Inselbergschanze
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Inselbergschanze for the Continental Cup 2009 |
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city | Brotterode | ||||||||
country | Germany | ||||||||
society | WSV Brotterode eV | ||||||||
Spectator seats | 5000 | ||||||||
Construction year | 1920 to 24 | ||||||||
Rebuilt | 1930, 1948, 1954/55, 1968/69, 1978/79 and 2003/04 | ||||||||
Hill record | 123.5 m Choi Yong-jik (2005)
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Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 1 ″ N , 10 ° 26 ′ 43 ″ E
The Inselbergschanze (also called Inselsbergschanze ) is located near Brotterode in the western part of the Thuringian Forest across from the eponymous Großer Inselsberg in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district . The large hill has a construction point (K point) of 105 meters and a hill size (HS) of 117 meters, the hill record is 123.5 meters. The ski jump was built from 1920 to 1924, expanded and modernized several times and has been one of the larger and now one of the oldest facilities in Germany since its existence. Continental Cup competitions have been held here regularly since 1995 .
location
The Inselbergschanze is located on the northern slope of the 803 meter high Seimberg, four kilometers southwest of the eponymous, 917 meter high Großer Inselsberg at about 700 meters above sea level , 150 meters above Brotterode. Brotterode is located in a Mulde valley directly on the Rennsteig at an altitude of about 550 to 600 meters above sea level. From here it is about 24 kilometers as the crow flies to the winter sports center of the Thuringian Forest in Oberhof to the southeast and Meiningen, 28 kilometers to the south . The state capital Erfurt is about 45 kilometers to the northeast.
description
The Inselbergschanze has a ski jumping certificate (ski jumping hill profile confirmation) which is valid according to § 414 of the International Ski Competition Rules of the Fédération Internationale de Ski (FIS), which allows competitions with international participation. It is listed at the FIS with the certificate number 54 / GER . Due to the lack of mats, the ski jump can only be used in winter when there is enough snow. When it is cold enough and the natural snow is not enough, the ski jump is covered with snow cannons . The spectator area is located at the run and on three platforms on the landing slope.
Various competitions are held on the Inselbergschanze during the winter months, depending on the weather conditions, of which the Continental Cup with international participation is the most important event. Unlike in the past, the ski jump is no longer of any importance for the young people of Brotterode. Although Brotterode is a performance center for ski jumpers in the Thuringian Forest with a tradition going back more than a hundred years, the younger jumpers first train on the four smaller jumps in the Werner Lesser II Ski Jumping Arena right next to the Inselbergschanze. If they perform well there, switch to jumping training at the Oberhof sports high school .
During the GDR era, Inselbergschanze was an important winter sports center, where major events regularly took place. Several jumpers with international success emerged from the local sports club who had learned to ski jumping on the Inselbergschanze. They include Werner Lesser , Dieter Neuendorf , Peter Lesser , Manfred Wolf , Hans-Georg Aschenbach , Jochen Danneberg and Ralph Gebstedt .
history
The Inselbergschanze was built between 1920 and 1924 and was called Hagenschanze until 1945 . In 1945 it was renamed the Aufbauschanze . It has been called Inselbergschanze since 1956 .
First hill
The first step towards building a ski jump was the establishment of the Association for the Promotion of Winter Sports in Brotterode on February 14, 1905. In addition to a bobsleigh and a toboggan run, two Norwegians built a first ski jump on the Seimberg site. They built a makeshift jump hill, from which jumps of 12 to 18 meters were achieved on the day the club was founded. The first winter sports championships took place on March 4, 1906 and were repeated annually until 1914.
Hagenschanze
On January 6, 1919, some enthusiasts, including the accountant Fuchs and the teacher Adam Brod, got together and decided to build a large jumping facility. District Administrator Dr. Hagen donated 20,000 marks to expand the ski jump on Seimberg. The ski jump was therefore named Hagenschanze . During the construction work on the 40-meter ski jump from 1920 to 1924, the forest on Seimberg was cleared, around 5000 cubic meters of earth were moved. A sports field was created in the run. Residents who did not know the ski jumping, commented: "there should be equal but a graveyard with grow!" . The inauguration took place in 1924 with the Thuringian Championships and a jumping, in which Ernstthaler Karl Huhn set the first hill record with 45 meters. In 1929 the first state championships in special jumping and Nordic combined took place, which Rudolf Lesser won.
