Ernst Abbe sports field

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Ernst Abbe sports field
The Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld 2013 before the floodlight masts were demolished
The Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld 2013 before the floodlight masts were demolished
Earlier names

Jena stadium

Data
place Oberaue 3 07745 Jena , Germany
GermanyGermany
Coordinates 50 ° 54 '57 "  N , 11 ° 34' 58"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '57 "  N , 11 ° 34' 58"  E
owner City of Jena
opening August 24, 1924
First game 1. SV Jena - VfL Hall 96 1: 1
Renovations 1974 (installation of floodlights)
1978 (installation of scoreboard)
1997 (new construction of the grandstand)
2006 (installation of video board)
2007 (installation of underfloor heating)
2010 (renovation of the running track)
2018 (installation of floodlights)
surface Natural grass
architect Heinrich Voßler (original stadium)
Werner Schröder (new main stand)
capacity 10,445 seats
playing area 105 × 68 m
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Events

The Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld is a sports facility in the Thuringian city ​​of Jena . It was inaugurated on August 24, 1924 after two years of construction and named after the physicist and social reformer Ernst Abbe in 1939, on the 15th anniversary of the inauguration . The soccer stadium with athletics facility in the Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld is home to the soccer club FC Carl Zeiss Jena and the women's soccer club FF USV Jena . The owner of the facility is the city of Jena. She acquired the area in 1991 from the property of the Carl Zeiss Foundation in Jena.

description

The stadium is located along with other football, fistball and hockey pitches as well as a throwing facility south of the center of Jena, directly on the Saale .

It had a floodlight system with four hollow steel masts built in 1974 and completely overhauled in 1995 . The masts had to be dismantled in July 2013 because they were dilapidated. The display board installed in 1978 was the first electronic display board in the GDR . It was irreparably damaged by a lightning strike in the spring of 2005 and was replaced by a new video board during the 2006 summer break, which was previously in operation at the Fanfest in Nuremberg during the 2006 World Cup. Due to requirements of the DFL for stadiums of the second Bundesliga, turf heating and a video surveillance system were installed during the summer break of 2007 and the pitch was slightly enlarged to the prescribed dimensions of 105 m in length and 68 m in width.

Audience capacity

The stadium had a spectator capacity of over 15,000 seats, 9,572 of which were seats. In 1997, the old wooden grandstand from 1924, which had room for 420 spectators, was demolished and replaced by a modern grandstand with 4,020 covered seats. The spectator capacity was to be increased permanently to over 15,000 seats by building a new counter stand; as a temporary solution, a mobile tubular steel grandstand was built behind the existing back straight at the beginning of the 2007/08 season. This was dismantled again at the end of May 2009 and the capacity was reduced to 12,630 spectators.

The attendance record dates from 1962. Despite the then official capacity of 20,000 spectators in the semi-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup between SC Motor Jena and the Spanish representative Atlético Madrid, 27,500 visitors found their way into the stadium. The post-turn record was set on August 19, 2016 in the first round of the DFB Cup against FC Bayern Munich . With the construction of additional grandstands, there was space for 19,000 spectators in the Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld.

athletics

The stadium was a regular venue for the GDR championships and the GDR junior championships . It will continue to be used for athletics competitions after German reunification . The German youth championships were held in the Jena stadium in 2004, 2011 and 2015.

The Czech Jan Železný achieved on May 25, 1996 in the sports field with 98.48 m the world record in javelin throw, which is still valid today .

Others

Stadium with the floodlight masts that were newly erected in February 2018

On November 9, 1976, after a game by FC Carl Zeiss in front of 16,000 spectators in the overcrowded stadium against 1. FC Kaiserslautern , a 19-year-old died when a pillar buckled. After the final whistle, the crowd of fans tried to push a goal to the outside and trampled over the victim who did not survive the incident.

During the floods in Central Europe in 2013 , the sports field was completely flooded. On April 14, 1994, the stadium was completely under water. After the flood, a corrosion and static test on the four floodlight masts showed that their stability was no longer guaranteed due to rust damage . After a corresponding report was submitted to the owner of Kommunale Immobilien Jena on July 10, 2013 , the stadium and its immediate vicinity were closed with immediate effect until the masts were dismantled. The "giraffes" (floodlight masts) were demolished on July 19, 2013, but one of the masts will be rebuilt at a new location in the stadium. These were auctioned between September 5 and October 12, 2013, and the proceeds went partly to the youth work of FC Carl Zeiss, FF USV Jena , LC Jena and the flood-plagued sports field of SV Jena-Zwätz .

