Frankenstadion Heilbronn
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 Heilbronn , Germany
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 8 '5.7 " N , 9 ° 12' 12.4" E |
| owner | City of Heilbronn |
| opening | August 16, 1988 |
| First game | City selection Heilbronn - VfB Stuttgart 1: 9 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| costs | 13.6 million DM |
| capacity | 17,284 |
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TSG Heilbronn Athletics Department, Aramäer Heilbronn, VfR Heilbronn 96-18 eV |
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The Frankenstadion Heilbronn is a football and athletics stadium in Heilbronn . It seats around 17,284 spectators, 972 of which are covered and 312 uncovered seats in the main grandstand.
history
Construction of the Frankenstadion began in 1985 on the site of the municipal stadium, which was built in 1920 and rebuilt in 1954 after its destruction in World War II . After almost three years of construction, the stadium was inaugurated on August 16, 1988 with a friendly match between the Heilbronn city team and Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart , which Stuttgart won 9-1 in front of around 8,000 spectators. The following spring, the stadium hosted a Bundesliga game when Karlsruher SC was not allowed to compete in the Karlsruhe Wildpark Stadium due to a stadium ban and the game against Hannover 96 - a 2-0 "home win" by goals from the former Heilbronn player Jochen Heisig and Daniel Simmes - on February 18, 1989 in Heilbronn.
The record number of spectators in the new Frankenstadion was 15,000 at the friendly match between TSG Hoffenheim and VfB Stuttgart in autumn 2007 and at the DFB Cup match between SG Sonnenhof Großaspach and VfB Stuttgart in August 2009. The old municipal stadium, however, was sold out twice. In the regional league time of VfR Heilbronn , 18,000 spectators each attended the games against Kickers Offenbach (0: 3) in 1971 and against TSV 1860 Munich (2: 1) in 1973.
As part of the renovation work on the Fautenhau sports park , which was necessary due to the promotion to the regional league, SG Sonnenhof Großaspach played its home games in the Heilbronn Frankenstadion from 2009 to 2011.
On August 3, 2013, the game between Neckarsulmer Sport-Union and 1. FC Kaiserslautern was the first main round of the 2013/14 DFB Cup in the Frankenstadion. The reason for this was the higher audience capacity compared to the actual home of the former league club, the Pichterichstadion in Neckarsulm . The then second division and later semi-finalist from Kaiserslautern decided the match 7-0 for themselves.
The stadium is occasionally used for concerts. Around 25,000 people saw the musician Pink there in 2010 and the band Die Toten Hosen in 2013 .
literature
- Werner Skrentny (Hrsg.): The big book of the German soccer stadiums. New edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89533-668-3 , p. 183 ff.
