Upper Franconia Hall

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Upper Franconia Hall
Logo of the Upper Franconian Hall
The main entrance of the Upper Franconian Hall
The main entrance of the Upper Franconian Hall
Data
place GermanyGermany Bayreuth , Bavaria
Coordinates 49 ° 56 '40 "  N , 11 ° 35' 6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '40 "  N , 11 ° 35' 6"  E
owner City of Bayreuth
operator City of Bayreuth
opening October 29, 1988
surface Parquet
PVC - Flooring
capacity 3400 seats (basketball)
6.100 seats (maximum)
Societies)

The Upper Franconian Hall in Bayreuth is a multifunctional hall for sporting events, concerts and congresses. It is part of the Bayreuth Sports Park, which in addition to the Upper Franconian Hall also includes a football stadium , an ice rink and an indoor swimming pool .

history

The opening of more than 26 million Deutschmark expensive hall took place on 29 October 1988th The hall can hold a maximum of 6,100 spectators; for Bundesliga basketball games, the capacity is 4,000 spectators. Over 750 parking spaces are available in the nearby P1 “Oberfrankenhalle / Sportpark” car park (Albrecht-Dürer-Straße 1). The Upper Franconian Hall has around 50,000 visitors a year. In order to improve the acoustics of the hall in particular, 650,000 euros should be invested in the hall after 2012.

Events

Sports

The hall is the venue for the home games of the Bundesliga basketball team medi bayreuth . In addition to the Bundesliga basketball games , boxing world championships, Bundesliga handball games, international volleyball matches and various other sporting events have also taken place.

Other Events

Since its opening, the Upper Franconian Hall has also been used for cultural purposes and concerts. Among others were Herbert Grönemeyer (1992), Fats Domino (1993) ZZ Top (1994), Bryan Adams (1997), the Backstreet Boys (1997) and Joe Cocker (2000) in the Oberfrankenhalle on.

Web links

Commons : Oberfrankenhalle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General information about Bayreuth at bayreuth.de, accessed on November 14, 2017
  2. ↑ http://www.nordbayerischer-kurier.de/nachrichten/1309691/details_8.htm ( Memento from January 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.nordbayerischer-kurier.de/nachrichten/1307127/details_8.htm ( Memento from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Stephan-H. Fuchs: Bayreuth Chronicle 1992 . 1st edition. Gondrom, Bindlach 1992, ISBN 3-8112-0793-8 , p. 112 .
  5. ↑ 25 years ago in: Nordbayerischer Kurier of December 20, 2019, p. 10.
  6. ↑ http://www.bayreuth.de/oberfrankenhalle/reierungen_1006.html ( Memento from April 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive )