Kreuzbergschanzen

Kreuzbergschanzen
Location
city	Bischofsheim in the Rhön
country	Germany
society	RWV Haselbach / WSV Oberweißbrunn
Extended	2006
Hill record	Summer: 54.5 meters Florian Enders (2006) Winter: 54.0 meters Jens Greiner-Hiero (2002)
Data Landing Construction point K 50

Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 38 ″  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 37 ″  E

The Kreuzbergschanzen are located near Haselbach, a district of Bischofsheim in the Rhön , on the northern slope of the 928 meter high Kreuzberg in the Bavarian Rhön . The ski jumping facility , which is 600 meters above sea ​​level , consists of three plastic covered jumps ( K-points : 16, 30 and 50 meters) that meet the latest FIS standards and are mainly used by the next generation of ski jumpers. Today the Kreuzbergschanze is the only ski jump in the Rhön and Lower Franconia and thus represents the ski jumping center of the Lower Franconia ski area. The ski jumps are operated jointly by the Rad- und Wintersportverein (RWV) Haselbach and the Wintersportverein (WSV) Oberweißbrunn .

Location

The Kreuzbergschanzen are located in the central Rhön, about four kilometers from the Hessian border. It is located on the northern slope of a ridge that connects the Kreuzberg with the 842 meter high Arnsberg, in a narrow valley through which the Haselbach flows. Due to the middle slope of the valley, the ski jump is mostly sheltered from the wind and receives only a few hours of sunshine a day in the winter months because of the more than 300 meters higher Kreuzberg.

meaning

As the only ski jump in the Rhön and the entire ski area of ​​Lower Franconia, the ski jumping facility is of great importance for the youngsters. The jumpers come from the entire Lower Franconian area and southeastern Hesse. Due to the matting of the K-50 hill, the importance of the ski jumping facility has increased again. This means that the young people who have already outgrown the K-30 hill have no regular training trips to Oberhof in Thuringia . The K-50 hill is now used by the young ski jumpers from Lower Franconia and the Rhön as a springboard to the Oberhof sports high school . You can now train longer in Haselbach before you switch to jump training in Oberhof if you have the right performance.

history

Old Kreuzbergschanze

Location of the Kreuzbergschanzen

The first ski jump on Kreuzberg was built in the area of ​​the fish farm from 1932 to 1933 with a wooden inrun tower (because the Schweinfurt factory owner family Fichtel had fish ponds there, this area on the Kreuzberg fish farm is called ). Today there is forest at this point. During the Second World War the hill fell into disrepair. It was renewed in autumn 1949 independently by members of the RWV Haselbach, whereby working columns were formed for the construction of the hill. The inns on the Kreuzberg took over the financing. The K point was 35 meters and the hill record was 28 meters.

At a meeting of the Rhön ski district on February 20, 1949 in Bad Kissingen , the discussion began to build a large ski jump in the Bavarian Rhön, as the construction of a ski jumping facility, the Reesbergschanze , had already begun in the Hessian part of the Rhön, in Gersfeld was. In order to make progress with the planning for the construction of a ski jump at Kreuzberg, it became necessary to achieve more independence within the Bavarian Ski Association. The foundation of RWV Haselbach on August 30, 1949 intensified the planning. So in November 1950 the decision was made to found the Lower Franconia Rhön ski region .

Great Kreuzbergschanze

Ski jumping facility

RWV Haselbach began building the Great Kreuzbergschanze in 1952 . At that time it was one of the largest ski jumping hills in Germany. The architect was Ernst Brönner from Aschaffenburg . All members of the association were called to build the ski jump, and they either had to volunteer 20 hours in the construction of the ski jump or pay 20 German marks . On January 6, 1953, the inauguration took place with the Herbert Hoesch inaugural competition (named after the then deputy chairman of the Ski Area Unterfranken) on the new hill, which had a K-point of 75 meters, in front of 8,000 spectators. Top-class ski jumpers from all over Germany came to the opening competition. The winner was the later national coach Ewald Roscher from Baden-Baden with widths of 66 and 61 meters. Third placed Franz Eder (German Champion 1954) from the Ramsau Ski Club near Berchtesgaden achieved the longest jumps with a hill record of 69 meters. Another jump went to 75 meters, but could not be confessed. On the anniversary of the inaugural competition, the Epiphany , there has been a regular three kings competition since then . The Kleine Kreuzbergschanze with a K-point of 38 meters was built right next to the Große Kreuzbergschanze between 1953 and 1954.

