Hermann Löns Stadium

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Hermann Löns Stadium
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place Hermann-Löns-Strasse 127 33104 Paderborn - Neuhaus Castle , Germany
GermanyGermany
Coordinates 51 ° 45 '24 "  N , 8 ° 42' 2"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 45 '24 "  N , 8 ° 42' 2"  E
owner City of Paderborn
opening 1957
surface Natural grass
capacity 11,723 seats
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The Hermann-Löns-Stadion is a competition venue in the Paderborn district of Schloß Neuhaus and was the home stadium of the SC Paderborn 07 football club until the end of the 2007/08 season . The stadium is named after the German poet Hermann Löns .

Stadion

The three-grand stadium was built in the 1950s. When the then TuS Schloß Neuhaus was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga as Westphalia champions in 1982 , the main grandstand was expanded, but since then it has not been fundamentally renovated, which is one reason why the sports facility is generally classified as dilapidated. After SC Paderborn 07 was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2005, the stadium received a floodlight system for the first time a year later . It was only because of this fact that the DFB granted the operators a special permit to host second and regional league games. One of the conditions associated with this issue was a move to a second division stadium in the near future.

This was supposed to happen in the second half of the 2005/06 season with the construction of what was then the paragon arena , but construction work was suspended five months after the start of construction after the Higher Administrative Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in Münster withdrew the building permit due to residents' protests. As a result, at the beginning of the 2006/07 season, the Hermann-Löns-Stadion was given an additional stand made of tubular steel. Since November 2007 the new stadium has been under construction on the basis of a new building permit. On June 30, 2008, the completed paragon arena was handed over to the SCP, where it has played its home games since the 2008/09 season. After the move, both the additional grandstand and the floodlighting system, which was built into the new arena, were immediately dismantled, except for their masts. The masts should later be reused for a possibly smaller-sized new floodlight system.

The stadium has been the home of the American football club AFC Paderborn Dolphins since summer 2008

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The Hermann-Löns-Stadion has three stands with a capacity of 11,723 seats. 3604 of these are covered seats, the rest is standing room. The guest area offers space for around 3000 spectators on 2414 standing and 369 seats.

In addition to the main stadium, the sports area has an ash field , but this is to be converted into an artificial turf field later.

Specialty

A special feature of the area is that a high-voltage line runs directly over the stadium, which is unique in German professional sport.

spectator

In the three second division years of SC Paderborn 07 up to the move to the new stadium in the summer of 2008, the average attendance was between 6,300 and 6,500, which is well below the average for the second division.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ stadionwelt.de: stadium capacity