Jahnkampfbahn forest

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Jahnkampfbahn forest
WalderStadion1.jpg
Entrance to the Jahnkampfbahn in Solingen-Wald
Data
place GermanyGermany Solingen
Coordinates 51 ° 11 '6.4 "  N , 7 ° 2' 13.3"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 11 '6.4 "  N , 7 ° 2' 13.3"  E
owner City of Solingen
start of building 1921
opening 1928
First game May 27, 1928
Renovations 1996-1997
surface race
capacity Grandstand for 4957 spectators
playing area 61 × 102 meters

The Jahnkampfbahn Wald (also Walder Stadion ) is a stadium in the Solingen district of Wald . The entire complex has been a listed building since 1994 .

history

Until the end of the Second World War

On May 11, 1920 the Walder building commission decided to build a stadium. The city of Wald, which was still independent until it was incorporated into Solingen in 1929, followed a call for the playground advertising day on May 9, 1920 to build sports facilities for the population across the country. The site of the future stadium was determined to be a swampy area that had been misused as a garbage dump and was drained and leveled. From 1921 to 1927 rendered "emergency and duty workers" 200,000 working days to the construction of the plant ( man-days ); two people were killed in an accident.

The Wauler Stadium (name in the Solingen dialect) was inaugurated on Pentecost weekend in 1928 in the presence of 8,000 spectators. The inauguration was a great social event, for which the citizens of Wald decorated their houses with flowers and with black-white-red flags ; after the speeches the Deutschlandlied was sung. The sporting guest of honor was Otto Peltzer , world record holder over 1500 meters , who helped design the facility. Exercises and demonstrations in gymnastics , dances and relay races as well as handball, soccer, battering and fistball games followed. The highlight was the soccer game between a Walder selection and VfR Mannheim (2-4). The stadium was named after Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ; in the conversation there was also a name after the native Walder pedagogue and gymnast Friedrich Albert Lange . But Jahn was chosen because of his “groundbreaking, groundbreaking role” in German history.

The workers' sports clubs, which represented around 20 percent of the Walder athletes, felt betrayed by the nature of the inauguration and stayed away from it. The Bergische Arbeiterstimme then also criticized the “nationalistic hype” in its issue of May 31, 1928: “Do you not notice how you want to be nationalistically contaminated and trained so that you are responsible for the masterminds in your bourgeois associations in future wars for the higher 'honor' of sacred capitalism should again commit 'heroic deeds' and sacrifice your healthy members? ”A week later, the workers' associations organized their own inauguration of the stadium, although, according to Lorenz, there were no major differences in the course of the civic celebration .

In the following years in the Jahn Kampfbahn numerous high-profile sports competitions were held such as football games, athletic events, and Gauwettkämpfe Kreisturnfest festivals and competitions in Fries fight . 1929 won Schalke 04 with Ernst Kuzorra and Fritz Szepan in a friendly against the Walder SV with 8:. 3

After the DC circuit of the sport in 1933, the workers sports clubs were dissolved and the "bourgeois" societies experienced large membership increases. In 1935, the German soccer champions 1. FC Nürnberg competed in the Jahnkampfbahn against a Solingen city selection. Around 6,000 gymnasts took part in the 1936 group gymnastics festival under the leadership of the Wald-Merscheider Gymnastics Club 1861 (WMTV); 25 gymnastic horses were set up in the stadium, on which gymnastics were performed simultaneously.

From 1945 to the 1980s

The Jahnkampfbahn survived the Second World War without major damage. Former members of the NSDAP had to repair them so that American soldiers could use them. The first gymnastics events took place in the stadium as early as 1946, although at first there were more referees than athletes, as many men had died or were still prisoners of war.

In 1948, the Walder Stadium saw a football game that generated a record attendance of around 22,000 spectators: the Preußen Dellbrück (with goalkeeper Fritz Herkenrath ) and TSG Vohwinkel clubs faced each other for the fourth time in a relegation battle from the Oberliga West ; the Wuppertal finally won in extra time and thus managed to stay in the league.

In 1950 and 1954, circular gymnastics festivals were held. In 1952, the bronze medal in the 5000-meter run at the 1952 Olympic Games by Solinger Herbert Schade was celebrated in front of 11,000 spectators with a large sports festival. Co-organizer of the event was the chairman of the Solingen Athletics Club (SLC) and later Federal President Walter Scheel . Among the athletes were entire Olympic teams with record holders, including a Chilean and almost the entire USA athletics team with two-time Olympic champion Bob Mathias . In December of the same year, an evening sports festival took place in which a team from the Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation with René Deltgen , Kurt Brumme , the Solingen singer Friedrich Eugen Engels and the boxer Heinz Neuhaus competed against a Solingen selection with politicians Walter Scheel and Joseph Pütz and Herbert Schade .

In 1978 the Jahnkampfbahn celebrated its 50th birthday with a stadium festival. Among the guests of honor Herbert Schade, were Emil Zatopek , Fanny Blankers-Koen and Gaston Reiff , among the participating athletes later ZDF presenter Wolf-Dieter Poschmann as a runner.

Decay and renovation

In the 1980s and 1990s, the Jahnkampfbahn increasingly fell into a poor structural condition. In 1995, Guido Rohn from the forest founded the Förderkreis Jahnkampfbahn e. V. to renovate the stadium, which has been a listed building since 1994. To this end, the support group developed extensive activities. The renovation began in October 1996 and was financed by the city, the state and the support group. In September 1997 the reopening took place with a big party; the support group presented Mayor Uli Uibel with a DM 50,000 donation. Part of the amount came from winning the 1st Solingen sports gala, which was also an idea by Rohn. Ten years later, Solingen's 50-year partnership with the Dutch city of Gouda was celebrated in the stadium ; among others the Cologne music group Bläck Fööss performed .

