Olympiahalle Munich

Olympiahalle Munich
The Olympic Hall (west entrance) with the Olympic Tower in the background
Data
place	Spiridon-Louis-Ring 21 80809 Munich , Germany
Coordinates	48 ° 10 ′ 30 ″  N , 11 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 30 ″  N , 11 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  E
owner	City of Munich
operator	Olympiapark Munich GmbH
Renovations	2007-2009, 2012
surface	Concrete parquet ice surface PVC - flooring sand soil
architect	Behnisch & Partner
capacity	12,463 seats 15,500 seats (maximum)
Events
Olympic gymnastics competitions 1972 Games of the 1972 Olympic handball tournament Six-day race in Munich (1972-2009) World Figure Skating Championships 1974 Ice Hockey World Championship 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships 1976 World Cup boxing match Ali versus Dunn 1976 Final first leg in the European Handball Championship 1978/79 Final first leg in the European Handball Cup 1979/80 Munich indoor soccer tournament 1980, 1986–1989, 1994, 1996 European Championship boxing match Steinherr against Finnegan 1980 World Championships in Rhythmic Gymnastics 1981 World Amateur Boxing Championships 1982 Ice Hockey World Championship 1983 1985 Davis Cup final World championships in kickboxing 1987 Final Four in the FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup 1988/89 1989 Davis Cup semi-finals Grand Slam Cup 1990–1999 World Figure Skating Championships 1991 DFB indoor cup 1992/93, 1997-2000 WWF European Rampage Again 1992, 1994-1996 Ice Hockey World Championship 1993 European basketball championship 1993 German Evangelical Church Congress 1993 Night of the Proms (since 1995) World Cup boxing match mask against Rocchigiani 1995 World Cup boxing match mask against Hill 1996 Munich Indoors (since 1998) Compaq Grand Slam Cup 1998, 1999 Final Four of the FIBA Euroleague 1998/99 Karate World Championship 2000 World Judo Championships 2001 WTA Championships 2001 Congress with the Dalai Lama 2003 DHB Supercup 2005-2008, 2010, 2011 MTV Europe Music Awards 2007 Germany Cup 2009–2011 World Cup boxing match between Klitschko and Chisora 2012 Men's handball world championship 2019 Concerts Shows Cultural events General meetings Exhibitions measure up

The Munich Olympic Hall is a multi-purpose hall in the Olympic Park in the Am Riesenfeld sub-district of the Bavarian capital, Munich .

history

The hall was built to host the 1972 Summer Olympics . The hall was designed by the architectural association Behnisch & Partner , from which the overall design for the Olympiapark came, and as partner architect Frei Otto . Gymnastics competitions and handball tournament games were held during the Olympic Games . After the end of the renovation in 2009, the capacity will be 12,463 seats in the arena with seats and up to 15,500 seats in the arena without seats.

In the post-Olympic use, in addition to sporting events such as world and European championships, numerous events from the areas of show and culture took place here. The Munich Indoors show jumping tournament has been held every year since 1998 towards the end of the year , at which the overall ranking of the Riders Tour is decided at the same time. From 1972 to 2009 the hall was the venue for the Munich six-day race .

The major sporting events in the Munich Olympic Hall also include the final round of the European basketball championship in 1993 and the finals for the European basketball championship in 1989 and 1999. In 2001, the WTA Tour Championships were held in the hall , a tennis tournament for the best eight individual players of the four best women's doubles pairings of the year. In March 2009 and October 2010 Thomas Gottschalk made Wetten, dass ..? in the hall station. At the first concert in the hall on January 21, 1973, the bands Deep Purple and Dick Heckstall-Smith took to the stage. Tina Turner has given a total of 26 concerts in the Olympiahalle since 1985, making her the singer with the most concerts in the hall. John Miles has made 50 appearances in the Olympiahalle since 1995 as part of the Night of the Proms concert series . Miles follows Peter Maffay with 33 concerts.

The Olympiahalle has been rebuilt since the end of 2007 for 50 million euros and made larger, brighter and more modern in order to experience an increase in international importance. This also included an expansion of the VIP areas, new kiosks and a new logistics center. The construction work was completed at the end of 2009. The last event before construction began was the 2007 MTV Europe Music Awards . In 2010 new video walls were installed, in 2011 the adjoining “Small Olympic Hall” was built and in 2012 new seating was installed. By 2020, the air conditioning, other technology and lighting were modernized, and the look from 1972 in the hall itself was restored in accordance with the monument. Most of the construction work took place while the hall was in operation.

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  Olympic Park with ensemble of Olympic hall (right), Olympic stadium (back) and Olympic swimming pool (bottom left)

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  Detail of the Olympic Hall (2004)

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  SPD Federal Party Congress in the Olympic Hall (1982)

Web links

Commons : Olympiahalle Munich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Olympiahalle event highlights
• Report on the hall renovation ( Memento from August 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Events in the Olympic Hall

Individual evidence

1. ↑ sporthelden.de: Final of the European Basketball Championship 1993: All points, free throws, fouls
2. ↑ Deep Purple Tour Page. In: www.purple.de. May 2019, accessed on September 16, 2019 . 
3. ↑ setlist.fm: concert list of the Olympiahalle Munich (English)
4. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: In the Olympiahalle, old charm meets new technology , February 20, 2020