Hermannslauf

Hermannslauf
venue	Detmold → Bielefeld Germany
First run	1972
Records
distance	31.1 kilometers
track record	Men: 1:40:58 h, 2011 Ezekiel Jafari Ngimba   Women: 1:58:58 h, 2013 Stevie Kremer
Website	Official website

The Hermannslauf is a fun run that takes place regularly on the last Sunday in April of each year and runs over 31.1 kilometers from the Hermannsdenkmal near Detmold to the Bielefeld Sparrenburg . Individual athletes have already run the Hermannslauf twice with 62.2 km and three times with 93.3 km as an ultramarathon .

The fun run, which was held for the first time in 1972, is organized by the TSVE Bielefeld . In the early years, the Hermannslauf was run by the Bielefelder Ski Club e. V. aligned. More than 7,000 runners, walkers and hikers now take part, making the Hermannslauf one of the larger running events in Germany.

The Panzerstraße in the area of ​​the military training area , the Tönsberg , downtown Oerlinghausen as well as the Lämershagener stairs and the Eiserne Anton in the Bielefeld district of Stieghorst are special crowd pullers .

history

Wolfgang Schlüter and Peter Gehrmann launched the Hermannslauf in 1971.

route

The running route, which partly runs along the Hermannsweg, runs mainly on forest floor and sandy paths, but also on concrete, asphalt and cobblestones . The total length has been 31.1 kilometers since 2005. Up to and including 2004, the route was 30.6 km long. Due to the large number of spectators in the city center of Oerlinghausen, the organizers have extended it by 500 meters. The widespread view that in the early years of the Hermannslauf the route length was 35 km is wrong. The designation "35 km Hermannslauf" goes back to the rounding of popular run distances in 5-kilometer steps, which was customary at the time. The route from 1972 to 1976 ran over 30.4 kilometers on the actual Hermannsweg and in 1977 the first 13 kilometers were moved to a parallel route in order to avoid crossing the main road between Augustdorf and Pivitsheide and to use an armored bridge instead.

Route

The bus transfer from downtown Bielefeld to the Hermannsdenkmal

The registration center for the run is in downtown Bielefeld. From there there is a bus transfer to the start at the Hermannsdenkmal. Around 120 buses from all over East Westphalia are in use for this purpose.

After starting at the Hermannsdenkmal (371 m), the route leads after the connecting road to the military training area and crossing the Allhornberg / Großer Ehberg saddle (km 7.0; 299 m) to Augustdorfer Panzerstraße (km 8.5; 1st refreshment point). After the Stapelager Gorge (km 13.3; 2nd food), after crossing the Tönsberg (km 16.0; 333 m) through Oerlinghausen (km 17.8; 3rd food) into the Schopketal (176 m). After the wall path in Lämershagen and the motorway bridge (km 22.40; 227 m) follows the notorious stairs of Lämershagen: around 45 meters in altitude, spread over 120 steps, have to be negotiated uphill. The route continues uphill to Eiserner Anton (km 24.42; 309 m; 4th catering). From here, the first section climbs again in gentle waves over Osningstraße and Habichtshöhe (km 27.90; 217 m) to Brand's Busch (km 27.90; 196 m; start of the promenade) and down to Sparrenburg (165 m). At the finish, each participant receives a medal with a motif of the running route.

Route profile

The run leads through challenging, very hilly terrain, on which the meters in altitude covered add up to a total of around 515 meters and 710 meters downhill. In absolute terms it goes downhill, as the Hermannsdenkmal is a good 200 meters higher than the Sparrenburg.

statistics

Course records

• Men: Ezekiel Jafari Ngimba, 2011, 1:40:58
• Women: Stevie Kremer , 2013, 1:58:58

