Ferry Dusika indoor stadium

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Ferry Dusika indoor stadium

The Ferry-Dusika-Hallenstadion is a multifunctional sports hall in Vienna's 2nd district, Leopoldstadt . With up to 5,500 seats, it is one of the largest athletics and cycling halls in Austria. The hall is named after the former cyclist Ferry Dusika .

history

The old open-air cycling track, which was opened on July 11, 1931 together with the Prater Stadium and the Stadionbad , used to stand in the place of today's stadium .

The building planned by Herbert Schürmann (1925–1994) with a roof (Radbahnprojekt Nr. 77) was - instead of the open-air railway - in the years 1968 to 1976 on the edge of the Prater between the right bank of the Danube and the Ernst Happel Stadium (until 1992 : Praterstadion) and opened on April 20, 1977 by the Mayor of Vienna, Leopold Gratz (1929–2006), as part of an international cycling meeting (with more than 9,000 spectators) , for which Dusika was able to engage the greats of cycling. As early as March 1977, six games of the first handball B World Cup (February 25 to March 6, 1977) had taken place in the stadium, including the final. This event, although sometimes claimed, was not used for the grand opening of the building.

A general renovation of the indoor cycle track was carried out in the years 1997 to 1999 again by Schuermann Architects - as cycle track project No. 113 (renovation) in their reference list. Given the length of the track of 250 m, still made of wood, it is ideal for training and all kinds of competitions up to world championships.

It is now the only track cycling facility in Austria and one of the most important halls for athletics and ball game competitions in the country. In 2005, the UCI World Junior Championships were held on the cycling track . The GP Vienna Prize is held annually .

During the European Football Championship in 2008 , the stadium served as an accreditation center and warehouse.

As a consequence of a report on Dusika's Nazi past, a renaming of the stadium was examined. The discussion was about naming the hall after a woman and a pioneer of cycling, such as Mizzi Wokrina , Cenci Flendrofsky or Elise Steininger , but the matter was then filed away .

In the course of the refugee crisis in Europe from 2015 , several hundred refugees were accommodated in the Hallenstadion from September 2015. The conditions there were under massive criticism as "unreasonable". During this time, no sports were possible in the hall.

Major events

In addition, the hall has already been used to host international tennis matches as part of the Davis Cup six times .

Web links

Commons : Ferry-Dusika-Hallenstadion  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Welcome to Austria's only track cycling and indoor athletics facility. wienersportstaetten.at, accessed on March 6, 2017 .
  2. ↑ The Sports Arena of the Sixty Thousand. For the opening of the Vienna Stadium. In:  Wiener Bilder , No. 28/1931 (XXXVI. Volume), July 12, 1931, p. 2 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrb.
  3. ↑ http://www.velodromes.com/list50.htm Schuermann Architects: Cycle Tracks: List of References no. 1- 50 ... - Reference list of 121 cycle tracks built between 1926 and 2007 by the architects Schürmann (3 pages, English ), accessed December 10, 2015.
  4. ^ Radstadion: construction starts in spring. The grandstands and the racetrack will be covered - costs: 30 million . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 12, 1968, p. 6 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ↑ mass demonstration at Radmeeting in the Prater . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 21, 1977, p. 24 , column 3 middle ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. ↑ Tickets are running out. Ferry Dusika brings cycling celebrities to Vienna: Moser , Gimondi , Sercu . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 2, 1977, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  7. ↑ The indoor handball ( Memento of the original from November 9th, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: oehb.sportlive.at , accessed on November 6, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / oehb.sportlive.at
  8. ^ Junior World Track Championships 2005. salzburg-2006.com, accessed on November 6, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Dusika Stadium: Renaming checked to wien.orf.at October 11, 2012
  10. ^ Fritz Neumann: That was Ferry Dusika, that is Austria. derStandard.at, March 25, 2014, accessed on March 26, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Othmar Pruckner: Report: The track cyclists from the Ferry Dusika Stadium. In: profil.at. November 19, 2015, accessed July 12, 2018 .
  12. ^ Rosemarie Schwaiger: Unreasonable conditions in the mass quarters of the Ferry Dusika Stadium. In: profil.at. December 11, 2015, accessed July 12, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Current developments in the Vienna Ferry Dusika indoor stadium. (No longer available online.) In: Österreichischer Leichtathletik-Verband. September 25, 2015, archived from the original on July 12, 2018 ; accessed on July 12, 2018 (English). 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 / oelv.at

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 39 ″  N , 16 ° 25 ′ 25 ″  E