Lohmühle (stadium)

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Wage Mill
The main stand and blocks A and B on July 16, 2011
The main stand and blocks A and B on July 16, 2011
Earlier names
  • Adolf-Hitler-Kampfbahn (1933–1945)
Sponsor name (s)
  • PokerStars.de Stadium at the Lohmühle (2011–2013)
Data
place GermanyGermany Lübeck , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 52 '52 "  N , 10 ° 40' 8"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '52 "  N , 10 ° 40' 8"  E
opening May 12, 1929
surface Natural grass
capacity 10,800 seats
playing area 100 × 65 m
Societies)
Events
  • Games of VfB Lübeck
  • International matches of various U-national teams

The Lohmühle , officially Dietmar-Scholze-Stadion an der Lohmühle in the 2020/21 season , is a pure football stadium in Lübeck . It is within the district of St. Lawrence North in the district Holsten North and is the home of VfB Lübeck . After the old standing grandstand was torn down and the new main grandstand was built in 1996 as part of the promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga a year earlier, the stadium had 17,869 seats, including around 4,400 covered seats. The Lohmühle was the largest stadium in Schleswig-Holstein for a long time before Kiel's Holstein Stadium (15,034 seats) . Due to various restrictions (security, fire protection, TV and media areas), 10,800 spaces are currently available.

history

History until 1995

The sports field Lohmühle was built from 1926 by members of the ATSV Lübeck (today TuS 93) and opened on May 12, 1929. The square had a running track and other athletic facilities, but no grandstands and changing rooms. After the ATSV was banned by the National Socialists in May 1933, the facility fell to the German Reich ; the Nazis renamed the stadium the Adolf-Hitler-Kampfbahn . Because the Kasernenhof sports field was claimed by the Wehrmacht at the end of 1934 , Gauligist SV Polizei Lübeck was assigned the space and played its home games here from November 1934. The SV Police first built a seating grandstand with 472 seats in 1937 (today the old wooden grandstand ) for a sum of 42,000 Reichsmarks and a year later a covered standing room for around 3,000 visitors on the back straight. The capacity was then about 7,000 visitors.

After 1945 and the end of National Socialism in Germany, there was a lengthy legal dispute between the newly founded VfB Lübeck as the legal successor to the SV Police Lübeck and the ATSV Lübeck as the builder of the original sports field. The stadium was initially awarded to the ATSV and VfB granted a right of use. After toto funds and municipal aid had enabled the ATSV to build its own stadium, VfB took over the stadium via a long-term lease with the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and expanded the standing area in the following years, so that there was space for up to 20,000 spectators, as on 25 October 1959 in the city derby of the Oberliga Nord against LBV Phoenix .

Construction of the new main grandstand

The back straight in July 2011

Until the 1990s, Lohmühle only had minor renovation work, until VfB Lübeck was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1995 and had to meet several requirements. Among other things, the standing room erected by the SV Police was replaced by a larger structure, which also contains rooms for the office and the fan shop, changing rooms in the basement and 22 VIP boxes, a VIP and press room and a restaurant on the upper floor. The previous main grandstand on the current back straight is still in use today and is now generally known as the “old wood”. The cabins and rooms inside the old grandstand are mainly used by the youth department of VfB.

In the summer of 2000, after reaching the newly introduced two-track regional league, a floodlight system was built that met modern television standards and had meanwhile become compulsory for the third-highest division. Before that, the stadium had only had lighting between 1992 and 1995, which had to give way when the new grandstand was built.

Modernizations since 2019

A newly built standing room was opened for the 2019/20 season. The new block in the "Poplar Curve" (in the middle of blocks E and F) was built during operation for around six months and offers space for up to 1,400 fans. In addition to the new grandstand, however, areas with impaired vision were created that cannot be sold. In addition, a third of the seats in the “Alte Holze” must not be occupied for fire safety reasons , and seats for TV cameras must be left free in the main stand . The DFB Cup game against FC St. Pauli in August 2019 was therefore sold out with 11,000 spectators.

