Ludwig-Jahn-Stadium (Herford)
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| place | Wiesestrasse 123 32052 Herford , Germany
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 6 '19.2 " N , 8 ° 41' 17.2" E |
| opening | 1955 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 18,400 seats |
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The Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion is a football stadium with an athletics facility in the Neustädter Feldmark district of the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Herford . The facility was opened in 1955 and was last renovated in the late 1990s. The main users of the stadium are the women's second division Herford SV and the men's Westphalia division SC Herford . If there are conflicting appointments, women have priority. The stadium was named after the "gymnastics father" Friedrich Ludwig Jahn .
Stadion
The stadium is located on Wiesestrasse east of the Werre , a tributary of the Weser , and south of the H20 swimming pool . It offers 18,400 seats, 1,400 of which are covered in the main grandstand. The athletics facility has six tracks. There is no floodlight system .
The stadium has 20 changing rooms and three referee booths. In addition to the stadium, the facility includes three more grass pitches, two artificial turf pitches and an ash pitch . The venue is one of the 70 largest stadiums in Germany.
At Herford SV Bundesliga home games, the capacity is limited to 5,000 spectators due to security requirements of the DFB and the Ordinance on Venues of Assembly .
On the opposite side of Wiesestrasse is the Kiewiese , which serves as a parking lot for the stadium and the swimming pool.
history
The Ludwig-Jahn-Kampfbahn was built in Herford as early as 1936 . The stadium had a playing field, a running track and simple standing steps. During the Second World War , the stadium was badly damaged by bombing the nearby railway bridge over the Werre. In February 1946, the flood caused further damage. After the Second World War, it was occupied by the British occupying forces in 1945, initially serving as a prison camp for German prisoners of war and then as a garrison stadium ( Garrison Stadium ). On May 23, 1947, the British site commander allowed the German population to use it from Monday to Thursday. However, the prerequisite was that the city took over the preparation and maintenance of the square. The usage times were distributed under the auspices of the municipal youth and sports office. In the event of requests for use outside of the allotted times, coordination was carried out with the site commander, who largely fulfilled the requests. For example, on Sunday June 4, 1950, a football game between players from the Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation and well-known citizens of the city of Herford in favor of tuberculosis aid took place in front of 4,000 spectators.
In February 1950, the city decided to rebuild the damaged stadium, which was located in a northeast-southwest direction, in an east-west direction so that the players were blinded as little as possible by the sun . In May 1951, the occupying forces drew a barbed wire fence at the previously open part of the stadium and put up a sign saying that Germans were not allowed to enter the stadium. After the stadium was reopened in January 1952, the city council provided the money for the new building in March 1952. Construction began a year later. On June 25 and 26, 1955, the Ludwig-Jahn Stadium was inaugurated with a stadium festival, sports performances and a football game. The first user was VfB Einigkeit Herford, one of the parent clubs of today's SC Herford. Further extensions followed by 1960, such as the construction of the roofed main grandstand, so that the locals spoke of the "largest and most beautiful stadium between Dortmund and Hanover ". The Bielefelder Alm was ignored. This has no career and was therefore not considered a stadium for the Herford team.
After SC Herford was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1976, the interior of the stadium was fenced in due to DFB requirements. A floodlight system, however, was not installed for cost reasons.
In the 1980s, necessary repair and maintenance measures were repeatedly postponed. At the end of the decade the stadium was so ramshackle that the locals spoke of the "biggest ruin between Dortmund and Hanover". Finally, in 1989, plans for a renovation began. The stadium was renovated in four construction phases over a period of eight years. Around five million euros were invested in the process. Since the state of North Rhine-Westphalia certified that the stadium was of national importance, the state assumed half of the costs. The rest of the city and the Herford district shared . On June 8, 1998, the renovated stadium was opened with a show and sports program. The highlight was a football game between the Uwe-Seeler tradition team and the old men of SC Herford.
