NNW place
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Schebera-Platz, Hertha-Platz |
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| place | Berlin-Gesundbrunnen |
| opening | September 7, 1902 |
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BFuCC Rapide 1893 - Britannia 92 II |
| surface | artificial grass |
| capacity | 2500 |
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The NNW-Place ( north-northwest course until 1924 Schebera Square called) is a traditional football field at the Behmstraße in Berlin district of Gesundbrunnen . It played an important role in the history of Hertha BSC and is Germany's oldest club sports field still in existence. Today the SV Norden-Nordwest is based on the sports field .
history
Most of the football clubs in the north of Berlin have played on the " Exer " ( parade ground for the Prussian army ) on Bernauer Strasse in what was then the Rosenthal suburb since they were founded at the end of the 19th century . The playing fields there proved to be no longer sufficient with the increasing importance of football. The innkeeper Joseph Schebera (1848–1941) leased several vacant lots on both sides of Behmstrasse in Gesundbrunnen from the Wollank heirs with the aim of winning sports clubs as tenants and catering for visitors and athletes in his restaurant after the final whistle . Schebera created two soccer fields on the north side of Behmstrasse; a main square on the corner of Jülicher Strasse and to the east of it a side square, which is now called Kokswiese . Schebera built an ice rink on the site south of Behmstraße.
Schebera also built a sports home with changing and meeting rooms. The first club Schebera was able to lease its sports field to was the BFuCC Rapide 1893 , which beat Britannia 92's second team 7-1 in the opening game on September 7, 1902 . In 1904, Rapide moved to its own new location in Niederschönhausen in 1893 . As a replacement, Schebera signed a contract with BFC Hertha 1892 (today: Hertha BSC). In addition to Hertha, other clubs from the north of Berlin also played their home games temporarily on Schebera-Platz , including SC Minerva 1893 , BFC Favorit 1896 and Tennis Borussia . The Schebera Square sparked by the "Exer" from when the football center of Berlin's north. In addition to soccer games, athletics competitions were also held on the field at that time.
In 1907, after disputes with Schebera, Hertha temporarily moved to Reinickendorf , where an innkeeper named Kuhrmann had built a similar sports facility. Since this location proved to be unfavorable, Hertha returned to Schebera-Platz in 1909 . Aided by the dense settlement of the surrounding districts, the audience for Hertha rose steadily in the following years. In 1912 Schebera had the standing trusses extended around the square and an 80-meter-long wooden grandstand with seven rows of seats was built on the west side. The course record before World War I was 8,000 spectators at a semi-final game for the Crown Prince's Cup between the teams of Brandenburg and Northern Germany in November 1912. SV Norden-Nordwest, which has also played its home games on Schebera-Platz since 1919 , acquired the sports field in 1923. The thus homeless Hertha merged with the wealthy Berliner SC in 1895 and was thus able to acquire the site of the former Schebera ice rink on the other side of Behmstrasse and build the stadium at Gesundbrunnen there. Since Hertha moved into its own new stadium in 1924, the old Schebera-Platz has been called 'NNW-Platz'. At the corner of Behmstrasse and Jülicher Strasse, SV Norden-Nordwest built its own casino, which has become an important meeting point for Berlin football.
The NNW-Platz, which Norden-Nordwest could no longer hold financially, fell back into the possession of the Wollank Family Foundation in 1935; the club used the space and the casino continued to be rented. After the end of the Second World War , the wood in the old grandstand was burned. First division football was last played on the NNW pitch in the 1959/1960 season, when SV Norden-Nordwest belonged to the Contract League Berlin . At the clash between North-Northwest and Hertha BSC on September 20, 1960, which Hertha won 5-0, the highest number of visitors after the Second World War was reached with 7,500. During a renovation in the 1970s, the playing field within the surrounding walls was raised by embankments and equipped with one of the first artificial turf in Berlin. The upper part of the eastern wall is now wooded. There are standing cross beams on both sides as well as seats on wooden planks. In total, the NNW-Platz still has a capacity of 2500 spectators.
The new casino of the SV Norden-Nordwest is located between the NNW-Platz and the Kokswiese. The old NNW casino on the corner of Jülicher Strasse was taken over by Hertha BSC in 1970 and used as a club and office under the name "Hertha-Domizil". After Hertha moved out there again in the 1980s, the house was left to decay for a long time. In 2011, the house was finally bought by an investor who renovated it and opened it as a hostel at the end of 2014 .
1. FC Afrisko has also been playing and training on the Kokswiese since 2008. It is considered to be the first African sports club in Germany.
Major football games
German championship
On April 21, 1907, the defeated BFC Viktoria 1889 in the quarter-finals of the German Cup on the Schebera Place the SC Silesia Wroclaw with 2: 1. The BFC forward in 1890 struck on May 29, 1921 semi-finals of the German Cup to Duisburg SpV with 2: 1 after extra time.
Crown Prince Cup
On April 8, 1917, the final for the Crown Prince's Cup took place on Schebera-Platz . The selection of Northern Germany beat Southern Germany 2: 1. The Kronprinzenpokal was a cup competition in which the teams selected from the regional associations of the German Football Association competed against each other, and it was the first ever Germany-wide cup competition.
International friendlies
On May 4, 1910, Hertha managed the first victory of a team on the continent against an English semi-professional team on Schebera Square against Southend United 3-1. In other games against prominent clubs on Schebera-Platz, Hertha lost 4-1 to Tottenham Hotspur on May 14, 1911, 4-2 to Ferencváros Budapest on December 31, 1911 , 5-0 to Arsenal in early summer 1912, and 5-0 on 17 May 1913 the English champions FC Sunderland with 0: 7, on May 24, 1913 the Blackburn Rovers with 1: 4 and on May 27, 1914 Celtic Glasgow with 0: 6.
Worker sport
In 1931, the final of the football championship of the KPD -near fighting community for Red Sports Unit , which had split off from the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association in 1930, took place on the old Schebera Square, now known as NNW Square . The Dresdner SV won in front of 15,000 spectators against Sparta Lichtenberg 3: 2nd
Athletics events
On May 10, 1908, the first German urban athletics competition between Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig took place on Schebera-Platz . In August of the same year, the German Athletics Championships took place on Schebera-Platz. Among others, Arthur Hoffmann won over 100 meters and Paul Nettelbeck over 1500 meters . On September 12, 1909, the Berliner SC organized an international athletics meeting. In front of 4,000 spectators, the South African Olympic champion Reggie Walker won the 100-meter run in 10.8 seconds.
literature
- Christian Wolter: Lawn of Passions: The football fields of Berlin . vierC print + mediafabrik, 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-036563-8
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ AFRISKO e. V. - Contact. (No longer available online.) Afrisko.net, archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on November 28, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Behmstrasse sports field. In: Berlin Football Week. June 12, 2012, accessed September 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Dirk Jericho: Legendary club bar opened as a hostel. In: Berlin Week . Retrieved November 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Alina Schwermer: Kick it like Donkor. In: taz.de. The daily newspaper , March 18, 2018, accessed on March 25, 2018 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 4.1 ″ N , 13 ° 23 ′ 33.7 ″ E