Winners list

Hermannslauf 2009

Hermannslauf 2012 medal obverse

Hermannslauf 2012 medal back with elevation profile

year	Men	time	Women	time
1972	Helmut Bode	1:51:26	Lydia Günnewig	3:22:00
1973	Helmut Bode	1:53:15	Irmhild Holste	3:02:05
1974	Achim Stober	1:55:42	Liana Winter	2:17:00
1975	Klaus-Dieter Holz	1:52:00	Christine Ross	2:32:04
1976	Heribert Bulk	1:47:33	Liana Winter	2:06:41
1977	Jim Hodey	1:48:23	Liana Winter	2:06:22
1978	Michael Heine	1:54:16	Liana Winter	2:07:05
1979	Billy Cain	1:49:47	Liana Winter	2:08:17
1980	Dieter Lippe	1:51:46	Liana Winter	2:07:28
1981	Helmut Schmidt	1:52:15	Rotraud Zinner	2:21:16
1982	Ekhard Fäseke	1:48:06	Liana Winter	2:05:02
1983	Stephen Roberts	1:50:28	Ulrike Brand	2:19:07
1984	Adrian Philpott	1:43:21	Angelika Seeck	2:22:18
1985	Dirk Sander	1:45:44	Ulrike Brand	2:06:55
1986	Bernd Mühlenmeier	1:45:45	Maria Nunner	2:17:21
1987	Toni Marshall & Frank Weidler	1:47:13	Anke Molkenthin	2:12:21
1988	Martin Sprenger	1:44:48	Rosemarie Rose	2:06:56
1989	Toni Marshall	1:46:01	Brigitte Mühlisch	2:02:12
1990	Michael Amstutz	1:46:25	Doris Koslowski	2:10:37
1991	Jörg Navrade	1:45:53	Katjana Quest old rye	2:08:09
1992	Michael Amstutz	1:45:00	Doris Koslowski	1:59:27
1993	Theo Pyl	1:45:14	Doris Koslowski	2:03:55
1994	Theo Pyl	1:45:15	Doris Koslowski	2:00:24
1995	Andreas Ewert	1:44:11	Katjana Quest old rye	2:09:29
1996	Theo Pyl	1:44:12	Manuela Koehne	2:07:52
1997	Claus Seifert	1:45:03	Anke Pieper	2:10:19
1998	Ralph Koritz	1:45:44	Anke Pieper	2:07:46
1999	Carsten Breitenbach & Ingmar Lundström	1:46:51	Heike Saeger	2:08:30
2000	Marcus Biehl	1:45:57	Heike Saeger	2:07:22
2001	Rene Witt	1:46:35	Birgit Lennartz	2:05:27
2002	Rene Witt	1:43:09	Ricarda Botzon	2:06:35
2003	Philipp Brouwer	1:46:23	Heike Mohn	2:05:59
2004	Marcus Biehl	1:44:36	Iris Reuter	2:05:26
2005	Ingo Horst	1:48:59	Anke Kemmener	2:04:47
2006	Elias Sansar	1:45:50	Kirsten Heckmann	2:13:52
2007	Elias Sansar	1:48:44	Silvia Krull	2:06:13
2008	Elias Sansar	1:47:18	Silvia Krull	2:05:44
2009	Elias Sansar	1:48:31	Franziska Schmidt	2:07:26
2010	Elias Sansar	1:47:27	Regine Schlump	2:18:15
2011	Ezekiel Jafari	1:40:58	Silke Pfenningschmidt	2:01:38
2012	Elias Sansar	1:47:51	Silke Pfenningschmidt	1:59:42
2013	Elias Sansar	1:45:25	Stevie Kremer	1:58:57
2014	Elias Sansar	1:50:10	Silke Pfenningschmidt	2:08:49
2015	Florian Reichert	1:46:24	Hilde Aders	2:07:02
2016	Elias Sansar	1:49:10	Hilde Aders	2:05:47
2017	Elias Sansar	1:46:38	Hilde Aders	2:06:41
2018	Elias Sansar	1:45:03	Hilde Aders	2:05:11
2019	Elias Sansar	1:44:54	Michelle Rannacher	2:02:41

