Grüttpark Stadium
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| place | Grüttweg 15 79539 Loerrach
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 37 '34.6 " N , 7 ° 39' 44.1" E |
| owner | City of Loerrach |
| start of building | September 30, 1964 |
| opening | 5th November 1966 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| architect | Günther Preschany |
| capacity | 5000 seats |
| playing area | 108 × 68 meters |
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The Grüttpark Stadium is a football and athletics stadium in Lörrach built between 1964 and 1966 . It is located in the Nordstadt on the northwestern edge of the Grüttpark . In addition to being used by the athletics and soccer clubs, the stadium is also the venue for the national youth games for the participating schools.
history
prehistory
The history of the Grüttpark Stadium is closely linked to that of TSV Rot-Weiß Lörrach (RWL). When the club was founded on May 21, 1946 after initial resistance from the French occupying forces , the club needed a sports field. To this end, on June 22, 1946, the association applied to the city to return and repair the existing sports field on Haagener Strasse - also known as the municipal stadium - in the north of the city. On the site of the former stadium in Haagener Strasse, the Stadion residential complex was built in the early 1990s, taking up the shape of the old stadium.
In the summer of 1951, the club received the stadium. Until then, they trained on a provisional place on Brombacher Straße, which also had a 312 meter long track. At the beginning, the French military also used the sports facility as a storage area. The city administration announced on September 13, 1962 that the association had to hand over a six meter wide strip for road construction. Since moving the square was impractical, a new building had to be considered.
A leisure and recreation center was built in Grütt as early as the 1960s. The tennis club built new courts in 1961 and a clubhouse and other facilities were built. A year later, the Lörrach shooting club also built its clubhouse in Grütt.
construction
At the initiative of the chairman at the time, Fritz Gisy, a plan study was drawn up in which a move of the stadium to Grüttpark was suggested. After preliminary talks with the mayor at the time, Egon Hugenschmidt , the first sales talks were held about the space on Brombacher Strasse. In January 1964, the entire board discussed how the land acquisition for the planned stadium construction had to be carried out. On August 21 of the same year, the majority voted in an extraordinary general meeting for the new building on Grütt, so that the groundbreaking could already take place on September 30, 1964 . On August 27, 1965, the construction of the buildings began and on June 24, 1966, the erection ceremony was celebrated. The stadium architect was Günther Preschany from Efringen-Kirchen . On November 5, 1966, the stadium was inaugurated under the name Red-White Stadium .
Since opening
Due to the success of FV Lörrach in the 1960s and 1970s, the club played in the first amateur league in South Baden , which was the third highest division at the time. During this phase there was a DFB Cup game on September 7, 1974 , in which FV Loerrach lost 2-1 to ASV Landau in the Grüttpark Stadium.
Since the club could no longer cope with the financial burden of its own stadium in the mid-1980s and the building was also in need of renovation, the RWL sold the building to the city, which changed the name to Grüttpark Stadium .
Since 1997 the "Grüttlauf" has been organized in the Grüttpark by the TuS Lörrach-Stetten . The running event offers an 800 meter long course for toddlers and a ten and five kilometer main run. The start and finish is the Grüttpark Stadium. Around 500 runners took part in the event in 2019.
For the centenary of FV Lörrach, to which Ottmar Hitzfeld belonged in his early years of career, FC Bayern Munich played on July 12, 2002 in the Loerrach Grüttpark Stadium against the Loerrach football club and won 9-1. This game came about due to the contacts of the then Bayern coach Hitzfeld and was his thank you to the football club of his youth days. Previously, he had also invited Borussia Dortmund, whom he had coached in the 1990s, to a friendly in Loerrach.
Since the merger of the clubs FV Lörrach and FV Brombach to form FV Lörrach-Brombach , the Grüttpark Stadium has been the home ground of the newly founded football club.
From June to September 2013, the Grüttpark Stadium was renovated for 800,000 euros.
Description and environment
The soccer field is 108 × 68 meters and consists of natural grass. Various athletics facilities are grouped around the soccer field . The six running tracks made of cast covering run around the main field in an oval shape. In addition, the stadium has a long, high, pole vault and discus facility. The stadium can be reached via a central entrance and ticket area in the north, where the covered, but not closed, approximately 80-meter-wide spectator stand is also located. In the middle of the grandstand area is a partially glazed commentary booth. The capacity of the stadium is given as 5000. The entire sports facility, including its athletics facilities, measures 172.5 × 104 meters.
The stadium is located on the northern edge of the Grüttpark in the immediate vicinity of the federal highway 317 . The facility and the parking spaces in front of it can be reached via a cul-de-sac . In the immediate vicinity of the stadium are the club houses of SG Lörrach, FV Turmringen, the tennis club Lörrach as well as TSV Rot-Weiss Lörrach and FV Lörrach-Brombach . To the northwest of the Grüttpark Stadium there are several tennis courts, a club shooting range and five other foot fields. There is a public inline skating and streetball facility at the parking lot.
On the northern edge of the stadium, a memorial commemorates the former Lörrach airfield from the 1920s, which was located on the site of today's sports facilities. Regular mail and passenger flight operations only existed for a few months. After that, the airfield was only used sporadically and became increasingly orphaned until it was demolished in the mid-1950s. To the south of the stadium is the Drei-Länder-Camp campsite .
literature
- City of Lörrach (editor): Lörrach. Landscape · History · Culture . Issued in memory of the privilege granted 300 years ago on November 18, 1682. City of Lörrach, Lörrach 1983, ISBN 3-9800841-0-8 . , Pp. 537-540.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The venue of the FV Lörrach-Brombach. transfermarkt.ch, accessed on July 17, 2019 .
- ↑ a b City of Lörrach (editor): Lörrach. Landscape · History · Culture . Issued in memory of the privilege granted 300 years ago on November 18, 1682. City of Lörrach, Lörrach 1983, ISBN 3-9800841-0-8 . , P. 538.
- ↑ Verlagshaus Jaumann : New stadium thanks to road construction , article from June 1, 2016, accessed on July 17, 2019
- ↑ sport.de: Match statistics for the match between FV Lörrach and ASV Landau on September 7, 1974 , accessed on July 18, 2019
- ↑ Route of the Grüttlauf , accessed on July 17, 2019
- ↑ Badische Zeitung: Around 500 people take part in the Grüttlauf in Lörrach , article from March 25, 2019, accessed on July 17, 2019
- ↑ loerrach.de: Ottmar Hitzfeld , accessed on July 17, 2019
- ↑ Badische Zeitung : Lörracher Grüttpark Stadium has been renovated - footballers need patience , article from November 5, 2013, accessed on July 17, 2019