were the reason for the decrease of 6,000 spaces, in addition to a safety-related reduction in the permitted standing space in the unchanged standing room blocks.
Until 2003, the stadium had high floodlight masts reminiscent of toothbrushes , athletics facilities including a running track and around 60% uncovered seats. The massive, dominant west grandstand with a wide-spanning roof, a relatively small main grandstand with a corrugated roof, two individually standing large standing room blocks (one was converted to seats in 1994) and the striking floodlight masts gave the stadium an unmistakable character.
Renovation 2003/2004
When Germany was awarded the 2006 World Cup , a complete roofing became necessary in order to be considered to host World Cup games. So there was another renovation in 2003/04.
Around 70% of the stadium was demolished, including areas that were renovated in 1999/2000, and then converted into a pure football stadium. All that remained was the huge wall with almost 20,000 seats in the west stand, which was now completely forested on its back with 50-year-old trees. The roof and about a quarter of the seats on the outer edges of the west stand were demolished like the north, south and east stands. The renovation cost 63.04 million euros.
The conversion was carried out as part of a concession model . The Niedersachsenstadion Projekt- und Betriebsgesellschaft mbH & Co KG (later Hannover 96 Arena GmbH & Co KG) received the right to use the stadium as a concessionaire until 2030 and is responsible for the renovation and operation until then. The state of Lower Saxony, the Hanover region and the city of Hanover supported the renovation with 21.47 million euros. Hannover 96 Arena GmbH & Co KG is owned by Hannover 96 Sales & Service GmbH & Co KG.
The lawn, under which a powerful drainage system and underfloor heating were installed, was moved directly to the west stand after the athletics facilities were removed and the other stands were built around it.
The new roofing is the real novelty of the stadium. The roof is divided into two areas: the outer ring, which is covered with a trapezoidal sheet, and the inner ring, which is covered with an ETFE film. This film allows over 90% of the UV-A and UV-B light to pass through. A replacement of the turf, as is done several times per season in Dortmund's Westfalenstadion or Hamburg 's Volksparkstadion , because the turf there is not adequately supplied with daylight due to the high stands and roof structures, is therefore less necessary in this stadium.
Instead of the previous scoreboard, the stadium got two modern video boards (4: 3 format, 43 square meters, 64,000 LEDs) and instead of the floodlight masts, popularly known as "toothbrushes", 160 modern individual spotlights that were integrated into the roof structure and an illuminance of 1500 Lux deliver.
Architecturally, the stadium differs from other new stadium buildings primarily through its asymmetry. Since the old west grandstand with its low angle of inclination was retained and the new east grandstand was to be built as steeply as possible, the rear grandstands had to be constructed in such a way that the gradient increases gradually from west to east.
The new business and box area, as well as the press area, are located in the east stand of the stadium. There are around 1250 business seats, 29 VIP boxes for ten to twelve people and 96 press seats. At the beginning of the 2007/08 season, another VIP area called “Club 96” was opened on the top floor of the east stand. The “Stammtisch”, a two-story VIP tent that was set up by rights marketer Sportfive , has also existed since then . Since the renovation, there are new boxes directly under the roof of the west stand at the location where the press booths were previously.
The converted stadium was inaugurated on the first Bundesliga matchday after the winter break (2004/05 season) on January 23, 2005 with the game Hannover 96 - Bayer 04 Leverkusen (3-0). It now offers around 49,000 spectators. About 8,000 of these are standing, which can be converted into 4,000 seats for international games. There are also 29 boxes and 1,241 so-called business seats. The electronic entry and payment system was also introduced after the renovation. Since then, all catering has been cashless.
For the duration of the 2006 World Cup, all standing areas were converted into seats. This reduced the stadium's capacity to 43,000 seats for these games.
Modifications since 2015
A minor renovation should take place during the 2015 summer break. In the middle of the upper tier of the north stand in the lower rows, around 400 standing places were to be created from approx. 200 seats; a gesture with which the management wanted to meet the protesting ultras who have had their seats in this area since the 2004/05 season. Due to the lack of a building permit, the renovation was finally delayed until September 2015.