Finisher

• 2009: 5735 (4602 men and 1133 women)
• 2010: 5555 (4457 men and 1098 women)
• 2011: 5709 (4545 men and 1164 women)
• 2012: 5670 (4562 men and 1108 women)
• 2013: 5648 (4469 men and 1179 women)
• 2014: 5836 (4563 men and 1273 women)
• 2015: 5576 (4341 men and 1235 women)
• 2016: 5723 (4511 men and 1212 women)
• 2017: 5603 (4362 men and 1241 women)
• 2018: 5293 (4126 men and 1167 women)
• 2019: 5585 (4202 men and 1383 women)

Special

The most successful participants include Liane Winter (Wolfsburg, 1974, 1976 to 1980 and 1982) with seven and Elias Sansar with twelve wins (2006 to 2010 and 2012 to 2014, 2016 to 2019). Doris Koslowski (VfL Hiddesen) won the race four times in the 1990s, as did Hilde Aders (Tromsø Løp) between 2015 and 2018. Anke Kemmener (née Pieper, ATSV Espelkamp, ​​1997/1998 and 2005) and Heike Mohn ran three times (born Saeger, SV Brackwede, 1999/2000 and 2003), Bernd-Theodor Pyl (Post SV Gütersloh, 1993, 1994 and 1996) and Silke Pfenningschmidt ( SV Brackwede 2011, 2012 and 2014) cross the finish line as the winner. So far, Helmut Bode (Bielefeld, 1972/1973), Ulrike Brand (LG Bad Salzuflen, 1983 and 1985), Tony Marshall (GB, 1987 and 1989), Michael Amstutz (Non-Stop-Ultra Brakel, 1990 and 1992) have secured each other twice ), Katjana Quest Altrogge (TG Lage, 1991 and 1995), Marcus Biehl (SV Brackwede, 2000 and 2004), René Witt (LG Vogtland, 2001/2002) and Silvia Krull (running store final spurt, 2008/2007).

In 2009, Oliver Arndt and Lajos Speck ran the Hermannslauf twice: start at the Sparrenburg, half-time at the Hermannsdenkmal, finish at the Sparrenburg. They needed 5:51:08 hours to cover the 62.2 km route.

In 2016, Raoul Schöneis from TV Lemgo ran the Hermannslauf three times. He started at the Hermannsdenkmal, ran, accompanied by two cyclists, to the Sparrenburg and back to the Hermannsdenkmal. Then he started in Group C and ran with all other participants in the Hermannslauf to the Sparrenburg. The total distance was thus 93.3 km.

literature

• Jörg Rinne (Ed.): Hermannslauf - 25 years of history and stories . Westfalen Verlag GmbH, Bielefeld 1996, ISBN 3-88918-087-6 .

Web links

Commons : Hermannslauf  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Detailed route description
• Detailed route description and reference times calculation
• Hermannslauf 2007 - an experience report

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release from 2000 on the origin of the herman run ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 10, 2012. 
2. ↑ Results - 41st Hermannslauf (April 29, 2012) accessed on May 2, 2018.
3. ↑ Results - 42nd Hermannslauf (April 28, 2013) accessed on May 2, 2018.
4. ↑ Results - 43rd Hermannslauf (April 27, 2014) accessed on May 2, 2018.
5. ↑ Results - 44th Hermannslauf (April 26, 2015) accessed on May 2, 2018.
6. ↑ Results - 45th Hermannslauf (April 24, 2016) accessed on May 2, 2018.
7. ↑ Results - 46th Hermannslauf (April 30, 2017) accessed on May 2, 2018.
8. ↑ Results - 47th Hermannslauf (April 29, 2018) accessed on May 20, 2018.
9. ↑ Results - 48th Hermannslauf (April 28, 2019) accessed on May 18, 2019.

Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 42 "  N , 8 ° 50 ′ 24.4"  E