KFV square at the telegraph barracks
| KFV square at the telegraph barracks | |
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| KFV stadium | |
| Data | |
| place |
 Karlsruhe , Germany
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 1 '18.5 " N , 8 ° 21' 54" E |
| opening | October 1, 1905 |
| First game | October 1, 1905 Karlsruher FV - FC Zurich 8-0 |
| demolition | 2006 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 35,000 seats |
| Societies) | |
The KFV-Platz at the Telegrafenkaserne was a football stadium in the Baden-Württemberg city of Karlsruhe .
history
In 1904 the Karlsruhe FV received from the city a 20,000 square meter area "for the production of a sports field". The stadium opened on October 1, 1905 under the patronage of Prince Max von Baden . 2000 spectators saw the 8-0 victory of Karlsruher FV over FC Zurich . Initially, a truck company's platform truck served as a temporary grandstand. A year later a cinder track was built before a clubhouse and tennis courts were added in 1908 .
The Karlsruher FV was one of the leading German football clubs until the outbreak of the First World War . He was German champion in 1910 and German runner-up in 1905 and 1912. On May 1, 1910, 8,000 spectators saw the 2-1 victory of the Karlsruher FV in the semi-final game of the German championship against Phoenix Karlsruhe . The oldest surviving film recording of a football game in Germany exists of this game. A few weeks earlier, on April 4, the German national team played a 1-0 win against Switzerland in front of 7,000 spectators . It was the first victory of the German national team.
During the Second World War , the KFV-Platz was the target of numerous bomb attacks , was completely destroyed in 1944 and was confiscated by the United States Army until February 1, 1946 . At the end of the 1940s there were plans to expand the KFV-Platz into a large stadium for 30,000 to 40,000 spectators. But the city preferred to build apartments. The club built the stadium for 40,000 spectators on its own and took over financially. In 1948 and 1949, the city waived part of the pitch for the club so that bankruptcy could be avoided. From 1945 to 1947 the Karlsruher FV played in the first-class Oberliga Süd at the time and from 1952 to 1957 in the second-class II Division South .
Other clubs set up the attendance record on the KFV-Platz. At the German soccer championship in 1949 , a total of 35,000 spectators saw the quarter-final replay between Wormatia Worms and Kickers Offenbach on June 19, 1949 , which the Kickers won 2-0. The Karlsruhe FV slipped into the amateur camp and was excluded from the Badischer Fußballverband in October 2004 because the club could not meet the financial requirements. Two years later the stadium was demolished. Today there is a nursing home on the southern part of the site .
Web links
- karlsruher-fv1891.de: The stadium at the telegraph barracks and monuments in Karlsruhe's north-west town
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Werner Skrentny (ed.): The big book of the German football stadiums . Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-668-3 , p. 203 .
- ↑ Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 , p. 37.