Altona stadium
| Altona stadium | |
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 Bahrenfeld , Hamburg , Germany
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| opening | September 11, 1925 |
| First game | September 13, 1925 Worker sportsman Altona - VfL Stötteritz |
| demolition | 1951 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 42,000 seats |
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The Altonaer Stadion (also called the Altonaer Volksparkstadion or Bahrenfelder Stadion ) was a football stadium opened in 1925 in the independent city of Altona on the Elbe , today one of the seven districts of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . It was located in the Altona Volkspark in the Bahrenfeld district and was the forerunner of the Volksparkstadion .
history
The construction of the stadium was based on the plans of the Altona city councilor Gustav Oelsner . The stadium was inaugurated on September 11, 1925 with a gymnastics and sports week in which around 50,000 people took part. The first football game took place two days later, when the workers' athletes from Altona met the then ATSB football champions , VfL Stötteritz from Leipzig. At that time the stadium comprised a grandstand with 2,000 covered seats and around 40,000 standing space around the stadium.
Since the city of Hamburg did not have a stadium of comparable size until Altona was incorporated , Hamburger SV, as one of the leading sporting clubs in the Hamburg region, played those home games at which a larger number of spectators was to be expected in the Altona stadium. Among other things, "the Rothosen" won their second German championship there in 1928 with a 5-2 win over Hertha BSC . The final took place in front of more than 40,000 (estimated: 47,000) spectators.
After Altona was incorporated into Hamburg, plans arose at the time of National Socialism for a new, large stadium ( Hamburger Hauptkampfbahn ), which should have been built where the City Nord is today, i.e. in the north of the Winterhude district . However, these plans disappeared with the National Socialist regime. During the Second World War , the grandstand served as accommodation for 130 to 210 Italian prisoners of war.
The first game after the war took place on June 22, 1947, when HSV competed against FC Schalke 04 in the championship of the British zone of occupation . The playoff for the championship in the North Football League between HSV and FC St. Pauli on May 22, 1949 was the last in the Altona stadium. Criticism of the design, which led to poor visibility for the spectators, was decisive for the political decision-makers in the Hanseatic city to think again about a new large stadium. In charge here was Max Brauer , under whose auspices the Altona stadium arose as Altona mayor and the post-war Mayor of Hamburg was, and Gustav Oelsner, who also now held previous posts in Altona at the pan-Hamburgischer level. The plans for a stadium in Winterhude, which had already been pursued under the Nazis, quickly came to nothing because bombed-out homeless people lived there in barracks .
The Senate and the citizens voted in July 1951 for the demolition and new construction of the stadium. The capacity should be 75,000 spectators, the later attendance record in the Volksparkstadion was finally 73,000. The inauguration of the new Volksparkstadion took place on July 12, 1953.
literature
- Paul Th (eodor) Hoffmann: Neues Altona 1919–1929. Ten years of building a major German city. 2 vol., E. Diederichs, Jena 1929.
- Werner Skrentny, Jens Reimer Prüß : With the diamond in the heart. The great history of Hamburger SV. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-620-1 .
- Werner Skrentny: Places of Passion - The HSV and its stadiums , Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-89533-502-0 .
Web links
- hsv1887.de: Hamburger SV stadiums
Individual evidence
- ↑ stages. In: hsv1887.de. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Skrentny / Prüß, p. 181.
- ↑ Skrentny / Prüß, p. 182.
Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 15.6 ″ N , 9 ° 53 ′ 57 ″ E