Bruchweg Stadium
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 Mainz , Germany
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 0 '3 " N , 8 ° 14' 44" E |
| owner | 1. FSV Mainz 05 II |
| opening | 1929 |
| Renovations | 1947, 1951, 1953, 1965, 1981, 1997, 2002 |
| demolition | partly in 2011 and 2018 |
| capacity | 7134 |
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The Bruchweg Stadium (also Stadion am Bruchweg ) is a football stadium in Mainz . Until May 2011 it was the home stadium of 1. FSV Mainz 05 ; since summer 2011 it has been used by the second team and the A-youth. The first team has played in today's Opel Arena since the 2011/12 season .
The Mainz 05 youth performance center is located on the stadium grounds .
history
The originally municipal Bruchweg Stadium was opened in 1929 on Bretzenheimer Bruchweg (today Dr.-Martin-Luther-King-Weg and Albert-Schweitzer-Straße). There is nothing left of the existing structure, consisting of an 80-meter-wide uncovered grandstand, a hard court and a cinder track.
After the loss of the club's own Fort Bingen stadium , the 1. Mainz FSV 05 , which was merged with the Reichsbahn-SV Mainz to form the Reichsbahn-SV 05 , moved to the Bruchweg Stadium 500 meters to the north, which has since been renamed the Herbert Norkus Stadium. After the Second World War , the stadium was not playable for two years. In February 1947, the re-established association returned to Bruchweg.
In 1951 rubble, including fragments of Roman gravestones, was used to erect the seven-step terrace, which in parts would continue into the 21st century. This increased the capacity of the stadium to 20,000 seats. In the 1: 4 defeat against 1. FC Kaiserslautern on April 12, 1953, the expanded stadium was sold out for the first time. In 1953 the Bruchweg Stadium got a grass pitch for the first time. The largest documented number of spectators was achieved on February 27, 1965 in the DFB Cup quarter-finals against 1. FC Nürnberg (0: 3). An additional grandstand was specially built for this game. The next two renovations were the roofing of the main stand (1965) and the back straight (1981). With the final of the first German women's football championship , the top game of women's football in Germany took place in Mainz in 1974.
The floodlights were inaugurated during the friendly against Borussia Mönchengladbach in the summer of 1995. A little later the stadium got an electronic scoreboard for the first time.
On the occasion of the great opportunities for advancement in 1997, two tubular steel grandstands were built behind the gates instead of the old curves. For the same reason, the main stand and the back straight were demolished in 2002. A modern grandstand, which u. a. Crew cabins and the VIP room, as well as another tubular steel grandstand with seating and standing room were built.
After the promotion to the Bundesliga in 2004, two more uncovered provisional additional grandstands with 800 seats each were built next to the main grandstand. In addition, the corners of the stadium next to the back straight were closed with noise barriers. Both the expansion of the short stand behind the gate in 1997 and the expansion of the main and back straight were carried out according to plans by Fiebiger GmbH Architekten + Ingenieure under the direction of the architect Folker Fiebiger (Kaiserslautern).
The back-door stands are to give way to the construction of a new office and additional training grounds. After dismantling the Molitor grandstands in June 2011 and the north grandstand in March 2018, the stadium has a nominal capacity of around 14,600 spectators, while the regional league has a capacity of 7134.
Building fabric
The Bruchweg Stadium consisted of six grandstands until 2011 :
- Main stand
- Back straight
- South Stand
- North Stand
- Molitor grandstands (in the corners next to the main grandstand)
Main stand
The main grandstand is the only permanent grandstand on Bruchweg. The shell of the concrete structure was erected after the demolition of the old main grandstand from May to August 2002 according to plans by Fiebiger GmbH Architekten + Ingenieure under the direction of the Kaiserslautern architect Folker Fiebiger and roofed over in the autumn of that year. Since then, the space in the grandstand has been expanded. The building, originally planned to be 100 meters wide, but only 80 meters wide for financial reasons, houses several team cabins , a sports hall and the press room on the ground floor and above the two-storey VIP room, toilets, police emergency rooms and several boxes . There are 3500 seat shells under the cantilevered roof.
From May 2009 the grandstand bore the name of the Mainz main sponsor Entega .
Back straight
Also in the summer break of 2002, the old back straight was replaced by a modern, roofed tubular steel construction, which was called the Oddset Grandstand until the long-term cooperation partner of FSV Mainz 05 withdrew . At the beginning of the 2006/07 season, the Rhineland-Palatinate first division team found Orgentec Diagnostika as the namesake for the grandstand. A total of 5100 spectators can be found on the first grandstand on the east side of the stadium above fixed catering rooms and toilet facilities. In the upper area of the grandstand there are 1,800 seats, 3300 of which are standing. In the right area of the back straight is the guest block with 600 seats and 1300 standing places.
South Stand
The south stand, together with the opposite, now demolished north stand, is the oldest area of the current stadium. The roofed tubular steel construction was erected in the 1997 summer break in place of the south curve. Before that, a provisional grandstand had been in the same place for a few months. The south stand offers 6600 covered standing places and accommodated, among other things, the two main fan blocks of the Mainz team. Due to the stadium expansion in the summer of 2002, the grandstand is no longer in the center of the front of the field.
