Eintracht Stadium

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Eintracht Stadium
Panorama with the new blue tartan track, taken during the 2014 European Athletics Team
Panorama with the new blue tartan track, taken during the 2014 European Athletics Team
Earlier names
  • Eintracht Stadium (1923-1980)
  • Municipal stadium on Hamburger Strasse (1980–2008)
Data
place Hamburger Str. 210 38112 Braunschweig , Germany
GermanyGermany
Coordinates 52 ° 17 '24.5 "  N , 10 ° 31' 17.6"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 17 '24.5 "  N , 10 ° 31' 17.6"  E
owner City of Braunschweig
operator Stadthalle Braunschweig Betriebsgesellschaft mbH
opening June 17, 1923
August 13, 1950
First game June 17, 1923
Eintracht Braunschweig - 1. FC Nuremberg 1:10
August 13, 1950
Eintracht Braunschweig - 1. FC Kaiserslautern 3: 1
Renovations 1950, 1963-1964, 1976, 1979, 1995, 2008-2010, 2011-2013
surface Natural grass
costs 15 million euros (2009)
capacity 23,325 seats (football)
24,406 seats (maximum)
Societies)
Events

The Eintracht Stadium is a football stadium with an athletics facility in the Lower Saxony city ​​of Braunschweig . It offers a total of 24,406 seats, which makes it the largest athletics stadium in northern Germany . For safety reasons, the capacity for football matches is limited to 23,325 spectators, of which 12,650 are covered seats and around 10,675 are covered standing areas. It is the home ground of the football team of Eintracht Braunschweig and the American football team the New Yorker Lions .

history

Aerial photo from 2007 (still without the north curve developed and without the renovated main grandstand).

In the first years of Eintracht, which was founded in 1895, there was no venue of its own. In the beginning, football was still referred to as lolling around the feet or English disease , although the history of German football began with Konrad Koch in Braunschweig. Most of the games took place on Leonhardplatz . The town hall of Braunschweig is located there today .

Because the club's treasury was almost empty (265.05 marks ), the members took out a loan of 5,000 marks and bought a five- acre property on Helmstedter Strasse. A sports field with a wooden grandstand and 300 seats was built there. On October 8, 1905, the course was opened with the game between the then football and cricket club Eintracht Braunschweig and Wacker Leipzig (3-0). It was based there until 1923 and up to 3,000 spectators followed the games. The last encounter in the stadium on Helmstedter Strasse before the demolition was played by Eintracht Braunschweig on May 20, 1931 against a police selection. The 5,000 spectators saw a 2-1 victory for the Lions . Today the site is part of the city's main cemetery .

After the First World War , it became clear that a larger stadium was needed to accommodate the growing number of spectators. On the one hand, more space was required for other sports, and on the other hand, the transport links should be improved. First of all, an area east of the Nussberg was examined (the Gliesmarode bathing center is located there today ), but there was fear of flooding from the nearby honeycomb . In the end, a location was chosen in the north of the city on Hamburger Strasse . At the time, asparagus was still being grown there and it was a ten-minute walk from the terminus of the Braunschweig tram to the site. On February 22, 1922, the purchase contract for the site of over 32 acres of land was signed. Then the Braunschweiger Stadiongesellschaft began implementing the plans. Since the money for the stadium was available in US dollars , construction was not delayed or stopped by the runaway inflation in 1923 .

The club celebrated its grand opening on June 17, 1923. The top team from 1. FC Nürnberg was a guest at the opening game of the Eintracht Stadium . The German champions of 1920 and 1921 competed in front of 15,000 spectators with many national players and in the end won clearly with 1:10. The new main grandstand was completed in October 1924. For the inauguration, Altona 93 was invited to a friendly game on October 5th . The then highest possible number of spectators of 24,000 gathered on October 31, 1937 in the Eintracht Stadium. The round of 16 in the Tschammer Cup against the championship team of FC Schalke 04 was on the agenda. In the 119th minute, the S04 scored the late winner to make it 0-1. The stadium survived the Second World War without damage, even the bombing raid on Braunschweig on October 15, 1944 . The last game before the dissolution of the old Eintracht saw the venue on February 4, 1945. The yellow-blue were defeated Germania Wolfenbüttel with the extraordinary result of 6:10.