Competitions

In 1954 the German Youth Championships and from January 28 to 30, 1955 the Bavarian Nordic Ski Championships (jumping, Nordic combined and cross-country skiing) took place in front of 12,000 spectators with well-known participants such as Max Bolkart and Gunder Gundersen . Helmut Böck became Bavarian champion in the combined jump. Max Bolkart from Oberstdorf won the special jumping event as the highlight . This competition posed major problems for the organizers, as the winter had been mild up until then and the snow conditions on Kreuzberg were not the best. Those in charge had to do a lot of preparatory work and thus proved that it is organizationally and in terms of the terrain possible to hold these major competitions at Kreuzberg.

The Bavarian Youth Championships took place in 1956 with a largest width of 68.5 meters. In 1958 a national competition followed and on February 25, 1962 a national comparison competition. The German champion Helmut Wegscheider jumped a new hill record with 70 meters. 1000 spectators were present. In 1963 the second Bavarian Ski Championships took place in front of 6,000 spectators, which made ski jumping popular in the Rhön. Heini Ihle jumped 75 meters on January 20, 1963 and fell. With his next jump of 70.5 meters, he set the new hill record.

From January 24th to 26th, 1964, the Nordic Winter Games of Bavarian Ski Youth with 60 jumpers, the largest event to date, took place in front of 3500 spectators. There were serious falls; the big hill had to be closed for security reasons. Henrik Ohlmeyer from SC Bischofsgrün achieved the greatest distance, albeit a fall, with 74 meters . At this event he set the hill record on the Kleine Schanze with 40 meters.

modification

In the 1970s, the take-off at the Große Kreuzbergschanze was raised. Later this hill no longer corresponded to the newest hill profile and jumping was discontinued. In 1986 the first discussions about the construction of a new Kreuzbergschanze came up. In February 1988 the last competition took place on the Kleine Kreuzbergschanze. Another competition on January 6, 1990 (Dreikönigsspringen) had to be canceled due to lack of snow. Due to technical deficiencies in the now outdated Kreuzbergschanzen, ski jumping had been stopped there in previous years. The facility then fell into disrepair.

New Kreuzbergschanzen

Ski jump in winter 2006

When the school sports facility was built in Bischofsheim in 1991, the opposite slope at today's ski jump was filled with the entire excavation; This set the course for the construction of the new ski jumping facility. In 1997, the new ski jumps were built on behalf of the Rhön-Grabfeld district with construction points of 16, 30 and 50 meters. The topping-out ceremony was on March 6, 1998. On October 25, 1998 the new ski jumping facility was inaugurated. The opening competition took place with 100 ski jumpers from six regional associations in front of around 1000 spectators. Among the guests of honor was the former ski flying world record holder Manfred Wolf from Steinbach-Hallenberg .

It is a modern ski jumping facility that is state-of-the-art and, thanks to the use of mats on the K-16 and K-30 hills, allows training and competitions for the youngsters all year round. The K-50 hill was initially only designed for winter operation. Both the individual hills and the entire ski jumping facility are called Kreuzbergschanze today. In the years 1999 to 2002, several jumping tournaments , such as the eighth and ninth Bavarian Schoolchildren's Cup and the first Rhöncup mat jumping competitions, took place on the K-16 and the K-30 hill, sometimes with up to 1100 spectators.

On January 5th, 2002, the traditional three -king competition took place for the first time on snow on the K-50 hill. The hill record of 54 meters, which is still valid today on snow, was set here. The first Kloster-Kreuzberg Cup competition took place on July 21, 2002 and has been held every year since then. The three kings jump , initially planned on January 6, 2005 , postponed due to lack of snow, was rescheduled on March 12, 2005. The largest achieved width was 52 meters.

