General Information
Project Type
Function / usage: |
Ice rink / ice arena |
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Material: |
roof: Timber structure |
Location
Location: |
Bad Reichenhall, Berchtesgadener Land, Bavaria, Germany |
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Coordinates: | 47° 44' 3.84" N 12° 53' 14.99" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
width | 48 m | |
length | 75 m | |
building volume | 69 814 m³ |
Cost
cost of construction | German Mark 15 370 000 |
Excerpt from Wikipedia
At approximately 15:00 UTC on Monday 2 January 2006, in the town of Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, Germany, near the Austrian border, the roof of a 1970s-built ice rink collapsed, possibly under the weight of heavy snowfall, trapping 50 people underneath the rubble.
Fifteen people were killed, with the last body being recovered early on 5 January. Eight children are known to have died. Thirty-two people were injured. Weather conditions in the area were extremely severe, an avalanche having killed three people nearby earlier in the day.
The rescue was temporarily halted on 3 January due to fears that the walls of the ice rink could collapse, endangering firefighters, police and rescue workers. However it resumed in the early hours of the next morning.
The accident provoked outrage in the town as it emerged that officials had halted the training session of an ice hockey team inside the rink due to fears that the wall could collapse. Prior to the disaster, officials had planned to close the ice rink on Monday 2 January as snowfall was continuing. However, as many meteorologists pointed out, the weather and snow conditions were not unusual for the time of the year as the town lies in a popular winter sport area of Southern Germany.
Local officials examined the collapsed roof on Monday and suggested that the accumulated snow was below the limit for the roof.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Bad Reichenhall Ice Rink roof collapse" and modified on June 29, 2020 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
- Hans-Jürgen Schmidt-Schicketanz (architect)
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- Die Kämpf-Stegträger der Eissporthalle Bad Reichenhall - Eine typische Holzkonstruktion der 1950er und 1960er Jahre?. In: Bautechnik, v. 84, n. 1 (January 2007), pp. 1-7. (2007):
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data sheet - Structure-ID
20007297 - Published on:
18/01/2006 - Last updated on:
26/06/2020