Rittal Arena Wetzlar

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Rittal Arena Wetzlar
Logo of the Rittal Arena
Rittal Arena Wetzlar
Rittal Arena Wetzlar, right side
Earlier names

Mittelhessen-Arena (until 2006)

Data
place Wolfgang-Kühle-Strasse 1 35576 Wetzlar , Hesse
GermanyGermany
Coordinates 50 ° 33 '53 "  N , 8 ° 30' 29"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '53 "  N , 8 ° 30' 29"  E
owner City of Wetzlar
operator Gegenbauer Location Management & Services GmbH
opening March 2005
surface Concrete
floor
PVC - Flooring
costs € 16 million
architect ARC architecture concept
capacity 6,000 visitors
(interior without seats)
4,400 visitors
(interior with seats)
4,500 visitors
(sporting events)
Societies)
Events

The Rittal Arena Wetzlar is a multifunctional hall in the Hessian city ​​of Wetzlar . The event hall, which opened in March 2005, has a maximum capacity of 6,000 spectators and an interior area of ​​2,468 m². Next to the arena is the Wetzlar train station and the Forum Wetzlar with a shared car park with 1,700 parking spaces. The facility has a direct connection to the federal highway 49 . The construction of the hall cost the city of Wetzlar around 16 million euros . The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) co-financed more than a third with over 5.6 million euros.

Until March 1st, 2006 the hall was called Mittelhessen-Arena . The naming rights were sold to Rittal , a company belonging to the Friedhelm Loh Group . The hall has been called the Rittal Arena since then . In June 2015, the expiring contract was extended into 2020.

Rittal Arena, left side

The Rittal Arena is always the location of national and international sporting events of great importance. Among other things, it is the home ground of the handball Bundesliga club HSG Wetzlar (anchor rental agreement ). For games of the handball Bundesliga , the capacity is 4,421 spectators. Concerts, shows and other sporting events also take place regularly in the multifunctional hall: Wetzlar and the Rittal Arena were the official host of the handball world championship , which took place in Germany from January 19 to February 4, 2007. The 2007 European wheelchair basketball championship took place in Wetzlar from August 23 to September 2, 2007 ; the August Bebel sports hall (with 1,800 seats) was the venue for the second hall . World, European and German dance championships were also held in the arena, such as the standard world championships for seniors in 2005 and the standard world championships for amateurs (main class) in 2010. The German table tennis championship followed in 2014. World championship fights in boxing are becoming rarer carried out. In 2019 the arena in Wetzlar will host the German Table Tennis Championship for the second time.

In addition to sporting events and conferences, the range of programs is varied and often top-class with national and international stars, for example world stars such as Bob Dylan , Joe Cocker , Deep Purple , Montserrat Caballé , David Copperfield , André Rieu , David Garrett , Tokio Hotel , Udo Jürgens . In 2006 the Bundesvision Song Contest , moderated by Stefan Raab and broadcast by ProSieben , took place in the arena.

The hall is owned by the city of Wetzlar and operated by Gegenbauer Location Management & Services GmbH of the Berlin- based Gegenbauer group of companies .

Web links

Commons : Rittal Arena Wetzlar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ stadionwelt.de: New naming right contract until 2020 Article from June 24, 2015
  2. ↑ focus.de: Table tennis: German Championships 2019 in Wetzlar Article from March 7, 2018