Veltins Arena (former Arena AufSchalke)

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Name: Veltins-Arena . . . . . Type: Football Stadium . . . . . Home Team: FC Schalke 04 . . . . . League: Bundesliga (Germany) . . . . . Capacity: 61,481 (int: 53,994) . . . . . Built: 2001 . . . . . Costs: 192 million Euros . . . . . Architects: Hentrich, Petschnigg und Partner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Description: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Veltins Arena is a football stadium in the German city of Gelsenkirchen that is considered one of the most modern stadiums in the world. Originally named the Arena AufSchalke, it opened in 2001 as the new home ground for the Bundesliga football club FC Schalke 04. It hosted the 2004 UEFA Champions League final and 5 matches in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, including a quarter-final. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accredited as a UEFA Five-Star Stadium, it has a league capacity of 61,481 (standing and seated) and an international capacity of 53,994 (seated only). The naming rights to the stadium were sold on July 1, 2005 to the German brewery Veltins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . In order to provide for over 60,000 spectators, the Veltins Arena is equipped with an abundance of catering facilities. With 15 small restaurants, 50 grilling stations and 35 cafés, the stadium can serve up to 2,500 kg of sausages, 7,000 prezels, and 1,000 m² of pizza in one day. These catering areas are connected to a 5 km long beer-line, supplying them with roughly 52,000 litres of beer per matchday. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The building is a fully enclosed stadium. It boasts a retractible pitch (allowing the grass playing surface to grow under normal outside conditions without suffering from a lack of circulation and light as in other arenas) and retractible roof (giving independency of all kinds of weather conditions). Hanging 25m over the center of the pitch are four video screens, each with a surface area of 35m². The centrally suspended scoreboard, similar to those found inside indoor sports areas, was the first of its kind in football stadia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Apart from the football matches the room inside (with retracted pitch) is also used for concerts (eg. Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Herbert Grönemeyer, Pur), large partys (eg. Sensation White) or events like the Biathlon World Team Challenge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3D model: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Model and textures created by Schwenker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . This model contains 704 meshes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . It is my first building for Google Earth. I normally build stadiums for the video game series 'FIFA' ('FIFA 2004', 'FIFA 2005', 'FIFA 06', ...). I am member of the international website www.fifaecp.com which is specialized in building 3d models of stadiums. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Originally, this model had around 20 times more meshes (in the 'FIFA 06' version) than in the Google Earth version. It has been built with 'Rhinoceros 3D' and imported via Google Sketchup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 26th, 2006 . . . . . 2006 Schwenker, mailto: pschwenker@gmx.de . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #04 #06 #2001 #2004 #2006 #arena #as #assauer #auf #aufschalke #baujahr #biathlon #bon #bruce #built #bundesliga #capacity #challenge #champions #championsleague #club #concerts #dach #estadio #fans #fc #final #finale #five #football #fussball #fußball #gelsenkirchen #germany #geöffnet #grönemeyer #herbert #jovi #league #mannschaft #modern #monaco #nordkurve #offen #parkstadion #pitch #porto #pur #quarter #rasen #retractible #roof #s04 #schalke #schublade #scoreboard #screens #sensation #soccer #springsteen #stade #stadion #stadium #star #supporters #team #uefa #veltins #video #videowürfel #viertelfinale #weltmeisterschaft #white #wm #world #worldcup