Heinz Steyer Stadium

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Heinz Steyer Stadium
Heinz Field
Heinz-Steyer-Stadion in August 2017
Heinz-Steyer-Stadion in August 2017
Earlier names

Stadium at the Ostragehege of the Dresdner SC

Data
place Pieschener Allee 1
01067 Dresden , Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 3 '39 "  N , 13 ° 43' 35"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '39 "  N , 13 ° 43' 35"  E
owner City of Dresden
opening October 12, 1919
First game October 12, 1919
Renovations 1928
Extensions 1928
surface Natural grass
capacity 23,767 seats
(limited to 4,500 spectators for safety reasons)
As of November 2016
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Events

The Heinz-Steyer-Stadion is a football stadium with an athletics facility in the Saxon capital of Dresden . It was initially called the stadium at the Ostragehege of the Dresdner SC . In the 1950s it was renamed after the communist soccer player Heinz Steyer , who was executed in 1944 .

history

The municipal stadium is part of the Ostragehege sports park in the Friedrichstadt district of Dresden and is mainly used by the football department and the athletes of the Dresdner SC . The American football club of the Dresden Monarchs also moved into the stadium in 2007 . The stadium offers space for 24,000 spectators, but due to its structural condition it is only approved for 4,500 spectators. There are a total of 2,660 seats, 1,860 of which are covered.

The stadium was opened on the site of the former Ostravorwerk on October 12, 1919. It initially had a football field, two running tracks, athletics facilities and a 42-meter-long grandstand. The Dresdner SC was the main user from the start. The DFB was before the Second World War from several internationals in Ostragehege, the first took place on May 5, 1921 against Austria (3: 3) instead. After a fire in 1928, the stadium was expanded and then had a capacity of 65,000 spectators. The still unbroken attendance record of 61,000 was set up on May 26, 1935 at the international match between Germany and Czechoslovakia (2-1). During the air raid on Dresden on February 13, 1945, the stadium served the bomber pilots as a landmark, but was itself only slightly damaged.

Heinz-Steyer-Stadion in 1986
The scoreboard in the Heinz-Steyer-Stadion

After the end of the war, DSC's successor, SG Friedrichstadt, played in the Ostragehege. On December 31, 1949, on the occasion of the farewell game for the Dresden football idol Richard Hofmann (SG Friedrichstadt against a GDR selection 2-0), the first German stadium floodlight system was inaugurated. After the SG Friedrichstadt was dissolved, the stadium became the venue for the SG Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden in 1950, which was renamed SG Dynamo Dresden on April 12, 1953 . Then it was renamed the Heinz-Steyer-Stadion. Twice ( 1954 and 1959 ) the final of the FDGB Cup was held in the Heinz-Steyer-Stadion. In front of 55,000 spectators, the GDR national team played their first home international match against Bulgaria (0-0) on June 14, 1955 . When Dynamo Dresden moved to the Rudolf Harbig Stadium in 1957, the SC Einheit Dresden became a new user, which in addition to its football section also had a strong athletics section.

On September 30, 1961, the final took the Ladies Cup in the field handball instead. The match between SC Progress Weissenfels and SC Rotation Berlin (7: 3) was watched by 12,000 spectators in the Heinz Steyer Stadium. The successor to the soccer section of SC Einheit was the FSV Lok Dresden in 1966 , but soon afterwards it moved to the sports field on Pieschener Allee due to the lack of spectator interest. After extensive renovation work was carried out in 1972, the stadium was often used for major sporting events. The Steyer Stadium was the destination of the international road bike race Friedensfahrt several times , and with the new tartan track also international athletics competitions came to Dresden, so the "Golden Oval" was held annually. 13 athletics world records were set in the Steyer Stadium. In 1990 the last GDR athletics championships took place here.

After its re-establishment in 1990, Dresdner SC moved back into the Heinz Steyer Stadium. In the flood disaster in 2002 , the stadium suffered severe damage. In 2006, plans to convert it into a World Cup-compatible stadium failed.

Current

Since part of the building is considered to be in danger of collapsing, the stadium is still approved for 4,500 spectators. On March 12, 2015, renovation work began with the aim of increasing the capacity to 10,000 seats, including: a. with mobile stands. The conversion should be tailored to the main users athletics, soccer and American football. The replacement building for the old wooden grandstand was inaugurated in 2017. The stadium is to be modernized by 2024 so that the German athletics championships can take place there.

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinz-Steyer-Stadion  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ stadium capacity
  2. ↑ Season balance sheets GDR field handball championship women 1948 - 1967 . Accessed March 13, 2016.
  3. ^ A b Lars Kühl: New grandstand for the Steyer Stadium. In: Sächsische Zeitung , January 6, 2016.
  4. ^ Juliane Richter: The wooden stand at the Steyer Stadium is now being demolished. In: Sächsische Zeitung , March 12, 2015.
  5. ^ Stephan Lohse: Cost explosion - Dresden stops renovation of the Steyer Stadium. In: dnn.de. November 26, 2016. Retrieved September 29, 2017 .