NeckarPark Stuttgart

A hall for sporting events within a soccer stadium - only in Stuttgart. The SCHARRena Stuttgart is located under the Untertürkheimer Kurve of the Mercedes-Benz Arena and offers clubs and organizations an ideal setting for international, national, regional and local sports. Volleyball, handball and gymnastics in particular are on the program. It is also home to the German Fencing Federation’s junior training center. The SCHARRena Stuttgart can accommodate around 2,250 spectators.

Contact:  Bernd Schmidt

The Festwiese stadium is a multifunctional stadium with a grass playing field and a 400-meter running track and is located in the immediate vicinity of the Mercedes-Benz Arena. It is a federal base and state performance center for athletics (in summer). The Württemberg Athletics Association Stuttgart District organizes several sports festivals every year and trains with its Stuttgart clubs as well as the talent development group on the Festwiese. The stadium is also used by schools and clubs as well as for smaller events. For the American football players of the AFC Stuttgart Silver Arrows, it is both a training and home venue.

Contact:  Ilknur Simsek

The  Olympic Training Center Stuttgart (OSP) (opens in a new tab) has adopted the slogan “Competence, Passion, Success”. True to the motto, federal squad athletes and selected state squad athletes are coached here in Olympic sports with the goal of participating in the Olympic or Paralympic Games.

The range of services offered by the OSP comprises three areas: Athlete management, health management and training management. For example, the OSP supports top athletes in mastering the balancing act between their school or professional careers and competitive sports. The “House of Athletes” with an attached sports boarding school offers up to 30 places. And six Stuttgart “elite schools of sport” from the partner school association are also available. Partners in the area of health management are the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, the Stuttgart Sports Clinic and the radiology department at SpOrt Stuttgart. Training management primarily involves optimizing the athletes’ performance for the highest loads in elite sports.

The Molly-Schauffele-Sporthalle is a national and state performance center for athletics and is available almost exclusively to the squad athletes of the Württemberg Athletics Association throughout the year. The facility is primarily used for training and for training courses of the Württemberg squad athletes. In addition, the approximately 3,000-square-meter sports hall also serves as a training hall for other key sports of the Stuttgart Olympic Training Center as well as for the training operations of individual Stuttgart sports clubs and school sports.

Built in 1966/67, the Molly Schauffele Sports Hall was named after the Stuttgart soccer player and track and field athlete and later sports official Richard “Molly” Schauffele. In 2012, a comprehensive modernization took place. In order to adapt the sports hall to the requirements of a modern training facility, a strength competence center for the latest diagnostics and training control was additionally added on the northeast side.

During the modernization, great importance was also attached to good thermal insulation. The building and water are heated by a pellet heating system and a solar system. The construction costs of the modernization, amounting to around 7.6 million euros, were borne in equal parts by the federal government, the state and the city.

Contact:  Thilo Hesser