DKB-Arena
F. C. Hansa Rostock
- Final first leg of the U-21 European Football Championships 1980
- Games of Hansa Rostock
- Trade Shows and concerts
The DKB- Arena ( 1954-2007 Baltic Sea Stadium ) is a football stadium in the Hanseatic city of Rostock, which as a venue especially for home games of FC Hansa Rostock will be used. The Baltic Stadion GmbH & Co. KG with the F. C. Hansa Rostock as the sole limited partner is the operator of the DKB- Arena and owns the ground lease on the corresponding plot.
The stadium has a maximum of 29,000 courses that are completely covered. Among them are 20,000 seats, including 1,000 business seats and 9,000 standing places. The latter should be able to be converted in international matches in 5.000 seats. Furthermore, the Arena has 26 VIP boxes.
- 3.1 Internationals
Location
The DKB- Arena is located in the district of Rostock Hansa district near downtown. It is surrounded by hospitals of the University of Rostock, schools, the Barnstorfer forest, the ice rink Rostock, multiple practice areas and a track and field stadium.
By public transport it is from various parts of Rostock by bus (bus stop stadium ) and S -Bahn (stop Holbeinplatz ) reachable.
History
Old Baltic Stadium
Until the 1950s, the people's stadium was built in 1923-1928 was close to today's DKB- Arena the largest stadium in the Hanseatic city of Rostock, which will have up to 30,000 people offered space in the 1930s. That in the time of National Socialism, designed by Erich to Putlitzstrasse with sports venues beplante site of today's DKB- Arena and today this upstream " place of peace" already served time for political rallies, as well as Nazi parade ground. The man made for this purpose mounds were later used in the construction of the stadium for the foundation.
After the founding of the GDR a football team should be established for the top leagues in Rostock, which is why the construction of a new stadium was planned, which correspond to the expected attendances and should be built as part of the sports forum with indoor swimming pool and ice rink. It was designed as a general sports stadium and therefore also had an athletics track with six lanes. Because of the small funds that were available to implement the project, the National integration called on the population to support Rostock in the form of volunteer work and donations. In the early 1950s then thousands of people worked on the construction of the Baltic stadium that. Solely by over 230,000 hours worked, according to a memorial stone in front of the stadium, savings enabled 928,018.20 GDR marks
On 27 June 1954, the 24,000 seats and standing room for several thousand bidding Baltic stadium was opened with the final of the Youth Football Championship of East Germany and an international football match.
Later, the grandstand ( 3,000 places) got a roof and the late 1960s, a 700 - lux floodlighting was installed. The last renovations of the old stadium, which eventually had a capacity of 25,500 seats, concerned the renewal of Vortribüne (1991) and the installation of a video screen after the demolition of the old stadium tower ( 1992).
New Baltic stadium and DKB- Arena
From 2000, the Baltic stadium was gradually rebuilt within 16 months of construction, making it a pure football arena, which was officially opened on 4 August 2001 with the Bundesliga match against Bayer Leverkusen Hansas (0:3). The lights of the old stadium have been retained as well as an LCD display panel which is of the comprehensive guest block south stand out but not be seen, and a soil heating installed. The entire order - or construction cost according to official figures 55 million D-Mark.
On 2 July 2007, the Financial Services German Credit Bank received (DKB ) the contract for the purchase of the naming rights of the Baltic Sea Stadium, which has since been named DKB- Arena. The contract will initially run for over ten years with an option for extension. The renaming was done, as well as in the name of divestitures of some other football stadiums, despite protests from fans who see the task of the name Baltic Sea Stadium a loss of club tradition.
In December 2010, was completed on the roof of the DKB- Arena a solar system whose operators Paribus north energy with these approximately 600,000 kWh of electricity annually will produce. Through the lease of roof area Hansa Rostock occupies a six-figure sum.
Sporting Events
The old stadium was Baltic Sea 1954-2001 home ground of FC Hansa Rostock (up to 1965 in the previous SC Empor Rostock ), so that by 1991, especially games of the top two leagues in the East German Football ( league and league ) and since 1991 took place mainly games of the first and second divisions in the Baltic Sea Stadium. The field of play but was also used in the early years of field handball matches of SC Empor Rostock, and athletics was operated in the Baltic Sea Stadium, such as during the national DDR Athletics Championships 1988. Several times, most recently in 1980, the stadium also served as the destination in the Peace Race the cycling amateurs.
In designed as a football stadium new Baltic Stadium respectively, above all the matches of FC Hansa Rostock in the 1st, 2nd or 3rd place in the League DKB- Arena since 2001. In the seasons 2008/ 09 and 2009/10 also completed the second team of FC Hansa their Regional games in the DKB- Arena.
Internationals
The Baltic stadium was the venue for eight football matches of the German Democratic Republic. Later it was used the total German national team on 27 March 2002 and on 7 October 2006 as the venue.
In August 2011, DFB President Theo Zwanziger said he could be an international match in Rostock in 2013 " very well imagine ." This would be, however, a charity match in aid of the Egidius Braun Foundation, as the DKB- Arena does not have the DFB required for official matches capacity of at least 40 000 places.