Hardtwald Stadium

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Hardtwald Stadium
Hardtwald Stadium
Hardtwald Stadium (2007)
Sponsor name (s)
  • BWT-Stadion am Hardtwald (since 2017)
Data
place Jahnstrasse 1 69207 Sandhausen , Germany
GermanyGermany
Coordinates 49 ° 19 '55.5 "  N , 8 ° 38' 51.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '55.5 "  N , 8 ° 38' 51.6"  E
owner SV Sandhausen
opening 1951
Renovations 1987/88, 2002, 2007, 2008
Extensions 2012, 2014, 2016
surface Natural grass
capacity 15,414 places
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The Hardtwaldstadion (officially BWT-Stadion am Hardtwald since 2017 due to name sponsorship ) is a football stadium in the Baden-Württemberg community of Sandhausen . It is located at the southern exit of the village on the edge of the Schwetzinger Hardt , the northernmost part of the Hardtwald , and is the home of SV Sandhausen , the owner of the stadium.

history

The stadium was opened in 1951, back then with a clay court. Ten years later, a field made of natural grass was laid for the first time . The covered grandstand was built in 1987/88. In addition to the sanitary facilities, the press rooms and the executive offices, there is also a small apartment under the grandstand, which is used as a place to stay for test players. In the 2001/02 season, a floodlight system was installed that meets the guidelines for the 2nd Bundesliga . In summer 2008 the stadium was adapted to the guidelines for the new 3rd league . A tubular steel grandstand with 2500 seats was provisionally created, a VIP house was built, a video screen was installed and the facilities for the press and police were expanded. The Hardtwaldstadion thus had a capacity of 10,231 seats, of which 2954 were covered.

On the occasion of the club's promotion to the second Bundesliga , the stadium was enlarged in summer 2012 by building two additional grandstands on both sides of the main grandstand to a capacity of approx. 12,100 spectators. The eastern extension includes 377 new seats and 72 box seats, the western 1500 standing places. In addition, further structural extensions were made and turf heating was installed. The total costs amounted to around 3.6 million euros. Since the club managed to stay up in the 2013/14 season, the capacity was expanded to 15,300 spectators for the new season in accordance with the DFL regulations. For this purpose, a standing stand was built behind the western gate and a stand with seats and standing space on the back straight.

The construction of a new stadium with a capacity of 20,000 spectators, for example at the other end of the village in the direction of Schwetzingen, was planned for the more distant future, but these plans were not pursued any further as it was too costly.

For the first time after the expansion, the stadium was sold out in the second division match against 1. FC Kaiserslautern on March 31, 2013. At the same time, the previous official record of 11,300 spectators from the DFB Cup match against Borussia Dortmund on July 30, 2011 was set. According to a member of the board of the club, with almost 13,000 spectators, even more spectators saw the cup game against VfB Eppingen on February 15, 1975 . Two more grandstands were built in the summer of 2014, and the so-called BusinessTurm was built in 2016 . This can be used as an event location outside of match days.

Several international matches for German national youth teams took place in the Hardtwald Stadium, including against the Netherlands and France. Most recently, the U19s managed a 10-0 win against Andorra on August 8, 2010 as part of their qualification for the 2011 U-19 European Football Championship . During the 2006 World Cup , the facility served the Costa Rica national team, which is based in neighboring Walldorf , as a training ground. A friendly game organized in this context against a regional soccer team from the Electoral Palatinate won the latter 3: 2. The women's national team played a European Championship qualifier against Turkey in October 2015, which they won 7-0.

The stadium went down in football history on August 27, 1995. On that Sunday, SV Sandhausen defeated the Bundesliga team of VfB Stuttgart in the first round of the DFB Cup on penalties with 13:12. It was the longest penalty shootout in the history of the competition.

Name sponsorship

In March 2017, BWT , a manufacturer of specialty chemicals and systems for water treatment , acquired the naming rights to the stadium until 2020, which has since been officially called the BWT-Stadion am Hardtwald .

See also

Web links

Commons : Hardtwaldstadion  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wendelin Hübner: Der Dorfclub , Spiegel Online, August 3, 2012, accessed on August 20, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b Christoph Moll: The Hardtwaldstadion becomes a football arena. Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, May 5, 2012, available online in the SV Sandhausen forum and at Transfermarkt.de , accessed on August 23, 2013.
  3. ↑ Investing in legs and stones . Schwetzinger Zeitung, May 15, 2012, accessed on August 20, 2012.
  4. ↑ Claus Weber: With a broad chest in the cup game ( Memento from August 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, August 18, 2012.
  5. ↑ Stadium manual, Chapter 8 ( Memento from August 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Bundesliga.de, (PDF; 2.4 MB), accessed on August 23, 2013.
  6. ^ Gallery: Sandhausener Hardtwaldstadion is being expanded , Stadionwelt.de, June 4, 2012, accessed on August 20, 2012.
  7. ↑ Sold out / Fan accessories / Additional parking spaces . Press release of the association of March 29, 2013, accessed on its website on August 23, 2013
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Brück: At that time they were sitting in the trees , Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, March 28, 2013, accessed on May 16, 2017
  9. ↑ Christian Kunz, Uwe Jentzsch: Costa Rica is moving to North Baden , Heilbronner Voice, December 14, 2005, accessed on August 20, 2012.
  10. ↑ Match report at Transfermarkt.de. Retrieved August 20, 2012.
  11. ↑ Tobias Schächter: Slapstick in the Defense , Berliner Zeitung, June 3, 2006, accessed on August 20, 2012.
  12. ↑ DFB: Germany - Turkey , DFB, October 25, 2015, accessed on February 20, 2016.
  13. ↑ BWT secures stadium naming rights and shirt sleeves for SV Sandhausen , infront.sport, March 15, 2017, accessed on July 29, 2020.