After being converted into a 60-meter hill in 1930, the Inselsberggau in the Thuringian Winter Sports Association held a state ski jumping event on February 18, 1931. This was the first competition with international participation. Local Gustav Krahmen opened the competition in front of 15,000 spectators. More than 40 jumpers took part, including the Austrians Gumpold and Galeitner and the Norwegians Mowinkel and Kobberstadt. Knut Kobberstadt achieved the greatest distance of 46 meters in front of Oberschönauer Karl Wagner and Brotteröder Rudolf Lesser. The district administrator Hagen was assumed that his foundation had only served to train a youth armed forces , that is, recruits . Therefore the Hagenschanze was renamed the Aufbauschanze in 1945 .
Building jump
After the Second World War , the first ski jumping runs took place on the construction jump in February 1948. In 1948 and 1949 the ski jump was modernized and enlarged and the landing slope re-profiled. In 1948/1949, the Motor and Steel communities were established in Brotterode , which later, presumably still in 1949, merged to form the Stahl Betriebsportgemeinschaft (BSG) . On January 9, 1949, Nordic ski competitions took place on the hill. In 1950, 1951 and 1952, winter sports championships of the state of Thuringia with night jumps were held on the ski jump. In 1953 the first big Spartakiad of the sports associations Aktivist and Stahl took place and on March 7th 1954 a team jump took place on the hill.
The building jump was rebuilt and expanded in 1954/1955. 11,000 cubic meters of earth were moved. Many bread baits were characterized by voluntary deployments, which also included blasting. The first big winter sports week took place in 1955 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of winter sports in Brotterode with three daily jumps for the first time. The organization was in the hands of BSG Stahl . The inauguration of the new ski jump took place on March 3, 1956 as part of an international ski jumping event during the second winter sports week. The newly profiled hill with a standard point of 80 meters was renamed Inselbergschanze .
Inselbergschanze
In February 1957, the 8th GDR championships in ski jumping and Nordic combined were held in Brotterode . The Army Sports Association (ASG) in Brotterode was founded in autumn of the same year and the entire ski sport from BSG Stahl was incorporated into ASG. The judges almost without exception also switched to the ASG. From 1958 to 1970 the annual army championships in winter sports took place in Brotterode. As part of the annual Thuringian three-hill tournament in Brotterode, Oberhof and Lauscha , ski jumping runs were carried out on the Inselbergschanze from 1960 to 1970 . 60 years of winter sports were celebrated with a major event in 1965. The XVII. German ski championships in the Nordic discipline took place from January 25th to 30th, 1966 in Brotterode.
From 1968 to 1969 the ski jumping hill was converted into a 90-meter hill, with Soviet soldiers working alongside the locals. After the ski jumping hill renovation, Clemens Walther from Zella-Mehlis was the first to jump 100.5 meters over the 100 meter mark in 1969 . From February 5 to 8, 1970, Brotterode saw the XXII. German Nordic Ski Championships . By re-profiling the transition from the take-off table to the landing slope in 1978 and 1979, the ski jump allowed widths of over 100 meters. 1979 additional starting places were added in the approach. On January 22, 1984 around 10,000 spectators witnessed the Olympic qualifications with the later Olympic and silver medalist Jens Weißflog . The GDR championships in ski jumping from the large hill took place on March 6, 1988 with a double event. The 41st and last GDR ski championships from January 30th to February 5th, 1989 were awarded to Brotterode. Due to the bad weather conditions, however, they had to be relocated to Oberwiesenthal . Along with Lauscha, Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig and Oberhof, Brotterode was one of the stations where the Friendship Tour regularly took place.
Continental Cup competitions have been held regularly on the hill since 1995 . In that year the snow-making system was built and expanded in 1998/1999, the referee tower renovated in 2000/2001. The changed flight curves of the V-jumping style that emerged at the beginning of the 1990s made it necessary to change the ski jumping hill norms by the FIS. Due to the outdated profile, the hill was threatened with extinction. The FIS certificate, which is always awarded for five years and is required for international competitions, expired in 2004 and was not extended. Until then, the hill was the largest normal hill in the world in terms of size with a K-point of 98 meters and a hill size of 110 meters.