North Stand
The north stand was built at the same time as the south stand opposite in the summer of 1997 instead of the north curve. 3400 spectators found their seats on this roofed tubular steel construction.
From January 2005 to August 2007 the grandstand was named after the logistics company Deutscher Paketdienst and was known as the DPD grandstand . From 2007 to 2009 it was named after the main sponsor at the time, DBV Winterthur . The north stand was demolished at the beginning of 2018.
Molitor grandstands
The two Molitor grandstands were the latest addition to the Bruchweg Stadium. The two uncovered makeshift structures were erected after promotion to the Bundesliga in 2004 and released for the Mainz team's second (south) and third (north) home game. Each grandstand offered 800 seats. As of July 2005, the grandstands bore the name of the real estate company Molitor . In June 2011 the Molitor grandstands were dismantled without replacement.
Ticket situation
A new record demand for season tickets was set before the 2008/09 season. 23,500 fans had sent a season ticket application to the club. Members and season ticket holders had the right of first refusal for season tickets.
Other Events
In addition to the games of FSV Mainz 05, several junior international matches took place in the Bruchweg Stadium, including three games of the U-21 European Championship in summer 2004. In 2003 and 2004, the League Cup finals were played in the Bruchweg Stadium. In the 1990s, the friendly games FC Bayern Munich - AC Milan and 1. FC Kaiserslautern - Inter Milan took place on Bruchweg.
On September 6, 2008, the first official international match took place on Bruchweg. In the course of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup , Georgia played against Ireland . Because of Georgia’s involvement in the Caucasus conflict, this game was moved to a neutral venue. The wish was to play in Germany; after Karlsruhe had to cancel at short notice, Mainz agreed. The game ended 1: 2 (0: 1).
In the 2017/18 season, the stadium was the backup stadium for the regional league football team of TSV Schott Mainz .
In 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005 several thousand Jehovah's Witnesses met during the summer break in the Bruchweg Stadium and held their annual district congress there.
New stadium construction
According to the 1. FSV Mainz 05, a new stadium had to be built in order to remain economically competitive. The solution favored by the association, a new building directly behind the current stadium in the middle of the Hartenberg-Münchfeld district , turned out to be financially not feasible due to the noise protection requirements for residents. This also applied to the expansion of the Bruchweg Stadium into a football stadium with a capacity of around 35,000.
In 2007 it was therefore initially decided to build a new multi-purpose stadium at the Europakreisel, around two kilometers to the west in the Gonsenheim district . The stadium should offer space for around 35,000 spectators and from the 2009/10 season it should be the new home stadium of the 05er. Due to the persistent problems in creating structural conditions at the preferred location Europakreisel, the city of Mainz has meanwhile examined three other construction sites: on the former site of Heidelberger Cement in Weisenau , near the new exhibition center between Mainz-Hechtsheim and Mainz-Ebersheim, but also one Stadium together with SV Wehen Wiesbaden , which was playing in the 2nd Bundesliga at the time, in the Wiesbaden district of Mainz-Kastel was considered, but this led to violent protests. On February 19, 2008, a new possible location for the new stadium was finally found, also near the Europakreisel. The location of the stadium has been moved around 800 m to the south and towards Bretzenheim in order to get the necessary contiguous area. The cost of the stadium construction was estimated at 45 million euros, plus a maximum of 15 million euros for additional construction and development costs as well as for the acquisition of the construction area.
The new stadium opened on July 3, 2011. The Mainz credit company Coface became a co-sponsor of the association and acquired the naming rights until 2015. Since the 2016/17 season, the arena has been sponsored by name by the automobile manufacturer Opel . The Bruchweg Stadium remains the venue for 1. FSV Mainz 05 II and the A-Juniors (U19).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bruchweg Stadium: Too small for the Bundesliga, too big for the 3rd division
- ↑ Dismantling of the tubular steel grandstands in the Bruchweg Stadium has begun ( memento from June 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Allgemeine Zeitung from June 20, 2011
- ↑ Bruchwegstadion on mainz05.de, accessed on August 28, 2019
- ↑ VRM GmbH & Co. KG: Current video news from the Rhein-Main areaMainz: Farewell to the north stand in the Bruchweg Stadium in Mainz. Retrieved April 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Dismantling of the tubular steel grandstands in the Bruchweg Stadium has begun ( memento from June 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Allgemeine Zeitung from June 20, 2011
- ^ Georgia's World Cup qualifying game in Mainz
- ^ Stadium booklet of TSV Schott from April 15, 2017 (pdf, page 5), accessed on October 3, 2017
- ↑ Kick-off for the new construction of a multifunctional stadium in Mainz: the location south of the Europakreisel has been determined ( Memento from June 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) - Official press release.
- ↑ mainz05.de: New location for the Coface Arena found - News from February 19, 2008.
Web links
- Bruchwegstadion on the website of 1. FSV Mainz 05