Fritz Grunebaum Sports Park

Fritz Grunebaum Sports Park
Fritz-Grunebaum-Sportpark (July 2018)
Data
place	Heidelberg , Germany
Coordinates	49 ° 23 '26.2 "  N , 8 ° 40' 5.2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 23 '26.2 "  N , 8 ° 40' 5.2"  E
owner	City of Heidelberg
surface	Natural grass
capacity	5000 seats
Societies)
RG Heidelberg
Events
International matches of the German National Rugby Union team

The Fritz-Grunebaum-Sportpark is a stadium in the city of Heidelberg , which is used for rugby union and 7-a-side rugby games.

history

The Fritz-Grunebaum-Sportpark is located at Harbigweg 9 in the Kirchheim district of Heidelberg . It is a municipal sports facility, which was built in cooperation and with the financial contribution of the Rugby Association of Baden-Württemberg and the German Rugby Association . The stadium was opened in 1996 by the then mayor Beate Weber-Schuerholz and by the widow Roberta Grunebaum-Gmünder.

The rugby stadium is named after the Frankfurt rugby player of the Jewish faith Fritz Grunebaum , who was active for SC Frankfurt in 1880 and studied and obtained his doctorate in Heidelberg. After immigrating to the United States of America before the Nazis in 1935 , he founded the American Rugby Foundation and donated the Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Foundation , a leading cancer research center , to Boston University . Fritz Grunebaum died in 1992. In his will, he donated the Fritz Grunebaum Prize to Heidelberg University for the best doctoral thesis in economics, the Palatinate Museum received valuable works of art and the city of Heidelberg received a large sum to promote the rugby game, which was used for the construction of the stadium has been.

Furnishing

The stadium has two covered stands. The main stand has 318 covered seats, the grandstand opened in 2016 on the back straight has 434 covered seats and 400 standing places. There are more standing places to the side of the stands. The total capacity should be almost 5000 spectators. The cost of building the grandstand on the back straight was around 420,000 euros.

use

The sports park is a pure rugby stadium. It is the home of the multiple German champions Rudergesellschaft Heidelberg . It is also used by the selection teams of the Rugby Association of Baden-Württemberg. The German National Rugby Union team has played a large number of its home international matches in the Fritz-Grunebaum-Sportpark since the stadium opened.

List of international matches

date	Result	opponent	occasion
Nov 12, 2005	108: 0	Serbia and Montenegro	World Cup 2007 qualification
Nov 18, 2006	32:13	Belgium	ENC 2006-08 Div 2A
Nov 24, 2007	34: 5	Moldova	ENC 2006-08 Div 2A
0Feb 7, 2009	5:38	Georgia	ENC 2008-10 Div 1
Feb 14, 2009	0:22	Romania	ENC 2008-10 Div 1
Dec 12, 2009	24:14	Hong Kong
Dec 11, 2010	34:13	Hong Kong
March 12 2011	23:29	Czech Republic	ENC 2010-12 Div 1B
Nov 17, 2012	32:14	Moldova	ENC 2012-14 Div 1B
0Apr 5, 2014	76:12	Czech Republic	ENC 2012-14 Div 1B
14 Mar 2015	12:17	Romania	ENC 2014–16 Div 1A
Nov 19, 2016	16: 6	Brazil
June 16, 2018	16:13	Portugal	World Cup 2019 qualification
July 14, 2018	28:42	Samoa	World Cup 2019 qualification

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rugby capital Heidelberg . Published on October 22, 2016 in Rheinische Post . Accessed June 8, 2018.
2. ↑ The Fritz-Grunebaum-Sportpark - living room of the German national rugby team . Published by rbw-rugby.de. Accessed May 30, 2018.
3. ↑ New grandstand inaugurated in the Fritz-Grunebaum-Sportpark . Published by heidelberg.de. Accessed May 30, 2018.