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The ice rink Frankfurt, also known as the ice rink at the Bornheimer Hang or ice rink on Ratsweg according to their urban location, is an ice stadium owned by the city of Frankfurt am Main in the village of Bornheim below the Bornheimer slope.
History
Previously there was a skating rink at the Velodrome stadium at the forest. In the 1970s, the planning for the construction of an ice rink began behind the fairground. The design of the architectural and engineering community healing (Frankfurt ) & Deyle - (Stuttgart) was designed from the outset for multi-purpose use. In addition to the main ice the size of a hockey field (approx. 1,800 m² ), which (of which 3,246 seats, 3,732 standing and 12 disabled spaces ) is surrounded by 6,990 spectators, the facility has an enclosed smaller ice hall (675 m²) and a large 400 m long outer ring. Another, from a tent roof over -stressed Hockey Field (1800 m²) is converted in the summer to tennis courts. In addition, there are facilities that serve the public skating, ice - like rental, locker rooms or a restaurant. The ice rink was opened on December 19, 1981 and was long considered one of the most modern buildings of its kind in Germany.
Since closure of the old skating rink ice rink is the only ice rink in Frankfurt.
Use
In addition to various events taking place, such as figure skating competitions, the hall to DEL Club Frankfurt Lions served mainly to their license withdrawn in summer 2010 as a training and performance venue. 2004 was able to celebrate his first German championship, the DEL - founding member here.
For members of the gymnastics community Bornheim is in the months from October to March on two dates a week the opportunity to use the ice rink for skating.
With Hesse dances will also once a year, the biggest dance sport event in the world in the ice rink and in the few minutes away by car factory sports hall instead, which compete in parallel in the ice rink candidates of various ages and classes to up to eight dance floors.
In the 1982 Handball World Championship was the ice rink venue of some group games. Thereafter, until the end of 1986, five more handball matches, fought twice against the former Czechoslovakia, once each against the Soviet Union, Romania and Yugoslavia in the converted hall.
Directly in front of the ice rink is located on the Frankfurt fairground, on the next to the biannual Frankfurt Dippemess by other events such as circus performances take place. In the time between the events of the festival site serves as a parking lot of the ice rink.
The ice rink and the fairground are connected via the metro station ice rink the U7 underground Frankfurt and a tram stop of line 12 of the Frankfurt tram public transport.
Situated next to the ice rink, the stadium is located at the Bornheimer Hang and the Frankfurt East Park.