Black Forest Stadium

Black Forest Stadium
	Dreisamstadion
	Interior of the stadium (2011)
Earlier names
	Dreisamstadion (1954-2004); Stadium on Schwarzwaldstrasse (2014);
Sponsor name (s)
	Badenova Stadium (2004-2011); Mage Solar Stadium (2012-2014); Black Forest Stadium (since 2014);
Data
place	Schwarzwaldstrasse 193 79117 Freiburg im Breisgau , Baden-Württemberg;
Coordinates	47 ° 59 '20 " N , 7 ° 53' 35" E Coordinates: 47 ° 59 '20 " N , 7 ° 53' 35" E
owner	City of Freiburg
operator	Sc freiburg
opening	September 1, 1954
Renovations	1970, 1980, 1993-1995, 1999, 2004
surface	Natural grass
costs	24 million euros
capacity	24,000 seats
Capacity (internat.)	18,000 seats
playing area	101 m × 68 m
Societies)
	Sc freiburg;

Northwest

North Stand

Solar modules on the roof of the stadium

The Black Forest Stadium , originally and in parlance often Dreisamstadion , is a football stadium in the Baden-Württemberg city of Freiburg im Breisgau . The stadium is owned by the city and is located in the eastern district of Waldsee on the Schwarzwaldstraße directly on the eponymous Dreisam . The first division club SC Freiburg plays its home games here, but will move to the SC stadium, which is still under construction, in the course of the 2020/21 season .

history

History until 1993

The first own arena of the SC was the Winterer Stadium, inaugurated in 1928 , which the club had to leave in 1936 because the area was needed as an airfield for the Air Force. After the Second World War , SC Freiburg did not have its own sports field and had to use the gymnasium . It was not until 1953 that the club received a site in the east of the city on which a sports field was laid out, which was officially inaugurated on September 1, 1954.

In 1970 the sports field was expanded to include a grandstand on the south side with 480 covered seats, before eight years later - after promotion to the Second Bundesliga - the first major expansion was imminent. With the construction of a main stand with 1,800 seats and the expansion of the standing stands in 1980, the capacity increased to 15,000.

Modernization since promotion to the Bundesliga in 1993

With the promotion to the Bundesliga in 1993, the stadium received a floodlight system. In addition, the east stand on the back straight has been roofed over and expanded by 1,580 seats. This was followed by an increase in the main stand to 5,000 seats. During the winter break of the 1994/95 season , construction began on a new back-gate stand on the south side; after the construction work was completed in July 1995, the capacity rose to 18,000.

The stadium finally reached its current size in 1999, when the north and east stands were expanded or rebuilt. The north stand offers standing space for 6,000 spectators, the east stand has 7,000 seats. Both grandstands are covered. In addition, handicapped-accessible spaces were created directly on the field in front of the east stand.

The stadium now offers a total of 24,000 spectators, with 14,000 seats and 10,000 standing places available. All grandstands are covered. Due to a lawsuit from the neighborhood, the club was prohibited from further increasing the capacity of the stadium.

Since the stadium does not comply with UEFA guidelines (the pitch is 4.50 meters too short), matches in European competitions that go beyond the qualification phase may only be played there with a special permit. The DFL also granted SC Freiburg a special permit for the Bundesliga for the 2012/13 season .

The stadium has since been further refurbished. A large part of the energy requirement is covered by two photovoltaic power plants with an output of 250,000 kilowatt hours per year. The turf heating is also operated in an environmentally friendly way with Stirling engines. With the addition of a functional building in 2004, the comfort for the VIP guests was increased. This building is located in the northwest corner of the stadium. A fan house was built behind the north stand, which is run by the fan community, the umbrella association of organized SC Freiburg fans.

International matches have already taken place in this stadium several times, most recently the German national soccer team played a friendly match against Luxembourg shortly before the 2006 World Cup , and during the World Cup the stadium served as a training ground for the Dutch national team , which had moved into their quarters in Hinterzarten . The German men's U-21 national team has been a guest three times so far .

The German women's national team played a friendly against China on February 28, 2008 at the Dreisam. Despite the unfavorable scheduling at 4 p.m. on a Thursday, almost 20,000 spectators came and saw the German team win 2-0. In May 2010 the Dutch national team returned to Freiburg. In preparation for the World Cup, "Oranje" played a test match against the Mexican national team.

Excerpt from the Freiburg professionals 2020

After it had been determined in 2012 that modernization of the stadium was uneconomical, a referendum passed a referendum in February 2015 that a completely new stadium should be built at Freiburg Airport in the next few years . In November 2018 construction began on the SC stadium , to which SC Freiburg wanted to move at the start of the 2020/21 season. Since construction was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the club specified the Dreisamstadion as a venue for licensing for the 2020/21 season in addition to the SC stadium.

Transport links

The stadium can be reached via the tram line 1 in the direction of Littenweiler or via the Freiburg-Littenweiler stop of the Höllentalbahn . During home games, Schwarzwaldstraße and connecting roads between Hansjakobstraße and Schwarzwaldstraße are closed to non-residents.

Stadium newspaper

As a stadium newspaper there was the "SC-Report" distributed free of charge until the 1995/96 season, and the stadium magazine "Heimspiel" has existed since then. Since the first promotion to the Bundesliga in 1993 there has been a large number of fanzines from the Freiburg fan scene. The "Fanman" and the "Charly" were among the more well-known fanzines beyond the borders of Freiburg. In the 2009/10 season, the Freiburg ultra-scene published the "Bruddler" at irregular intervals, the successor to the "Dreisamgeplätscher" of the Wilden Jungs Freiburg, which appeared twice in the 2008/09 season. Due to differences, this project was discontinued in favor of the "Dreisamplätscher", which has been published every six months since the 2010/11 season and is published solely by the WJF.

particularities

The playing field has a slope . The difference in height between the two gates is almost a meter.

Name sponsorship

Sponsor lettering 2011

Sponsor lettering 2012

For the 2004/05 season , the Freiburg energy supply company Badenova acquired the naming rights for five years, after which the stadium was officially called the Badenova Stadium . At the beginning of 2007 the contract was extended to 2010 and at the end of 2010 until after the 2013/14 season.

At the beginning of 2012, by mutual agreement of all parties , Mage Solar prematurely gave the stadium its name, which from then on was officially called Mage Solar Stadium . Badenova remained a sponsor of SC Freiburg in another role.

After Mage Solar had to go into bankruptcy in 2013, the sponsorship was no longer continued after the end of the contract after the 2013/14 season. From July 2014, the stadium was officially called the stadium on Schwarzwaldstraße for a short transition period .

At the end of September 2014 it was announced that Schwarzwald Tourismus GmbH would be holding the stadium's naming rights for a period of five years together with seven financing partners ( Freiburg Wirtschaft Touristik und Messe GmbH & Co.KG , Hochschwarzwald Tourismus GmbH , Liftverbund Feldberg , Hermann Wein Schwarzwälder Genuss Manufaktur , Julabo Temperiertechnik , Schleith Group and AHP Merkle ) and the stadium will be called the Black Forest Stadium in the future . The name change was approved by the Freiburg City Council on October 7, 2014. The contract was extended in the 2018/19 season until the end of the 2019/20 season, after which the move to the SC stadium was planned.