EWS Arena

{{Short description|Indoor sporting arena in Göppingen, Germany}}

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| stadium_name = EWS Arena

| nickname = Hölle Süd

| image = Image:EWS Arena Logo.svg
Image:Einlaufzeremonie Frisch Auf Goeppingen - TV Großwallstadt 2011-05-15.JPG

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| location = Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg
{{flagicon|Germany}} Germany

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| broke_ground = 2007

| built = 1967

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| expanded = July 2009

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| owner = City of Göppingen

| operator = EWS Arena Betriebsgesellschaft mbH

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| construction_cost = 16,8 million[http://www.asp-stuttgart.de/asp_content.php?lan=de&n=2&s=0&d=1&id=39 EWS Arena] ASP Architekten Arat

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| former_names = Hohenstaufenhalle

| tenants = Frisch Auf Göppingen (Handball) (2009)

| seating_capacity = 6,344 (Boxing) [http://www.ews-arena.de/bestuhlungsplaene.html EWS Arena seating capacity detail] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127022217/http://www.ews-arena.de/bestuhlungsplaene.html |date=2012-01-27 }}
5,599 (Handball)
5,300 (Concert Seating longitudinal)
4,398 (Concert Seating transversely)

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EWS Arena (formerly Hohenstaufenhalle) is an indoor sporting arena located in Göppingen, Germany. The capacity of the arena is 5,600 people. It hosts the home matches of women's and men's Handball Bundesliga handball teams of Frisch Auf Göppingen. In its previous building, it hosted six team handball matches for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. It was opened in 1967 and rebuilt and enlarged between 2007 and 2009.

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References

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  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110919203420/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1972/1972s1pt1.pdf 1972 Summer Olympics official report.] Volume 1. Part 1. p. 121.
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927222651/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1972/1972s3.pdf 1972 Summer Olympics official report.] Volume 3. p. 375.