König Palast

Krefeld Penguins ( DEL, since 2004)

The Royal Palace is a multi-purpose arena in the North Rhine -Westphalian city Krefeld. It was towards the Rhineland Hall, the former skating rink, built and replaces it since December 2004 as the home of the Krefeld Penguins of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. Furthermore, there are concerts, other sporting events, including boxing, tennis and TV recordings in the royal palace.

History

The construction of a hall for the primary purpose of use by the Krefeld Penguins has just been demanded for a long time of hockey fans and leaders of the association. Originally from the 1930 Rhineland Hall, the former home of the Penguins no longer met the requirements of a modern ice rink. The plan of the city of Krefeld to build a multi-purpose arena, burned in their population a discussion about the purpose arena in the face of multiple event arenas in the environment, such as the Philips hall Dusseldorf, the Ice Sports Centre Grefrath or the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, as well as the difficult budgetary situation the city. Another point of discussion was the site of the new arena. For discussion were, first, a location in the immediate vicinity of the two existing Krefeld ice rinks at the West Park Street and on the other the construction on a brownfield site at the rear exit of the Krefeld main station in the southern city. On 1 February 2001, finally, the city council to build a new multi-purpose arena on the West Park Road chose. According to the relevant calls Hochtief Construction AG was commissioned to design and construction of the hall. As an architect, office Rhode, Kellermann, Wawrowsky from Dusseldorf worked.

In February 2003, the Duisburg King Brewery secured with about 5 million euros name-and licensed premises for the hall. Finally, in June 2003, it came to the conclusion of a lease agreement between the Krefeld Bau GmbH as an investor and developer as well as the Seidenweberhaus GmbH as the operator of the hall. August 27, 2003 the ground was broken on May 7, 2004, the topping was celebrated. On 4 December 2004, the arena was finally opened with a concert by Sarah Connor. The first DEL Game was played on December 17, 2004 with the Krefeld Penguins meeting held against the Polar Bears Berlin before more than 7,500 spectators.

Architecture

When planning special attention was paid to import the cauldron effect from the Rhineland hall. The built-in as cast glass facade elements can be illuminated differently depending on the event. For concerts, etc. the ice is covered with insulating floor slabs.

Capacity

The Royal Palace has a capacity of up to 9,500 standing and seats at events and a capacity of 8,029 seats for hockey games, divided into approximately 4,642 seats and 2,850 standing places. The standing room are located on the North and South Stand. Furthermore, there are 22 boxes, which offer a total of 418 visitors space, as well as 199 business seats in the main grandstand.

Ammonia accident

On 21 December 2006, an incident occurred in the cooling system of the Royal Palace. Danger for the population was not leaked are only very small amounts of ammonia. Since the incident played and trained the penguins back into the Rhineland hall, since the coolant stored in tanks and the ice was thawed. For eislose events, however, the royal palace stood still available. During the time the games were carried out in the Rhineland hall. Since February 13, 2007 Hockey Games of the Krefeld Penguins will be held in the royal palace again.

Photos

Interior

View of the guest block

The standing terrace