Nordmarksportfeld

Nordmarksportfeld
	The Nordmarksportfeld in September 1972
Earlier names
	Municipal sports and playground
Data
place	Kiel , Schleswig-Holstein
Coordinates	54 ° 20 '25.1 " N , 10 ° 6' 34.6" E Coordinates: 54 ° 20 '25.1 " N , 10 ° 6' 34.6" E
opening	1907
playing area	Natural grass

The Nordmarksportfeld , also popularly known as Norder , is a multifunctional urban sports and event site in the Ravensberg district of the Schleswig-Holstein state capital, Kiel . Various sports facilities and clubs are located on the approximately 31 hectare site. The lawn-covered sports and event area has the shape of an equilateral triangle with an edge length of around 500 meters. The Balloon Sail takes place here during Kiel Week .

history

The Nordmark sports field was built in 1907 under the direction of Ferdinand Hurtzig as a municipal sports and playground . In the following years it was not only used as a sports field, horse racing track and race track, but from 1908 to 1927 it was also used as an airfield by the Association for Motorized Airship Travel in the Nordmark (VML). In 1910, he built an airship hangar on the site . At that time, there was a facility for producing hydrogen at the imperial shipyard. The first air show in the German Reich was organized by the Kieler Verkehrsverein on June 28, 1908 during the Kiel Week on the Nordmarksportfeld. The only competitor, the Dane Jakob Ellehammer , received the price of 5000 gold marks for jumping 47 meters in the air with his flying machine .

During the National Socialist era, the northern parade ground was used for NSDAP events . As part of the final rally of the NSDAP for the state election in Prussia in April 1932, Adolf Hitler came to Kiel and spoke to 50,000 people on the Nordmarksportfeld as part of a paid event. On May 7, 1933, he gave another speech at the same place.

Airship hangar

The airship hangar, completed in 1910, was an 85-meter-long timber frame construction, built by the Kiel-based construction company Johannes Buchard Wwe. For the association for motorized airships in the North Mark . It was used by Zeppelin and Parseval airships, initially as an assembly hangar for the airship “Suchard”.

The topping-out ceremony for the hall was celebrated on July 16, 1910, and the inauguration and baptism in the name of Nordmarkhalle on September 24, 1910. The construction costs amounted to 80,000 marks . In the spring of 1912, the hall was lengthened to 170 meters and the volume was expanded to 68,000 m³ with a floor area of 2975 m². The hall was demolished between March and September 1917.

Concerts (selection)

July 29, 1992 Genesis , 60,000 visitors
August 4th, 1995 The Kelly Family , 50,000 visitors
June 13, 1997 Michael Jackson , 50,000 visitors

photos

Kiel Horse Show 1964
Kiel Nordmark course for motorcycles in 1964
Kiel Nordmark course for touring cars in 1967
Football tournament for senior men's teams 1966
Vespa meeting on the Nordmarksportfeld in 1968
Rugby match city selection East Berlin versus city selection Kiel 1957
Genesis 1992 in Kiel on the Nordmarksportfeld
Balloon Sail 2019 during the Kieler Woche 2019

Web links

Commons : Nordmarksportfeld - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Joachim Wachtel: The Aviatiker . Mosaik Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-570-00837-1 . Pages 83.84

↑ Jochen Reiss: 111 places in Kiel that you have to see . Emons, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-86358-930-1 . Location 74 The Nordmarksportfeld

↑ History from Kronshagen - The Kiel Nordmark sports field

↑ GEGENWIND / 586: 100 Years of the Institute for the World Economy - The Horrible Years

↑ Adolf Hitler in Kiel 1933

^ Ansbert Vorreiter (Ed.): Yearbook of Aviation . JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1912, Table XV. Compilation of the airship hangars in Germany.

^ Klaus Griese: Aviation history of the city of Kiel . 90 years of air sports, air traffic, naval aviation. Self-published, Kiel 2000, chap. "4.2 The Nordmark Airship Hall", p. 47-51 .

↑ Picture at earlyaeroplanes.com: 1912_1914_Suchard_II_Kiel_jpl.jpg ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2
↑ Genesis in Kiel 1992
↑ When Michael Jackson brought Kiel to a boil

[Wachtel1978-1] Joachim Wachtel: The Aviatiker . Mosaik Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-570-00837-1 . Pages 83.84

[Reiss2016-2] Jochen Reiss: 111 places in Kiel that you have to see . Emons, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-86358-930-1 . Location 74 The Nordmarksportfeld

[3] History from Kronshagen - The Kiel Nordmark sports field

[4] GEGENWIND / 586: 100 Years of the Institute for the World Economy - The Horrible Years

[5] Adolf Hitler in Kiel 1933

[6] Ansbert Vorreiter (Ed.): Yearbook of Aviation . JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1912, Table XV. Compilation of the airship hangars in Germany.

[7] Klaus Griese: Aviation history of the city of Kiel . 90 years of air sports, air traffic, naval aviation. Self-published, Kiel 2000, chap. "4.2 The Nordmark Airship Hall", p. 47-51 .