Old Tivoli

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Old Tivoli
Old Tivoli under floodlights, 2008
Old Tivoli under floodlights, 2008
Data
place Krefelder Strasse 187 52070 Aachen
GermanyGermany
Coordinates 50 ° 47 '24 "  N , 6 ° 5' 38"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '24 "  N , 6 ° 5' 38"  E
owner Alemannia Aachen (1928–1968)
City of Aachen (1968–2012)
opening June 3, 1928
First game June 3, 1928
Alemannia Aachen - Preussen Krefeld 4: 3
Renovations 1957 (extension)
1980 (canopies)
demolition September 26, 2011 to spring 2012
surface Natural grass
capacity 21,300 seats
playing area 105 m × 70 m
Societies)
Events

The old Tivoli was a football stadium in the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Aachen . Most recently it was the home ground of the U23 of Alemannia Aachen . The second division team played there until May 2009. The first stadium at today's location in Aachen was opened in 1928; the old Tivoli held 21,300 spectators and offered 3,700 seats and 17,600 standing places. The old Tivoli was in Soers on the northern edge of the city center on Krefelder Straße ( B 57 ), not far from the A 4 . The stadium was demolished. Residential houses have been built on the site since 2013.

The stadium's name comes from the Tivoli sports field , which emerged from the former Tivoli estate north-west of the Lousberg , whose park was reminiscent of the gardens of the Italian town of Tivoli .

history

Opening and ongoing expansion

Tivoli floodlights

For its inauguration on June 3, 1928, the old Tivoli held 10,000 spectators in the 4: 3 won opening game against Preussen Krefeld . Ten years later, however, one had to move to the Aachen Waldstadion for the 1939 German championship because the capacity of the old Tivoli was no longer able to cope with the crowd.

In 1953, the first major expansions began, which slowly gave the old Tivoli the look it had until 2011: The southern standing wall was inaugurated in the fall of 1953, the later marathon gate in the southeast corner of the stadium and the players' tunnel were built. At the end of this work, the capacity was 20,000 spectators.

In the spring of 1957 it was decided to roof over the grandstand, to expand the Würselener Wall to a capacity of 11,000 spectators and to build a floodlight system. On August 28, 1957, the inauguration game of the new floodlight system and the new grandstands took place. Alemannia lost the game against Espanyol Barcelona 2: 4 in front of a record crowd of 35,000 spectators. The new floodlight system was one of the most modern in Europe at the time. A few weeks later, the still valid attendance record for the old Tivoli with (unofficially) 40,000 spectators was set up against Schalke .

At the end of the 1957/58 season, the standing tiers were equipped with breakwaters after a barrier was broken in a game against 1. FC Köln in April 1958 .

With promotion to the Bundesliga in 1967, a provisional tubular steel grandstand with 1,300 seats was built on Aachener Wall, which brought the stadium's capacity, which had meanwhile been reduced by safety requirements and minor modifications, to 29,900 spectators.

In the following years only minor measures were carried out. In 1973 a new changing house was built, a new stairway to the Würselener Wall was built, the square was equipped with a drainage system and the standing room was renewed. In addition, nine tiers were added on Würselener Wall, which increased the capacity of the stadium to 32,000 spectators.

With the roofing of the opposite stand on the east side, the stadium was given the appearance it had until it was demolished in February 1980. The new roof was officially inaugurated at the home game against Arminia Bielefeld (2: 3) on February 3, 1980. The project cost 440,000 DM. The total capacity was slightly reduced by the new construction.

In 1999 the lawn was renewed, an underfloor heating system was added, and the slight difference in height leveled out. The sound system and the floodlights were renewed. In the winter of 2000, the bucket seats from the old Kaalheide sports park were donated by Roda JC Kerkrade to Alemannia and screwed onto the wooden benches of the grandstands. In 2003 the coaches' benches were moved in front of the grandstand and safety nets were installed after the Nuremberg trainer Wolfgang Wolf was hit by an object from the auditorium in November 2003 .

