Ober St. Veiter Stadium

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Ober St. Veiter Stadium
Data
place AustriaAustria Vienna
Coordinates 48 ° 11 '23.4 "  N , 16 ° 16' 46.9"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '23.4 "  N , 16 ° 16' 46.9"  E
opening May 17, 1914
Renovations 1921
demolition 1933
capacity 12,000 (originally)
25,000 (from 1922)
Societies)

FK Austria Wien (until 1930)

The Ober St. Veiter Stadium was a football stadium in Ober St. Veit , a district in Vienna's 13th district and home of FK Austria Wien , until 1926 the Viennese amateur sports club (WAS; "Amateurs" for short).

The stadium on Auhofstrasse , which initially offered space for around 12,000 spectators, was opened on May 17, 1914 and was Austria's home stadium until 1930. It was the most modern stadium in Vienna. However, shortly after opening, the stadium fell into disrepair due to neglect during the World War . The necessary renovation work began in 1921 under engineer Schall and master builder Reichelt. On February 12, 1922, the expanded facility - including a 70-meter-long covered grandstand with over 1000 seats, including boxes for celebrities and press representatives - was reopened. After the renovation, the stadium held a total of 25,000 people, which was no longer sufficient due to the football boom that was emerging in 1923. On Easter Sunday 1923, 29,000 paying spectators were counted on the occasion of a tournament game, which is why a police block took place. The spectator situation worsened drastically in the following years and at times led to traffic chaos in the suburb of Ober St. Veit.

In 1930, in the year when the dilapidation of the main stand led to an official closure, the rent could no longer be paid. In 1931 the lease expired and the stadium of the “St. Veiter ”was demolished in 1933. There have been residential buildings on the area between Auhofstrasse , Mantlergasse , Premreinergasse and Preindlgasse since the 1970s .

literature

  • Dieter Chmelar: Ballet in Violet: 75 Years Football Club Austria , Jugend und Volk Verlag, Vienna 1986.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Felix Steinwandtner: Vienna-Hietzing. Sutton Verlag , 2006, p. 56. ISBN 3-897-02971-5
  2. ↑ The elegance of round leather. Viennese football 1920–1965. Ed. from the Vienna library in the town hall and collated. by Wolfgang Maderthaner , Alfred Pfoser , Roman Horak , Die Werkstatt Verlag , Vienna 2008, p. 87. ISBN 3-895-33614-9
  3. ↑ When Sindelar played in Ober St. Veit , chronicle of the stadium on www.1133.at.
  4. ↑ The "amateurs" from Ober St. Veit. Hietzing.at.
  5. ^ Andreas Tröscher, Matthias Marschik , Edgar Schütz: The big book of Austrian football stadiums. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Vienna 2007. ISBN 3-895-33581-9