Max-Schmeling-Halle

Foxes Berlin ( HBL) Berlin Recycling Volleys ( Volleyball Bundesliga)

  • Handball Games of foxes Berlin
  • Volleyball Games of Berlin Recycling Volleys
  • Basketball games Alba Berlin (until 2008)
  • Boxing matches
  • Concerts
  • Handball World Championship for Men 2007
  • Gymnastics European Championships in 2011
  • Federal Vision Song Contest 2010, 2012
  • Volleyball European Championship Women 2013

The Max -Schmeling-Halle is a named after the famous German boxer Max Schmeling multifunctional hall in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district of Pankow district.

The official opening of the hall was attended by Max Schmeling on 14 December 1996.

The Max -Schmeling-Halle is next to the O2 World Arena and the Velodrome one of the largest venues in Berlin. Max -Schmeling-Halle and velodrome, as the operator, the Velomax, a subsidiary of the Group Gegenbauer.

The audience capacity is at concerts at up to 11,900 people. In sports uses such as handball, volleyball or basketball, will offer about 8,500 visitors. Furthermore, the hall is used regularly for conventions, party conventions and gala events.

Location

The Max -Schmeling-Halle is located on Falkplatz in Gleim district ( the district of Prenzlauer Berg district of Pankow ) in Berlin, Mauerpark in the former border area, right next to the Friedrich -Ludwig -Jahn -Sportpark.

Use

The hall was originally in an international competition advertised for the bid for the 2000 Olympic Games as a pure boxing club. The young team of architects Jörg Joppien, Anett Joppien and Albert Dietz won this first prize.

After the collapse of the Berlin Olympic bid, the double design and construction was carried out in a multi-function hall, which is now mainly used by the first division handball team foxes Berlin and the Volleyball Bundesliga Berlin Recycling Volleys as homestead. It presented the volleys on 26 March 2011 at the home game against VfB Friedrichshafen with 8,045 viewers a record crowd for the volleyball Bundesliga. By 2008, also the first division basketball Alba Berlin had his domicile.

There are regular Profiboxkämpfe in the hall. On 18 December 2005 Nikolai Valuev defeated the then reigning world champion John Ruiz and secured the title on the version of the WBA in the Max -Schmeling -Halle. On 19 January 2007, the opening game of the Männner 's handball World Cup Germany against Brazil was held at the Max -Schmeling -Halle. The DHB selection won with 27:22. In addition, World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE) has performed in April 2005 with the Wrestlemania Revenge Tour of Raw brands, as well as in April 2006 with the WrestleMania Revenge tour of the SmackDown brand. End of January 2010, the German Championship for Men and Women in indoor hockey. In April 2011, the European Gymnastics Championships will be held in the hall.

Apart from the sporting use also dances and concerts are held in the Max -Schmeling-Halle, also the annual military music festival with military musicians from around the world. In June 2001, Madonna appeared as part of their Drowned World Tour for four concerts at the Max -Schmeling -Halle.

Left and right of the main hall there are three three-field sports halls. These can be divided with the aid of curtains material into nine areas. In addition to the State Training Centre basketball and the daily training operation of sports clubs and school sports resident, continue to train the crews of Alba Berlin in the complex of the Max -Schmeling -Halle.

The Landesleistungszentrum dancing is also located in the building complex of the Max -Schmeling -Halle.

Special

On the roof of the Max -Schmeling-Halle is the largest solar power plant is located on a public building in Berlin. The 1064 installed photovoltaic modules with an area of ​​1749 m² can produce up to 250 kW of electricity. The annual income amounts at average sunshine duration 220 MWh, equivalent to the electricity needs of about 110 households. The system avoids 220 tons of carbon dioxide annually.

The hall is let to two -thirds in the ground, thus it fits in well with the surrounding landscape. To the hall green spaces are created. It is also used for many sporting events. The hall has won the gold medal of the 2002 international IOC / IAKS competition on the world's best architectural and bestgenutzten halls especially for their ecological interpretation.

In 2011 she received the Green Globe certification for sustainability. 2012 and 2013 the certificate was renewed. The certification process included primarily the solar system, the cogeneration plant, the north-facing main glass facade and architecture of the " Green Bridge " as the connection between the formerly separate halves of the city of East and West Berlin and the very good access to public transport.

Transport links

The Max -Schmeling-Halle is accessible from the S-Bahn stations Healthy fountains and beautiful Allee in about ten minutes walk. There is also a connection to the underground ( line U2 Beautiful it Allee or Eberswalde road) and the tram lines M1 (stop Milastraße ) and M10 (stop Friedrich -Ludwig -Jahn -Sportpark ), of which the hall is in some can reach six minutes on foot.

The architectural concept of the hall provides that there are no separate visitors parking. In this unusual circumstance is not mentioned in the event advertising. For this reason, it comes in larger venues regularly to severe traffic disruption in the vicinity of the venue, as many visitors arriving by vehicle.

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