During the summer break of 2018, the two video panels installed in 2004 were replaced by 64 square meter high-resolution (636,000 LED) models in 16: 9 format.
Naming rights
In 2002 Hannover 96 leased the naming rights to the stadium to the financial services provider AWD for five years . In 2007 the agreement was extended for a further five years until June 2012. In January 2012, the AWD Group announced that it was extending the ongoing contract for renting the stadium name by one year until summer 2013. The stadium was called the AWD Arena until June 2013. On February 13, 2013, the Swiss insurance group Swiss Life, as the successor to AWD, announced that the expiring contract for the use of the naming rights would not be extended. Swiss Life gave up the AWD brand in 2013.
On April 19, 2013 Hannover 96 and the HDI Group announced that the stadium will be called HDI Arena from July 2013 for the next seven years. In November 2019, the contract was extended to June 30, 2022.
During the FIFA Confederations Cup 2005 and the 2006 World Cup , the stadium was called the FIFA WM-Stadion Hannover .
The old name Niedersachsenstadion is still used in fan circles.
Fan curves
In the 1970s and until the beginning of the 1980s, the so-called Lindener curve, in which the fan block was located, was in what was then seating block M in the southwest area on the upper tier of the west stand. Today this corresponds roughly to the newly built standing room area. The fans in the fan block were collectively called 'Red Wolves' after the name of the largest fan club at the time. At the beginning of the 1980s, the fan block was relocated to the opposite side in a small standing area in the northernmost end of the western upper tier behind the gate, which was named H31, for economic reasons and for security reasons. At the end of the 1990s, the fan area began to expand to the neighboring seating block I32. H31 in particular remained a kind of synonym for the fan area and the fans gathered there until the renovation in 2002. Today's fan area of the home team Hannover 96 is the entire north curve with seats and some standing room created later in the upper tier and only standing room in the lower tier.
Football internationals
The German men's national team has so far played 25 international matches in the stadium.
Football World Cup 1974
There were two games each in preliminary group 3 and intermediate group A:
| Sat., June 15, 1974, 1st main round, group 3 | |||
 Netherlands |
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 Uruguay
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2: 0 (1: 0) |
| Wed., June 19, 1974, 1st main round, group 3 | |||
.svg){kind=small} Bulgaria
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Uruguay
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1: 1 (0: 0) |
| Wed., June 26, 1974, 2nd main round, Group A | |||
.svg){kind=small} Brazil |
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 German Democratic Republic
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1: 0 (1: 0) |
| Sun., June 30, 1974, 2nd main round, Group A | |||
| Brazil |
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 Argentina
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2: 1 (1: 1) |
European Football Championship 1988
During the European Football Championship in 1988 there was a group 1 and 2 group match.
| Sat., June 11, 1988, preliminary round, group 1 | |||
 Denmark
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- |  Spain |
2: 3 (1: 1) |
| Wed., June 15, 1988, preliminary round, group 2 | |||
 Ireland
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 Soviet Union
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1: 1 (1: 0) |
FIFA Confederations Cup 2005
The 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup played two group matches and one semi-finals.
| Thursday, June 16, 2005, 6:00 p.m., Group B | |||
 Japan
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 Mexico
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1: 2 (1: 1) |
| Sun., June 19, 2005, 8:45 p.m., Group B | |||
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Mexico
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 Brazil |
1: 0 (0: 0) |
| Sat., June 26, 2005, 6:00 p.m., semi-finals | |||
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Mexico
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Argentina
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1: 1 n.V. (0: 0, 0: 0), 5: 6 i. E. |
Football World Cup 2006
At the 2006 World Cup, four preliminary round matches and one round of 16 were played.