Due to the risk of flooding, in addition to an expansion at the current location (which was preferred until the summer floods of 2013), a new stadium for Jena at another location, for example in Lobeda , was discussed.

The stadium is named after the company founder of Carl Zeiss AG and social reformer Ernst Abbe .

The floodlights were set up as an LED variant

The new floodlight system was installed in mid-February 2018. The 80 LED headlights provide 800 lux illuminance . The construction was postponed several times because the offers were well above the cost of 800,000 euros expected by the city. In August 2017, an agreement was reached on the sum of 950,000 euros and the floodlights should be up in December 2017. This was delayed because documents were not submitted.

modification

On September 23, 2015, the Jena city council approved the renovation of the stadium with 29: 5 votes with two abstentions. Originally, the call for tenders was planned in May 2016 and work started in 2017, but the change in the development plan has resulted in a delay. Jena's Lord Mayor Albrecht Schröter ( SPD ) assumed that construction would start in 2018. The conversion into a pure football stadium should cost around 30 million euros and the stadium then offer 15,500 seats (including 500 VIP seats). A parking garage should be built nearby . The municipality (15 million euros) and the state of Thuringia (11 million euros) should have borne the majority of the costs .

The renovation also met with protests because the south curve of Jena was to be relocated; Active fans of the FCC as well as friends and active fans of FC Bayern Munich protested against this. The south curve Munich had already positioned itself several times with banners per south curve Jena. The campaign ran under the motto Südkurve remains .

At the beginning of December 2019, Roland Duchâtelet , investor in the club, and JenArenabesitz GmbH , owner of the hall of the Science City Jena basketball club , announced plans for a new stadium. With an investment volume of a good 49 million euros, the conversion into a pure football stadium and the new construction of the south and west stands and the back straight are to be achieved. A capacity of 15,100 seats (including 9,200 seats) is targeted, which can optionally be expanded to up to 17,000. While the city of Jena wants to contribute four million euros, eleven million should come from the state of Thuringia. The city also states that in the event that FC Carl Zeiss remains in the third division, it intends to pay a maximum of 1.71 million euros annually in grants. Should the club play in the regional league, it would only be a good half.

Web links

Commons : Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Florian Kinast: Bavaria's Cup victory in Jena: Through the beer garden in round two. Spiegel Online , August 20, 2016, accessed August 27, 2016 .
  2. Disaster in front of the Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld 34 years ago , Thüringer Allgemeine from July 2010
  3. Ostthüringer Zeitung Land under in the Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld in Jena: Training grounds flooded from May 31, 2013
  4. Tino Zippel: The floodlight system in Jena must be replaced: "No entry" within 80 meters. OTZ Jena, July 10, 2013, accessed on July 10, 2013 .
  5. Tino Zippel: Today the dismantling of the floodlight masts begins in the Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld in Jena. OTZ Jena, July 19, 2013, accessed on July 19, 2013 .
  6. goethegalerie-jena.de: Floodlights are auctioned for a good cause
  7. Tino Zippel: FC Carl Zeiss Jena leads in floodlight deficiency before LC Jena. OTZ Jena, August 27, 2013, accessed on August 29, 2013 .
  8. stadionwelt.de: First floodlight mast installed Article from February 15, 2018
  9. stadionwelt.de: Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld: Floodlight not before December Article of August 30, 2017
  10. stadionwelt.de: City council blesses stadium renovation from article dated September 24, 2015
  11. stadionwelt.de: Regional league must continue to wait for conversion Article from March 23, 2016
  12. stadionwelt.de: Groundbreaking for stadium renovation probably 2018 Article from April 29, 2016
  13. Hardy Gruene: The south curve remains! - Zeitspiel supports online petition in Jena. In: Zeitspiel. Magazine for contemporary football from November 12, 2018.
  14. Football arena for 48.8 million euros: Duchatelet and JenArena are building a stadium in Jena , thueringer-allgemeine.de, accessed on December 11, 2019