Maschpark (Göttingen)
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 Goettingen , Germany
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 32 '40.8 " N , 9 ° 55' 24.1" E |
| operator | GoeSF |
| opening | 1926/1971 |
| Renovations | 2018 |
| capacity | 20,000 / 5,000 |
| playing area | Natural grass, ash, soon: artificial grass |
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The Maschpark is the name of two football stadiums in Göttingen .
history
Old Maschpark
In 1907 the 1. SC Göttingen 05 built a playing field on the Schützenwiese , which basically consisted of two goals on one meadow. In 1926 the club decided to build a second place. This should be a combined facility for football and athletics and was built by the club members themselves. On August 27, 1926, the Maschpark was inaugurated with a friendly match against SV Kurhessen Kassel . The guests from Kassel won the game 6-0. A year later, the club was able to convert the rifle house into its club house and built changing rooms. The 05er played in the years 1933/34, 1936/37 and from 1940 to 1943 in the first-class Gauliga and welcomed up to 4,000 spectators at home games.
After the end of the Second World War , the Göttingen team was promoted to the first-class Oberliga Nord in 1948 . The stadium was quickly expanded. The capacity increased to 20,000 places through the filling of earth walls. On the walls but no paved standing were installed so that the terrain in rain slippery was. The popular saying gave the stadium the nickname mud park . In the 1948/49 season the 05er reached the record for the highest average attendance with an average of 11,000 spectators. In the summer of 1950, two rows of permanently installed but uncovered seats were added to the main stand. Before that, the association put folding chairs on the cinder track.
The Maschpark posed great problems for the club in the 1950s, as there were too few seats and the club had no money to expand the stadium. When relegated from the league, only 3,600 spectators wanted to see the Göttingen home games on average. In the 1960s, the Maschpark continued to decline. The city planned to expand the adjacent Godehardstrasse, with the stadium in the way. At the end of the decade, plans for a new building were presented. On May 12, 1968, 1. SC Göttingen 05 said goodbye to the Maschpark with a 7-0 win over SC Sperber Hamburg and moved to the Jahnstadion .
New machine park
There were repeated delays in the construction of the new Maschpark, especially since the city was renovating the Jahn Stadium at the same time. At the Maschpark, the city funds flowed into the adjacent squares, so that 1. SC Göttingen 05 carried out the expansion of the main square on its own. The new Maschpark has a capacity of 5,000 seats, 800 of which are uncovered. On February 14, 1971, the new Maschpark was opened with a 6-0 win in the then second-class Regionalliga Nord over Itzehoer SV in front of 4,000 spectators. But the stadium wasn't finished. Neither the planned grandstand stood, nor could the curves be expanded.
The impending bankruptcy could only be prevented by selling the stadium to the city of Göttingen. The future Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder voted against the stadium purchase . In 1974 the 2nd Bundesliga was introduced, for which some local politicians believe the club should not apply. The 05er still got the license and moved again to the Jahnstadion. In 1977 the Göttingen family got down again and returned to the Maschpark. After another guest appearance in the second division season 1980/81, the Jahnstadion became the club's permanent home from 1986.
The Maschpark has meanwhile been upgraded to a district sports facility and a venue for amateur and youth games. In 2003 the 1. SC Göttingen 05 went bankrupt and was dissolved. In the meantime, the Anadoluspor Göttingen club and the Göttingen Generals American football team moved into the Maschpark. The successor club of 1. SC Göttingen 05, the I. SC Göttingen 05 , moved into the Maschpark in 2015 after relegating from the Lower Saxony Oberliga .
Web links
- Maschpark on the website of I. SC Göttingen 05
- Maschpark Göttingen on stadionwelt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Werner Skrentny (Hrsg.): The big book of the German football stadiums . Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-668-3 , p. 154 .