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Große EWE Arena

indoor sporting arena complex located in Oldenburg, Germany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ15241716
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Große EWE Arena, or Grosse EWE Arena, (English: Large EWE Arena) is a dual indoor sporting arena complex in Oldenburg, Germany. It is a part of the Weser-Ems Halle multi-sporting complex, which contains two main sports arena halls, the small Kleine EWE Arena, and the large Große EWE Arena. The facility's name comes from a sponsorship arrangement with the German energy and telecommunications company EWE.

The Große EWE arena has a seating capacity of 8,000 for concerts, 7,396 for boxing matches, 6,200 for basketball games, 5,532 for handball games, and 4,228 for equestrian competitions.

It is the home arena of the professional basketball team EWE Baskets Oldenburg, of the German League.

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“Große EWE Arena” enters the record as indoor sporting arena complex located in Oldenburg, Germany. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Große, Arena and indoor can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 111-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2013-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Große, Arena and indoor.
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