Donnerschwee stadium
| Thunderschweer Stadium | |
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| Data | |
| place |
 Oldenburg , Lower Saxony
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 8 '59.9 " N , 8 ° 14' 19.6" E |
| demolition | 1990 |
| capacity | 12,000 |
| Societies) | |
The Donnerschweer Stadion is a former football stadium in Oldenburg , which was on the corner of Donnerschweer Strasse and Wehdestrasse. It was also called the Hell of the North .
history
The Donnerschweer Stadium was originally built by the Oldenburg cycling club in 1884 as a cycling track . The site was particularly suitable for this, as sand had already been removed for the Oldenburg main station at this point and there were therefore favorable conditions for the installation of the steep walls.
From 1899 to 1903 footballers from FC Oldenburg played for the first time in the interior of the cycling track. In 1908 the cyclists had disappeared, the FV Germania 03 leased the property and converted it into a football field. In 1919, both clubs merged to form VfB Oldenburg , and a year later the club acquired the site from the local monastery brewery in order to expand it into a stadium.
After the Second World War , the stadium was confiscated by the British occupying forces. In 1947 a warehouse for displaced people , the so-called Lettenlager , was built in the immediate vicinity ('Unterm Berg') . The residents dismantled the stadium and burned the combustible material.
The confiscation was later reversed and in 1949 VfB Oldenburg celebrated the reopening of the stadium in front of 20,000 spectators with a 1-0 win over Hamburger SV . Initially still in the top German division, the stadium experienced games in the amateur upper league north after the introduction of the Bundesliga and even the second division in the 1980/81 season .
In 1990 the club felt compelled to sell the stadium in order to master the growing mountain of debt. In the last competitive game in Donnerschwee , VfB Oldenburg played 2-2 against SC Freiburg . Since then, the stadium has been idle and VfB plays in the municipal Marschweg Stadium . The stadium was last approved for 12,000 spectators.
Over the years, several investor plans to convert the wasteland have failed. At the end of 2005 there were signs of success for the first time for a plan to build on the site with a shopping center of 3000 m² of retail space and associated parking spaces. Since September 25, 2008, a discount market and a multi-purpose building with offices, a bank branch, a bakery / café, a pharmacy and a supermarket have been located on the site of the former stadium.
The latest plans are to build a new football arena near the old Donnerschwee stadium on Maastrichter Strasse (next to the EWE Arena ). This stadium is to have a capacity of around 15,000 spectators, the costs according to the stadium building initiative "Initiative Nordweststadion" are around 25 million euros.
literature
- Werner Skrentny (Hrsg.): The big book of the German football stadiums , Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2nd edition, Göttingen in May 2001, pages 293-294, ISBN 3-89533-306-9
- Klaus-Hendrik Mester: From the stadium to the arena: When the heart and soul disappear - a homage to old pilgrimage sites of German football , arete-Verlag, 1st edition, 2016, pages 155–164, ISBN 978-3942468732
Web links
- Hell of the North - project page
- History and pictures of the stadium on alt-oldenburg.de
- Volker Kühn: The spirit of Thunderschwee. Report from the disused stadium before the final demolition
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susanne Gloger: There is a lot of progress in the district center. Article in the Nordwest-Zeitung on October 29, 2008. Retrieved on July 29, 2016.