Hernalser Radrennbahn
| Hernalser Radrennbahn | |
|---|---|
| Data | |
| place |
Hernals in Vienna Roggendorfgasse 2 |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 13 '30.9 " N , 16 ° 19' 35.2" E |
| opening | October 2, 1920 |
The Hernalser Radrennbahn in Vienna , also called Hernalser Rennbahn , was a bicycle racetrack in the Viennese district of Hernals . The 333.33 meter long track was opened in 1920, initially as a provisional facility to be expanded later, on the square of the teachers' sports association at Roggendorfgasse 2 . The sports facility was located on the site of the former Hernals brickworks . The Hernals racecourse was temporarily used parallel to the Wiener-Neustädter racecourse .
history
After bicycle races in Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century could only be driven on country roads for almost 14 years from around 1906 due to the lack of a dedicated racing track, the new Viennese cycle racing track was officially opened on September 26, 1920. For the first day of the race, 160 drivers had registered for various races, including Alexander Beyer , who had previously been victorious in Germany and traveled from Dresden . Through the initiative and calls of the Vienna cycling club RC Endurance in 1907 , 8,000 spectators appeared at the opening to see the races on the track that was initially 5 to 7 meters wide and 1 meter higher in the curves, on which speeds of up to 45 km / h developed could become. At the opening of the Endurance Bike Club in 1907, a 20-kilometer race for motor-driven bicycles was organized; However, pure motorcycle races were initially not permitted.
In the 1920s, under the direction of Hildebrandt, cycling races among the elite of Austrian professional cyclists were held on the cycling track .
On September 28, 1924, two championships were scheduled at the Hernalser Rennbahn: on the one hand, the professional pilot's championship of Austrian drivers, for which both Hermann Kaleta and Franz Kaleta were favored, and on the other hand, the pilot's championship of the association of racing drivers .
At the track races in Hernals, short distances from 1000 meters to 4000 meters in particular were driven. Individual master drivers from abroad often took part in the races. With regard to these foreign participants, for example, the Wiener Sport-Tagblatt mentioned for the race on October 4, 1925 such “first-class forces as the Hanoverian master driver Ernst Ostermeier and Oskar Peter, the master driver from Russia ”.
On September 4, 1927, the national competition in the track race between Austria and Hungary was held on the Hernalser Radrennbahn . His master drivers August Schaffer and Franz Dusika competed for Austria and Jenö Eigner and Kalman Malzak for Hungary . In July the track championships for amateurs over 1 and 25 kilometers had already taken place on the cycling track.
On November 26, 1929, after the bicycle race track in Hernals had been demolished for some time, the social democratic newspaper Das Kleine Blatt reported on the planned construction of the bicycle race track in the Prater near the Vienna stadium . The start of construction of the wooden track with a length of 333.33 meters, planned for the spring of 1930, was announced as a joint project of the Working Group for Sport and Physical Culture in Austria (ASKÖ) and the Austrian Workers' Association . The new racetrack was also intended as a sports facility for the 1931 Workers' Olympics from the start.
literature
- Victor Brodt : International track bike races in Vienna. In: Illustrierter Sportblatt , October 2, 1920, p. 7ff. (Online at ANNO ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Wiener Sport-Tagblatt of September 23, 1920, pp. 3 and 4; Digitized
- ↑ a b c o.V. : Track races in Hernals , in: Sport-Tagblatt , No. 271/272 of October 3, 1925; Digitized via ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online of the Austrian National Library
- ^ Physical education: Journal for real life ..., Volumes 13-15, 1917, p. 40 limited preview in the Google book search
- ↑ a b o. V .: Tomorrow's club games / For the rail championships in Austria .... In: Sportblatt am Mittag / Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , September 27, 1924, p. 10 (online at ANNO ).
- ^ Victor Brodt: International train cycle races in Vienna. In: Illustrated Österreichisches Sportblatt / Illustrated Sportblatt , October 2, 1920, pp. 7ff. (Online at ANNO ).
- ^ Track race in Hernals. In: Sportblatt am Mittag / Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , September 3, 1927, p. 9 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Bicycle race in Hernals. In: Neue Freie Presse , July 23, 1927, p. 24 (online at ANNO ).
- ^ Karl Hans Sailer : Vienna is getting a cycling track. In: Das kleine Blatt , November 26, 1929, p. 12 (online at ANNO ).