Olympic shooting range in Hochbrück
The Olympic Shooting Hochbrück in Garching district Hochbrück is the largest civilian shooting range in the world and is considered one of the most modern venues for the Olympic and non-Olympic disciplines of sport shooting . It was for the 1972 Olympic Games on a former training area of the Bundeswehr built.
history
At the request of Willi Daume in his function as President of the National Olympic Committee for Germany (NOC) for the Bundeswehr's support for the Olympic Games, the Federal Minister of Defense decided in 1970, at that time Helmut Schmidt , to support the event to a considerable extent, whereby the latter reserved all decisions regarding assistance. The support services also included the provision of land for the Olympic shooting range.
The reason for the construction of a facility of this size was on the one hand the rules that were valid at the time that each participating nation was allowed to have up to three shooters at the start in each shooting sport discipline, which made it necessary to build 102 shooting ranges and three clay target systems to ensure that the competitions run smoothly. It was also necessary to set up 43 shooting ranges with a target distance of 300 m, since large-caliber rifle disciplines were held at this distance for the last time in Munich . The American Lones Wigger was Olympic champion in this discipline .
The Bavarian Sport Shooting Federation took over after the Summer Olympics of 1972, the system of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2006 as the owner and the possibility of state and federal championships was the first time to perform at a place in its history. After extensive renovations - especially the clay target system - the system is considered by experts to be the largest and most modern civilian shooting range in the world. It also serves as a state performance center and as an Olympic base .
Investments
Overall, there are the shooting ranges described below.
- Air pressure hall
- The air gun disciplines , which were not yet Olympic in 1972, but have since become indispensable, made it necessary to build an air pressure hall in the 1980s. In the air pressure hall there are 100 10 m stands for air guns and crossbows, 50 of which can be used as 15 m stands for room nozzles.
- Gun hall
- In the rifle hall there are 102 50-m stands for rifle disciplines and free pistol , of which 42 stands are available for 100-m or 300-m rifle disciplines and 41 stands for 30-m crossbow disciplines.
- Gun hall
- Forty 25-meter stands for pistol disciplines are located in a separate pistol hall. These have both an electronic hit display system and a mechanical dueling system.
- Final hall
- Twenty stands for different disciplines up to 50 m and an auditorium for up to 1000 visitors are located in the final hall. Furthermore, the disciplines of the " running target " are held at a distance of 10 m for the air rifle and for the small caliber at 50 m.
The final hall was created at the end of the 1990s from the hall originally built for the "running boar" discipline.
- Clay target area
- The original three systems were completely renewed between 2007 and 2009, so that there are now five combined trap and skeet systems in accordance with the latest safety and environmental precautions . The Trapanlage has an “Olympic trench” with a total of three throwing machines per position, a total of 15 throwing machines per installation. In the skeet area there is the usual high and low rise. A roofed grandstand for around 1,000 spectators allows all stands to be observed.
- Conny-Wirnhier-Platz
- The place of the award ceremony is named after Konrad Wirnhier , the Olympic champion in the skeet from 1972.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Bundeswehr / Olympic Aid: Cheerful and lively. Der Spiegel 8/1971, February 15, 1971, pp. 30-31.
- ↑ Major order for the Bundeswehr administration. In: Defense. Organ of the Society for Military Studies. Vol. 26, Verlag Europäische Wehrkunde, 1972, p. 403.
Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ' N , 11 ° 36' E
Competition venues for the 1972 Summer Olympics