From summer 2005 to spring 2006, after years of financial problems, the K-50 hill was covered with 2400 plastic mattings for 120,000 euros, so that it has also been suitable for summer operation since 2006. For financial reasons, a 15,000 euro expensive snow net has been dispensed with so far, which is why the ski jump can only be used in summer at the moment. The substructure of the landing slope consists of impregnated larch wood and around 500 cubic meters of basalt gravel. On top there are foam mats and a plastic grid to which the actual mats are attached by means of 12,000 cable ties. The two clubs did a total of 3300 hours of voluntary work.

On May 21, 2006 the K-50 hill was officially inaugurated with an opening competition. The 19-year-old Florian Enders set a hill record with 54.5 meters. On September 30th and October 1st, 2006 the 5th German Masters Championships in special jumping with 75 participants from 25 clubs took place as the highlight on the K-50 hill. In this competition, jumpers between the ages of 13 and 71, divided into age groups, took part.

Ski jumping facility

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Jumping judge platform

General

The Kreuzbergschanze consists of three ski jumps with plastic covering, a ceramic inrun track for the K-16 and the K-30 ski jump and a stainless steel inrun track for the K-50 ski jump. The three jumps are listed with a certificate from the German Ski Association (DSV) valid until December 4th, 2012 with the certificate numbers DSV 190 (K-16), 191 (K-30) and 192 (K-50).

The three jumps are natural jumps , which is why no inrun tower is required. The entire ski jumping facility was adapted from the inrun area to the landing area by moving earth to the natural environment. The water supply for mat jumping in summer is provided by sprinklers , which are activated when required. The run-out area must also be watered regularly.

Hill data

The technical data of the jumps have the following characteristics:

K50 Start-up Inrun length 50.92 m Take-off table Table height 1.50 m Inclination of the take-off table (α) 10.5 ° Landing Construction point 50 m Difference in height from table edge to K point (h) 23.0 m Difference in length from table edge to K point (s) 44.4 m Ratio of height to length difference (h / n) 0.518 K-point inclination angle (β) 33.9 °

K30 Start-up Inrun length 27.38 m Take-off table Table height 0.90 m Inclination of the take-off table (α) 8.5 ° Landing Construction point 30 m Difference in height from table edge to K point (h) 13.50 m Difference in length from table edge to K point (s) 26.80 m Ratio of height to length difference (h / n) 0.504 K-point inclination angle (β) 32.8 °

K16 Start-up Inrun length 16.36 m Take-off table Table height 0.43 m Inclination of the take-off table (α) 8.5 ° Landing Construction point 16 m Difference in height from table edge to K point (h) 7.02 m Difference in length from table edge to K point (s) 14.40 m Ratio of height to length difference (h / n) 0.488 K-point inclination angle (β) 31.0 °

The hill record of the K50 is 54.5 meters (2006), the records of the K30 and K16 are 31.0 (2002) and 16.0 meters.

literature

• Ski region Lower Franconia / Rhön (Ed.): 50 Years Ski Region - Ceremonial speech. Winfried Pöpperl. 2000.
• Rad- und Wintersportverein Haselbach (publisher): Club history RWV Haselbach. Waldemar basket. Haselbach 2000.
• Bavarian State Surveying Office (Ed.): Rhön Nature Park - South Map. 1: 50,000. Munich 1999, ISBN 3-86038-490-2 .

Web links

Commons : Kreuzbergschanze  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kreuzbergschanzen on Skisprungschanzen.com
• Website of the RWV Haselbach / Kreuzbergschanzen
• Website of the WSV Oberweißbrunn / Kreuzbergschanzen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Rhön Nature Park - Südblatt. 1: 50,000.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Saale Zeitung of January 9, 2003, page 26.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Club chronicle by Waldemar Korb ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Press release from June 16, 2000 ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Press release from January 7, 2002 ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Press release from March 15, 2005 ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ ^{a b} Press release from May 23, 2006 ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Press release of October 2, 2006 ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ List of ski jumps in the area of ​​the Bavarian Ski Association ( Memento from December 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) - Accessed: December 13, 2008
10. ↑ rwv-haselbach.de: Die Kreuzbergschanzen - Profiles (PDF file - 0.1 MB) ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) - accessed on November 14, 2007

This article was added to the list of excellent articles on November 14, 2007 in this version .