![]() | |
Exterior view of venue (c.2008) | |
![]() | |
Full name | Eissportzentrum Westfalenhallen Dortmund |
---|---|
Address | Strobelallee 32 44139 Dortmund Germany |
Coordinates | 51°29′43″N7°27′30″E / 51.4952°N 7.4583°E Coordinates: 51°29′43″N7°27′30″E / 51.4952°N 7.4583°E |
Owner | Westfalenhallen Dortmund GmbH |
Capacity | 5,000 |
Construction | |
Opened | 1952 |
Renovated | 1992 |
Website | |
Venue Website |
Eissportzentrum Westfalenhallen is an indoor sporting arena at the Strobelallee in Dortmund, Germany. It is primarily used for ice hockey and is the home arena of Eisadler Dortmund, and of the figure skating club ERC Westfalen. It was opened in 1952 and can accommodate 5,000 spectators, including 3,998 standing and 1,002 seats. [1]
Dortmund is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the largest city of the Ruhr, Germany's largest urban area with some 5.1 million inhabitants, as well as the largest city of Westphalia. On the Emscher and Ruhr rivers, it lies in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region and is considered the administrative, commercial, and cultural center of the eastern Ruhr. Dortmund is the second-largest city in the Low German dialect area after Hamburg.
The Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region is the largest metropolitan region in Germany, with over ten million inhabitants. A polycentric conurbation with several major urban concentrations, the region covers an area of 7,268 square kilometres (2,806 sq mi), entirely within the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region spreads from the Ruhr area (Dortmund-Essen-Duisburg-Bochum) in the north to the urban areas of the cities of Mönchengladbach, Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, Leverkusen, Cologne, and Bonn in the south. The location of the Rhine-Ruhr at the heart of the European Blue Banana makes it well connected to other major European cities and metropolitan areas such as the Randstad, the Flemish Diamond and the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region.
Helmut Körnig was a German sprinter who competed at the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics. He won an individual bronze medal in the 200 m in 1928 and two team medals in the 4 × 100 m relay at both Olympics.
Masters of Hardcore is the name of a Dutch hardcore music label and of its related music festival events.
Westfalenhallen is a commercial complex composed of conference and exhibition centers with an indoor arena (Westfalenhalle), located in Dortmund, Germany. It is surrounded by the Eissportzentrum Westfalenhallen, Stadion Rote Erde, Signal Iduna Park and Helmut-Körnig-Halle.
Eissportzentrum Chemnitz is an arena in Chemnitz, Germany. It is primarily used for ice hockey. Eissportzentrum Chemnitz opened in 1958 and holds 3,978 people.
The PSD Bank Dome is a multi-use indoor arena in Düsseldorf, Germany, it opened in 2006. The arena has a capacity of 15,151 people and 14,282 people for hockey matches.
Erste Bank Arena is an indoor sporting arena located in Vienna, Austria. The arena has a capacity of 7,022 people and was opened in January 1995. It underwent major renovations in 2010 and 2011 to increase the capacity from 4,500 to over 7,000.
Stadion Rote Erde is a 25,000 capacity football and athletics stadium in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It serves as the home stadium to Borussia Dortmund II and several athletic clubs. The stadium was built in between 1924 and 1926 at a cost of 1.8 million German Mark. The stadium was inaugurated in 1926, with a match between the City of Dortmund and FC Wacker München (1-11).
Dortmund Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The station's origins lie in a joint station of the Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn and Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn which was built north of the city centre in 1847. That station was replaced by a new station, erected in 1910 at the current site. It featured raised embankments to allow a better flow of traffic. At the time of its opening, it was one of the largest stations in Germany. It was, however, destroyed in an Allied air raid on 6 October 1944.
Mewa Arena is a multi-purpose stadium in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, that opened in July 2011. It is used for football matches, and hosts the home matches of the German Bundesliga side Mainz 05.
The European Championship is a PDC darts tournament which was created to allow the top European players to compete with the highest ranked players from the PDC Order of Merit. Since 2016, the tournament has taken place at the end of October, and features the top 32 players on the PDC European Tour Order of Merit.
The NRW Trophy is an annual international figure skating competition organized by the Skating Union of North Rhine-Westphalia and since 2007, it has been sanctioned by the Deutsche Eislauf Union and the International Skating Union. It is held every autumn at Westfalenhallen in Dortmund, Germany. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The competition is held in two parts. The Ice Dance Trophy is held for ice dance levels pre-novice to senior in early November. The Figure Skating Trophy is held for singles and pairs skating levels novice to senior in late November or early December.
Westfalenstadion is a football stadium in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which is the home of Borussia Dortmund. Officially called Signal Iduna Park[zɪɡˌnaːl ʔiˈduːna ˌpaʁk] for sponsorship reasons and BVB Stadion Dortmund in UEFA competitions, the name derives from the former Prussian province of Westphalia.
The Stone Tower is a protected monument and historic watchtower in the city of Dortmund, Germany, not far from the Westfalenhallen.
The 2016 German Indoor Athletics Championships was the 63rd edition of the national championship in indoor track and field for Germany. It was held on 27–28 February at the Arena Leipzig in Leipzig – the sixth time the venue had hosted the championships. Local authorities in Leipzig supported the event with funding of 50,000 euros. A total of 24 events, 12 for men and 13 for women, were contested plus six further events were held separately. It was to serve as preparation for the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
German Comic Con is a fan convention organised by Cool Conventions and Showmasters Events first held at the Westfalenhallen in Dortmund in December 2015. It was the first event of its kind, modeled after the San Diego and New York Comic Cons, and has since taken place in Dortmund, Munich, Berlin, and Frankfurt.
Westfalenhallen station is an underground rapid transit station in the city of Dortmund, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is part of the Dortmund Stadtbahn network and serves the Westfalenhallen venues.
Eiswelt Stuttgart is a multipurpose indoor arena in the Waldau neighborhood of Stuttgart, Germany. It is home to the Stuttgart Rebels ice hockey team of the Regionalliga Süd-West.
Media related to Eissportzentrum Westfalenhallen at Wikimedia Commons