- Festhalle
Festhalle is a term used to describe a German
arena orcommunity center . The root meaning of the name "Fest-halle" literally means Feast-Hall, but is best translated as Festival Hall or Civic Center. Festhalles can be found in many towns and cities in Germany, and range in size and use from small neighborhood activity centers, to large capacity stadiums able to seat thousands of spectators. Some of the best known Festhalle in Germany are as follows:*
Berlin
** TheFesthalle Plauen
** Seating ~ 4,820
*Stuttgart
** Seating ~ 18,000
*Dresden
** Arena Dresden
** Seating ~ 13,000
*Frankfurt
**Festhalle Frankfurt
** Seating ~ 15,179
*Munich
** TheLöwenbräu-Festhalle
** Seating ~ 5,700Frankfurt Festhalle
The Festhalle in
Frankfurt ,Germany is used primarily for indoor sports and music concerts. Frankfurts' Festhalle has a capacity of 15,179 people. On October 9th, 2004World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) hosted a live event in the Festhalle as a part of the "Live & Loaded" Tour. WWE is scheduled to come back to this German show venue onDecember 6 ,2007 with ahouse show from their "SmackDown!" brand. Canadian prog-rock trioRush recorded their "R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour" DVD here on September 24, 2004. In November 2008 Britishhard rock bandDeep Purple will have a concert inFesthalle during band's 40 years annyversary tourExternal links
* [http://www.festhalle-plauen.de/ Homepage of the Berlin Festhalle Plauen ]
* [http://www.arena-dresden.de/index.php Homepage of the Dresden Festhalle]
* [http://www.festhalle.de/ Homepage of the Frankfurt Festhalle]
* [http://www.loewenbraeu-festzelt.info/index.htm Homepage of the Munich Löwenbräu-Festhalle]
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