As a result, in 2003/2004 the ski jump was rebuilt and expanded according to the new standards and a water reservoir and snow-making system were installed. In order to adapt it to the flatter but longer trajectories of the new V-style generation, the take-off slope was reduced and the landing area of the landing slope deepened. In 2003 the take-off was rebuilt and the radius of the inrun was changed. In 2004 work was mainly carried out on the ski jumping hill, on the landing slope and on the run-out. The landing area was deepened by several meters, moving around 25,000 cubic meters of earth. The hill has been extended to a large hill with a K-point of 105 meters and a hill size of 117 meters, so that it allows widths of over 120 meters. This makes the hill the smallest of the eight intact large hills in Germany. Seen worldwide it is, together with other hills, the second smallest certified large hill. At the Continental Cup competition on February 12, 2005, the Korean Yong Jik Choi set the current hill record with 123.5 meters. A twelve square meter video screen was used for the first time for the 2009 Continental Cup.
The ski jump no longer complies with the requirements of the FIS. The ski jump certificate expired on December 31, 2014. On October 26, 2014 the Inselbergschanze received another temporary FIS certificate for four months until the end of April 2015. In order to receive a new certificate, which is a prerequisite for jumping, the hill has to be rebuilt. The FIS demands, among other things, the renewal and widening of the start gates on the inrun tower and a side staircase for the athletes on the inrun tower. The facility is a structure from the time of the German Democratic Republic and the building documents for the inrun tower from 1969 are missing. Without a technical drawing and a statics calculation, no renovation work can be carried out on the inrun tower. The organizing club also lacks the money for the necessary renovation work or for a new building.
The certificate of the hill was extended by three years in 2015 with a special permit. However, if the renovation measures required by the FIS are not carried out within the three years, there is no new certificate.
Ski jumping Continental Cup
Since 1995 competitions in the Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC), the second highest competition class, have been held annually on the Inselbergschanze, immediately after the Ski Jumping World Cup . Because of their precise organization and implementation, these competitions have left a great response from those responsible and observers of the International Ski Federation (FIS). On average, around 5000 spectators come to a competition, which is the highest number of spectators of all events in the Continental Cup. In the meantime, Brotterode is a permanent venue for the Continental Cup. World and Olympic champions have repeatedly participated in the COC competitions in Brotterode. In the first few years there was one competition in December, later there were two competitions on weekends in January or February. Due to unfavorable weather conditions, not all of the planned competitions could be held.
Winners of the previous Continental Cups were: 1996 Andreas Widhölzl from Austria, 2000 Georg Späth from Germany, 2001 Tami Kiuru (Finland), 2003 twice Janne Happonen from Finland, 2004 Jörg Ritzerfeld from Germany and Pekka Salminen (Finland), 2005 the current hill record holder Choi Yong-jik ( South Korea ) and Kalle Keituri (Finland). 2006 won Harri Olli of Finland and in 2008 the Austrian Martin Höllwarth . In 2009 the Austrians Lukas Müller and Stefan Thurnbichler won . In 2010 Severin Freund (Germany) and Jan Matura ( Czech Republic ) won in front of 4500 spectators .
Other successful athletes in the Ski Jumping World Cup were able to jump onto the podium, such as Sven Hannawald (Germany) with third place in 1996 , Stephan Hocke (Germany) with second and third place in 2004 and Manuel Fettner (Austria) with second place in 2005. In 2010 Roar Ljøkelsøy from Norway came second.
In February 2011, jumping was also held as part of the Ladies-COC , which was the highest competition class for women at the time, as women have only been holding a World Cup since the 2011/12 season . The first winner was the Austrian Daniela Iraschko .
date | 1st place | 2nd place | 3rd place |
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February 5, 2011 | Daniela Iraschko | Coline Mattel | Lisa Demetz |
February 6, 2011 | Daniela Iraschko | Coline Mattel | Melanie Faiss |
February 16, 2018 | Daniela Iraschko-Stolz | Jerneja Brecl | Lidija Yakovleva |
17th February 2018 | Daniela Iraschko-Stolz | Lidija Yakovleva | Julia Clair |
February 23, 2019 | Pauline Hessler |
Kamila Karpiel Marita Kramer |
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February 24, 2019 | Katra Komar | Marita Kramer | Pauline Hessler |
February 8, 2020 | Pauline Hessler | Xenia Kablukova | Jerneja Repinc Zupančič |
February 9, 2020 | Xenia Kablukova | Pauline Hessler | Pia Lilian Kübler |
Hill data
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Hill records
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More jumps
In the so-called Werner Lesser II Ski Jumping Arena there are four more jumps right next to the Inselbergschanze. In 2009 the children's and youth ski jumps were centralized in Brotterode. The two former Oskar Fuchs plastic covered jumps were torn down and replaced by two new jumps next to the Inselbergschanze. The K 12 children's hill on Seimberg was also torn down. There were two new plastic covered hills with K-points of 12 and 17. Together with the existing K 28 and K 38 hills and the Inselbergschanze, the Werner Lesser II ski jumping arena was created , named after the former ski jumper and honorary citizen Werner Lesser II .
