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Max-Schmeling-Halle 
Location Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark, Berlin
GermanyOpened 1996 Capacity 8,500 (basketball, handball)
10,000 (2007 World Men's Handball)Tenants 2010 World Championship (handball) (2007)
SCC Berlin (men's Volleyball)
Füchse Berlin (Handball-Bundesliga) (2005-present)
ALBA Berlin (Basketball) (1996-2008)
European Artistic Gymnastics (Artistic gymnastics) (April 2011)Max-Schmeling-Halle is a multi-purpose arena, in Berlin, Germany, named after the famous German boxer Max Schmeling. Apart from the Velodrom, it's one of Berlin's biggest sport places and holds from 8,861 people, up to 10,050 people.
The opening ceremony happened on December 14, 1996, in the presence of Max Schmeling.
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Location
The Max-Schmeling-Halle is situated in the former border area of Berlin, near the Mauerpark and directly next to the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark. It's situated at the Falkplatz, in the district Prenzlauer Berg (borough Pankow).
Use
Planned for the 2000 Summer Olympics as a pure box gym, it was rebuilt (after the games were awarded to Sydney as the venue) to a multi-functional gym and is now primarily used for boxing and team handball and is the home arena of Füchse Berlin and the Berlin Mini Basketball Tournament (berliner-mini-turnier.de).
World Wrestling Entertainment was there twice, in April 2005 and 2006.
Alba Berlin (Basketball Bundesliga) hosted it's home games in the arena from its opening up until 2008 when the team moved to the O2 World.
The arena also hosted the 1998 FIBA EuroStars game. [1]
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Preceded by
Yad Eliyahu Sports Hall
Tel AvivFIBA Euro All star game
Venue
1998Succeeded by
Olimpiisky Arena
MoscowCoordinates: 52°32′41″N 13°24′15″E / 52.54472°N 13.40417°E
Categories:- Handball venues in Germany
- Indoor arenas in Germany
- Sports venues in Berlin
- Defunct basketball venues
- German sports venue stubs
- Berlin building and structure stubs
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