Hop mile

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The Hopfenmeile is a trotting track in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm in Upper Bavaria .

history

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The first races with trotters were held in the Hallertau hop region as early as 1921 . After the Second World War , however, this tradition came to a standstill.

Today's racetrack was built in 1981 at the instigation of the brewery owner Sebastian Urban , who later became chairman of the Upper Bavarian Trotting Club . The then Bavarian Agriculture Minister Hans Eisenmann started the first race . A year later, a grandstand house with over 600 seats was put into operation and in 1983 a festival hall with catering was completed.

Data

  • The track measures 804.5 meters in length. This is the equivalent of half an English mile .
  • 43 event days take place annually from mid-March to the end of December.

Television documentary

In May 2003, Dagmar Wagner shot the documentary Horses, Money and Passion for Bayerischer Rundfunk : The Hop Mile .

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Racecourses in Germany


Horse racing tracks

Racecourse Boxberg (Gotha)   • racecourse Hoppegarten (Berlin)   • h Bremen racecourse   • racecourse Dortmund Wambel S / Gr   • Racecourse Dresden Seidnitz   • racecourse Dusseldorf-Ludenberg   • e racecourse Frankfurt   • e racetrack Grunewald (Berlin)   • racecourse Halle (Saale)   • Hamburg-Horn racecourse   • Bad Harzburg racecourse   • Hassloch racecourse   • Herrenkrugwiesen racecourse (Magdeburg)   • Hochstätt forest racecourse (Mannheim)   • Iffezheim racecourse (near Baden-Baden)   • Krefeld racecourse   • h natural obstacle racecourse (Castrop-Rauxel)   • Neue Bult (Hannover)   • racecourse Neuss S  • Ostseerennbahn (Bad Doberan)   • racecourse Riem (Munich)   • racetrack Raffelberg (Mülheim)   • racecourse Scheibenholz (Leipzig)  • racetrack Sonsbeck   • e racecourse Strausberg   • racetrack Verden   • racecourse Warendorf   • Cologne-Weidenpesch horse racing track   • Zweibrücken racing course

Trotting tracks

Trabrennbahn Bahrenfeld (Hamburg)   • trotting Daglfing (Munich)   • trotting Dieburg   • Trabrennbahn Dinslaken   • Gelsentrab Park (Gelsenkirchen)   • h Trabrennbahn Hamburg-Farmsen   • Trabrennbahn Mariendorf (Berlin) S   • hops mile (Pfaffenhofen)   • Trabrennbahn Karlshorst (Berlin)   • Mönchengladbach   Trotting Track • Pfarrkirchen   Trotting Track   • Recklinghausen Trotting Track • Straubing Trotting Track

Gallop and trotting tracks

Stover Racecourse (Drage / Elbe)   • Jadebahn Hooksiel   • Racecourse Hasenpark (Quakenbrück)   • Forest Racecourse Meißenheim   • Racecourse Miesau   • Racecourse Saarbrücken

Legend: e  former ( departed ), h  historically (TT); - S sand track, Gr grass track (and always, unless otherwise stated)

Coordinates: 48 ° 32 ′ 13 ″  N , 11 ° 29 ′ 21 ″  E