Kurt Wabbel Stadium
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| View of the stadium during the game Hallescher FC against Babelsberg 03 on May 9, 2009 | |
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Stadion am Gesundbrunnen (from 1923), Central German Kampfbahn (until 1936), |
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| place | Kantstrasse 2 06110 Halle (Saale) , Germany
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 27 '55 " N , 11 ° 57' 43" E |
| owner | City of Halle (Saale) |
| start of building | 1921 |
| opening | May 27, 1923 |
| demolition | Summer 2010 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| architect | Wilhelm Jost |
| capacity | 15,000 seats |
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The Kurt Wabbel Stadium was a football stadium with an athletics facility in the Saxony-Anhalt city of Halle (Saale) . In its long history, the stadium has hosted numerous competitions in various sports. It served as the home of the Halle football club . The facility was owned by the city of Halle and was located in the city center. It was equipped with a lawn, two covered stands, a 400 m athletics track and a floodlight system. It had a nominal capacity of around 15,000 viewers.
history
Opened in 1923, it was named after Kurt Wabbel , the workers athlete , union official and local politician of the Halle KPD , after the end of the Second World War . The name was controversial after the collapse of the GDR , but remained until the stadium was demolished.
Before the Second World War, FC Wacker 1900 Halle was temporarily one of the strongest Central German football clubs, and in the 1920/21 season the club became Central German champions. The city of Halle began, among other things, in 1921 with the construction of a stadium with the plan name Mitteldeutsche Kampfbahn under the direction of city planner Wilhelm Jost . Because of difficulties with the financing, the stadium with its full capacity of 32,000 standing and 3,000 seats could not be inaugurated until August 22, 1936. The National Socialist City Council had previously decided to give the sports facility the name Kampfbahn der Stadt Halle . In 1939 the name was changed to Horst-Wessel-Kampfbahn after the NSDAP martyr . The stadium developed into one of the most important sports facilities in Central Germany, in which, in addition to football, championships in cycling (including several stages in the Peace Tour ), boxing and athletics were held.
Instead of the National Socialist name, the stadium was given the name Kurt Wabbel Stadium, which is still current today, after the heavy athlete and communist union official and city councilor Kurt Wabbel , who died or committed suicide in the Wernigerode subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944 . From the 1960s onwards, the stadium was largely only used for football games of the largest football club in Halle, HFC Chemie , which, in addition to the normal championship games, also included European Cup games against PSV Eindhoven and Torpedo Moscow. The FDGB Cup finals were played in the Kurt-Wabbel-Stadium in 1949, 1968 and 1971 .
After the track was renewed in 1956 and the first grandstand was built in 1961, the stadium was floodlit in 1969 in order to meet international requirements. The new floodlight system was inaugurated on October 5, 1969 with the friendly match between HFC Chemie and Górnik Zabrze in front of 20,000 spectators. In 1975 the power of the floodlights was increased to 850 lux and the comfort of the stadium was improved by roofing over 300 seats. Another six years later, another 500 seats were set up on the back straight.
In a derby between the two Halle football teams Hallescher FC and VfL Halle 1896 on September 26, 1997, three spectators were killed and seven others injured when a parachutist from the Halle-Oppin flight club. V. rushed into the checkout area. The parachutist who died was one of a group of ten jumpers who were supposed to bring the ball onto the field, but his parachute did not open. A memorial plaque on the stadium wall commemorates the tragic accident.
New stadium construction
On November 26, 2008, after lengthy discussions, the Halle city council decided to demolish the Kurt Wabbel stadium and build a modern football arena with 15,000 seats. The old stadium was demolished in 2010. The listed outer wall and the archways, which were already located on the Kurt Wabbel Stadium, which was built in 1936, as well as the worker statues, which were moved from the Brandberge Thingplatz to the stadium in 1951, were preserved and integrated into the new building. The new football stadium called Erdgas Sportpark was completed in September 2011 and cost around 17.5 million euros. The official opening game took place on September 20, 2011 between HFC and HSV (1: 4).
Football internationals
The GDR national soccer team played five international matches in the stadium from 1975 to 1988.
(Date, encounter, result, spectator) May 28, 1975 
GDR - Poland
1: 2 20,000 Oct. 4, 1978 GDR - Iceland
3: 1 12,000 Nov 19, 1980 GDR - Hungary
2-0 14,000 Nov 13, 1983 GDR - Scotland
2: 1 18,000 30th Mar 1988 GDR - Romania
3: 3 6,500
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Web links
- History of the stadium on the website of the Natural Gas Sports Park
- Picture gallery 1
- Picture gallery 2
- mz-web.de: "City council votes for the renovation of the stadium"
- erdgas-sportpark.de
- Sports almanac 2009 Stadtsportbund Halle e. V.
Individual evidence
- ↑ erdgas-sportpark.de: The years 1920 - 1945
- ↑ Sports Almanac 2009 ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Stadtsportbund Halle e. V., p. 18
- ↑ Frank Hirschinger : Forgery and instrumentalization of anti-fascist biographies. The example of Halle / Saale 1945–2005 . V and R Unipress, Göttingen 2007 ISBN 978-3-89971-354-1
- ^ Fabian Lamster: The stadium accident in Halle. May 3, 2018, accessed on June 2, 2018 (German).
- ↑ archiv.rhein-zeitung.de: "Nobody can really understand it" Article from September 29, 1997
- ↑ mz-web.de: Parachute accident in front of the stadium "They just wanted to see football" Article from September 21, 2007
- ↑ nachrichten.lvz-online.de: The demolition of the Kurt-Wabbel-Stadium has started ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article of July 13, 2010
