Weißwasser ice rink

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Weißwasser ice rink
Burrow
Partial view of the ice rink
Data
place Professor-Wagenfeld-Ring 6b 02943 Weißwasser , Germany
GermanyGermany
Coordinates 51 ° 29 ′ 45 "  N , 14 ° 38 ′ 9"  E
owner City of Weißwasser
operator Eissport Weißwasser e. V.
opening 1973
Extensions 1990
capacity 2,750 seats (including 350 seats)
Societies)

The designation Eisstadion Weißwasser stands for several independent, temporally but consecutively existing ice rink in the city of Weißwasser . In the first half of the 20th century, the Weißwasser ice hockey teams played their games on the frozen Braunsteich in the east of Weißwasser.

Jahnstadion

While Weißwasser, along with Frankenhausen (Crimmitschau), had developed into one of the strongholds of ice hockey in Saxony and East Germany, the call for a permanent stadium analogous to the buildings in Frankenhausen and Schierke became louder. Even before the BSG "Kristall" took part in national championships in the GDR for the first time as the second Saxon representative in 1950 , the city of Weißwasser provided the sports community between Teichstrasse and Jahnteich with land above a former lignite mine hole free of charge for 20 years . The Jahn Stadium was built there in 1949/1950 as an open-air arena with a clubhouse and changing rooms. First of all, boards and stands were built on the frozen surface of natural ice; As part of the national construction work , the scope was expanded in the early 1950s and additional buildings for changing rooms, technical equipment and a clubhouse were built.

"Wilhelm-Pieck" artificial ice stadium

Due to the successes and the increasing interest in the population, the demand for an ice rink was loud, in which the sport could be practiced regardless of the weather. The foundation stone for the new construction of the artificial ice stadium in Weißwasser was laid on April 16, 1958 next to what was then the Paul-Klinke sports field. The then largest open-air stadium in Europe was named after Wilhelm Pieck , the first President of the GDR and opened on November 7, 1958 with a friendly game between Dynamo Weißwasser and Legia Warsaw in front of 7,000 spectators.

Until 1990, the stadium was the venue for many games for the GDR championship, which was played for the 25th and last time in 1990 and won by the Weißwasser team. Many international matches between club and national teams also took place in this stadium.

  • Old Ice Stadium - panoramio.jpg
  • Old Ice Stadium 2008 - panoramio - G.Elser.jpg
  • Old Ice Stadium 2008 - panoramio.jpg

After the fall of the Wall, the stadium was no longer able to cope with the demands of the German ice hockey league. From then on, the games were played in the converted, former speed skating hall. The stadium building housed the youth teams for a few years and only a few times the ice rink, which had been abandoned, served as a training area. Once again it hit the headlines when the city and club wanted to push the long-standing idea of ​​a roof through the planned application as a venue for the 2001 World Championships . However, this failed because of the estimated cost of 15 million marks.

After years of vacancy and decay, the open-air stadium was demolished from October 2010 to February 2011 to make room for a new ice rink.

"Fuchsbau" ice rink

The hall last called "Fuchsbau" by the fans was built in 1973 as a training hall for the then SG Dynamo Weißwasser . In addition to an ice hockey rink, it contained a speed skating rink. Since a European Cup game against the Cologne EC , whose players refused to play in the open air in the actual ice hockey stadium , the Wilhelm-Pieck-Kunsteisstadion , the training hall was equipped with two grandstands with a total capacity of 3,000 so that the hall could also be played. In 1990 the hall was rebuilt and two grandstands were added. The audience capacity was last 2750 seats, with 350 seats available. The ice rink was the home stadium of the Lausitzer Füchse from the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga and their home club, Eissport Weißwasser e. V. In addition to the ice hockey games of the various departments of the ES Weißwasser, other events took place in the hall, for example public ice skating and concerts. In addition, the Jonsdorfer Falken and Tornado Niesky teams occasionally played their home games in the ice rink due to the weather . The demolition of the ice rink began in December 2013.

