Federal Training Center Kienbaum
The Federal Performance Center Kienbaum , renamed the Olympic and Paralympic Training Center for Germany on July 18, 2017 , is a training center for top athletes around 40 kilometers east of Berlin . It is located in Kienbaum , Brandenburg , municipality of Grünheide on Lake Liebenberger See near Müncheberg . The following sports are trained: athletics , canoeing , gymnastics , ball games , judo , boxing , cycling , triathlon , archery , disabled sports , speed skating , bobsleigh , table tennis , sailing , surfing and others. The halls and facilities are located on the premises Kienbaum I and II and on the lake (canoe race track).
Since 2011, the federal police’s funding for top-class sports has also been based in the Kienbaum BLZ and now operates as the Kienbaum Federal Police Sports School .
history
The facilities , which were spared from the Second World War , had been used as a rest home since 1949, and from 1951 also for athletes.
The entire property was officially handed over to competitive sports in the GDR as a training facility on July 24, 1952 . Until 1990 the sports facility was run by the German Gymnastics and Sports Association of the GDR (DTSB). After the reunification of the two German states , the sponsoring association Bundesleistungszentrum Kienbaum e.V. is responsible for sports operations and management . V. responsible.
Museum is get the vacuum chamber to simulate of altitude training conditions to over 3000 meters, built in the years 1977 to 1979 under the project responsibility of the Berlin architect Claus-Peter Werner . The chamber went into operation in 1979 and cost around 15 million GDR marks.
The requirement was derived from the experience of the preparation and evaluation of the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City (approx. 2,300 m above sea level ). In the vacuum chamber, athletes from various disciplines could live and train on several floors. The functions of the chamber and the athletes' vital functions were always monitored and controlled centrally. In addition to a large training room for cyclists, walkers and general strength sports, there is a water basin for training canoeists, several lounges in which the athletes were housed tightly in double bunk beds, a doctor's room and several small rooms.
Equipment (as of 2013)
- various sports facilities
- 3 athletics facilities
- 2 weight rooms and athletic facility
- 2 soccer fields
- 2 ball game halls
- 2 tennis courts
- gym
- Swimming pool
- Multipurpose hall
- Bitumen circular track
- Running hall
- Canoe center and canoe race course
- Thrower house
- Archery
- Beach volleyball
- Leisure facilities (including bowling , billiards , darts , table football )
- New buildings from 2009:
- Ball game hall (for the first time in Germany with a height of 12.50 m according to international standards)
- Replacement of the old pavilions in Kienbaum I with two modern buildings
- Cold chamber with up to −110 ° C
- 2017: According to Managing Director Klaus-Peter Nowack, the next goal should be a hall with a 400 m track, where wheelchair users and speed skaters can do roller training.
workload
Every year around 62,000 athletes use the facilities for final training before important competitions, championships and the Olympic Games . In the year of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , there were 71,000. Of the 468 German Olympic participants in 2008, 200 had prepared in Kienbaum.
In 2018, the professional footballers of 1. FC Union Berlin used the cold chamber to prepare for a game in the 2nd Bundesliga .
In addition to the athletes, the National and Olympic teams and professional athletes also use regional sports clubs , the equipment, such. B. Turner from Erkner , triathletes from Berlin , track and field athletes from Fürstenwalde , the DLRG or footballers from Kagel .
Awards
The DTSB sports school of the GDR was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver for its contribution to the success of the Olympic Games in Montreal .
In 2010, the nationwide initiative Germany - Land of Ideas selected the Bundesleistungszentrum (BLZ) Kienbaum as “the” center for top-class sport in East Germany because, according to the laudation , “athletes train here in an all-German team spirit”.
Kienbaum Award
The Kienbaum Sport Award has been presented annually since 2012. The award is given to a role model function that is demonstrated by a senior athlete, a trainer or a group. Selection criteria are respect, courtesy, helpfulness, courage, honesty, modesty and self-control. Betty Heidler received the award in 2012 . Also nominated were: David Storl , Pablo Hernandez , Carolin Leonhardt , Siena Christen , Philipp Boy and Tomasz Wylenzek .
The following were nominated for the 2013 award: Andreas Toba , Kristina Vogel , Robert Zimmermann , Marianne Buggenhagen , Ulrich Iser , Franka Dietzsch and Steffi Nerius . The Kienbaum Award 2013 was presented to Kristina Vogel on July 23.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pamela Ruprecht: Flash News of the Day - Angela Merkel visits the newly named Kienbaum Training Center ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Notes, from: Leichtathletik.de, July 19, 2017, accessed July 20, 2017
- ↑ Report on the website of the Federal Police
- ^ Alina Schwermer: Museum in the old training bunker: Forgotten state secret . In: The daily newspaper: taz . October 21, 2018, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed November 15, 2018]).
- ↑ Uwe Wuttke: We have a small Olympic village here in Märkische Oderzeitung from July 20, 2017, p. 6.
- ↑ Uwe Wuttke: Record in the Federal Training Center in Märkische Oderzeitung , January 9, 2009, Lokalsport, p. 17
- ↑ Uwe Wuttke: Kienbaum and the cold chamber in Märkische Oderzeitung May 8, 2018, p. 22
- ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).
- ^ German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB): Kienbaum and Mission Olympic - “Places des Sports 2010” , accessed August 24, 2012
- ↑ Kienbaum Journal from July 2012 (PDF; 2.9 MB)
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '43.2 " N , 13 ° 57' 3.6" E