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OWL Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports arena, located in Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany. The capacity of the arena is 12,300 people and it opened in 1993.

OWL Arena[1]

Former names	Gerry Weber Stadion (1993–2020)
Location	Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Operator	OWL Sport & Event Verwaltung GmbH
Capacity	12,300 (tennis) 11,000 (handball)
Surface	grass court, (Halle Open every year in June)
Construction
Opened	1993
Renovated	1994 (Sattler Europe), 2005
Construction cost	€ 35 million (1993) € 3,5 million (renovated 2005)
Architect	Sattler Europe[2]
Tenants
Halle Open (tennis) (1993–present)

It hosts the Halle Open every year in June. It is one of the few grass court tennis tournaments around.

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.

The stadium is heated and also used for other sport events (handball, basketball, prisonball, volleyball and boxing), TV shows and concerts.

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.

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

In early 2020, a consortium of 13 sponsors became owner of the venue and its name was changed to OWL Arena.[3]

See also

• List of tennis stadiums by capacity

References

External links

• Official site
• World Stadiums site
• Wikimapia site
• Stadionwelt Gerry weber stadion detail^{[permanent dead link]}
• Davis Cup Germany vs France February 2006

Gallery

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  Gerry Weber Stadion inside
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  Gerry Weber Stadium 2009
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  Gerry Weber Stadion fans
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  Suhler fans
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  Gerry Weber Stadion concert 2012
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На других языках

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- [en] OWL Arena

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[fr] Gerry-Weber-Stadion

La Gerry-Weber-Stadion est un hall omnisports situé à Halle (Westf.), en Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie, où évolue le club de handball du TBV Lemgo lors de rencontres importantes.

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