Marienberg triangle

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The Marienberger Dreieck is a former race track in Saxony with start and finish in Marienberg in the Ore Mountains .

It was used from 1923 to 1937 for the Marienberg triangle race for motorcycles . The route initially 17 km, later almost 16 km, led from Marienberg, via the Heinzebank and Wolkenstein back to Marienberg. At that time it was the fastest road racing track in Germany.

history

The route was opened in 1923 with a club race of the Chemnitz Motorcycle Club, which Gustav Muth won on Standard . From 1924 the Marienberger Dreieckrennen was held as an official event, which, with the exception of 1936, was part of the German motorcycle road championship . It quickly gained national importance, among other things due to its proximity to the Zschopauer DKW works, which developed into the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the world in the 1930s and saw the event as their home race.

In the years 1930 to 1932 no races were held on the Marienberger Dreieck. Instead, the German Six Day Tour took place in Marienberg in 1930. The event from 1938 was canceled by the head of the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK) Adolf Hühnlein for unknown reasons. After that there was no further interest in bringing the race back to life, especially since the Second World War broke out the following year .

In 1935, Bernd Rosemeyer from Lingen  - still the winner of the half-liter run on a DKW in 1934 - caused a particular sensation. He  , meanwhile, has competed in the European Grand Prix Championship for Auto Union and drove a type B demonstration lap on the triangle. He reached with the supercharged , about 375 hp V16 - mid-engined car with an average speed 156.4 km / h.

The start and finish were at Marienberg Town Hall (here looking against the route).
The Zschopauer Tor (view out of town in the direction of the route) was passed.

Routing

The Marienberg triangle, which was used from 1923 to 1934, was 17.3 km long, for the 1935 edition a 15.94 km long version was used, and in 1937 the runway was 15.314 km long.

The start and finish were on the Marienberg market square in front of the town hall. After that, the piste drove the former B 174 in a north-westerly direction through the Zschopauer Tor via Lauta to the Heinzebank . There the route turned in a south-westerly direction onto today's B 101 and led through Hilmersdorf , Warmbad and Gehringswalde to Wolkenstein , from where it led east over Wolfsberg and the Hirschstein back to Marienberg.

Records

The fastest lap ever ridden with a motorcycle on the Marienberger Dreieck comes from Kurt Mansfeld , who lapped the course on May 30, 1935 in his DKW in 6 minutes and 49.2 seconds in the 500 cm³ race , which is an average speed of 143.4 km / h.

The race record also comes from Mansfeld and was set in the same race. He needed one hour, two minutes and 34.4 seconds for nine laps with a total distance of 143.6 km, which corresponded to an hourly average of 137.8 km / h.

References

literature

  • Jörg Zander: The Marienberger Dreieck - An (almost) forgotten cradle of German motorcycle racing . 1st edition. Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Marienberg 2002, ISBN 3-931770-38-9 , p. 158 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Zander (2002).
  2. ↑ a b c Jörg Buschmann: A record for eternity. www.marienberger-dreieck.de, accessed on June 28, 2014 .