Sporthalle Augsburg

The sports hall Augsburg is the first built after the Second World War, large hall in Augsburg. In 1964, work began on the construction, the construction costs amounted to 3.95 million DM Hall was finally opened on 11 December 1965, the handball match between Germany and France.

Architecture

The sports hall is located in the Antonsviertel between the Wittelsbach Park and the Rosenau Stadium. Right next to the eastern exit of the parking is located, with a capacity of about 200 spaces. She has a 26 m × 48.18 m large main field and is equipped with a sprung floor and linoleum. In the basement there are four training rooms, an aerobics room, weight room and four bowling lanes. The main hall is 9.20 m high.

The hall offers space for 3,093 spectators, which take place on the 1673 East Stand and 1,420 on the West Stand. When seating the playing surface, the capacity increased to 4,431 spectators.

Because of its suspension roof design of prestressed concrete it is an outstanding architectural achievement. The cable suspension roof support has a slack of five meters. Since 15 May 2003, the sports hall is entered in the list of monuments and thus recognized as worthy of protection monument. The entry was " made ​​cable carrier suspended roof construction with antithetical, cantilevered grandstands " because of.

It was planned to the sports hall by the engineering firm Hugo Gall from Reutlingen, which could decide the advertised architectural competition for themselves. The construction company was Thormann & Boots (short Thosti ).

Events

The sports hall was the venue for them at the 1972 Olympics for six group matches in handball. In addition, the pre-Olympic qualifying tournament was held in the Basketball Hall in August 1972.

The Munich sports club TSV Milbertshofen resulted in the time in which he played in the Handball - Bundesliga, scattered Bundesliga and European games in the hall by.

On May 15, 1976, a show or sparring fight of Muhammad Ali vs Karl Mildenberger and Jimmy Ellis in front of 2,000 spectators was held in the sports hall. The boxing match was organized by the Augsburg sports journalists Horst Eckert and served to prepare Ali's on the ten days later held a world championship match in Munich's Olympiahalle against Richard Dunn. Furthermore, the ZDF program Wetten Dass was ..? In 1983 and the ARD Show 4 against Willi multiply transmitted live from the hall.