Hartwall Arena

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Hartwall Arena
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The Hartwall Arena in Helsinki
The Hartwall Arena in Helsinki
Earlier names

Hartwall Areena (1997-2014)

Data
place FinlandFinland Pasila , Helsinki , Finland
Coordinates 60 ° 12 '20.7 "  N , 24 ° 55' 45"  O Coordinates: 60 ° 12 '20.7 "  N , 24 ° 55' 45"  O
owner Arena Events Oy
opening April 11, 1997
surface Parquet
ice
PVC - Flooring
costs 300 million FIM (around 50 million euros )
capacity 13,349 places (ice hockey)
10,000 places (athletics)
15,000 places (concerts, maximum)
Societies)
Events

The Hartwall Arena is a multifunctional hall in the Pasila district of the Finnish capital Helsinki . The namesake Hartwall is one of the largest beverage producers in Finland. The arena is the home of the Jokerit Helsinki ice hockey club . The hall opened in 1997 and has an elliptical shape, is 133 meters long, 103 meters wide and 32.5 meters high. Until January 2014, the hall was called Hartwall Areena in Finnish spelling .

history

The impetus for the construction of the hall was provided by the Finnish businessman Harry Harkimo , who was also involved in the construction of the Hamburg Color Line Arena (today: Barclaycard Arena ). The Hartwall Arena was built near the Pasila train station and the Messukeskus exhibition center . The railroad tracks leading to the north enclose the hall. The multi-purpose arena was completed in time for the 1997 men's ice hockey world championship and officially opened on April 11, 1997. The Beach Boys gave their first concert a few days later on April 17th. Ten years later, the arena was the venue for the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 , for which a press center has also been built nearby.

Until 2014 the hall offered 13,665 seats for ice hockey games. The new dimensions for the playing surface in the Continental Hockey League reduced the capacity to 13,349 spectators. The hall can be converted for other events. For athletics events , the capacity is still around 10,000 visitors, for concerts 12,000 to 15,000 and as an amphitheater with 3,000 to 5,000 spectators. The hall is also used for congresses. A multi-storey car park is connected to the Hartwall Arena and offers space for 1,391 vehicles. In addition, an elevator takes you underground, where there is a training ice surface that was built into a rock. Behind her is a locked room for gymnastics.

In 2011 Harry Harkimo presented plans for the construction of a high-rise building called Leijonatorni ("Lion Tower", after the nickname of the Finnish national ice hockey team ) with 35 floors and 120 meters height on the arena site. The project is expected to cost around 150 million euros .

In 2013, the event management company Arena Events Oy , with its owner Gennadi Timtschenko and the brothers Arkadi and Boris Rotenberg , acquired the Hartwall Arena. Roman Rotenberg, son of Boris Rotenberg, took over the majority of 50.5 percent of the arena owner as CEO of Arena Events Oy in October 2014.

The 89th World Figure Skating Championships in 1999 and the 107th World Figure Skating Championships in 2017 were held in the arena in Helsinki.

Events

In addition to the sporting events, the arena is used for concerts, shows, meetings, etc.

gallery

  • Aerial view

  • The demonstration party Assembly 2002 in the Hartwall Arena

  • The Hartwall Arena with ice rink

  • The arena during the Eurovision Song Contest 2007

  • KHL game at Hartwall Arena 2018

Web links

Commons : Hartwall Arena  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sportti.com: Hartwall Areena vaihtoi nimeään article from January 24, 2014 (Finnish)
  2. ↑ setlist.fm: First concert in the arena (English)
  3. ↑ kaleva.fi: Hjallis Harkimo suunnittelee "Leijonatornia" Helsingin areenan viereen Article of November 1, 2011 (Finnish)
  4. ↑ jewishbusinessnews.com: Timchenko and Rotenberg Brothers Arkady and Boris Buy Helsinki Hockey Arena article from July 3, 2013 (English)
  5. ↑ hartwallarena.fi: Roman Rotenberg becomes majority owner of the Hartwall Arena ( Memento from April 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), article from October 10, 2014 (English)
  6. ↑ setlist.fm: concert list of the Hartwall Arena (English)