Due to the promotion of VfB Lübeck to the 3rd division for the 2020/21 season and the associated return to professional football, the Lohmühle had to be modernized for a six-figure sum. A 40 square meter digital display board was set up behind the guest block (A block) . Due to various restrictions (security, fire protection, TV and media areas), the capacity fell to 10,800 seats. As a result, the Lohmühle was replaced by the Kiel Holstein Stadium (15,034 seats) as the largest stadium in Schleswig-Holstein. In honor of the former president and chairman of the supervisory board Dietmar Scholze, who died in 2019, the Lohmühle was renamed the Dietmar-Scholze-Stadion an der Lohmühle for one season , as he always fought for the vision of "returning to professional football", especially in difficult years .

Use outside of VfB Lübeck games

With the construction of the floodlights in the summer of 2000, the Lohmühle was increasingly usable for larger football games. Previously, only a few other clubs ( TuS Hoisdorf in 1988 in the DFB Cup against Bayern Munich , Hamburger SV for two games in the UI Cup 1999) and the DFB (in April 2000 for a women's international against Spain ) had used the Lohmühle. Afterwards, various junior international matches were played in the Lohmühle stadium (see table). In qualifying for the European Women's Championship in 2009 , another women's international match was played at the Lohmühle. In the sold-out stadium, a total of 17,000 spectators saw the German national team's first home game after the World Cup . Germany won against Belgium 3-0 with goals from Kerstin Garefrekes , Sandra Minnert and Birgit Prinz . So far there has not been more spectators at any other European Championship qualifier.

The DFB also awarded games in the League Cup in 2000 (Hamburger SV - Hertha BSC ) and 2002 ( Bayer Leverkusen - Werder Bremen ) to Lübeck.

In addition, other clubs from Schleswig-Holstein and neighboring Mecklenburg used the Lohmühle in the DFB Cup . On July 31, 2011, the first-round match between the upper division FC Anker Wismar and the Bundesliga team Hannover 96 took place in Lübeck, as the Kurt-Bürger-Stadion in Wismar was declared unsuitable by the DFB . For similar reasons, the DFB Cup games of FC Schönberg 95 (2010 against VfL Wolfsburg ), SV Eichede (2017 against 1. FC Kaiserslautern ) and SC Weiche Flensburg 08 (2018 against Werder Bremen) were played at the Lohmühle.

In the 2011/12 season of the 2nd Bundesliga , the first match day between FC St. Pauli and FC Ingolstadt 04 took place at the Lohmühle due to the suspension imposed on St. Pauli.

Junior internationals

date home guest Result spectator Remarks
Nov 25, 1970 GermanyGermany Germany SwedenSweden Sweden 1: 0 (1: 0) U-19 juniors
0Sep 1 2000 GermanyGermany Germany GreeceGreece Greece 2: 1 (0: 0) 4,500 U-21 juniors
Oct 10, 2003 GermanyGermany Germany IcelandIceland Iceland 1: 0 (0: 0) 6,100 U-21 juniors
Apr 10, 2007 GermanyGermany Germany SwedenSweden Sweden 4: 1 (2: 0) 2,300 U-19 juniors
Apr 15, 2007 GermanyGermany Germany ScotlandScotland Scotland 3: 0 (1: 0) 2,670 U-19 juniors
May 28, 2008 GermanyGermany Germany DenmarkDenmark Denmark 4: 0 (1: 0) 5,250 U-21 juniors
05th Mar 2014 GermanyGermany Germany FranceFrance France 1: 3 (0: 1) 3,771 U-18 juniors
04th Sep 2014 GermanyGermany Germany DenmarkDenmark Denmark 4: 3 (0: 1) .0400 U-16 juniors
03rd Sep 2015 GermanyGermany Germany DenmarkDenmark Denmark 2: 1 (1: 0) 4,823 U-21 juniors
0Sep 1 2016 GermanyGermany Germany ItalyItaly Italy 0: 1 (0: 0) 3,106 U-20 juniors
17th Apr 2017 GermanyGermany Germany DenmarkDenmark Denmark 3: 1 (1: 0) 2,077 U-19 juniors

Location and directions

The Lohmühle is located in the northwest of Lübeck, directly on the A1 , Lübeck Zentrum exit, and can be reached quickly and easily via it, as it is on the access road at Bei der Lohmühle after the exit . There are around 500 parking spaces at the stadium, which means that spectators are more likely to use public transport. However, there are many more parking spaces at several large hardware stores in the immediate vicinity of the Lohmühle.