After the war, the British armed forces converted the site into a material store and sports field. In 1950 the sports facility was completely renovated. At that time it offered 30,000 places. On August 13th of that year it was reopened with a game of Eintracht against 1. FC Kaiserslautern , with playmaker Fritz Walter . According to "Sportmagazin", up to 50,000 spectators are said to have gathered in and around the stadium. A highlight in the history of the Eintracht Stadium was the staging of the DFB Cup final in 1955. The favored Karlsruher SC and the inexperienced FC Schalke 04 team faced each other. Up to the 83rd minute, the Schalke Knappen led 2-1 in front of 25,000 spectators. With two late hits in the 83rd and 85th minute, KSC was able to turn the game around.

In 1957 the home of the Blue-Yellow was floodlit . It was the first system in northern Germany and had 168 floodlights that illuminated the playing field with 200,000 watts . On September 18, the floodlights were inaugurated during a game against Fortuna Düsseldorf (4-0). In the first two years of the Bundesliga, the venue was expanded with the help of the city. The back straight (10,000 seats) and the small tier in front of the main stand (2,000 seats) were rebuilt. They brought the capacity to almost 40,000 spectators. The club continued to invest and in 1965 enlarged the stadium area by 52 acres with additional football, hockey and tennis courts. At the end of the 1966/67 Bundesliga season , Eintracht celebrated the German soccer championship after a 4-1 win in their own stadium in front of 38,000 visitors against 1. FC Nürnberg .

With around 40,000, the stadium had sufficient capacity, but the facility consisted only of the roofed and seated main grandstand and the back straight with standing room under the open sky. This changed in 1976 with the renovation of the standing room. The audience area was roofed over for 3.2 million D-Marks and the lower part was equipped with seats, which reduced the capacity to 35,000 spectators. In 1979 the main grandstand was also to be replaced by a new building. With the construction project, Eintracht Braunschweig had taken on financially, as the construction costs doubled before planning to completion. In 1981, the club, relegated to the second division, was facing bankruptcy . There were debts in the millions and the license withdrawal threatened. This could only be prevented because the city of Braunschweig took over the entire debt of 11.9 million Deutschmarks and became the new owner of the entire stadium area. With the change of ownership, the Eintracht venue received the official name of the Städtisches Stadion on Hamburger Straße .

In the 1980s, the Blue-Yellows wavered between the 2nd division and the Oberliga Nord and the Lions continued to fight against debt. For the sports facility this meant stagnation and creeping decline. As a result, at the beginning of the 1990s, the south curve was closed completely and parts of the standing room on the back straight. Only 20,000 spectators were allowed into the stadium. The club and the city have been fighting for an extensive renovation of the back straight and the curves since 1987. A positive decision was only made on June 15, 1993. The city council agreed to support the renovation work. Of the 25 million Deutschmarks, six million came from Toto-Lotto Lower Saxony and the state of Lower Saxony . The work lasted until November 1995, when the stadium facility was completely rebuilt again. The ailing south curve was demolished and rebuilt with covered standing room. For this purpose, the floodlight system was renewed. The back straight in the east, which previously offered 10,000 standing and 2,000 seats, was converted into a pure seating grandstand. The inauguration of the new scoreboard on November 3, 1996 completed the complete renovation of the stadium. The old board was dismantled and sold. For this purpose, a video wall was installed as part of the 104th German Athletics Championships held in the stadium in 2004 , which remained in use.

