Olympia Eishalle
The Olympic Ice Sport Centre is a part of the Olympic Park and is located on its eastern border between the eastern end of the lake and the Olympic Petuelring.
It is the only covered way in Munich for ice sports and consists of the ice tent, the Olympic ice stadium and the training hall.
Olympic ice stadium
The construction of the Olympic ice skating rink ice rink than on Oberwiesenfeld was started prior to the award of the Olympic Summer Games in 1972 in Munich in April 1965 according to plans by Rolf Sagittarius and completed in 1967. Also use for other sports such as handball, basketball or table tennis provided - In the original use concept was next to the ice sports - such as ice hockey, curling and figure skating.
In February 1967, the stadium for the sport of ice hockey with the game Bayern Munich was opened against SC Riessersee.
The discharged in February 1969 at the ice rink Table Tennis World Cup showed that the use for other sports is extremely problematic. Then use the concept was modified by re- use of the ice rink was concentrated on ice.
In 1972, the stadium was expanded to 7,000 spectators and used during the 1972 Summer Olympics for boxing matches.
When the stadium was used from the mid-1980s by the hockey club EC Hedos Munich, the approved seating capacity was reduced back to 6300 spectators. During this time, the part of the competent Kreisverwaltungsreferat considerations hires due to a further reduction to 5,000 spectators, but this was rejected.
In the nineties, the display panels to the wall by four electronic scoreboards above the Hockey surface were replaced.
When the ice hockey team of the Munich Barons used the stadium for the games in the German Ice Hockey League from the 1999/2000 season, rebuilding measures were in the stadium carried out: In the area of spectators on the western (main) seat grandstand still existing wooden benches were partially heated replaced seats plus those on the North and South Bend the standing area upstream seats turned into standing room. Thus, the spectator capacity dropped to 6,262.
The current seating capacity is now (2012 ) 6136. For the sport of ice hockey is currently the main users of the stadium the team of Red Bull EHC Munich.
Between September 2010 and September 2011, all 14 days the stadium for games of the first basketball team was after an agreement between FC Bayern Munich and the Munich Olympic Park GmbH, which is based on a presented on 23 March 2010 at Sportberat City of Munich feasibility study, rebuilt:
- The ice surface was covered with an insulating layer, and it laid the prescribed by the Basketball Bundesliga parquet floor.
- The scoreboards were several meters pulled toward the ceiling.
- The standing areas in the south and north curve were covered by curtains.
- The Plexiglas bands were removed.
- The basket plants as well as the stands behind the basket plants were driven directly to the field.
- The temperature was raised to 20 ° airbags.
The resulting Basketball Hall had a seating capacity of 3,225 seats. The attempt to expand the capacity to 3,700 seats in December 2010 by not covering a part of the standing room was not continued because the temperature in the hall too sank. The move of Bayern Munich in their own venue, the Audi Dome, in September 2011, the EHC Munich was back to the main users of the ice rink.
Skating tent
At the time of the construction of the Olympic ice stadium an open ice rink with wooden grandstand was built with up to 7,000 standing places as the predecessor of today's skating tent on the west side, built in the summer the operator of the mini golf course at the Eissportzentrum a second plant.
In 1983, the wooden grandstand was demolished and the ice surface covered by the new ice skating tent.
The skating tent were used in addition to the public skating from the later recorded in the Olympic short track speed skating sport program.
In the summer of 2004, the ice plant of the ice tent was shut down because the renovations to be performed on her from the perspective of the Olympiapark München GmbH were too expensive. To further carry out the ice tent a use it was sublet sides of the GmbH as Soccer Five - arena so that today indoor soccer courts can be rented there.
Training hall
1991 the necessary additional training hall was built on the east side on pillars to obtain the capacity of the eastern parking area of the Olympic Park for the award to Munich World Figure Skating Championships. The training hall has been honored multiple times
The training hall, with its ice surface of 60 meters x 30 meters one of the largest ice skating centers in Europe and was originally operated as a federal German Center of Excellence for figure skating as part of the National Training Center Munich only for use with this sport.
Since the closure of the ice tent also training for the sport of short track speed skating are performed in this hall. For occupancy of the ice rink with other events there and the public skating takes place.
Major sporting events and cultural events ( concerts without )
Hockey
In addition, the Olympic Ice Stadium was a venue for 12 matches of the German national ice hockey team.
Others
Trivia
- In the 2003 / 04 season, some of the shots in cooperation with the Munich were shot in ice hockey club tent, which were shown as biasing at the hockey broadcasts of DSF.