Lehmergrundschanze
The Lehmergrundschanze was a ski jumping hill in Johanngeorgenstadt in the Saxon Ore Mountains .
history
The first ski jump at the entrance to the Lehmergrund was built in 1920 by workers from Johanngeorgenstadt and the surrounding area on a southern slope and was inaugurated on January 15, 1921 as the Murmelmühlenschanze . Due to the exposed southern exposure, however, there were often problems from the beginning due to the early thawing of the snow and the associated snow insecurity.
After the winter sports club in Johanngeorgenstadt, not far from the railway station in Schwarzwassertal, consecrated a ski jump on December 30, 1923, which was named Hans-Heinz-Schanze in honor of a club member who fell in 1918, the workers' athletes of the Rot-Sport-Vereinigung also worked together with the winter sports interest group Johanngeorgenstadt to build a new ski jump in a snow-sure location. They found a suitable building site on the north side of the Lehmergrund hill, diagonally opposite the old Lehmergrundschanze, which was then torn down. The inauguration of the new Lehmergrundschanze took place in 1931 as part of the first international meeting of the red athletes in Johanngeorgenstadt. At that time the slogan "Workers of all countries unite!"
On February 27, 1932, the winter sports community held their club competitions with large jumps on the Lehmergrundschanze. Competitions of the winter sports club can still be proven on the Lehmergrundschanze in 1937.
The ski jump, which consists of numerous wooden elements, already showed signs of weathering after a few years, which massively impaired the stability of the facility and ultimately led to the complete demolition of the ski jump immediately after the end of the Second World War, especially since an overburden dump was heaped up by uranium mining in place of the Lehmergrundschanze.
Technical specifications
- Inrun length: 60 meters
- Slope: 30 degrees
- Inrun scaffold: 8 meters high, 23 meters long
- Jump table: 3.40 meters high, 12 meters long, slope: 12 degrees
literature
- New ski jump in the Ore Mountains . In: Der Wanderer, 1/1932, p. 7.
- Jörg Brückner : From the beginnings of skiing in Johanngeorgenstadt . In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter , Vol. 5 (1983), H. 1, pp. 13-16.
Web links
- Lehmergrundschanze on Skisprungschanzen.com