Horácký zimní stadion, Indoor ice rink in Jihlava, Czech Republic
Horácký zimní stadion was a covered ice rink in Jihlava, Czech Republic, with a 58 × 28 m ice sheet and a listed capacity of 7,200 spectators. A smaller second hall with its own ice was added and opened in 2013. The building was demolished in July and August 2023.
The open-air stadium was ceremonially opened on 31 December 1955, after the hockey team moved from Olomouc to Jihlava in the mid-1950s. On 2 December 1965, overcrowding before a league match against Slovan Bratislava caused barriers to collapse, killing two spectators. The stadium was roofed in 1967 and modernised in 1989; it was demolished in July and August 2023.
The stadium was demolished in 2023, so no matches are played there now. Its name came from the Horácko region of the Vysočina kraj. The arena was renamed CZ LOKO Aréna in December 2019 under a sponsorship deal, and HC Dukla Jihlava played its home games here until spring 2022.
The stadium stood in Jihlava's Horácko region, from which it took its name, and its ice sheet measured 58 × 28 metres. It was demolished in July and August 2023, so the site now holds the new multifunctional arena completed in October 2025; visitors should look for that building rather than the old rink.
The roof built in 1967 uses an inverted truss system, meaning the structure pulls upward from the inside rather than pushing down. This approach was uncommon in Czechoslovakia at the time and allowed the facade to be filled with a continuous band of glass.
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