Finally, in 2004, new seat shells were installed, new drainage systems laid and the area between the playing field and the fence paved with stones.

Closure, demolition and re-use

On May 24, 2009, the last Bundesliga game took place on the old Tivoli, which Alemannia won 4-0. On July 26th, 2009 the Aacheners defeated Werder Bremen 3-2 in the last friendly match at the old Tivoli. From the 2009/2010 season the games will take place in a new stadium , also called Tivoli. However, the second team started another season on the old Tivoli on August 14, 2010 with their first home game in the 2010/2011 season, before the property was advertised and the stadium was demolished. The last league game took place on May 7, 2011. Alemannia Aachen II won 3-1 against Schwarz-Weiß Essen , followed by the last game in which the traditional team competed against a selection of fans.

After the demolition, which was supposed to start on June 1, 2011, but officially began with a press conference on September 26, 2011, the city began selling the 10,300 m² site. Since then, a Hampton by Hilton hotel , HIT consumer market, a daycare center , office space, and since September 2015 the new company headquarters of Saint-Gobain and single-family houses have been built. In the area of ​​the newly created residential area, the streets have names such as B. At the main stand, Würselener Wall or Alemannenstrasse . The Würselener Wall was preserved and was used to build terraced houses, and the course of the street was adapted to the dimensions of the previous playing field.

Other events

In addition to the Alemannia games, the old Tivoli was also the scene of various national and cup games:

Men's U-21 national team

  • Apr. 30, 1982: Germany - Soviet Union 5: 0 (2: 0)
  • December 17, 1991: Germany - Luxembourg 3: 0 (1: 0)
  • Nov. 17, 1998: Germany - Netherlands 2: 2 (1: 1)
  • 19 Nov. 2002: Germany - Netherlands 4: 1 (4: 1)

Women's national team

  • 27 Aug 2000: Germany - Denmark 7: 0 (5: 0)

DFB Cup 1983/84

DFB Cup 1987/88

Records

The highest number of spectators on the old Tivoli is unofficially 40,000 spectators at the Oberliga game Alemannia - FC Schalke 04 on October 6, 1957. The minus record, which does not include the ghost game against 1. FC Nürnberg in 2004, is 600 spectators at the home game against the Rheydter SV on May 7, 1994 in the Oberliga Nordrhein . The highest season average of the Alemannia on the old Tivoli dates from the season 1967/68 in the Bundesliga with an average of 21,235 spectators, the worst average from the Oberliga North Rhine season 1991/92 , where only 2,467 spectators came to the Alemannia on average.

The new Tivoli

The new Tivoli was built in the immediate vicinity of the old stadium in mid-2008 and was the new home of Alemannia Aachen on August 17, 2009 with the first home game of the 2009/10 season , which was lost 5-0 to FC St. Pauli .

gallery

  • Scheme of the old Tivoli

  • Sparkassen grandstand

  • Würselener Wall

  • Aachen Wall

  • Aachen and Munich grandstands

literature

  • Ralf Schröder, Kolja Linden, Thorsten Pracht: The Tivoli. 100 years of legendary home for Alemannia Aachen . The workshop, 2008, ISBN 3-89533-599-1

Web links

Commons : Alter Tivoli  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 80 years ago the old Tivoli was inaugurated , Alemannia Aachen, June 3, 2008
  2. ↑ Aachen wins to say goodbye to Tivoli ( memento from July 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), bundesliga.de from May 24, 2009
  3. ^ New houses instead of the old Tivolis , Aachener Zeitung online from March 3, 2011
  4. ↑ A piece of history is dredged , Aachener Nachrichten , 26. September 2011
  5. ↑ Saint Gobain wants to contribute to climate improvement with a new building , Aachener Zeitung, May 8, 2013, accessed on February 9, 2018
  6. ^ City of Aachen: Urban development projects: Alter Tivoli ( Memento from June 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ List of record games on the website ochehoppaz.de
  8. ↑ Audience statistics on the ochehoppaz.de website