| Mon., June 12, 2006, preliminary round, group E. | |||
 Italy |
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 Ghana |
2: 0 (1: 0) |
| Fri., June 16, 2006, preliminary round, group D. | |||
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Mexico |
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 Angola |
0-0 |
| Tue., June 20, 2006, preliminary round, Group A | |||
 Costa Rica |
- |  Poland |
1: 2 (1: 1) |
| Fri., June 23, 2006, preliminary round, group G | |||
 Switzerland |
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 South Korea |
2: 0 (1: 0) |
| Tue., June 27, 2006, round of 16 | |||
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Spain |
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 France
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1: 3 (1: 1) |
German national team
These encounters have taken place since 1954:
| Saturday, October 16, 1954, friendly match | |||
 BR Germany
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- | France |
1: 3 (0: 2) |
| Saturday, September 15, 1956, friendly match | |||
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BR Germany
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1: 2 (1: 2) |
| Sun., December 22, 1957, friendly match | |||
| BR Germany |
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 Hungary
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1: 0 (1: 0) |
| Sunday, December 20, 1959, friendly game | |||
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BR Germany
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.svg){kind=small} Yugoslavia
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1: 1 (0: 1) |
| Tue., May 12, 1964, friendly match | |||
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BR Germany
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 Scotland
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2: 2 (2: 0) |
| Thursday, June 23, 1966, friendly match | |||
| BR Germany |
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Yugoslavia
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2: 0 (1: 0) |
| Wed., March 22, 1967, friendly match | |||
| BR Germany |
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.svg){kind=small} Bulgaria
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1: 0 (0: 0) |
| Saturday, June 1, 1968, friendly match | |||
| BR Germany |
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 England
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1: 0 (0: 0) |
| Wed., May 13, 1970, friendly match | |||
| BR Germany |
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Yugoslavia
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1: 0 (1: 0) |
| Wed., September 8, 1971, friendly match | |||
| BR Germany |
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Mexico
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5: 0 (4: 0) |
| Wed., October 10, 1973, friendly match | |||
| BR Germany |
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 Austria
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4: 0 (2: 0) |
| Wed., October 11, 1976, friendly match | |||
| BR Germany |
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 Czechoslovakia
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2: 0 (2: 0) |
| Wed., November 19, 1980, friendly match | |||
| BR Germany |
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France
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4: 1 (2: 1) |
| Wed., February 17, 1982, friendly match | |||
| BR Germany |
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 Portugal
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3: 1 (2: 1) |
| Wed., March 28, 1984, friendly match | |||
| BR Germany |
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Soviet Union
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2: 1 (1: 1) |
| Wed., October 15, 1986, friendly match | |||
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BR Germany
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Spain
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2: 2 (0: 1) |
| Wed., May 1, 1991, European Championship qualification game | |||
| Germany |
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 Belgium
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1: 0 (1: 0) |
| Sun., May 29, 1994, friendly match | |||
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Germany
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- | Ireland |
0: 2 (0: 1) |
| Sat, October 11, 1997, World Cup qualification game | |||
| Germany |
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 Albania
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4: 3 (0: 0) |
| Wed., August 16, 2000, friendly match | |||
| Germany |
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Spain
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4: 1 (1: 0) |
| Wed., October 16, 2002, European Championship qualification game | |||
| Germany |
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 Faroe Islands
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2: 1 (1: 1) |
| Sat, November 17, 2007, European Championship qualification game | |||
| Germany |
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 Cyprus
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4: 0 (2: 0) |
| Wed., September 9, 2009, World Cup qualification game | |||
| Germany |
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 Azerbaijan
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4: 0 (1: 0) |
| Friday, September 7, 2012, World Cup qualification game | |||
| Germany |
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Faroe Islands
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3: 0 (1: 0) |
| Tue., November 17, 2015, friendly match | |||
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Germany
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Netherlands
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called off |
| Tuesday, October 11, 2016, World Cup qualifying game | |||
| Germany |
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 Northern Ireland
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2: 0 (2: 0) |
Other uses
The Lower Saxony Stadium was the scene of several German athletics championships , the German Gymnastics Festival , a fistball world championship , international matches and German finals in field handball , rugby and American football . Before it was handed over to an operating company, it was also used for charitable purposes, e.g. B. for the Protestant Kirchentag 1983 and school book flea markets. The now demolished gym on the east stand was used, among other things, for school sports. Press conferences used to take place here after football games. The Jehovah's Witnesses used the stadium in 24 years for multi-day congresses with a total of 77 congress days: 1960 and 1979 to 1993 annually and between 1995 and 2007 eight more times.
