EWS Arena

EWS Arena
Construction
Hölle Süd

Former names	Hohenstaufenhalle
Location	Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany
Owner	City of Göppingen
Operator	EWS Arena Betriebsgesellschaft mbH
Capacity	6,344 (Boxing) ^[1] 5,599 (Handball) 5,300 (Concert Seating longitudinal) 4,398 (Concert Seating transversely)
Broke ground	2007
Built	1967
Expanded	July 2009
Construction cost	€ 16,8 million^[2]
Tenants
Frisch Auf Göppingen (Handball) (2009)

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.

References

Venues of the 1972 Summer Olympics

Olympiapark	Boxhalle Hockeyanlage Olympiahalle Olympiastadion Olympisches Dorf Radstadion Schwimmhalle Volleyballhalle

Greater Munich	Basketballhalle Bogenschießlage Dantebad Dressage Facility Nymphenburg Grünwald Messegelände, Fechthalle 1 Messegelände Fechthalle 2 Messegelände, Gewichtheberhalle Messegelände, Judo- und Ringerhalle Oberschleißheim Regatta Course Riding Facility, Riem Schießanlage

Football venues	Drei Flüsse Stadion (Passau) ESV-Stadion (Ingolstadt) Jahnstadion (Regensburg) Rosenaustadion (Augsburg) Urban Stadium (Nuremberg)

Handball venues	Böblingen Sportshalle Donauhalle Ulm Hohenstaufenhalle Göppingen Sporthalle Augsburg

Other venues	Bay of Kiel Bundesautobahn 96 Eiskanal (Augsburg)

Olympic venues in handball

1936 BSV 92 Field & Stadium, Olympic Stadium (final), Police Stadium 1972 Böblingen Sportshalle, Donauhalle Ulm, Hohenstaufenhalle Göppingen, Olympiahalle (final), Sporthalle Augsburg 1976 Complexe sportif Claude-Robillard, Montreal Forum (final), Pavillion de l'éducation physique et des sports de l'Université Laval 1980 Dynamo Palace of Sports, Sokolniki Sports Palace (final) 1984 Titan Gymnasium 1988 Suwon Gymnasium 1992 Palau D'Esports de Granollers, Palau Sant Jordi (final) 1996 Georgia Dome (men's final), Georgia World Congress Center 2000 The Dome and Exhibition Complex 2004 Faliro Sports Pavilion Arena, Hellinikon Indoor Arena (final) 2008 Beijing National Indoor Stadium (final), Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium 2012 Basketball Arena (medal round), Copper Box 2016 Future Arena

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