Hardturm (stadium)
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| place | Hardturmstrasse 404 8005 Zurich , Switzerland
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| Coordinates | 680 498 / 249677 |
| opening | 1929 |
| demolition | December 4, 2008 (start) |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 17,666 places |
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The Hardturm Stadium (colloquially Der Hardturm ) was a football stadium of the Swiss city of Zurich . It was the home ground of the Grasshopper Club Zurich football club , one of the venues for the 1954 football world championship and the venue for the 1952 men's field handball world championship .
The Hardturm Stadium opened in 1929. The facility was demolished in 2008. To date, the Zurich electorate has three times over a new coordinated .
Location and current use
The stadium and the surrounding area take their name from the nearby historic Hardturm . The stadium area is located in the industrial quarter between the Limmat and the railway tracks on the Zurich – Baden line . It is surrounded by two main traffic axes that unite a little to the west at the end of the Zurich-Hardturm motorway on the N1 , which opened in 1971 : Hardturmstrasse in the north and Pfingstweidstrasse in the south.
Tram lines 8 and 17 run on Hardturmstrasse , in the south line 4 ( tram Zurich West ).
After the demolition, the "stadium wasteland" was created, a widely used open space.
history
When it opened in 1929, the stadium had a capacity of 27,500 spectators. On the night of April 16-17, 1934, a few hours after a game against West Ham United , the main stand burned down completely. The exact cause of the fire could never be clarified. The industrialist and multiple president and later honorary president of the Grasshopper Club Zurich, Walter Schoeller , then acquired the stadium and donated it back to the GCZ free of charge, so that it could rebuild the main grandstand, the new Treml grandstand on the west side and the running costs could settle.
On April 11, 1956, the first football match with floodlights took place on Swiss soil ( Switzerland versus Brazil ). In 1968 the main stand burned down again. Now a comfortable counter stand (south) and a last new stand (east) have been built. For the 100th anniversary of the Grasshopper Club Zurich in 1986, both were completed. The stadium now held 18,000 spectators.
In 1998 a new west stand was built. The last modernization should be a new construction of the main and Treml grandstands, but this was never realized. According to the latest UEFA guidelines, the latest capacity was 17,666 spectators (16,066 of which were seats).
During the new construction of the Letzigrund from 2006 to 2007, FC Zurich played its home games in the Hardturm.
On September 1, 2007, the last game took place in the Hardturm. Due to the poor structural condition, continued operation was no longer an option, although there were already signs of major delays in the planned new construction. In the last game against Neuchâtel Xamax , Grasshopper Club Zürich lost 2-1, with the home team scoring the very last goal in the history of the stadium through Raúl Bobadilla in the 91st minute.
The demolition of the stadium began at the beginning of December 2008.
New building
In 2003, the stadium operator Stadion Zürich AG, a subsidiary of Credit Suisse , announced that it wanted to replace its stadium in the Hardturm with the project resulting from the competition. For the new building with 30,700 seats, this envisaged a shell use that would include a shopping mall with restaurants, a conference hotel , an area with fitness and health facilities and an office high-rise. It was planned that the stadium should be the venue for the games of the European Football Championship in 2008 . The city of Zurich should have participated in the new building through the sale of 16,311 m² of land and a loan. The loan in the amount of 47,667,000 Swiss francs for participation in the stadium Zurich AG or for the creation of the football stadium infrastructure was in an urban referendum approved in September of 2003. Objections were raised by residents and environmental groups against the planned new building with shell use. This led to a long-standing legal dispute that de facto brought the project to a standstill.
The three Euro 2008 games held in the city of Zurich finally took place in the Letzigrund athletics stadium, which has since been newly built and expanded for this purpose . This also serves as the provisional home stadium for the two football clubs in Zurich, FCZ and Grasshopper Club Zurich.
At a press conference on June 4, 2009, it was announced that Credit Suisse would withdraw from the project. Instead of the previous project, the city of Zurich was to build a smaller, pure football stadium with around 20,000 seats, and Credit Suisse next to it two to three high-rise buildings for office and residential use. In February 2010 the city bought the entire property from Credit Suisse and presented the new project in July 2010: a pure football stadium with 16,000 seats, a restaurant, a bar and 14 boxes. In addition to the stadium, the city wanted to build 160 apartments. In a referendum on September 22, 2013, the housing project found a majority, but the stadium designed by the architects Burkard Meyer from Baden was narrowly rejected by the voters. The opening of the stadium was planned for the beginning of the 2017/18 season.
In 2015 the city of Zurich carried out an investor competition with the aim of realizing a stadium and apartments.
On November 25, 2018, in the third vote on the topic, the Zurich electorate approved the granting of building rights at a reduced interest rate, loans for a little more than 50 million francs and the transfer of two properties to administrative assets . In addition to 174 non-profit apartments and two high-rise buildings with 570 apartments, a new stadium can be built on the site, which is to open in 2022. It is a pure football stadium with space for around 18,000 spectators, which is to be used by the Grasshoppers and FC Zurich for all home games. The site development is being carried out by HRS Investment AG, the Credit Suisse investment foundation and the Zurich General Building Cooperative , who submitted the «Ensemble» project together with several architectural offices . If appeals are raised against the construction project, the completion of the stadium could be delayed until 2028, according to media reports. Since the required signatures for the referendum have been collected, another referendum is expected to take place in May 2020.
Web links
- It's a shame, Hardturmstadion - the beautiful Zurich sports facility is now history ( memento from 23 September 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Article in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung with a summary of the legal case
- Dossier of the Tages-Anzeiger ( Memento from January 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- Stadium wasteland - the temporary use of the former stadium
- stadiumdb.com: Hardturm - until 2007 (English)
- europlan-online.de: Hardturm Stadium - Zurich
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Mühlbauer: Zurichers want apartments, but no football stadium Telepolis , September 24, 2013, accessed on the same day.
- ↑ a b City of Zurich (Ed.): Voting newspaper from November 25, 2018 . Voting proposal: Granting of building rights for the realization of a football stadium, non-profit housing and two high-rise buildings on the Hardturm site, transfer of two properties to administrative assets, property loan of 50.15823 million francs and income waiver of 1.72666 million francs annually, p. 2 ff . ( stadt-zuerich.ch [PDF; 1000 kB ; accessed on February 14, 2019]).
- ↑ Results of the community vote from November 25, 2018. In: City of Zurich. Retrieved February 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Pascal Unternährer: Wait until 2028? So it goes with the stadium . In: Tages-Anzeiger . November 25, 2018, ISSN 1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on February 14, 2019]).
- ↑ YES - NO - YES -? - The city of Zurich has to vote on a stadium a fourth time. In: srf.ch . December 20, 2019, accessed December 20, 2019 .