Jahn Stadium (Hamm)

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Jahnstadion
Entrance area
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place Jürgen-Graef-Allee 10 59065 Hamm , North Rhine-Westphalia
GermanyGermany
Coordinates 51 ° 41 '19.3 "  N , 7 ° 49' 53.6"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 41 '19.3 "  N , 7 ° 49' 53.6"  E
opening 1930
capacity 4,800 seats
playing area Natural grass
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The Jahnstadion is a football stadium with an athletics facility in Hamm, Westphalia .

Location and facilities

The Hammer Jahnstadion is located south of the Datteln-Hamm Canal in the east of the Hamm-Mitte district. A little further east of the stadium are the EVORA-Arena of Hammer SpVg and the East Sports Center. Today the Jahnstadion has a capacity of 4,800 seats, 1,800 of which are covered seats in the main grandstand. The pitch with natural grass is surrounded by a running track, with eight lanes available for sprint distances along the main grandstand and six otherwise. The stadium is named after Friedrich Ludwig Jahn .

history

The Jahnstadion was built in 1929 and 1930 on the site of the Great Parade Grounds by 40 workers in 8,107 days of work as a gymnastics and playground . It was opened in 1930. The first major event was the district gymnastics festival on August 2nd and 3rd, 1930 with 3,000 participants and a total of 20,000 spectators. Another major event in athletics was the appearance of a Swedish team in August 1949. Three years later, the Jahnstadion received a tubular steel grandstand, which was replaced in 1976 with a concrete structure. On September 11, 1976, the new grandstand was opened with a sports and music show. Apart from the athletics department of SC Eintracht Hamm , the Jahnstadion never had a home club in football.

The VfL Altenbögge from neighboring Bönen in the district of Unna used the hammer Jahnstadion in the 1940s several times as an alternative venue for games with high customer traffic. In the 1942/43 season , 20,000 spectators are said to have seen VfL's home game against FC Schalke 04 in what was then the first-class Gauliga Westfalen . The official attendance record is the 18,000 visitors who saw the regional league game Hammer SpVg against Arminia Bielefeld on February 26th . The footballers of SC Eintracht Hamm played their home games from 1981 to 1987 in the then third-class Oberliga Westfalen in the Jahnstadion.

Due to the central location, the Football and Athletics Association of Westphalia scheduled numerous playoffs in the Hammer Jahn Stadium. In 1963, 18,000 spectators saw the final of the Westphalia Championship. The Lüner SV defeated while the VfB 03 Bielefeld with 3: 1. Six years later the DJK Gütersloh and SG Wattenscheid 09 met in the final of the Westphalia Championship. Gütersloh won the game with 3-1 goals. On June 3, 2006 TSV 1860 Munich defeated Borussia Dortmund 2-0 in front of 2,000 spectators in the final of the German B youth championship .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Werner Skrentny (Hrsg.): The big book of the German football stadiums . Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-668-3 , p. 156 .
  2. ↑ The Hammer Jahn Stadium. SC Eintracht Hamm , accessed on January 9, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Ralf Piorr (Hrsg.): The pot is round - The lexicon of Revier football: The clubs . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-356-9 , p. 17, 158 .
  4. ↑ Championship, 2006, final. DFB , accessed on January 9, 2016 .