Garmisch Olympia Stadium

The Olympic Ice Sport Centre was built for the Olympic Winter Games in 1936 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen and is now considered one of the largest and most modern facilities of its kind in Europe. In addition to its function as a national leadership center for Curling and ice stick the SC Riessersee plays its home games at the Olympic Ice Stadium, the part of the building complex of the Olympic Ice Sport Centre from.

The ice sports center includes in addition to the Olympic ice skating rink, a second hall with ice and a 670 -seat grandstand, and there is a curling hall with three lanes and an ice rink outdoors with a field for the curling.

Olympic ice stadium

SC Riessersee (since 1936) SC Garmisch -Partenkirchen (since 2010)

The construction of the Hanns Ostler and Theo Pabst ( ice plant ) designed the main stadium of the center was completed in 1934 after only 106 working days, so that the pure open-air stadium was fully operational with a capacity of 7,000 spectators at the 1936 Olympic Games. As early as 1939, the arena was again modernized and expanded. In 1940, Hanns Ostler was planning a conversion, which wanted to replace the stadium by three rinks with 9,000 m² ice. Furthermore, additional training stadium and a large 400 m Fast-Track should be built. The plans were not carried out.

The full canopy of the stadium was however only in 1964 after a design by Franz hard by the Company Fresh / Krupp Altlach. Among the former renovations also included the rebuilding of the grandstands so that the maximum capacity in 1964 amounted to 10,500 places.

Since the last renovation in 1994, in which the entire South Stand, which formerly consisted of standing room, was converted into a grandstand seat, found around 6,926 spectators in the arena space.

Gallery

Interior view of south -east to north -west

Positions of the teams from Germany and Belarus at the U20 World Youth Championship of Division IA in 2012

Exterior view of the main building