Exercise pasture
| Exercise pasture | |
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| Data | |
| place |
 Hamburg
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 34 '24.7 " N , 9 ° 55' 37.2" E |
| opening | 1890s |
| Extensions | 1899 |
| demolition | After the 1st World War |
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| Events | |
The parade pasture in today's Hamburg district of Bahrenfeld was an important venue for football from Hamburg and Altona at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century . It was also the venue for the first final of the German soccer championship .
history
In the 1890s, the Prussian military treasury gave the football clubs from Altona and neighboring Hamburg permission to play football matches on an old parade ground of the Prussian army in the Bahrenfeld district of Altona. Bahrenfeld was incorporated into the city of Altona in 1890.
At that time there was a free lawn on the parade ground, on which several teams could play at the same time and which was popularly known as parade pasture or exer for short . At that time, parade grounds were also used as venues for football matches elsewhere in Germany, for example the Tempelhofer Feld in the south of Berlin or the Cracauer Anger in Magdeburg .
The regular game operation of many clubs from Altona and Hamburg took place on the parade pasture, on which up to nine playing fields were divided. The parade pasture has become the permanent venue of the Altonaer FC 93 , the SC Sperber Hamburg , the SC Victoria Hamburg as well as the SC Germania Hamburg and the HFC 88 , two predecessor clubs of the Hamburger SV .
Initially, the surrounding restaurants provided rooms for changing clothes and for storing the goal posts. In 1899 the Altona city administration had a protection and refreshment hall built, which the players could also use to change clothes.
In the years before the First World War , the football clubs gradually migrated to their own, newly built fields. Among other things, Altona FC 93 left the parade pasture and moved into its own new stadium . Since 1907, the important football games in the Hamburg area have mainly taken place on the Hoheluft sports field , which was built by SC Victoria.
After the First World War, the parade pasture was no longer used for sports purposes. Allotment gardens were created on the site in the 1920s. After the Second World War , an industrial and commercial area was created there.
Major games
On April 18, 1897, one of the first international football games on German soil took place on the parade pasture. A selection team from the Danish Football Association defeated a selection from the Hamburg-Altona Football Association 5-0.
In 1903 the Altonaer FC 93 was commissioned by the German Football Association to host the first final of the German championship . The game between VfB Leipzig and DFC Prague took place on May 31, 1903 on the parade pasture. The then president of Altonaer FC 93, Franz Behr , acted as referee . VfB Leipzig won 7-2 and became the first German soccer champion.
For this game, one of the football fields on the parade pasture was cordoned off for the first time so that an entrance fee could be charged. The Altona fire brigade had taken over the barriers using broomstick-like pieces of wood connected with twine. Various sources cite audience numbers between 500 and 2000 people. The following day there was an international match between Altonaer FC 93 and Frem Copenhagen , which the guests from Denmark won 5-3.
On April 29, 1906 in the defeated quarter-finals of the German Cup the Berlin TUFC Union 92 the FC Victoria Hamburg on the Exerzierweide with 3: 1.
Todays situation
The soccer fields on the parade pasture were north of the Holstenkamp street opposite the Diebsteich cemetery and east of the Rondenbarg street. Today they are completely built over with the industrial area on Rondenbarg and on Marlowring.
In 2007, two Hamburg students determined with the help of old city maps and brochures that the location of the eastern soccer goal of the playing field, on which the final of the German championship took place in 1903, was right in front of the entrance of the Mediadruckwerk company on the Rondenbarg 6 property. The locations of the former kick-off circle and the western soccer goal are not freely accessible.
In cooperation with the Altonaer FC 93 and the Mediadruckwerk company , the 1903 initiative from Leipzig, which is active in football history, erected a memorial stone in front of the Mediadruckwerk building on September 3, 2011, commemorating the first German championship final.
literature
- Hans Dieter Baroth : When football learned to walk . Klartext Verlag, Essen 1992, ISBN 3-88474-468-2 .
- Volker Stahl and Uwe Wetzner: Hamburg sports facilities . Sutton Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86680-631-3 .
- Werner Skrentny: Places of Passion. HSV and its stadiums. The workshop, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-895-33502-9 .