Anhalt-Arena

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Dessau- Roßlauer HV

• Handball Games of Dessau- Roßlauer HV
• Individual Handball Games of SC Magdeburg
• Handball World Cup 1974

The Anhalt Arena in Dessau is after Bördelandhalle the second largest sports hall in Saxony- Anhalt.

The Anhalt- Arena is the home ground of the Dessau- Roßlauer HVs and guarantees the execution of all other ( sports) events (for example handball matches; Handball Bundesliga games of the SCM; Handball Supercup; handball tournaments, concerts, boxing matches, indoor soccer tournaments;. ..).

History

In 1940, the building was built as a production hall of Polysius AG. Later, the hall served as a warehouse of the cement plant in Dessau. The sports fans of the Sports Association ZAB Dessau crowded with success on its own sports complex: 1964-1965 built athletes and members of the operating Rundbogenhalle to " ZAB - hall " to. On February 17, 1965, the first phase of construction was completed. After completion of the work available to the hall over 1,800 seats. In 1974, the hall was a venue for the handball World Cup in the GDR.

On 15 May 2000, the extensive renovation work started at a cost of 5.5 million euros. On 24 February 2002, the then still " sports hall at the Robert- Bosch-Straße " said Hall was opened with a pole vault meeting.

The naming took place in March 2002 in a handball match between Germany and Switzerland.

The last discharged in Dessau International Match, in which the German national handball team defeated Sweden, took place in December 2006.

Spectator capacity

• Boxing - 3,700 seats
• Handball - 3,300 seats
• Basketball - 3,700 seats
• Volleyball - 3,500 seats
• Music Events - to 3,700 places
• Athletics - 3700 seats