August Thyssen Stadium
| August Thyssen Stadium | |
|---|---|
| Data | |
| place | Duisburg - Bruckhausen , NRW |
| opening | August 1, 1954 |
| demolition | 1969 or 1970 |
| capacity | 25,000 |
| playing area | Natural grass |
| Societies) | |
The August Thyssen Stadium was a football stadium in Duisburg .
history
In 1954, SV Hamborn 07 merged with Sportfreunde Hamborn to form Hamborn 07 . The team playing in the then second-class II. Division West then left their previously used sports field on Buschstrasse , as it was too small for the club. On August 1, 1954, the club opened the newly built August Thyssen Stadium in the Bruckhausen district . The newly built stadium was located near the August Thyssen ironworks and the German Kaiser union mine . The stadium was named after entrepreneur August Thyssen .
The August Thyssen Stadium had a capacity of 25,000 seats, including an unknown number of uncovered seats. In the very first season in the new stadium, the Hamborner "Löwen" rose to the then first-class Oberliga West . Overall, Hamborn 07 played first class in the seasons 1955/56 , 1957/58 and from 1959 to 1963 . From 1963 the Hamborner "Löwen" belonged to the second-class Regionalliga West . The attendance record was set on October 31, 1965, when Hamborn 07 welcomed 25,000 spectators to the regional league game against Fortuna Düsseldorf . On October 2, 1966, the final of the German championship in field handball was played in the August Thyssen Stadium. In front of 22,000 spectators, the TV Oppum from Krefeld defeated Hamburger SV with 19:12 goals.
At the end of the 1960s, Hamborn 07 had to give up the stadium because Thyssen AG needed the stadium grounds for an education center and a parking lot. According to the club's website , Hamborn 07 left August Thyssen Stadium in 1969. According to football historian Werner Skrentny, the Hamborner "Löwen" played one last time on December 6, 1970 in the August Thyssen Stadium and defeated Preußen Münster 3-1. Hamborn 07 continued to play in the Schwelgern Stadium from then on.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The great book of the German football stadiums . Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-668-3 , p. 101 .
- ↑ Sven Webers: Final round of the German field handball championship 1966. Bundesligainfo.de, accessed on April 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Chronicle. Hamborn 07 , accessed April 20, 2016 .