Städtisches Waldstadion
- VfR Stadium in Rohrwang (up to 1988)
- Urban Forest Stadium Aalen (until 2008)
- European Football Championship Women 2001
- DFB - League Cup in 2003, 2004
The Scholz Arena (sometimes Scholz- Arena, own spelling SCHOLZ ARENA, to rename 2008 Urban Forest Stadium Aalen ) is a pure football stadium in the city of Aalen ostwürttembergischen and hosted the home matches of second division VfR Aalen.
History
The terrain in the west of the center of Aalen nearby forest Rohrwang was in 1947 assigned to the VfR Aalen, was looking for a new home ground of the forest administration. After completion of the survey work in early 1948 began with the earthmoving, with a total of approximately 16,000 cubic meters of earth were moved. For lack of machinery this work was done almost entirely by hand, the club members. The completed stadium with wooden stand and standing as a Wall opposite stand was opened on 4 September 1949 under the name VfR Stadium in Rohrwang with a game against the zone division 1 FSV Mainz 05 ( Full 3:5 ). The 18 m long, 9 m deep and 5.20 m high at the front grandstand had 300 seats, by a standing 8 degrees, each 40 cm broad audience dam across playground height offered the stadium total capacity for 15,000 spectators.
Due to renovation and extension works for a total of around 300,000 DM, the stadium was locked in Rohrwang from the spring of 1964 for two and a half years. Back in the renovated stadium, the VfR Aalen played there in the 70 years ago up to 9,000 spectators his ascent to the second league games out here sometimes supplemented by additional grandstands. In normal everyday league the league and the lower leagues in the 80s and 90s, mostly around 1,000 spectators came to the games.
1988 sold the VfR Aalen because of its high level of debt the VfR Stadium in Rohrwang for DM 550,000 to the City of Aalen, after which the stadium was renamed Municipal Stadium Aalen forest.
After 1998 the South Stand built, built in 1999, the clubhouse new and established press and police booths on the South Stand and 2000, a sanitary stand building in the northeastern stadium area was built, it was decided as the VfR Aalen beginning of the millennium, the rise in the second Bundesliga as a target spending to rebuild the stadium second league ready. So it was renovated and modernized in 2001 to 2003. To this end, the North Stand was built, erected a standing terrace on the west side and expanded the standing stages on the east side. In addition, the playing field has been widened by 4 m and a new sound system, a video wall and a form suitable for transmission on television floodlights installed. The total cost for the 2003 completed expansion were approximately 12.87 million euros. Also installed due to the targeted promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga, the city Basking in the summer of 2008 as required under provisions of the DFL lawn heating. For cost reasons for this, the stadium was renamed the naming rights secured the metal recycling company Scholz AG and Scholz stainless steel for five years.
Thanks to our recent promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2012, the DFL issued the license with the condition that transitional least 12,000 seats (instead of the actually required 15,000 seats ) offer. Therefore, it was built in June 2012, a temporary restoration in the form of a mobile grandstand with 2,088 covered standing areas. This is expected to " grandstand East" and, together with the already uncovered 1,150 standing room space for a total of 3,238 spectators. Thus, the Scholz Arena currently holds 13,271 seats, of which 4,773 covered seats, uncovered 6,400 standing places and 2,088 covered standing places. In the medium term, however, is an extension of at least 15,000 seats needed.
In the league cup match between VfB Stuttgart and Borussia Dortmund, which was also the opening game after the reconstruction, the former forest stadium was sold out for the first time. The record attendance at a self- discharged from VfR Aalen game was the DFB Cup final ( 1st round ) 16 August 2010 against FC Schalke 04 The game saw thanks to an additional 13,452 people live in the stadium bleachers. The game ended with 1:2.
The stadium has hosted games of the European Football Championship Women 2001 and international matches of the German national women's team, from games of various German youth national teams as well as the DFB - League Cup.
In addition, the Scholz Arena also the venue of concerts; so the number of spectators was at a concert of Herbert Grönemeyer in 2003 approximately 30,000. Subsequently, however, had to be replaced the lawn. Nationwide recognition was given to the city of Aalen, as they offer a concert of the British pop star Elton John refused, as the owner of the stadium for this reason in 2007, despite violent protests by citizens. On 30 May 2008 Herbert Grönemeyer appeared again in the forest stadium, there were around 24,000 visitors.
In October 2012, the name sponsor withdrew the option for five more years namesake home of VfR Aalen to stay. So the stadium will be called until at least 2018 Scholz Arena.