OWL Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports arena, located in

Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia Halle, officially Halle (Westf.) or Halle Westfalen (i.e. Westphalia) to distinguish it from the larger Halle (Saale), is a town in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, 15 km west of Bielefeld. It belongs to the district of Gütersl ...

, in

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. The capacity of the arena is 12,300 people and it opened in 1993. It hosts the

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every year in June. It is one of the few

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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 (

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and

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s and

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s. On 2 April 2005, Irish vocal pop band

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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.

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is located 500m from the stadium on the

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

References

External links

Official site

World Stadiums site

Wikimapia site

Stadionwelt Gerry weber stadion detail

Davis Cup Germany vs France February 2006

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