The venue passed the first major stress test at the anniversary tournament for the 100th birthday of Eintracht in July 1995. The Lions met Werder Bremen in front of 11,000 visitors . 15,000 spectators came to the top match of the Regionalliga Nord on April 14, 1996 against Kickers Emden . The municipal stadium on Hamburger Strasse was sold out for the first time on May 7, 1998 in a duel with rival Hannover 96 . The redesigned stadium celebrated its concert premiere on June 3, 1998, when the Italian pop singer Eros Ramazzotti performed in front of 16,000 fans.

On June 3, 2008, the administrative committee of the city of Braunschweig approved the sale of the stadium's naming rights to a group of five Eintracht sponsors ( Braunschweigische Landessparkasse , BS | ENERGY , Public Insurance Braunschweig , Volksbank Braunschweig Wolfsburg and Volkswagen Financial Services AG ) . The stadium, which is still urban, was able to trade under the traditional name of Eintracht Stadium . In June 2011, Eintracht agreed with the sponsors to extend the existing contract for a further two years.

In the course of another modernization from July 2009 to June 2010, the still open north curve was roofed over and expanded to the east; This first renovation work with a budget of 7.6 million euros was initially limited to the north curve and the functional rooms due to a lack of money. Other planned enhancements with the same volume ( VIP - boxes , other function rooms and a separate building for commercial premises and catering) were postponed. The capacity of the stadium increased slightly due to the conversion of the north curve by 1,000 to 25,540 seats, as a large part of the grandstand was converted from standing to seating. All construction work was carried out with restricted stadium operations, which means that the guest curve could only be occupied halfway.

The Eintracht Stadium with its athletics facility has been the venue for national and international competitions in recent years. The German athletics championships took place in Braunschweig in 2000 , 2004 and 2010 . On October 6, 2018 in Darmstadt, the DLV Presidium selected the city of Braunschweig with the Eintracht Stadium for the 2020 German Athletics Championships . The German team championships made a stop in the Braunschweig stadium in 2003 and 2014. It also made a name for itself internationally with the 2014 European Athletics Team Championship . In the course of the use of the venue by the New York Lions , the Eintracht Stadium was used to host the German Bowl , the final of the German Football League for the German championship, in 1995 ( German Bowl XVII ), 2000 ( German Bowl XXII ) , 2002 ( German Bowl XXIV ), 2004 ( German Bowl XXVI ) and 2006 ( German Bowl XXVIII ). The Eurobowl , the final of the European Football League (EFL), took place in the Eintracht Stadium in 2002 ( Eurobowl XVI ), 2003 ( Eurobowl XVII ) and 2015 ( Eurobowl XXIX ). In the 2009/10 season , the Goslarer SC 08 played its home games of the Regionalliga Nord here because the home stadium in Goslar did not meet the requirements of the league.

Expansion of the main stand

Planned expansion of the Eintracht stadium (2006)

In addition to the completed expansion of the north curve, an expansion and modernization of the main grandstand had been discussed since the mid-2000s. Schulitz + Partner won an architectural competition in the summer of 2006 . The winning design envisaged connecting the grandstand with the north and south curve, thus connecting the previously separate buildings to form a round stadium. The space gained under the auditorium was to be used for VIP boxes, a business lounge and a restaurant, and the two marathon gates were to be built over and integrated into the stadium area. The makeshift tent in front of the stadium was supposed to disappear, as was the ramp that led the spectators to the stands. In their place a forecourt with a cube was to be built, in which, in addition to the club's office, there was also a fan shop, a football museum, a restaurant and a daycare center.

Because of the relegation of Eintracht Braunschweig from the 2nd Bundesliga and the precarious financial situation of the city, the plans were not implemented for a long time. On February 6, 2011, however, a public survey took place at the initiative of the CDU parliamentary group in the Braunschweig Council. With a turnout of 32.9 percent, 60.3 percent voted for the stadium expansion. The result was not legally binding, but two weeks later the city council voted unanimously for the renovation, which, according to the stadium administration, should begin in autumn 2011. The expansion of the main grandstand, estimated at 14.5 million euros, was financed from the city's treasury; The Eintracht Braunschweig association paid for the cube on the forecourt. The completion of the construction work was planned for the summer of 2013.

