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GP Joule Arena

multi-purpose hall in Flensburg, Germany

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ317391 ↗
Source-derived summary

The GP JOULE Arena (originally Campushalle) is an indoor sporting arena located in Flensburg, north Germany. The capacity of the arena is 6,300 people. It is currently home to the SG Flensburg-Handewitt handball team.

From 2012 to 2023 the arena was sponsored by the Flensburger Brauerei. The current sponsor GP Joule is an electric utility based in Reußenköge.

Editorial summary

“GP Joule Arena” enters the record as multi-purpose hall in Flensburg, Germany. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Joule, Arena and multi-purpose can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Joule, Arena and multi-purpose.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“GP Joule Arena” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Joule, Arena and multi-purpose provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q317391. Authority coordinates are 54.773, 9.453. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012 and 2023.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “GP Joule Arena”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow GP Joule Arena primary sources, GP Joule Arena archive and Joule research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “GP Joule Arena”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “GP Joule Arena” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.