Municipal stadium on Dantestrasse
| Municipal stadium on Dantestrasse | |
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| Dante Dante Stadium |
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| The Dante Stadium in Munich | |
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District stadium at Dantebad |
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| place | Dantestraße 14 80637 Munich , Germany
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 10 '4.9 " N , 11 ° 31' 44.1" E |
| owner | City of Munich |
| start of building | 1928 |
| opening | June 2, 1928 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 12,000 seats |
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The municipal stadium on Dantestrasse (short: Dantestadion , opened as a district stadium at Dantebad ) is a sports stadium with athletics facility in the Gern district of the Bavarian capital, Munich . It is currently the fourth largest stadium in the city. The facility is located in the Neuhausen-Nymphenburg district in the immediate vicinity of the Westfriedhof and the Dante swimming pool . Today it is the home of the two Munich American football crews of the in the German Football League playing Munich Cowboys and playing in the regional league München Rangers . Two years of second division football and one year of first division football were played in the Dante Stadium.
The Dante , as it is often called by the people of Munich, used to have 32,000 seats, of which 12,000 are still preserved today. There is also a 400 m plastic track and an electronic display board. A special feature of the stadium is the trapezoidal and therefore unique grandstand, which also houses a gym and washrooms. On the street side it bears the inscription "Der Münchner Jugend" . The City of Munich owns the Dante Stadium.
history
Planning and opening
The construction of the district stadium at Dantebad was officially approved on December 16, 1925, after the first plans for the construction of the stadium had already been made in 1914. It was planned mainly for recreational sports and athletics competitions . The original plans stipulated that the stadium should be as large as the stadiums in Frankfurt am Main and Cologne . However, after some city councils preferred to have several smaller stadiums rather than one large one, they agreed on 32,000 seats. Until the Olympic Stadium was built , on the occasion of the 1972 Olympic Games , the stadium was intended as a “Munich large stadium”.
The stadium was opened on June 2, 1928 by the Munich youth who organized a sports festival.
Use during the time of National Socialism
During the Nazi era , the Dante Stadium was mainly used for marches by the Hitler Youth (HJ). It was planned that up to 50,000 HJ members could take part in the marches. The back straight was broken for the marching columns. However, those responsible were not very enthusiastic about the proximity of the Westfriedhof, as the ringing of the little death of the bells could be heard during the National Socialist mass events .
Sports events, such as the international athletics match with France in 1937, continued to take place in the stadium. During this time, the footballers of FC Bayern Munich also used the pitch as a training ground. In the 1943/44 season, in addition to Bayern, TSV 1860 Munich and FC Wacker Munich played their Gauligaspiele in the Dantestadion after the Hanns-Braun-Kampfbahn , today's Grünwalder Stadion, was destroyed in a bomb attack.
Possession by the US Army
After the fall of the Nazi regime , the US Army took possession of the stadium from 1945 to October 1953 for American football and baseball games . The army only gave way when they built a sports field on Säbener Strasse for 180,000 German marks .
At that time the stadium was ailing; there was a risk of accidents in the stands. Therefore, it was renovated by the city in 1954.
Soccer
From 1963 to 1972 FC Wacker Munich played its home games at the Dante . During this time, the club played two seasons, 1964/65 and 1970/71, in the Regionalliga Süd , the second highest division at the time. In 1972 the team moved to the Demleitnerstrasse district sports facility, which was built on the site of the former Wacker-Platz.
The match between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Netherlands on March 16, 1957 is of greater importance , as it was the first women's soccer game in Munich after the DFB had banned women's soccer in 1955.
Olympic games
A professional athletics facility was built in 1970 as a training facility for the 1972 Olympic Games . The throwing facility is located on a side square and can be reached via the broken back straight, as you didn't want to damage the lawn of the main square.
Football stadium
Until 2006, the club Türk SV 1975 Munich, which played under its former name SV Türk Gücü Munich in the Bayern League, played its home games at Dante and then moved to the Krehlebogen district sports facility. The Bayern Munich women's team also played in the Dante Stadium until 2006, but moved to the Aschheim Sports Park. In addition to the “Cowboys” and “Rangers” games, the stadium only occasionally hosts athletics events , youth football tournaments and school sports festivals. The stadium is open to everyone outside of events.
On July 6, 2007, FC Bayern Munich played a friendly match against FT Gern in the stadium on Dantestrasse , which FCB won 18-0.
American football
The stadium is currently the home of the American football team Munich Cowboys . The club plays in the GFL , the highest German league. Since 2008, the home games of the Munich Rangers have also been played in the Dante Stadium. There are also games of the second team of the cowboys, the women's team and the U19.
renovation
The stadium will be renovated from 2019. The grandstands will be modernized and the audience capacity reduced to 4,999. The renovation is scheduled to last until 2021.
gallery
The main building
View of the open back straight and the Olympic Tower
American football in the Dante stadium
Show spectacle of the Munich police on the track (1991)
Directions
The stadium is located at Dantestrasse 14 and can be reached by public transport. The tram lines 20 and 21, the buses 151, 163, 164 and 165 as well as the underground line U1 stop at the “ Westfriedhof ” stop , a few minutes' walk from the stadium.
Web links
- europlan-online.de: Municipal stadium on Dantestrasse - Munich
- pomki.de: Dantestadion
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Dantestadion , accessed on August 18, 2015.
- ↑ a b c d e Dante does not play here , accessed on August 18, 2015.
- ↑ DFB bans its clubs women's football , accessed on August 18, 2015.
- ↑ Reconstruction and expansion of the Dante stadium application No. 2099 of the SPD city council group of July 12, 2000, accessed on August 18, 2015.
- ^ Dantestadion , accessed on August 18, 2015.
- ↑ EM standard for Franz - ex-world champion towering over the Dante Stadium , accessed on August 18, 2015.
- ^ Benefit game FT Gern against FC Bayern in Dante Stadium on August 6, 2007 accessed on August 18, 2015.
- ↑ Dantestadion ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 18, 2015.
- ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/freizeit-in-muenchen-die-stadt-investiert-38-millionen-euro-in-sportanlagen-1.4158098
- ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/sport/fussball-keine-rueckkehr-ins-dantestadion-1.4346383
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