St. Jakob (sports center)

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St. Jakob-Park stadium interior view
St. Jakobshalle, multi-purpose hall

The Sports Center St. Jakob is located on the territory of the former battlefield of the year 1444 took place Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs on the floor of the three municipalities Münchenstein (81%), Muttenz (11%) and Basel (8%). Although the city of Basel is largely the owner of the facility, only the football stadium that gives it its name is actually on Basel soil.

Infrastructure

St. Jakob-Park (Joggeli)

St. Jakob-Park is the largest football stadium in Switzerland. The new building held 33,330 seats (including standing room) or 31,500 seats. For the Euro 2008 the stadium was enlarged to 42,500 seats by building an additional balcony on the embankment side and moving the chairs together. After the European Championships, the chairs were then moved further apart, which leads to a current capacity of 38,512 seats. The previous, demolished stadium, which had to make way for the new building, was called the St. Jakob Stadium . The local name "Joggeli" was retained.

St. Jakob-Arena

The St. Jakob Arena is a multifunctional ice rink .

St. Jakobshalle

The St. Jakobshalle is a building complex made up of two multi-purpose halls and ancillary buildings.

St. Jakob sports facility

The outdoor facilities of the sports complex offer:

  • 1 athletics stadium
  • 16 lawn sports fields; eight times 103 at 68 m; six times 100 at 64 m
  • 2 artificial turf fields
  • 1 rugby field; 100 to 68.4 m
  • 4 tennis courts
  • 4 combination seats; twice 22 by 44 m; twice 42 to 58 m
  • 7 beach volleyball fields
  • 1 beach soccer field

Schänzli equestrian facility

The sand trotting track with its grandstand meets the highest international requirements. Inside these are the facilities for dressage, driving and jumping, as well as the fixed cross-country jumps for eventing tests. The gastronomy was not forgotten either.

  • Data:
    • Trotting track
      • Sand runway 900 m
      • Curve superelevation 18%
    • Show jumping facilities
      • Grass jumping area
      • Sand warm-up area
    • Dressage course
      • Sand dressage arena
    • Audience capacity
      • 1,800 covered grandstand seats
      • 10,000 standing places
      • VIP grandstand with 160 seats
    • 15 betting desk

St. Jakob garden pool

Entrance to the Joggeli swimming pool

The St. Jakob garden pool in Münchenstein was created in the 1950s by the architects Rasser and Vadi . There are swimming competitions, beach volleyball tournaments and much more. The “Kino am Pool” and the “Nautilus Festival” are also held annually.

  • Data:
    • Total area 45,150 m²
    • 39,000 m² lawn area
    • Pool area 5000 m²
    • Meadow area 5500 m²
    • Sand area in the meadow 750 m²
  • Family pool
    • 1131 m²
    • Depth 2.0-3.5 m
    • lighting
  • Non-swimmer pools
    • 1024 m²
    • Depth 0.6–1.2 m
    • Tube slide
    • lighting
  • Competition pool
    • 1263 m²
    • heated
    • Depth 2.0-5.0 m
    • diving platform
  • Paddling pool
    • Depth 0-0.4 m

Regular events

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Jakob-Park - Facts and Figures ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.baselunited.ch

Coordinates: 47 ° 32 '12 "  N , 7 ° 37' 9"  E ; CH1903:  613 596  /  265108