Olympic ski stadium
| Olympic ski stadium | |
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| Olympic stadium | |
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| The 2014 Olympic Ski Stadium | |
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 Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Germany
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 28 '52.6 " N , 11 ° 7' 3.9" E |
| opening | 1936 |
| Renovations | 1939 |
| surface | race |
| costs | 411,000 RM |
| architect | Arnulf Albinger Arthur Holzheimer |
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The Olympic Ski Stadium is a stadium built for the 1936 Winter Olympics at the foot of the Great Olympic Hill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In 1939 the stadium was rebuilt for the 1940 Winter Olympics , which were canceled due to the outbreak of World War II . Today the stadium is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
location
The Olympic ski stadium is located at the northwest end of the Great Olympic Hill , at the foot of the Gudiberg , or at the southeast end of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The western main entrance is on Widenauerstrasse, the eastern main entrance is on Karl-und-Martin-Neuner-Platz. Marienplatz is 2.5 kilometers (as the crow flies) and the train station is just under two kilometers. The stadium can be reached with regular buses from the Garmisch-Partenkirchen municipal utility .
The valley station of the Eckbauerbahn is located at the southeast end of the stadium . On the opposite side, Widenauerstrasse runs along the stadium. The Partnach River flows across the street . Widenauerstraße leads from Mittenwalderstraße, a main street in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, via the ski stadium to Partnachklamm .
history
After Garmisch was awarded the contract for the IV Winter Olympic Games, which were to take place in 1936, in 1933, a new stadium had to be built for the opening ceremony. This was tackled by Mayor Scheck and Baron le Fort on March 14, 1934 as part of the discussion on the final completion of the Great Olympic Hill and the renovation and expansion of the old Gudibergschanze. It was built in the same year at the end of the Great Olympic Hill within a short time and consisted of earth and terrace-shaped wooden grandstands that offered space for 40,000 guests. Using every possible view, even 60,000 people were able to enter the stadium. The architect was Arnulf Albinger. Since the ski stadium had more seats than the more centrally located Olympic ice rink, the organizing committee recommended that the opening and closing ceremonies, unlike in the past, be held in the ski stadium instead of the ice rink. They also recommended using the ski stadium as the start and finish of the 18-kilometer cross-country ski run, the 50-kilometer endurance run and the 4 × 10-kilometer relay run.
The then IOC President De Baillet-Latour described the stadium with the ski jumping hills as "the most beautiful winter sports facility in the world".
After Garmisch and Partenkirchen were forcibly united for the Olympic Games on January 1, 1935, despite resistance from the two municipal councils, the Olympic Games took place from February 6 to 16, 1936. The stadium served as the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies followed by the award of medals and the Nordic Games competitions. The general secretary of the site was Georg Wagner. The Olympic flame was lit above the small hill for the first time in modern times . In the stadium, among other things, the special jump was held on the large Olympic hill, which was still a wooden structure. Alpine combined slaloms were also held on the Gudiberg .
The crowd was underestimated at the time, so the stadium was expanded by 20,000 seats for the closing ceremony. Another 50,000 people watched the ceremony outside the barriers, so that around 130,000 people watched the events. Just like the 1936 Summer Olympics, the National Socialists used the games through the stadium as propaganda for perfect organization, logistics and competition design in order to present the image of a peaceful Germany.
In June 1939, Garmisch-Partenkirchen was again awarded the contract to host the Winter Games the following year after the cities of Sapporo and St. Moritz refused at short notice . For this purpose, the stadium facility was rebuilt according to plans by Arthur Holzheimer with concrete, stone and, in some cases, wood shed and was given a horseshoe-shaped shape. Only the Olympiahaus was preserved, but it was enlarged and made the center of the complex. Newly added were press areas with writing areas, a press post office with radio cells and technical rooms under the grandstands. With the beginning of the Second World War, however, the 5th Winter Olympic Games were canceled after construction was completed.
After the Second World War, the Olympic Ski Stadium and the Great Olympic Hill developed into one of the most popular tourist attractions in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Over half a million people visit the stadium every year. The stadium is freely accessible to tourists. A themed path that leads from the stadium via a viewing platform over the ski jumps and the Eckbauerbahn around the ski jump area has now been set up. Information boards were installed there to provide tourists with background information about the facility. From around May to September, there are also two public tours a week along the themed trail. Here you can also climb the platform of the Große Schanze.
There have already been many concepts for re-using the Olympic ski stadium. Ideas like “Olympia-Erlebniswelt”, “Sportpark Gudiberg” or a Euregio project “Olympia-Region Garmisch-Partenkirchen-Seefeld” were discarded in Garmisch-Partenkirchen's town hall. In 2013 the municipality decided that in the course of an application and the receipt of the Olympic Winter Games 2022, the structure of the stadium should be preserved, renovated and expanded. The east stand in particular is to be expanded and modernized by partially demolishing it or building a new one. The funding for the expansion should have come from the federal government and the Free State. However, the application was not made after a referendum.
Around 80,000 jumps end up in the ski stadium every year.
architecture
The horseshoe-shaped Olympic ski stadium is open to the southeast to the four jumps. In the middle on the opposite side is the Gasthof Olympiahaus . The grandstands are mostly stone benches on which you can both sit and stand. Additional wooden benches were installed only to the east of the Olympiahaus. Depending on the season, seat shells are also installed in the stadium.
Fourteen entrances allow entry into the stadium: two side main entrances each at the parking lots, two on the sides of the restaurants and ten more distributed across the stadium. The side entrances were each decorated with two wall sculptures. At the southeast end of the stadium there is an opening to the catacombs. There is a gravel path between the grandstands and the lawn.
literature
- Organizing Committee for the IV. Olympic Winter Games (Ed.): Olympic Winter Games 1936 - Official Report . Reichssportverlag, Berlin 1936 ( work online [PDF; accessed on October 24, 2014]).
Web links
- gapa.de about the ski jump and the stadium
- Official website of the Gasthof Olympiahaus
Individual evidence
- ↑ Organizing Committee for the IV. Olympic Winter Games 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen EV (Ed.): IV. Olympic Winter Games 1936 - Official Report . Reichssportverlag , Berlin 1936, p. 74 ( PDF ).
- ↑ a b c Official report, p. 27.
- ↑ a b museums + exhibitions. (No longer available online.) City of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on September 16, 2014 . 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.
- ↑ Olympic ski jumping hill. (No longer available online.) City of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on September 16, 2014 . 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.
- ↑ Distance calculated by luftlinie.org .
- ↑ a b c d e boards along the themed path.
- ↑ Official report, p. 35.
- ↑ Official report, p. 37.
- ↑ Official report, p. 45.
- ↑ a b Themed trails - The Olympic route. (PDF) Outdooractive, accessed on September 16, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c The future of the Olympic ski stadium. Münchner Merkur , September 18, 2013, accessed on September 16, 2014 .
- ↑ A landmark: the Olympic ski stadium. Zugspitz region, accessed on September 16, 2014 .
- ↑ Guided tour of the ski jump. (PDF) (No longer available online.) City of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, formerly in the original ; accessed on September 30, 2014 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Welcome to the OlympiaHaus - Gasthof - Cafe. Olympiahaus, accessed on September 16, 2014 .
Competition venues for the 1936 Winter Olympics