Since the Rolling Stones' performances in 1982, the stadium has been a popular venue for concerts because of the expansive west stand . It developed into one of the most important open-air concert venues in northern Germany . A provisional open-air arena for 60,000 spectators was built on the EXPO site for the conversion phase into an arena . In 2006, the open-air tradition was continued in the new arena with a concert by the Rolling Stones. On August 22, 2006, Madonna played in front of 40,000 fans as part of her Confessions Tour . In the following years musicians and groups such as Coldplay , U2 , Herbert Grönemeyer , Helene Fischer , Bruce Springsteen , Depeche Mode , Rammstein , Robbie Williams and others performed in the stadium. The record attendance at concerts was set by Phil Collins in 1994. Four consecutive concerts were attended by a total of 240,000 fans.
literature
- Our Volkssportpark Hannover , ed. from the press office of the capital Hanover, Hanover, undated [1954]
- Christian Wolter: On the history of the football stadiums in Hanover. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 60 (2006), p. 5f .; as well as in it
- The Lower Saxony Stadium - a symbol of reconstruction and joie de vivre , pp. 41–46
- The AWD Arena - Connection to Postmodernism , pp. 47–52
- Karl-Heinz Grotjahn MA: AWD Arena. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 40.
See also
Web links
- Official website of the HDI Arena
- HDI Arena on the Hannover 96 website
- Travel tips for events in the HDI Arena
- Fan photos from the old Lower Saxony stadium
- Interactive 360 ° panorama photo of the stadium
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Printed matter No. 2694/2002 N1 Lower Saxony Stadium / conversion within the scope of a building concession
- ↑ a b c The HDI Arena celebrates its 65th birthday. In: stadionwelt.de. September 26, 2019, accessed October 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Lower Saxony Stadium . In: arch INFORM ; Retrieved January 2, 2011.
- ↑ top v . : Kubald lights - a term in Georg Barke , Wilhelm Hatopp ( edit .): New building in Hanover: builders, architects, building trade, construction industry report on planning and execution of the construction years 1948 to 1954 (= monographs of Building , Volume 23), Vol. 1, ed. from the press office of the capital Hanover in cooperation with the municipal building management, Stuttgart: Aweg Verlag Max Kurz, 1955, [in the business section without page number]
- ↑ a b http://www.hannover96online.de/9798/me9798.htm
- ↑ http://www.baunetz.de/mektiven/Mommunikations_Plaene_zum_Umbau_des_Niedersachsenstadions_in_Hannover_vorstellungs_4741.html
- ↑ http://www.presse-hannover.de/pressemmeldung/rollstuhl.html
- ↑ http://www.presse-hannover.de/pressemmeldung/ndsstad8.html
- ↑ Printed matter No. 2920/2001 Lower Saxony Stadium
- ↑ http://www.presse-hannover.de/pressemmeldung/uedanist.html
- ↑ 636,000 LEDs ensure the best image quality. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
- ↑ Hannover 96 GmbH & Co. KGaA: Hannover 96 and AWD agree on continuation of name sponsorship for AWD-Arena ( memento of the original from March 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , URL: http://www.presseportal.de , January 27, 2012, accessed on March 12, 2012.
- ↑ Swiss Life AG: Swiss Life will not renew arena sponsoring in Hanover. The previous naming rights contract for the AWD Arena expires in summer 2013. AWD Holding AG, February 13, 2013, accessed on October 15, 2017 .
- ↑ HDI is the new namesake of the Hannover 96 arena: Home games soon in the HDI arena. (No longer available online.) Hannover 96 GmbH & Co. KGaA, April 19, 2013, archived from the original on October 15, 2017 ; accessed on October 15, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Contract extended: Hannover 96 will continue to play in the HDI-Arena (until June 2022). Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
- ^ Robin-Nikolai, Karlo Vegelahn: 1960 - District Assembly. Karlo Vegelahn, October 22, 2006, accessed July 10, 2013 .
