Mommsen Stadium

Mommsen Stadium
The Mommsenstadion on Waldschulallee, 2019
Earlier names
SCC stadium
Data
place	Waldschulallee 34–42 14055 Berlin , Germany
Coordinates	52 ° 30 '3 "  N , 13 ° 15' 51"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '3 "  N , 13 ° 15' 51"  E
owner	State of Berlin
opening	17th August 1930
Renovations	1950-1956
surface	Natural grass
architect	Fred Forbát
capacity	15,005 places ( limited to 11,500 by the DFB )
playing area	107 m × 72 m
Societies)
Tennis Borussia Berlin SC Charlottenburg Berlin Rebels
Events
Olympic football tournament 1936 ISTAF 1938, 1941, 1949, 1953 German all-around championships 2002.

View of the field and the main stand, 2010

View of the two entrances to the functional building from Waldschulallee, 2019

The Mommsenstadion is a football stadium with an athletics facility in the Berlin Waldschulallee 34-42 in the Westend district of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district on the edge of the Eichkamp location. It was inaugurated on August 17, 1930 and was initially called the SCC Stadium after members of the club had also participated in the work. The stadium has been named after the ancient historian Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) since 1934 and is a listed building . It is the home stadium of SC Charlottenburg and, since the end of the Second World War, also of Tennis Borussia .

history

The SCC's originally club's own grass pitch with a cinder track and a grandstand construction that met all sporting requirements at the time was built in 1930 based on a design by Fred Forbat as a replacement for the SCC's facilities, which had to give way to today's exhibition grounds. In its original form it offered 1,750 seats and 36,000 standing places. But the stadium construction in the midst of the global economic crisis plunged the club into an economic crisis, especially since at the beginning of the 1930s large parts of the club members were unemployed and could no longer pay their membership fees. Lotte Kaliski , who was looking for rooms for a forest school to be founded , had also found out about this plight of the association . At the turn of the year 1931/1932, Kaliski reached an agreement with the club management about the rental of club rooms that were to be used for the school during the day, but also for club purposes. Under these conditions, the Eichkamp Waldschulheim took on April 7, 1932 . which later became the private forest school Kaliski , started its work with 26 students.

→ Main article : Kaliski private forest school

The existence of the school was put to a severe test by the National Socialists' seizure of power , especially since the Charlottenburg sports club was “more and more caught up in the wake of National Socialism”. The school apparently expected the association to terminate the tenancy, but things turned out differently. Instead of giving notice, the association signed a lease with the city of Berlin, which in turn was looking for rooms for the Theodor-Mommsen-Gymnasium . It was then the city that gave the private forest school Kaliski the premises in Eichkamp and forced it to move to Bismarckallee 37 at the end of October 1933.

In 1934 the previously homeless Theodor-Mommsen-Gymnasium , a forerunner of today's Heinz-Berggruen-Gymnasium , moved into the grandstand wing of the stadium . The then director Neuhaus turned the school into a National Socialist model institution that used the grandstand building until the beginning of the Second World War. The Mommsenstadion got its current name from the grammar school.

The elongated street facade of the 104-meter-long three-storey grandstand building is structured by the two elliptically protruding main staircases. Iron frameworks completely clad with glass sit on the entrances, revealing the view of the curved stairs. The grandstand construction includes a somewhat wider hall wing in the northern part, which is used as a gym. When repairing the structural damage caused in the Second World War from 1950 to 1956, some structural changes were made. Finally, since 2000, the stadium has had an electronic scoreboard.

During the Olympic Games in 1936 , a total of four eighth and quarter-finals of the Olympic football tournament were played, including that of the eventual silver medalist Austria versus Egypt (3: 1) and the eventual winner Italy versus Japan (8: 0) . In 1938, 1941, 1949 and 1953 the International Stadium Festival Berlin (ISTAF) took place in the Mommsen Stadium and not, as usual, in the nearby Olympic Stadium. Since 2003, the Mommsenstadion has hosted the track and field competitions of the national finals of the school competition Youth trained for the Olympics .

The stadium currently has a capacity of 15,005 seats, 1,805 of which are covered seats in the stands. For security reasons, the capacity was limited by the DFB to 11,500 spectators.

In the 2006 FIFA World Cup , the Mommsenstadion each served as a training ground one of the teams that clashed and by Games in Berlin, the German national team , the other at the Berlin match days teams of its right next to the Olympic Stadium located training facilities in the Olympic Park Amateur stadium of Hertha BSC on dodged the grounds of the German Sports Forum into the Mommsen Stadium. To this end, the Mommsen Stadium and the surrounding area were modernized for over half a million euros.

Transport links

• S-Bahn station Messe Süd (Eichkamp) on S-Bahn lines S3 and S9.

literature

• Hertha Luise Busemann: The school founder - Lotte Kaliski. In: Hertha Luise Busemann, Michael Daxner, Werner Fölling: Island of Security. The private forest school Kaliski Berlin 1932 to 1939. Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1992, ISBN 3-476-00845-2 .
• Werner Fölling: Between German and Jewish Identity. A Jewish reform school in Berlin between 1932 and 1939. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1995, ISBN 3-8100-1269-6 .

Web links

Commons : Mommsenstadion  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Stadium on the official website of Tennis Borussia Berlin
• Official website of the SCC
• die-fans.de Data and pictures about the stadium
• Data on the stadium and the sports facility
• Entry in the Berlin State Monument List

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tebe.de: Mommsenstadion
2. ↑ 75 years of the Mommsenstadion in Berlin , pm / fc, on: Leichtathletik.de, from November 29, 2005, accessed April 6, 2016.
3. ↑ Hertha Luise Busemann: The school founder - Lotte Kaliski. Pp. 112-113.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Werner Fölling: Between German and Jewish Identity. Pp. 102-106.
5. ↑ Mommsen Stadium. In: Lexicon: Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf from A to Z. District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf of Berlin, accessed on December 27, 2011 . 
6. ^ Susanne Englmayer: 75 years of Mommsenstadion. ( Memento from December 28, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )