Adolf Hitler ski jump

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Adolf Hitler ski jump
Adolf-Hitler-Schanze (North Rhine-Westphalia)
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Location
city Hollerath
country GermanyGermany Germany
Construction year 1932
Rebuilt 1953
Data
Landing
Construction point 51 m

Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '47 "  N , 6 ° 23' 52"  E

The Adolf-Hitler-Schanze was a ski jumping hill in the Eifel town of Hollerath in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The Cologne Winter Sports Club built the ski jump in Hollerath from 1932. After Adolf Hitler came to power in 1934, the hill was named in his honor the Adolf-Hitler-Schanze. The most famous ski jumper might have been the later Olympic champion Birger Ruud , who jumped there as part of his preparation for the 1936 season. The wooden jump was approx. 20 meters high and 120 meters long and had a brick take-off table, which is still the only part of the former ski jump that is preserved today. It was considered the largest ski jumping hill in West Germany. At the end of the Second World War , the ski jumping hill, which was located near the Western Wall, was destroyed during acts of war. The ski jumping hill was rebuilt on a smaller scale in 1953, but finally abandoned because of the unsafe snow conditions.

In 2014 the Bonn Ski Club initiated the construction of a children's hill in Hollerath.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hollerath skisprungschanzen.com
  2. ↑ a b Mr. Hoitz builds a ski jump in the Eifel aachener-zeitung.de
  3. ↑ 70 meter jumps were possible ksta.de
  4. ↑ a b c For ski jumping people went to the Eifel grenzecho.net
  5. ↑ Hans Joachim von Loeschebrand-Horn: Rhineland The German Home Guides Volume 8, Berlin, 1938 [1]