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OWL Arena

Multi-purpose stadium in Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Summary

Multi-purpose stadium in Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Field	Value
name	OWL Arena
logo_image	OWL-Arena Logo.svg
image	Image:GerryWeberStadion.JPG
caption	The Gerry Weber Stadion during the Handball World Cup 2007
location	Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
coordinates
opened	1993
renovated	1994 (Sattler Europe), 2005
operator	OWL Sport & Event Verwaltung GmbH
surface	Grass court
construction_cost	€ 35 million (1993)
€ 3.5 million (renovated 2005)
architect	Sattler Europe
former_names	Gerry Weber Stadion (1993–2020)
tenants	Halle Open (tennis) (1993–present)
seating_capacity	12,300 (tennis)
11,000 (handball)

€ 3.5 million (renovated 2005) 11,000 (handball) OWL Arena, formerly Gerry Weber Stadion, is a multi-purpose stadium, located in Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany. The capacity of the arena is 12,300 people and it opened in 1993.

In early 2020, a consortium of 13 sponsors became owner of the venue and its name was changed to OWL Arena.

Facilities

The stadium has a retractable roof which can be closed in 88 seconds, which rules out the risk of tennis matches having to be suspended because of rain. It is one of the few grass court tennis venues around. The stadium is heated and also used for other sport events (handball, basketball, prisonball, volleyball and boxing), TV shows and concerts.

Halle Gerry-Weber-Stadion railway station is located 500m from the stadium on the Osnabrück to Bielefeld railway line.

Events

The tennis arena hosts the Halle Open every year in June. On 2 April 2005, Irish vocal pop band Westlife held a concert for their The No 1's Tour supporting their album ...Allow Us to Be Frank.

In January 2007, several games of the Handball World Championship took place there; most of them were sold out with 11,000 spectators.

References

[https://www.sattler-global.com/textile-architecture/membrane-architecture-1465.jsp Center Court, Halle, Westfalen, Germany] roof: Sattler Europe
(15 January 2020). "Gerry Weber stadium to be renamed OWL Arena".
(4 February 2021). "Gerry Weber Stadion wird zur OWL ARENA • Neues Sponsoring-Konzept mit bislang 13 Unternehmen aus der Region Ostwestfalen-Lippe • Auch neuer Firmenname ab sofort: OWL Sport & Event GmbH & Co. OHG". owl-arena.de.

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