WeeEisArena

Eisarena Weißwasser
Burrow
inside view
Interior view (2018)
Data
place GermanyGermany Weißwasser , Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 29 ′ 43.8 "  N , 14 ° 38 ′ 16.1"  E
owner City of Weißwasser
operator City of Weißwasser
opening 2013
architect asp architects Stuttgart
capacity 2950
Societies)

On March 1, 2012, the groundbreaking ceremony for the new ice stadium, the “Eisarena Weißwasser”, was celebrated. The foundation stone was laid on April 18, 2012. On the day of the first game of the season last season, the topping-out ceremony was celebrated in the adjacent old burrow . The planned construction costs of 15.7 million euros were clearly undercut during the construction phase. The opening of the Eisarena Weißwasser was celebrated on August 23, 2013 with a game against the reigning German champions - the Eisbären Berlin . After the former Dynamos fought thrilling duels in the smallest league in the world for years, those responsible saw the capital city team as the perfect opponent for this "historic moment".

Due to the possible reduction in the number of seats in favor of standing room for the first competitive game on September 13, 2013, the ice stadium has a total of 3050 seats for visitors. On April 10, 2014, the first international match in Weißwasser since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful revolution took place. The German selection in the Euro Hockey Challenge in front of almost 3,100 spectators lost against France 3: 4 after a penalty shootout.

As some standing room was converted back to seating due to changed demand, the capacity was reduced to 2950 seats.

In June 2019, the city of Weißwasser entered into a deal with the company WeeConomy AG owned by Cengiz Ehliz. This includes the naming rights to the Eisarena (renaming for five years to weeEisArena ) and the introduction of the "wee" payment system in municipal facilities.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schedule and table of the Landskron ice hockey league season 2018/19. In: Official homepage of the "Landskron Eisböck" eV . Accessed on January 14, 2019 .
  2. ^ R. Pietz: Weißwasser builds ice rink for 5000. In: Neues Deutschland. Archives of the Berlin State Library, December 15, 1949, p. 6 , accessed on March 26, 2013 .
  3. ^ Ice rink on Jahnstrasse on Hockeyarenas.net
  4. ↑ Klaus Riehle: 70th anniversary celebration: Looking back on 60 years of ice sports in Weißwasser ... Lausitzer Füchse , December 6, 2002, accessed on March 11, 2013 .
  5. ↑ a b Klaus Riehle: December 2007 - 75 years of ice hockey in Weißwasser The triumphal procession through Weißwasser's streets - Jahnstadion was too narrow. In: Lausitzer Rundschau. October 18, 2007, accessed April 2, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Ice hockey: Weißwasser wants to become a World Cup venue - New candidate for the Ice Hockey World Championship in Germany in 2001: Weißwasser wants to apply as a venue with a converted stadium. In: Spiegel Online . June 5, 1999, accessed March 11, 2013 .
  7. ^ Lusatian foxes: demolition diary. Retrieved October 21, 2011 .
  8. ^ "Fuchsbau" Weißwasser on Hockeyarenas.net
  9. ↑ Andreas Friebel (press release): The demolition of the old burrow is proceeding. Lausitzer Füchse, January 10, 2014, archived from the original on January 10, 2014 ; accessed on January 10, 2014 ( article content in new website design ).
  10. ↑ Schedule and table of the Landskron ice hockey league season 2018/19. In: Official homepage of the "Landskron Eisböck" eV . Accessed on January 14, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Anna Müller-Heidelberg: Glassmaker City shovels the way for the new ice rink. Lausitzer Rundschau , March 2, 2012, accessed on September 24, 2012 .
  12. ↑ Ice arena remains well below the planned costs. EHC "Lausitzer Füchse" Spielbetriebs GmbH, May 31, 2012, archived from the original on September 13, 2013 ; accessed on June 29, 2015 : “ Together with the almost 500,000 euros, which the first package was cheaper than expected, the current saving is around 700,000 euros. "
  13. ↑ The German master inaugurates the arena. Sächsische Zeitung, June 27, 2013, accessed on July 11, 2013 .
  14. ^ Report on the press conference of the season opening 2013/14. es-weisswasser.de, September 10, 2013, accessed on September 11, 2013 .