Katzenbusch arena
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| place | Katzenbuschstrasse 3 45699 Herten , Germany
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 35 '8.5 " N , 7 ° 9' 30.8" E |
| opening | May 21, 1925 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 10,000 seats |
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The Kampfbahn Katzenbusch is a football stadium in the North Rhine-Westphalian town of Herten , Recklinghausen district , in the Ruhr area .
Location and facilities
The stadium is located in the south of Herten in the Katzenbusch public park. The Katzenbusch arena has a capacity of 10,000 spectators, including 500 uncovered seats. In earlier times, up to 12,000 spectators could watch the games in the arena. The natural grass play area and a cinder track have not existed since the lawn was renovated.
The most prominent part of the arena is the entrance area, where the spectators enter the field through a stone gate. On the left side is chiseled “Gut Heil! Open up! Let me in! The festivities begin with me ”. The right side of the gate contains the inscription "Enter the arena and become men who know how to win".
history
The area on which the arena stands today was given to the city of Herten in 1905 by Count Droste von Nesselrode. With the help of 30 unemployed and 80 emergency workers, the stadium was built in the mid-1920s. The stadium was opened on May 21, 1925 with a three-day sports festival. In addition to fistball , gymnastics , bike ball and artificial cycling , the footballers of SpVgg Herten played in a friendly against FC Wacker Munich and lost 1-0. SpVgg Herten became the main user of the stadium and set the audience record in the 1928/29 round when 12,000 spectators saw Herten's 3-1 victory in the final of the Westphalia Championship against Arminia Bielefeld .
In 1933, SpVgg Herten was one of the founding members of the then first-class Gauliga Westfalen , to which the team belonged until they were relegated in 1939 and in the 1941/42 season. After the end of the Second World War , the Herten played from 1949 to 1963 in the then second-class II. Division West and in the 1963/64 season in the then second-class Regionalliga West . The attendance record for the post-war period comes from the 1963/64 season, when 10,000 spectators saw a 2: 3 home defeat against Wuppertaler SV . On July 1, 2000, the SpVgg Herten merged with the DJK 07/26 Herten to form the DJK / SpVgg Herten .
The arena has been renovated several times. In the 1960s, the city carried out some redesigns of the facility, which were repeated in 1997 and 1998. Four years later, the entrance area with the stone gate was renovated before the play areas and standing areas were modernized in 2003.
Web links
- europlan-online.de: Kampfbahn Katzenbusch - Herten / Westphalia
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. 188 .