Haribo Center
The Haribo Center (also Hans-Riegel-Halle ) was a badminton hall in Bonn .
The son of Haribo founder Hans Riegel , the Bonn confectionery entrepreneur Hans Riegel junior , was elected the first president of the German Badminton Association on January 18, 1953 . In the same year, he had Germany's first pure badminton hall built directly on the company premises in Kessenich , which was inaugurated on December 12, 1953. On January 10, 1954, the first international match (Germany-Holland) took place there. The badminton hall was an architectural masterpiece, built according to Danish specifications, in a parabolic shape adapted to the flight path of the shuttlecock .
This is where the impetus for badminton sport in Germany came from. In the Hans-Riegel-Halle several national and international German championships as well as various international matches were held until the 1970s; Hans Riegel also played in the German national team himself.
From 1988 the hall was open to everyone. The first public badminton facility in Germany at that time met with a wide response in Bonn and the surrounding area and enjoyed good capacity utilization until recently. In 1999 renovations took place so that the hall appeared in a Mediterranean ambience. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary, an anniversary tournament was held on November 22, 2003, in which around 75 players took part. Among the guests of the evening anniversary party were also former players who had played in this hall 50 years ago when it was founded.
In October 2014, the tenant was terminated by the new Haribo management under Hans Guido Riegel and the hall was closed for the rest of the year. Due to significant damage to the roof, demolition of the hall began in November 2014.
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- ↑ general-anzeiger-bonn.de: Concern about Hans-Riegel-Halle in Kessenich (accessed on October 14, 2014)
- ↑ The days of Germany's oldest badminton hall are numbered , General-Anzeiger , November 18, 2014
- ↑ The roof will be removed from Monday , General-Anzeiger , November 20, 2014
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 33.9 ″ N , 7 ° 6 ′ 47.8 ″ E