Two jumps were 1954/1955 in addition to the construction of ski jump as a pioneer and Jugendschanze built. They are equipped with floodlights and are used by young athletes for training in winter. In October 1956 there was the first jumping on plastic mats, which were removed again in the later years. Since June 2009 these hills have plastic matting again. The K-point of the two jumps is 28 and 38 meters. Another hill with a K-point of 12 meters was demolished in 2008. There were two more plastic covered hills with heated stainless steel tracks as an inrun by October 2009. The K point is 12 and 17 meters. The hill record of the smallest, the K 12, is 13.5 meters (Luca Geyer, WSV 08 Lauscha, 2010), the middle one, 17 meters, is 15 meters (Maximilian Wölke, WSC 07 Rhula, 2009). The hill record for the K 28 is 30.5 meters (Marcus Abicht, TSG Ruhla / WSC 07, 2004) and the largest with a K point of 38 meters is 41.5 meters (Carsten Gebhard, 1981).
Up until 2009 there were two more plastic covered hills, called Oskar Fuchs plastic covered jumps , on a slope on the outskirts of Brotterode for training or youth competitions . They were mainly used in summer as training and youth competition hills. There the inauguration jump took place in 1961. They are named after a jumper from the founding years who fell in World War II . The small hill has a K-point of 12 meters, the large one of 26 meters, the hill size is 28 meters and the hill record from 2006 is 26.0 meters. Both ski jumps were demolished in 2009.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fritsch hiking map (ed.): Western Thuringian Forest. 2nd edition, 1: 50,000.
- ^ Volume III - Ski Jumping. (PDF file: 0.4 MB) (No longer available online.) In: Internationale Skiwettkampfordnung. International Ski Federation, 2013, archived from the original on April 22, 2014 ; accessed on March 11, 2014 . 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.
- ↑ Homologated ski jumps. (PDF file: 0.2 MB) International Ski Association, February 17, 2014, accessed on March 11, 2014 .
- ↑ Brotteröder winter sports history
- ↑ Rolans singer: Chronicle of Thuringian skiing. Page 29.
- ↑ WSV Brotterode (Ed.): FIS Continental Cup 1994–2015 6.-8. February 2nd Inselbergschanze Brotterode.
- ↑ Free Word (Ed.): Who takes the last edge? January 31, 2015.
- ↑ Certificate extended: Another three years at COC in Brotterode
- ↑ a b TSV competition high from February 15 to 17, 2013 Thuringian Ski Association, accessed on March 11, 2014
- ↑ Severin Freund wins in Brotterode skispringen.com, accessed on March 11, 2014
- ↑ WSV Brotterode (Ed.): FIS Continental Cup Inselbergschanze Brotterode February 25th - February 26th, 2006. Pages 8–9.
- ↑ WSV Brotterode (Ed.): FIS Continental Cup Inselbergschanze Brotterode February 25th - February 26th, 2006. Page 7.
- ↑ Inselbergschanze
- ↑ WSV Brotterode (Ed.): B-World Cup Ski Jumping 2004 - January 31st-February 1st, 2004 Inselbergschanze Brotterode. Page 7.
- ↑ WSV Brotterode (Ed.): FIS Continental Cup Inselbergschanze Brotterode February 25th - February 26th, 2006. Page 9.
- ↑ a b c Werner Lesser II Ski Jumping Arena ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2012 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.
literature
- WSV Brotterode (Ed.): Festschrift 100 years of winter sports in Brotterode. 2005.
- WSV Brotterode (Ed.): FIS - Continental Cup - Inselbergschanze Brotterode February 25th - February 26th, 2006. 2006.
- Roland Singer: Chronicle of Thuringian Ski Sports. Published by Freie Wort and Südthüringer Zeitung, Suhl-Druck GmbH, Suhl 1995.
- Gerd Falkner : Chronicle of skiing in the German Democratic Republic. 2002.
See also
Web links
- Inselbergschanze on Skisprungschanzen.com
- Seimbergschanzen on Skisprungschanzen.com
- Oskar Fuchs plastic covered hills on Skisprungschanzen.com
- Werner Lesser II ski jumping arena
- FIS - Continental Cup Brotterode
- Information and photos about the Inselbergschanze and the winter sports history of Brotterode
- Inselbergschanze at Thueringen.info
- Brotteröder winter sports history