Ludwig-Schuhmann-Schanze
The Ludwig-Schuhmann-Schanze was a ski jumping hill in Pernink (Bärringen) in the Ore Mountains in the Czech Republic .
history
The Bärringen winter sports club in the German Gymnastics Federation, founded after 1905, tried to build its own ski jump in the Bohemian Ore Mountains at an early stage. In the winter of 1921/22 the first competitions in jumping and cross-country skiing took place in Bärringen. For this purpose, the first ski jump was built on Friedeberg, the take-off table of which stood above Wölflinger Weg, west of the road to Salmthal . On this hill, distances of 30 to 40 meters have already been achieved and several winter sports festivals were held on January 21, 1923.
In 1925/26 the Bärringen winter sports club found a new, suitable building site in the Fleischergründel near the train station and the arched viaduct of the Johanngeorgenstadt – Karlsbad railway line located there . The run-up slope had the required length, faced east and was therefore relatively snow reliable at an altitude of around 900 m. The ski jumping facility, which was modern at that time, was given a 20 meter high inrun tower made of wood and was built in-house. It was named HDW-Schanze . But in the end this hill was too small.
With financial support from the Bärring runner Ludwig Schuhmann, a new, larger ski jump was built, which was inaugurated in the winter of 1934/35. The master builder was the Bärring architect Erich Meixner.
Max Meixner , Hans Renner and Rudolf Höhnl made their first jumps on this hill, which they later earned.
Hans Schöniger from Abertham set the hill record of 35 meters .
Even after the Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia at the end of the Second World War, the ski jump, whose German name was no longer used, was still used. The K-point was extended to 60 meters by extensions (for example a 20 meter high inrun tower) and a judges tower was also built.
At the beginning of the 1980s, the ski jumping runs on the hill were stopped due to the dilapidation of the wooden construction and after 1982 the ski jumping facility was completely demolished. The largely unforested jumping slope is still clearly visible in the terrain and is partly used as a downhill slope.
Web links
literature
- Max Müller: Bärringen. The story of a city , 1994.
- Werner Ströer: Bärringen. Pictures of a city. A collection of historical images , Schönheide 1996.