Billtal Stadium

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Billtal Stadium
Billtalstadion Bergedorf after renovation.jpg
The Billtal Stadium after the renovation in 2009
Data
place GermanyGermany Bergedorf , Bergedorf District , Hamburg
Coordinates 53 ° 29 '37 "  N , 10 ° 13' 34"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 29 '37 "  N , 10 ° 13' 34"  E
opening 1950
surface artificial grass
capacity 30,000 seats
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The Billtalstadion is a sports field in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . It is located within the Bergedorf district in the district of the same name and takes its name from the nearby Bille River . It offers around 30,000 uncovered seats, of which only 300 are seats.

history

The Billstadion was built from 1949 to 1950 in the former shooting valley of the Bergedorf wood . It started with 50 “Alfu” workers (this is how the unemployed benefit recipients were called at the time) and two grab excavators. "However, the main emphasis has been placed on manual labor in order to give as many unemployed people as possible employment for a longer period of time," said the district manager Schaumann (Upper Government Council) in his opening speech.

A special feature of this stadium is that the playing field and cinder track lie in a depression, while the spectator stands are set into the slope. At that time, the stadium had a 70 by 105 m football field, for the first time in Hamburg an exactly 400 meter long running track around it and on the west side a 100 meter running track with six running widths. The inauguration was finally held on September 2, 1950, and a big feast that lasted eight days followed. Until its renovation, the Billtalstadion was by far the largest stadium with a Grandplatz in Germany.

In earlier times the place was the venue of the ASV Bergedorf 85 club , which was represented in the highest German classes during the 1950s and 1960s. The highlight was the soccer game between Bergedorf 85 and HSV (with Uwe Seeler ) in front of 25,000 spectators in 1958, which ended 1: 4.

In 1952, HSV played a friendly match against the Indian national team in the stadium in front of over 15,000 spectators, in which some Indian players competed barefoot on the ash court. After a surprising lead in the Indian selection in the first half, HSV finally won 5: 3.

In the early 1990s, the Hamburg Marines baseball team used the pitch for their home games, which attracted up to 500 visitors.

At the beginning of 2005 there were plans to play American football games of the Bundesliga club Hamburg Blue Devils on the pitch. Together with the Hamburg Sports Office, the team looked for a suitable venue according to the requirements of their umbrella association (stadium with at least 10,000 spectator seats and a floodlight system that - measured one meter above the ground - enables a light intensity of at least 900 lux ). The cooperation stipulated that the Blue Devils should renovate the Billtal Stadium, build sanitary facilities and provide floodlights, partly at their own expense and partly financed by the district. Because of massive complaints from some of the residents against this project, unresolved financial circumstances and an excessive litigation risk, the Blue Devils announced on February 28, 2005 the construction of a new football stadium in the Altona district , the " eVendi Arena ", and said goodbye the moving plans to the Billtalstadion.

In 2009 a fundamental renovation of the plant began. The grand square was turned into an artificial turf square and the benches, stairs and floodlights were renewed. On November 29th of that year the renovated stadium was inaugurated with the local derby FC Bergedorf 85 - SV Curslack-Neuengamme (3: 3) as part of the Hamburg Oberliga in front of around 2,400 spectators.

Hamburg amateur football teams in the lower division - such as BFSV Atlantik 97 and TSG Bergedorf - now play their home games on the artificial turf in the Billtal Stadium, and the sports facility is used by the neighboring schools.

literature

  • Oberregierungsrat Schaumann: The sports field project in Bergedorf . In Lichtwark No. 9, August 1949. Ed. Lichtwark Committee, Hamburg-Bergedorf. See now: Verlag HB-Werbung, Hamburg-Bergedorf. ISSN  1862-3549 .
  • Lichtwark , special edition 1, September 1950, Billtal Bergedorf . Ed. Lichtwark Committee, Hamburg-Bergedorf. See now: Verlag HB-Werbung, Hamburg-Bergedorf. ISSN  1862-3549 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Achim Leoni: "Hell" on the outskirts. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . January 18, 2005, accessed September 1, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Indian footballers 1952: Barefoot into happiness . In: Spiegel Online . October 11, 2010 ( spiegel.de [accessed July 15, 2018]).
  3. ↑ SportNord - amateur football . www.sport-nord.de. June 26, 2006. Retrieved July 3, 2009.
  4. ^ André Herbst: Refurbishment: Start of construction in the Billtal Stadium. In: Bergedorfer Zeitung . July 30, 2009, accessed September 1, 2014 .
  5. ↑ BFSV Atlantik 97 vs. FC St. Pauli 0: 8. In: groundhopping.de. October 3, 2005, accessed September 1, 2014 .