Curt Frenzel Stadium, Indoor ice rink in Augsburg, Germany.
Curt Frenzel Stadium is an ice hockey arena in Augsburg, home of the Augsburger Panther. Since its 2013 enclosure, the former open-air rink has been fully roofed and walled. The main ice surface measures 60 by 30 metres, with a second open rink of 58 by 28 metres beside it. Capacity is 6,179, including 3,493 standing and 2,013 seated places.
Ice rinks were laid out in the Schleifgraben in 1878; the city built them into a natural-ice stadium opened on 5 January 1938, with earthen stands for 3,000. Bombing halted play in 1944, and the site reopened in 1947. Cooling pipes brought artificial ice on 2 November 1963, and a roof followed in 1971, the year the stadium was named after publisher Curt Frenzel.
Fans call the arena CFS, and the name honours Curt Frenzel, publisher of the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, long-time chairman of the Augsburger Eislaufverein and a backer of ice hockey in the city; it was given in 1971. Internationals have been played here since a Germany–Switzerland qualifier on 18 December 1964 ended 2:8, and the Deutschland-Cup was held here from 2015 to 2017.
The arena is owned by the city of Augsburg and has been fully enclosed since the 2013/14 DEL season, so matches are played indoors. Capacity rose to 6,179 seats for 2019/20, with 3,493 standing and 2,013 seated places. A second, uncovered ice rink of 58 × 28 m stands beside the 60 × 30 m main rink.
The stadium was long the only professional ice hockey venue in Germany without walls, open on three sides under its roof. It was fully enclosed only for the 2013/14 DEL season, after a first new stand had to be demolished and rebuilt because fans could not see parts of the ice.
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