Disk wood racecourse
The Scheibenholz racecourse (formerly also called the Scheibenholz racecourse) was built in 1867 in the Scheibenholz area , part of the Leipzig floodplain forest ; it is run by the Leipziger Reit- und Rennverein Scheibenholz e. V. (LRRS) operated.
location
The Scheibenholz racecourse is located in the Südvorstadt district . The area is bordered by Rennbahnweg in the north, Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße and Wundstraße in the east, Schleußiger Weg in the south and the Elster flood bed in the west. The Clara-Zetkin-Park connects to the north of the Rennbahnweg . The music district is located on the eastern edge of the racecourse . The area of the entire facility covers around thirty hectares .
history
The Leipzig racing club , the fourth oldest in Germany after that of Berlin , Düsseldorf and Hamburg-Horn , was founded as a cooperative on May 7, 1863, chaired by Ottomar Spangenberg . In July of the same year, the location for the future racetrack was determined. They agreed on the holding of Karl Heine (1819-1888) located Postgut between Lindenau and Schonau where the first eight races (six already on September 13, flat and two steeplechase could take place) with a total of 40 horses.
Since the racetrack was located very far outside the city, after the death of Spangenberg, his successor Wilhelm Seyfferth (1807–1881) looked for a new location. The horse racing track was relocated to Schimmel's meadow in the wood pane, which the racing club quickly transformed into a racing track. It is still in this scenic location today. Because of its beautiful location, the new racetrack has been compared to the Paris Derby track in Chantilly . A wooden grandstand was also built there , but it had to be renewed again and again in the following years. On September 14th and 15th, 1867, the opening race took place in the Scheibenholz. At that time the track was only 1,550 meters long.
The racetrack got its current shape in 1906/07 when the wooden grandstand was replaced by a new building in connection with the expansion of the facility. The Leipzig architect Otto Paul Burghardt (1875–1959) erected a two-tower building that was opened on May 25, 1907 after just seven months of construction. The very high construction cost of 287,706.41 marks required for this was raised in the amount of 250,000 marks through a 3½ percent loan from the racing club. Since the track was a lot of shopping destination outside the racing days, a spacious restaurant has been integrated into the grandstand base, in the back part also were in the mezzanine , the host apartment and staff dormitories. Burghardt's building has lost some of its filigree elegance due to some interventions (including cladding of the originally open upper floors of the tower and clogging of the rear arched windows ), but the roof supported by slender iron supports and the two towers still characterize the landscape beyond the racetrack boundaries .
Also in 1907 a hunting track was built with several new lines with a maximum of 16 fixed jumps .
In the years that followed, from 1921 to 1931, the racetrack grounds were further modified and a hunting course was created inside the track. The next major change took place in 1932. The flat runway was extended to 1,750 meters and thus received its current shape.
During the air raid on February 20, 1944 , this runway was severely damaged by aerial bombs, and the buildings and stables were also hit by bombs. After the war, the damage was quickly and provisionally repaired, so that the first German post-war race day with six races (27 horses in six flat races) could take place on August 12, 1945.
From 1974 to 1990 the Leipzig horse racing track was part of the VEB Vollblutrennbahnen Hoppegarten . More than 30 racing days were held annually. A decisive change after the new political beginning in 1990 was the re-establishment of the Leipziger Rennklub e. V. with an annual program of ten racing days. On June 18, 2004, the racing club announced the cessation of racing. Under the leadership of a new club, the Leipziger Reit- und Rennverein Scheibenholz e. V. , but this was resumed on May 1, 2005.
The grandstand building was renovated from 2010 to 2012 for over 2 million euros from the economic stimulus package II and officially inaugurated on May 1, 2012. In addition to the grandstand building, the old buildings still survive: the old half-timbered totalizator built in 1908 directly on the Elster flood bed and the two-storey summer stable built in 1924 on Wundtstrasse with its half-timbered gables and the outside stairs to the stable boy rooms .
The LRRS celebrated the anniversary "150 years of horse racing in Leipzig" with an anniversary race on September 14, 2013.
See also
literature
- Hans-Volkmar Gaitzsch, Bernd Schirm: 150 years of horse racing in Leipzig 1863–2013. (Anniversary publication of the “Leipziger Reit- und Rennverein Scheibenholz” eV), Eudora-Verlag, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-938533-50-5 .
- Hans-Christian Mannschatz, Erich Siegel: Park and Racecourse. In: The Leipzig Music Quarter. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-930433-18-4 , pp. 135-142.
Web links
- Official website of the Leipziger Reit- und Rennverein Scheibenholz e. V.
- 30min audio picture from MDR KULTUR
Individual evidence
- ^ Gaitzsch / Schirm: 150 years of horse races in Leipzig 1863–2013. P. 59
- ^ Gaitzsch / Schirm: 150 years of horse races in Leipzig 1863–2013. P. 62
- ↑ Race track grandstand completely refurbished. Website of the City of Leipzig, May 11, 2012, accessed on November 26, 2013
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 30 ″ N , 12 ° 21 ′ 41 ″ E