Sports

The stadium has floodlights and a sound system, as well as facilities for high jump , long jump , triple jump , shot put , discus and hammer throw as well as running tracks. The grandstand holds 4957 spectators.

The place in the Jahnkampfbahn

Soccer

In football, the Jahnkampfbahn served the clubs VfL Solingen-Wald 1897 and VfB Wald as the home stadium. In 1955 VfL became district champion; the VfB belonged to the national league until the 1990s. In 1974 VfL and Union Ohligs merged to form SG Union Solingen . The team of the new club made it into the 2nd Bundesliga , but played in the stadium on Hermann-Löns-Weg in Ohligs . The best-known player who came from VfL Wald and later played for Union Solingen was Werner Lenz .

On May 6, 2003, the first international match of the German U-15 women (including the later national players Babett Peter and Fatmire Bajramaj ) took place in Wald . In front of 4,000 spectators, they played against the Netherlands team and won 1-0.

Field handball

The only international top game in field handball in the Jahnkampfbahn took place in 1955, when the selection of the then still independent Saarland played a preliminary round match of the field handball world championship in front of 9,000 spectators against the national team of Sweden and won 7: 6. In the 1960s, the Walder Stadium was the home of BSV Solingen 98 ( Oheios ), who became German field handball champions in 1965 . The final against TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen with 15:14 after extra time did not take place in Wald, but in front of 35,000 spectators in the Wuppertal stadium at the zoo , because it had a larger capacity.

Other sports

Until 1998 the Solingen Hurricanes played American football in the Jahnkampfbahn, they were replaced by the Solingen Steelers (youth) and Solingen Paladins (men).

Since April 2001, the rugby teams of WMTV Solingen 1861 (Wald-Merscheider Turnverein 1861 eV) have played their home games in the Jahnkampfbahn.

Monument protection

In 1987 the historic entrance area of ​​the stadium was placed under a preservation order, and in 1994 the entire stadium followed as an "impressive testimony to the architecture and sports facility planning of the 1920s".

1998 was Förderkreis Jahn arena by the Department Solingen of Bergisch historical association the listed price in 1997, 2012, a Certificate of Recognition for the successful bid for the Rheinische price for historic preservation . In 2013 the association was awarded the Silver Hemisphere by the German National Committee for Monument Protection .

Trivia

In the summer of 2015, shooting for the RTL film Sneaker Giants about the life of Adi and Rudolf Dassler , the founders of the sporting goods brands Adidas and Puma, took place in the Jahnkampfbahn . The film aired in 2016.

In October of the same year, a film was shot for the WDR sports program sport inside on the 50th anniversary of the Oheios' 1965 German field handball championship .

literature

  • Klaus Lorenz: Jahnkampfbahn Wald - a stadium through the ages . Ed .: Förderkreis Jahnkampfbahn Wald eV Solingen 1996.
  • Werner Skrentny (Hrsg.): The big book of the German football stadiums . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89533-668-3 , p. 328 .

Web links

Commons : Jahnkampfbahn Wald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The big book of the German football stadiums . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89533-306-9 , p. 320 .
  2. ↑ Lorenz, Jahnkampfbahn Wald , p. 27 f.
  3. ↑ Lorenz, Jahnkampfbahn Wald , p. 38 f.
  4. ↑ Lorenz, Jahnkampfbahn Wald , p. 34.
  5. ↑ Lorenz, Jahnkampfbahn Wald , p. 39
  6. ↑ a b Lorenz, Jahnkampfbahn Wald , p. 40
  7. ↑ Lorenz, Jahnkampfbahn Wald , p. 43
  8. ^ Jahnkampfbahn Walder Stadium: Sports facility in Solingen, chronicle 1920–1959. In: jahnkampfbahn.de. Retrieved January 29, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Lorenz, Jahnkampfbahn Wald , p. 47.
  10. ↑ a b Lorenz, Jahnkampfbahn Wald , p. 60.
  11. ↑ Lorenz, Jahnkampfbahn Wald , p. 61.
  12. ^ Jahnkampfbahn Walder Stadium: Sports facility in Solingen, renovation. In: jahnkampfbahn.de. May 15, 2013, accessed January 27, 2016 .
  13. ^ Jahnkampfbahn Walder Stadium: Sports facility in Solingen, Open Air 2007. In: jahnkampfbahn.de. Retrieved January 29, 2016 .
  14. ↑ www.solingen.de - Wald stadium - Jahnkampfbahn. (No longer available online.) In: www2.solingen.de. Archived from the original on January 29, 2016 ; accessed on January 29, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.solingen.de
  15. ^ A b Jahnkampfbahn Walder Stadium: Sports facility in Solingen, football. In: jahnkampfbahn.de. Retrieved January 29, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Alexander Riedel: Solingen: 'Oheios' celebrate 50 years of championship. In: rp-online.de. October 26, 2015, accessed January 28, 2016 .
  17. ^ Jahnkampfbahn Walder Stadium: Sports facility in Solingen, chronicle 1960–1999. In: jahnkampfbahn.de. Retrieved January 29, 2016 .
  18. ^ Winner of the German Prize for Monument Protection from 1978-2013
  19. ↑ Maxine Herder: Solingen: The miracle of Bern in the Jahnkampfbahn. In: rp-online.de. August 8, 2015, accessed January 27, 2016 .
  20. ↑ Film recordings / Walder Stadium: A journey into the good "old" field handball days - WMTV - Solingen. In: wmtv.de. October 24, 2015, accessed January 29, 2016 .
  21. ↑ Big game. In: www1.wdr.de. November 23, 2015, archived from the original on February 2, 2016 ; accessed on January 30, 2016 . (Video)