Marienberg triangle race

Record winner Toni Bauhofer (here in a BMW after his victory in the Kolberg bathing race in June 1929).

Three victories in Marienberg: Walfried Winkler (here 1949).

The Marienberger Dreieckrennen (until 1927 also Dreiecksfahrt in the Erzgebirge ) was a motorcycle race that was held a total of eleven times between 1923 and 1937 on the 17 kilometer long, non-permanent race track of the Marienberger Dreieck in Marienberg, Saxony .

history

After the opening of the route in 1923 with a club race of the Chemnitz motorcycle club , the race was held as an official event from 1924, 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. In 1934 the two starters Bertram Rübsemen and Hans Zeune were killed.

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 .

Record winner of the Marie Berger triangle race is the Munich Toni Bauhofer , who as BMW - factory driver could enter from 1926 to 1933 a total of four class wins.

Since 2012, vintage car triangular trips have been held every two years.

Winners list

Edition	date	class	winner
1.	June 15, 1924	350 cc	Hermann Roßner ( AJS )
		500 cc	Bruno Braun ( Victoria )
		750 cc	Albert Schuster ( Wanderer )
		1000 cc	Walter Winter ( NSU )
		Carriages (1000 cm³)	Rudolf Schroth / unknown ( hiker )
2.	May 3, 1925	125 cc	Ulm ( DKW )
		175 cc	Walfried Winkler ( DKW )
		250 cc	E. Markus ( Zenith )
		350 cc	Arthur Lohse ( Schüttoff )
		500 cc	Wallenfels ( Sunbeam )
		750 cc	Erich Pätzold ( Imperia )
		Carriages (1000 cm³)	Erich Pätzold / unknown ( Imperia )
3.	June 27, 1926	175 cc	Kurt Friedrich ( DKW )
		250 cc	W. Tenzler ( BMW )
		350 cc	Arthur Lohse ( Schüttoff )
		500 cc	Toni Bauhofer ( BMW )
		750 cc	Theo Creutz ( BMW )
		1000 cc	no starter reached the finish
		Carriages (600 cm³)	Gerhard Keffel / unknown ( AJS )
		Carriages (1000 cm³)	House sign / unknown ( Husqvarna )
4th	June 12, 1927	175 cc	Hans Sprung ( DKW )
		250 cc	Horst Swoboda ( BMW )
		350 cc	Herbert Ernst ( AJS )
		500 cc	Josef Stelzer ( BMW )
		750 cc	Otto Hentschel ( BMW )
		1000 cc	Hans Krebs ( BMW )
		Carriages (600 cm³)	Willy Weichel / unknown ( BMW )
		Carriages (1000 cm³)	Albert Phillip / unknown ( Indian )
5.	June 24, 1928	175 cc	Arthur Geiss ( DKW )
		250 cc	Hans Sprung ( DKW )
		350 cc	Albert Richter ( Raleigh )
		500 cc	Arthur Dom ( standard )
		over 500 cm³	Toni Bauhofer ( BMW )
6th	June 2, 1929	250 cc	Kurt Friedrich ( DKW )
		350 cc	Max Kiemel ( UT - JAP )
		500 cc	Ernst Zündorf ( BMW )
		over 500 cm³	Toni Bauhofer ( BMW )
There were no races from 1930 to 1932.
7th	October 8, 1933	250 cc	Arthur Geiss ( DKW )
		350 cc	Ernst Loof ( Imperia )
		500 cc	Toni Bauhofer ( BMW )
8th.	May 6, 1934	250 cc	Walfried Winkler ( DKW )
		350 cc	Josef Klein ( Norton )
		500 cc	Bernd Rosemeyer ( DKW )
		1000 cc	Paul Rüttchen ( NSU )
		Carriages (350 cm³)	Ernst Loof / unknown ( Imperia )
		Carriages (600 cm³)	Hans Schumann / unknown ( NSU )
		Carriages (1000 cm³)	Paul Weyres / unknown ( Harley-Davidson )
9.	May 30, 1935	250 cc	Walfried Winkler ( DKW )
		350 cc	Martin Strömberg ( Husqvarna )
		500 cc	Kurt Mansfeld ( DKW )
		Carriages (600 cm³)	Josef Lohner / unknown ( NSU )
		Carriages (1000 cm³)	Karl Braun / Ernst Badsching ( Horex )
In 1936 there was no race.
10.	October 10, 1937	250 cc	Ewald Kluge ( DKW )
		350 cc	Heiner Fleischmann ( NSU )
		500 cc	Kurt Mansfeld ( DKW )
		Carriages (600 cm³)	Hans Kahrmann / Heinrich Eder ( DKW )
		Carriages (1000 cm³)	Erwin Zimmermann / Franz Höller ( NSU )
In 1938 the race was canceled for unknown reasons.

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

• Vincent Glon: Les grandes Courses Allemandes - Marienberg. racingmemo.free.fr, accessed on June 28, 2014 (French). 
• Jörg Buschmann: Private homepage on the Marienberg triangle. www.marienberger-dreieck.de, accessed on June 28, 2014 . 
• Marienberg triangle. www.motorrennsportarchiv.de, accessed on March 19, 2016 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jörg Zander: Marienberger Dreieck , 2002.