Rittal Arena Wetzlar
HSG Wetzlar ( Handball - Bundesliga)
- Handball Games of HSG Wetzlar
- Federal Vision Song Contest
- Congresses, conferences, concerts, exhibitions, sporting events and trade shows
Rittal Arena Wetzlar is a recently opened in March 2005 Multi -function hall of the city of Wetzlar. The hall has a maximum capacity of 6000 spectators and an indoor area of 2,468 m². In addition to the arena is the Wetzlar train station and the Forum Wetzlar with a shared parking garage with 1,700 parking spaces. The complex has a direct connection to the highway 49 Construction of the hall, the town of Wetzlar cost around 16 million euros. From the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF ) more than a third were co-financed with more than 5.6 million euros.
Until March 1, 2006 was called the Hall of Central Hesse arena. The naming rights were sold to the belonging to the Friedhelm Loh Group company Rittal. Since then, the hall is named Rittal Arena.
The Rittal Arena is again venue for national and international sporting events of rank. It is, among other things, the home ground of handball Bundesliga HSG Wetzlar (anchor tenancy agreement). In games of handball league, the capacity is 4,400 spectators. In addition, there are regular concerts, shows and other sporting events in the multi-purpose hall instead: So Wetzlar was with the Rittal Arena official host the Handball World Cup, held in Germany from 19 January to 4 February 2007. From 23 August to 2 September 2007, the Wheelchair Basketball Championships 2007 took place in Wetzlar, as a second hall was the August -Bebel- sports hall ( with 1,800 seats ) venue. Furthermore, world, European and German championships were held in dance sport in the arena, such as the default WM of seniors in 2005 and the default WM of amateurs (main class) 2010. German table tennis championship followed in 2014.
In addition to sports events and conferences, the event program is diverse and often studded cast that includes national and international sizes, for example, with stars like Bob Dylan, Joe Cocker, Deep Purple, Montserrat Caballé, David Copperfield, Andre Rieu, David Garrett, Tokio Hotel, Udo Jürgens. 2006 took the moderated by Stefan Raab and transmitted by Pro7 Federal Vision Song Contest held in the arena.
Owner of the hall is the town of Wetzlar, operators Gegenbauer Location Management & Services GmbH Berlin group of companies Gegenbauer.