Frankfurt horse racing track
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 4 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 15 ″ E
The Frankfurt Galopprennbahn (also known as the Niederrad Galopprennbahn ) was a horse racing track in the Frankfurt city forest .
Geographical location
Despite the unofficial name, the racecourse was not located in the Niederrad district , but entirely in the Sachsenhausen-Süd district , but directly on the district boundary , so that the main entrance was accessible from Niederrad. The business address was also in Niederrad.
history
The horse racing track was built in 1864/65 on an initiative of the Rhenish Racing Club based on the model of the Paris racetrack in Vincennes , the Hippodrome de Vincennes . The German princes, who met for the Frankfurt Fürstentag in 1863, helped finance the project. The historic entrance portal of the facility, a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act , was restored in 2011. The last horse race took place on November 15, 2015. In April 2018, the grandstand and other ancillary buildings were dismantled or demolished.
Events
The highlights of the season at the Frankfurt Galopprennbahn were the five international group races up to 2015 :
- Metzler Bank Spring Prize (Group III)
- Fraport AG Pokal (Group III), airport race day
- Merrill Lynch Euro Cup (Group III) (not played in the last 2 years and 2010)
- Mare price of the Mehl-Mülhens-Foundation (group III)
- Hessen Cup (Group III)
The handicrafts race day has taken place annually since 2000 , a festival with over 10,000 visitors. In addition to the horse races, craftsmen presented their trades and the guilds of the Rhine-Main Chamber of Crafts provided the prize money for the horse races.
In the middle of the racecourse there was a 9-hole course from the Golf Absolute Group .
Continued use after the end of racing
DFB performance center and referendum
After the German Football Association decided in March 2014 to build a so-called DFB academy on the site , this was renegotiated in January 2018. The city of Frankfurt, as the owner of the facility, sold the heritable building rights to the site to the DFB on October 16, 2014 for 99 years. The handover time was scheduled for January 1, 2016, and the performance center should be completed by 2018.
The racing club based on the facility, on the other hand, insisted on adhering to its lease, which ran until 2024.
The citizens' initiative Pro Rennbahn was formed against the decision of the City of Frankfurt . Within a short period of time, this citizens' initiative collected 13,715 valid signatures for a referendum and thus exceeded the quorum of 3% of those eligible to vote, i.e. 13,604, so that a referendum took place on June 21, 2015. The citizens' initiative referred to a sum of allegedly 84 million euros, which the citizens would have to pay. This included one million euros for the demolition of the existing facilities, 3 million euros in compensation for the tenants, and 7 million euros in compensation for the operators of the golf course. The citizens' initiative added the value of the racetrack of 25 million. 49 million came from the low rent that the DFB was supposed to pay. The DFB is to pay the same lease price of € 36,000 as the racetrack operators up to now. Compared to the long lease rate for commercial use, this corresponds to a waiver of € 49 million over 99 years. However, the referendum did not seek commercial use, but the continuation of the racetrack.
When on 21 June 2015 held referendum 62900 Frankfurt voted for the preservation of the racecourse and 40,196 against. However, the required approval quorum of 25 percent of the electorate (= 124,600 votes for the racetrack) was not achieved. However, the Frankfurt racing club did not accept this result of the vote, but tried to take legal action to prevent the site from being handed over to the city. On December 16, 2016, the 12th Civil Chamber of the Frankfurt Regional Court decided that the racing club must vacate and hand over the site. The appeal of the racing club was rejected by the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court on July 27, 2017 , and the decision is provisionally enforceable . The Federal Court of Justice rejected an application by the racing club to suspend enforcement for the time being on September 20, 2017 due to the lack of prospects for success in the main case. On April 18, 2018, the BGH finally decided in favor of the city of Frankfurt: The racing club had to give up its claims to the site.
Bürgerpark and DFB performance center
In addition to a DFB performance center, a new community park is to be built on over 9 hectares. This is to be developed with the participation of the Frankfurt citizens.
Web links
- Website of the racecourse
- History of the horse racing track on Turf-Times.de
- Crafts race day
- Golf facilities Weiland GmbH
- Galopp-Online report on the referendum to maintain the racecourse
- Website of the city of Frankfurt on the planned Bürgerpark and the planned DFB Academy
Individual evidence
- ^ Frankfurt.de Sachsenhausen district, accessed on Feb. 24, 2020
- ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Schwarzwaldstrasse 125 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- ↑ Christoph Mohr: Where are they running? In: Monument Preservation and Cultural History 1/2012, p. 13f.
- ↑ Pro racetrack-The racetrack has to stay! - Dates . prorennbahn-ffm.de. Retrieved June 14, 2017.
- ↑ Julia Lorenz: Galopprennbahn: Stand demolished: way free for the football academy . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse . Frankfurter Societäts-Medien GmbH, Frankfurt April 10, 2018 ( online [accessed April 28, 2018]).
- ↑ Verbatim minutes of the 35th meeting of the STVV on October 16, 2014 , accessed on February 3, 2015.
- ↑ Decision of the Presidium: DFB is building its center of excellence in Frankfurt . Spiegel Online, March 21, 2014, accessed March 28, 2014.
- ↑ DFB-Leistungszentrum: Galopper insist on lease . Spiegel Online, March 28, 2014, accessed on the same day
- ↑ Official Journal Frankfurt 11/2015
- ^ Souped-up numbers at the racetrack; in: Taunus-Zeitung of May 27, 2015, p. 16
- ↑ Racetrack referendum fails due to the quorum on the Frankfurter Rundschau website , accessed on June 21, 2015
- ↑ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: Racing club must clear the area; in: Frankfurter Rundschau from December 16, 2016, online
- ^ Court: City may enforce eviction action against racing club accessed on July 27, 2015 at hessenschau.de
- ↑ Federal Court of Justice has ruled: Frankfurt racecourse may be cleared
- ^ BGH on the Frankfurt racecourse: DFB academy can come , Legal Tribune Online, April 18, 2018
- ↑ Bürgerpark on the official information page of the city of Frankfurt