Albert Kuntz Sports Park

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Albert Kuntz Sports Park
AKS
In the foreground the main square in the Albert-Kuntz-Sportpark
In the foreground the main square in the Albert-Kuntz-Sportpark (2017)
Earlier names

Wacker Sports Park (1923–1951)

Data
place Parkallee 8a 99734 Nordhausen , Germany
GermanyGermany
Coordinates 51 ° 31 '16.1 "  N , 10 ° 46' 58.9"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '16.1 "  N , 10 ° 46' 58.9"  E
opening August 26, 1923
First game August 26, 1923
1. SV Wacker Nordhausen - VfL Halle 1896 0: 6
surface Natural grass
capacity 8088 seats
Societies)

The Albert-Kuntz-Sportpark ( AKS for short ) is a football stadium in the Thuringian city ​​of Nordhausen on the southern edge of the Harz Mountains . The facility is the venue for the football club FSV Wacker 90 Nordhausen . It is named after the KPD politician Albert Kuntz , who was murdered in 1945 in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp , north of Nordhausen. The Wacker Sports Park offers 8088 spectator seats, 1088 of which are seated and 7000 are standing. The seats and 1500 standing places are covered. In addition to the main square with natural grass , the site offers three side courts with natural green, artificial turf and a hard court. The two-story stadium building is equipped with six cabins, showers and coaching rooms. The Hotel Am Stadtpark with restaurant is directly connected to the sports park .

history

The predecessor club of FSV Wacker 90 Nordhausen, FC Wacker Nordhausen, was founded in 1905 and played its home games on an area between today's Puschkin and Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse. Then you switched to the border lawn at the Kurhaus, which is west of today's sports park. Another venue was a place near the former slaughterhouse in Kyffhäuserstraße. However, this was not a permanent situation and a long-term solution was sought.

The association negotiated with the city and bought the first part of today's sports park on December 24, 1921. The next day, the board presented the members of the site and the plans for the future venue. Construction work began at the beginning of 1922, initially including leveling work and the construction of a fence. The second part of the site was acquired in autumn 1922. Since an allotment garden association was also interested in the property, the purchase had to be carried out quickly. A purchase contract was drawn up and signed at a notary within a day . The work was carried out by the members of the association. Over 60,000 hours of work were done, 25 car trucks and hundreds of crockery carts with slag , cement , building blocks , bricks , wood , etc. were processed. In addition to a large and a small arena, a running track and a long jump facility, the area offered opportunities for expansion for other sports.

Wacker-Sportpark was posted on August 26, 1923 consecrated . The subsequent opening game took place between Wacker and VfL Halle in 1896 . The home side lost the game clearly with 0: 6. Around ten years later, the club house , now the Hotel Am Stadtpark , added to the complex. After the Second World War , the damage caused was repaired. As part of a game in the second-rate GDR soccer league in September 1951 between BSG Motor Nordhausen West and SG Lichtenberg 47 (3: 3), the Wacker Sports Park was given its current name in honor of the resistance fighter against the Nazi regime . At that time, football was a change in the tough post-war period and sometimes up to 10,000 visitors flocked to the Albert-Kuntz-Sportpark.

In the 1980s, the aging sports facility was extensively renovated. Covered seating and standing stands, a social building, an air dome and a floodlight system were built for several million marks . A number of junior international matches were played in the sports park. On 22 September 1987, joined football Olympic team of the GDR in the qualification for the Olympic Summer Games in 1988 in front of 5,400 spectators against the Dutch Olympic team at. The GDR won the game with goals from Damian Halata , Hans Richter , Markus Wuckel and Heiko Peschke 4-2, but could not qualify for the tournament in Seoul as second behind Italy .

After German reunification , first division clubs at the time such as 1. FC Köln , TSV 1860 Munich , Hamburger SV , Werder Bremen and Arminia Bielefeld came to friendly and friendly matches in the AKS. The Treuhandanstalt had transferred the sports park into the legal ownership of the city. Despite the city's efforts, it was unable to invest in the stadium with its limited financial resources. The big time ended in the late 1990s. Wacker's sporting decline with the fifth-class Oberliga Nordost and sixth-class Thuringia league went hand in hand with a financial bottleneck . The club is now back in the fourth-class Regionalliga Nordost and finished the 2018/19 season third in the table behind champions Chemnitzer FC and Berlin AK 07 .

On April 10, 2019 club announced that the Federal Government , following a decision of the Budget Committee , in the expansion of sports areas and the rehabilitation of the social building in Albert-Kuntz-Sportpark total of 1,044,000 euros will invest. The funds come from the program “Rehabilitation of municipal facilities in the areas of sport, youth and culture”. The SPD Bundestag member Carsten Schneider from Erfurt said: “After decades of use, there is a great need for renovation on site. It is time to make the sports facility suitable for the 21st century. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f About the Albert Kuntz Sports Park. In: wacker90.de. FSV Wacker 90 Nordhausen , accessed on May 31, 2019 .
  2. ^ Federal funding for Albert-Kuntz-Sportpark in Nordhausen. In: mdr.de. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , April 10, 2019, accessed on May 31, 2019 .
  3. ^ PM Wacker Nordhausen: Additional million for the Albert-Kuntz-Sportpark. In: fupa.net . FSV Wacker 90 Nordhausen , April 10, 2019, accessed on May 31, 2019 .