Major games
On October 25, 1964, the visitor record was set with almost 30,000 spectators. On this day the final of the German field handball championship between TuS 05 Wellinghofen and TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen took place. However, the exact number of spectators was not clear. Whether 25,000, 27,000 or 30,000 spectators attended the game cannot be determined with absolute certainty. Hundreds or thousands have climbed the stadium fences or entered the stadium area through the main gate, which was opened due to the large crowd. The game ended with a 13: 9 victory for TuS 05 Wellinghofen.
The stadium has hosted the final of the German amateur soccer championship three times . In 1960 the amateurs of Hannover 96 defeated BV Osterfeld 3-0 in the replay. The first final ended 1-1 after extra time in front of 22,000 spectators. At that time, the penalty shootout was not yet introduced. In 1966 the amateurs from Werder Bremen prevailed 5-1 against the amateurs from Hannover 96. In 1967 STV Horst-Emscher won 2-0 against the amateurs of Hanover 96. In 1974 the final of the men's national soccer cup was held in the Herford stadium. Here the selection of the Middle Rhine prevailed 1-0 against the Westphalian selection.
On October 18, 1975, Bünder SV played against the FC Bayern Munich team in the second main round of the 1975/76 DFB Cup in front of 22,000 spectators. The game, which ended 0: 3, was played in the Herford stadium because there was no large stadium in Bünde . At the same time, a record number of spectators was set for football matches in the Ludwig-Jahn Stadium. The attendance record of SC Herford was set on May 5, 1978, when 17,000 spectators saw a 2-0 win against Arminia Bielefeld . The soccer players of Herford SV reached their record mark on September 17th, 2008, when 2,748 spectators saw the 3-0 defeat against 1. FFC Frankfurt .
There was international football twice in the Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion in Herford. On May 27, 1981, the selections from Greece and Wales met in the context of the U-18 European Football Championship . The Welsh were able to win the game of group A with a 1-0 victory. On June 13, 2010, an international match between the German women's U-20 national soccer team and the USA took place in the Ludwig-Jahn Stadium . The friendly match ended 3-1 for Germany in front of 1,611 spectators .
During the regional football league season 2004/05 , Arminia Bielefeld's second team played a few home games in the Ludwig-Jahn Stadium. In the mid-1960s, the Herford stadium was also being discussed as a venue for the Arminia professional team. When the Bielefeld team became autumn champions in the 1966/67 regional league season , their own stadium was not suitable for the Bundesliga, so they would have had to move to Herford. Later the Alm was expanded and moving to Herford was no longer an issue.
Other Events
The first event after the stadium was inaugurated was the German University Championships in athletics in 1955 .
In 1968 the German Youth Athletics Championships and then the European Cup of Athletics Juniors were held.
The stadium was also used for non-sporting activities, e.g. B. on June 8, 1968, when the German final of the TV show Spiel ohne Grenzen was held in Herford. 17,000 viewers followed the live broadcast with Camillo Felgen and co-host Frank Elstner in the stadium.
In 1978 or 1979 an exhibition of the German armed forces and the swearing-in of recruits took place in the stadium.
Since 2011, the Auto-Mattern Wall Run has been held there every autumn with over 1500 participants. The start and finish are in the stadium. A school or Bambini run, a company run (6.8 km) and the actual Auto Mattern Wwall run over the traditional two city laps = 10 kilometers are offered.
See also
Web links
- stadionwelt.de: picture gallery
- europlan-online.de: Photos from the stadium
- Neue Westfälische from January 4th 2017: Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Werner Skrentny (Hrsg.): The big book of the German football stadiums . Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-668-3 , p. 185 .
- ↑ Herford Stadium on the Herford SV website
- ^ Herford SV - 1. FFC Frankfurt 0: 3. German Football Association , accessed on July 17, 2015 .
- ↑ Germany U 20 - USA U 20 3: 1. ( Memento from July 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Jens Kirschneck, Marcus Uhlig , Volker Backes, Olaf Bentkämper, Julien Lecoeur: Arminia Bielefeld - 100 years of passion . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-479-0 , p. 89 .
- ↑ Welcome to the Auto Mattern Wall Run 2017 . In: Auto Mattern . April 17, 2017 ( auto-mattern.de [accessed September 6, 2017]).