Porsche-Arena

Porsche-Arena
Location	Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg Germany
Coordinates	48°47′35″N 9°13′42″E / 48.79306°N 9.22833°E / 48.79306; 9.22833Coordinates: 48°47′35″N 9°13′42″E / 48.79306°N 9.22833°E / 48.79306; 9.22833
Broke ground	April, 2005
Opened	May 27, 2006
Owner	City of Stuttgart
Operator	in.Stuttgart Veranstaltungsgesellschaft mbH
Construction cost	€ 31,16 million[1]
Architect	'asp' architekten Stuttgart[2]
Capacity	7,849 (Boxing) 7,576 (Stage shows) 6,181 (basketball, handball) 6,042 (concerts) 5,068 (hockey)
Tenants
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix (Tennis) (2006-present) Handball World Championship, (handball) (2007) Table Tennis European (Table tennis) (Sep 2009)

Porsche Arena is a multi-purpose arena, located in Stuttgart, Germany. The seating capacity of the arena varies, from 5,100 to 8,000 people and it was opened in 2006, after 14 months of construction.

To fund the construction, costs had already been pre-construction sales of the name rights planned. Dr. Ing h.c. F. Porsche AG bought the name rights, for a ten million euro, for a term of 20 years.

The arena is part of a sport complex that includes the adjacent Mercedes-Benz Arena and Schleyerhalle.

It is the venue for the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, a WTA Tour event and also hosted some matches at the 2007 World Men's Handball Championship.

Anton Hunger: “The tournament is now at home in Stuttgart. We knew we’d make mistakes at the first edition. But we didn’t promise too much last year and have eliminated almost all the mistakes in 2007. A total of more than 36,000 spectators were in the arena. The number was up on the previous year even though seating was slightly reduced to improve comfort.”

Gallery

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  Logo
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  Porsche Arena
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  Inside view
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  Mercedes-Benz Arena, Porsche-Arena, Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Porsche-Arena

• Homepage Porsche-Arena
• City of Stuttgart
• Image Web site: Stadionwelt
• Transportation Plan with, PDF
• Porsche Arena detail, PDF
• Photos of the finished Porsche Arena
• Wikimapia Official site
• Porsche Arena imagne 1 (2007)
• Porsche Arena imagne 2 (07 October 2006)
• Porsche Arena imagne 3
• Porsche Arena Germany Brazil volleyball 1
• Porsche Arena Germany Brazil volleyball 2