After "forgotten" in the tender process of the works, the engineering services public tender , the construction works were about three months behind schedule. However, all boxes and seats should be available at the beginning of the 2013/14 season. Regardless of the expansion of the main stand, the back straight was rearranged at the beginning of June. Of a total of 5,683 new blue and yellow seat shells, the 547 yellow seat shells form the BRAUNSCHWEIG logo on a blue background.

Directions

From the north, west and east, take the A 2 Hannover – Berlin to the Braunschweig-Nord motorway junction (exit 55) and continue on the A 391 ( west tangent ) and A 392 ( north tangent ) to the Hamburger Strasse exit . From the south, take the A 7 Kassel – Hanover to the Salzgitter triangle and continue on the A 39 and the A 391, A 392 also to the Hamburger Straße exit . The large Schützenplatz car park is about 500 meters out of town from the Hamburger Straße junction (follow the signs), from there the stadium can be reached in about five minutes on foot.

The stadium can be reached by public transport with the tram lines M1 and 2 from the main train station and from the city center and with the line M1 from the P + R car parks in the north. The trams stop right in front of the stadium (Schwarzer Berg) with the M1 line or nearby (Line 2, Health Department / Wasserwelt stop ). In addition, special trains and buses run from the main train station to the stadium on matchdays and at major events.

Grandstands

  • Total spectator seats: 24,406 covered seats
  • West stand: 3,847 seats (including business, box and press areas)
  • South stand: 9,530 seats
  • East stand: 5,687 seats
  • North curve: 5,342 places

Event technology

gallery

  • View from Hamburger Strasse (2006)

  • Exterior view (2006)

  • South curve (2006)

  • Main Stand (2006)

  • Panorama with the old red tartan track (2008)

and display information about the image
Exterior view of the Eintracht Stadium (March 2016)

See also

Web links

Commons : Eintracht-Stadion  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ralph-Herbert Meyer: The expansion of the Eintracht stadium is padded and not spilled. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung . June 2, 2008, accessed June 3, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Christian Schiebold: In football, 23,325 fans fit into the stadium. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung. August 24, 2013, p. 27.
  3. ↑ General information. Eintracht Braunschweig Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, accessed on June 3, 2013 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i eintracht-braunschweig1895.de.tl: History of the Eintracht Stadium
  5. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match report Karlsruher SC against FC Schalke 04
  6. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match report Eintracht Braunschweig against 1. FC Nürnberg
  7. ↑ Ernst-Johann Zauner: The stadium on Hamburger Strasse can again be called the Eintracht Stadium. Braunschweiger Zeitung, June 3, 2008, accessed on June 3, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Eintracht Stadium now officially keeps its name ( Memento from September 21, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Peter Schmitt: German Athletics Championships 2020 awarded to Braunschweig. In: Leichtathletik.de. October 6, 2018, accessed October 6, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Team European Championship 2014 in the Eintracht Stadium Braunschweig ( Memento from November 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ^ Expansion of the stadium on Hamburger Strasse. (No longer available online.) Competitionline Verlags GmbH, July 20, 2006, archived from the original on April 4, 2011 ; Retrieved June 3, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.competitionline.de
  12. ↑ Presentation of the planning. (PDF, 5.1 MB) (No longer available online.) Schulitz + Partner Architects BDA , formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 3, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.eintracht-stadion.com  
  13. ↑ Stadium renovation ( Memento from July 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ Marc Rotermund: Working in the Eintracht Stadium behind schedule. Braunschweiger Zeitung, April 15, 2012, accessed on June 3, 2013 .
  15. ↑ 5,700 new seats for the Eintracht Stadium. Retrieved September 21, 2016 .
  16. ↑ eintracht-stadion.com: interior and grandstand area