The bike path leads you out of town through the underpass of the Hans Ort Ring and to more factory outlets for sporting goods and fashion 9 Follow the path and you will skirt the new sub division of Herzo Base with the World of Sports the headquarters of the sporting goods manufacturer adidas First though you pass an area used by many local clubs 10 Here you will find the Musicbase with practice rooms for the more than 30 bands of the Herzo genaurach Music Initiative MIH the cy cle club Solidarität with years of suc cess in state and national unicycle and artistic bike competitions the shooting club Schützengilde 1399 and the carnival club Karnevalsclub Herzogenaurach have their clubhouses with rooms for training practice and social events Following the Second World War American troops built the Herzo Base 11 on the plot where the airstrip of the German armed forces Wehrmacht was found As many as 1 000 people worked and lived on the base Seen from the air the so called Kammgebäude ridge building has a W shape it is the only wit ness to those past days In 1992 the US army left Herzogenaurach and the com pany adidas together with the town of Herzogenaurach subsequently acquired the property A master plan was developed adidas AG built a new headquarters World of Sports simultaneously and contin uing up to the present the new sub division Herzo Base is being built in three planned construction phases with homes for 2 500 people The area is divided into three residential islands whereby the first island surrounded by ample green spaces is already almost fully occupied The development project will be rounded off with a business dis trict the World of Commerce including public facilities and parks People of over 70 nationalities are employed in the headquar ters adidas World of Sports 12 More than 40 000 people work for adidas AG worldwide The campus cov ers more than 39 hectares of land and comprises office buildings Spikes and Laces as well as athletic fields and parks including the Adi Dassler Stadium and an award winning employee restau rant Stripes The historic building Spikes serves as office space An important building on the World of Sports is the exhibi tion building adidas Brand Center With 12 500 square meters of space it is the ideal platform for presentation of prod uct innovations The Brand Center fea tures the largest projection wall in the world The Adi Dassler Stadium was opened in summer 2005 it accommo dates up to 2 100 spectators and is used for official events company activities and training The employee restaurant Stripes prizewinner for its architecture was opened at the beginning of 2000 It is lo cated close to the historical ridge build ing now Spikes on an artificial lake Due to the growing number of employees the headquarters of the adidas Group in Her zogenaurach is continuously being ex panded The new office building Laces offers workplaces for 1 700 employees The bike path takes you all the way around the World of Sports entering the company grounds though is unfor tunately not allowed Just before enter ing Haundorf turn off onto the field path which brings you back to the bike path to Herzogenaurach You will see the adidas office building Laces on the right metal

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