Data

  • Total audience capacity: 15,292 seats
  • Seats: 5,050 covered
  • Standing room: 9,315
  • Seats guests: approx. 300
  • Standing guests: approx. 1000
  • Disabled spaces: 10 wheelchair spaces in Block B
  • Floodlight system: 96 lamps, distributed over 4 masts, with a light intensity of 800 lux each
  • Loudspeaker system: 18 loudspeakers
  • Parking spaces: 500
  • Boxes: 22 for 10 guests each
  • Business seats: 315

Sponsorship

From November 2011 to June 2013 the venue was sponsored by the name PokerStars.de-Stadion an der Lohmühle . The contract with the online poker portal is said to have brought VfB Lübeck around 100,000 to 150,000 euros annually.

literature

  • Christian Jessen: VfB Lübeck. A century of football history in the Hanseatic city. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8
  • Werner Skrentny (Hrsg.): The big book of the German football stadiums . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89533-306-9 , pp. 236-237

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Jessen: VfB Lübeck. A century of football history in the Hanseatic city. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8
  2. ↑ 1929 PDF
  3. ↑ Lübecker Volksbote, May 11, 1929: Advertisement for the consecration of the sports field, page 4. (PDF) Accessed on November 6, 2019 .
  4. ^ A b Christian Jessen: VfB Lübeck. A century of football history in the Hanseatic city . Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8 , pp. 281 ff .
  5. ↑ Gymnastics and Sports Club Lübeck from 1893: TuS Lübeck 93: Festschrift for the 100th anniversary . 1993, OCLC 258471999 .
  6. ↑ VfB Chronicle Part 5: The Lohmühle ; vfb-luebeck.de, from April 25, 2012, accessed on December 10, 2019
  7. ^ Christian Jessen: VfB Lübeck. A century of football history in the Hanseatic city . Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8 , pp. 26, 280 f .
  8. ^ Christian Jessen: VfB Lübeck. A century of football history in the Hanseatic city . Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8 , pp. 283 .
  9. ^ Lübecker Volksbote, January 8, 1937: The expansion of the Adolf-Hitler arena . S. 11 .
  10. ^ Christian Jessen: VfB Lübeck. A century of football history in the Hanseatic city . The workshop, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-7307-0460-8 , p. 169, 287 .
  11. ↑ VfB Lübeck: The schedule for the 2019/20 season has been set - This is what awaits you in the new season! Lübeck Aktuell, accessed on June 26, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Lohmühle ever smaller: Only 11,000 spectators are allowed to watch the DFB Cup game , sportbuzzer.de, August 5, 2019, accessed on January 17, 2020.
  13. ↑ VfB Lübeck: Ramming is now taking place at Lohmühle - new video wall is growing, audience capacity is shrinking , sportbuzzer.de, July 3, 2020, accessed on July 8, 2020.
  14. ↑ VfB will play in 2020/21 in the Dietmar-Scholze-Stadion an der Lohmühle , vfb-luebeck.de, August 8, 2020, accessed on August 8, 2020.
  15. ↑ Match report on dfb.de.
  16. ↑ uefa.com
  17. ↑ ostsee-zeitung.de: DFB-Pokalspiel FC Anker Wismar against Hannover 96 relocated to Lübeck  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article of June 29, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ostsee-zeitung.de  
  18. ↑ Only Boll adjusts his visor correctly , kicker.de, July 16, 2011 (July 17, 2011)
  19. ↑ Lohmühle Stadium
  20. ↑ ndr.de: VfB Lübeck sells stadium names ( Memento from December 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )