Helmut Schön Sports Park

Helmut Schön Sports Park
	Main grandstand in the Helmut Schön Sport Park (2012)
Earlier names
	Stadium on Berliner Strasse (until 2009)
Data
place	Wettinerstraße 4 Wiesbaden , Germany;
Coordinates	50 ° 4 '10.9 " N , 8 ° 15' 25.9" E Coordinates: 50 ° 4 '10.9 " N , 8 ° 15' 25.9" E
owner	City of Wiesbaden
opening	1907
Renovations	2008
surface	Natural grass
capacity	11,000 seats
Societies)
	SV Wiesbaden (since 1907); Wiesbaden Phantoms (since 2011);
Events
	American Football World Cup 2003; National Thrower Cup (since 1995);

The Helmut Schön Sportpark , formerly the stadium on Berliner Straße , in Wiesbaden is a football stadium with an athletics facility for 11,000 spectators. It borders directly to the north on the Brita-Arena, which was inaugurated in 2007 and has 12,566 seats. It is the home ground of SV Wehen Wiesbaden . The Helmut Schön Sportpark on the Berliner Straße stadium is the second largest stadium in the Hessian state capital . Football , athletics and American football events are held in the sports park .

history

The Helmut Schön Sportpark was built in 1907 by SV Wiesbaden and celebrated its centenary in 2007. During the turmoil of the Second World War , the property passed to the city of Wiesbaden . In September 2009, the stadium was named in honor of former national coach Helmut Schoen in Helmut Schön-Sportpark renamed.

It is located between Berliner Straße ( B 54 ) in the north, Gustav-Stresemann-Ring (part of the 1st city ring ) in the west and Wettinerstraße in the south. The main entrance to the stadium is in the direction of Berliner Straße with a small adjacent parking lot. The Wiesbaden vocational training center and the Federal Statistical Office are close to the stadium .

The sports grounds included the throwing area (for batting , javelin , discus and hammer throw ), two large hard courts, one small hard court and two sports halls a little apart . All soccer fields, except for the main turf field, as well as the pitching area fell victim to the new construction of the Brita-Arena, so that the youth teams of SV Wiesbaden , SKG Karadeniz and the athletics teams also based there had to look for a new place to stay. In the course of the construction of the Brita Arena, an existing hard court was converted into the latest generation of granulate artificial turf. In 2008 the old grandstand roof was torn down and replaced with a new roof. A new throwing area was built, where a famous throwing meeting takes place every year.

use

In the absence of a higher-class football club, the stadium was quite unknown. The top-class club that played its games here was the state division SV Wiesbaden , which once played in the third-class Oberliga Hessen .

SV Wehen , based in Taunusstein , has played here several times in the DFB Cup against higher-class opponents. In 2005, the then regional division 1. FC Eschborn played their DFB Cup match against 1. FC Nürnberg in front of 3,500 spectators. In addition, in July 2004 a friendly match between 1. FSV Mainz 05 and 1. FC Köln took place in front of 6,000 spectators.

The stadium was also used for American football . It served as the home of the Wiesbaden Phantoms from 2011 to 2013 as long as they competed in the GFL , the top German division (Bundesliga). The city of Wiesbaden did not extend its use, as the Phantoms were relegated to GFL2 (second highest division) in 2013 and they only wanted to use it in the first division.

As part of the American Football World Cup , the semi -finals took place on July 10, 2003 in the Helmut-Schön-Sportpark.

The best-known sporting event in the Wiesbaden stadium is the National Throwing Cup , which has been held in May every year since 1995 , and which has already featured discus stars Lars Riedel , Jürgen Schult and Robert Harting .

The Wiesbaden Athletics Association trains here and the HLV District Wiesbaden-Rheingau-Taunus uses the stadium for district championships in athletics.

Otherwise, the stadium mainly serves as the home ground of SV Wiesbaden . The stadium is also used as a sports facility for the Wiesbaden schools as a venue for national youth games. Calisthenics athletes have been meeting there regularly since 2015 .