Rothenbach Hall

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Rothenbach Hall
Handball game between MT Melsungen and HSV Hamburg on May 30, 2009
Handball game between MT Melsungen and HSV Hamburg on May 30, 2009
Data
place Damaschkestrasse 55 34121 Kassel , Hesse
GermanyGermany
Coordinates 51 ° 17 '17 "  N , 9 ° 29' 53"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 17 '17 "  N , 9 ° 29' 53"  E
owner Messe Kassel GmbH
operator Messe Kassel GmbH
start of building March 21, 2007
opening October 7, 2007
surface PVC - Flooring
parquet
costs € 4.8 million
capacity 5,000 (without
seats) 4,000 (with seats)
4,300 (sporting events)
playing area 80 m × 60 m
Societies)
Events
  • MT Melsungen handball games (since 2007)
  • Basketball games of BG 74 Göttingen (isolated)

The Rothenbach Hall in the Hessian city ​​of Kassel is a multifunctional hall of the Kassel Exhibition Center . Since December 26, 2007, the national handball league team MT Melsungen has played its home games in the hall.

Building history

Construction of the hall began on March 21, 2007, and the topping-out ceremony was held on June 1, 2007 . The Rothenbach Hall was inaugurated on October 7, 2007 with a gala evening for a group of companies. At Christmas 2007 the hall for handball games was completed (stands, sanitary facilities, etc.).

Technical specifications

The hall consists of 150 precast concrete parts with a total mass of 810 tons. The maximum span is 18 m. 500 m 3 of glued wood were used for the ceiling construction designed as a gable roof . 60 m is the span of the laminated beams. The clearance height is 10 m.

The usable event area is 80 m × 60 m (= 4,800 m 2 ), the area of ​​the foyer and side rooms is 900 m 2 . The total area of ​​5,700 m 2 corresponds roughly to that of a soccer field . The hall holds 5,000 without seats and 4,000 with seats. The capacity for handball games is 4,300 people. The hall can be completely darkened.

The operator invested 4.8 million euros in the construction of the hall without any public subsidies.

Use as a handball hall and at the EM 2008

Initially, the use of the Rothenbach Hall by MT Melsungen was only intended as a one-off event for which considerable renovation work was necessary. However, when the 4,300 tickets for the game against THW Kiel were sold out within 55 minutes, the club's management decided to play all further home games in the new hall.

During the European men's handball championship in 2008 , the Rothenbach Hall was used as a venue for public viewing .

Further use

Since the basketball players of the BG Göttingen did not have a freely available hall suitable for the Bundesliga on some occasions, some games in the basketball Bundesliga were played in the Rothenbach hall.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b messe-kassel.eu, Rothenbach-Halle will have its premiere in autumn , accessed on December 25, 2007  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.messe-kassel.eu  
  2. ↑ messe-kassel.eu, Rothenbach-Halle - technical information , accessed on December 25, 2007  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.messe-kassel.eu  
  3. ↑ The pain of parting is limited . In: Frankfurter Rundschau from December 20, 2007
  4. ↑ 21 days before the start, a real house is quickly built ( memento of February 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). handball-news.info of December 7, 2007
  5. ↑ The handball Christmas fairy tale in Kassel: sold out within 55 minutes! ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) handball-news.info from November 13, 2007
  6. ↑ Public Viewing, The Summer Fairy Tale 2008 ( Memento from November 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )