PSD Bank Arena

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PSD Bank Arena
Stadium on Bornheimer Hang
PSD Bank Arena logo
The PSD Bank Arena in Frankfurt (2018)
The stadium on Bornheimer Hang in Frankfurt am Main (2018)
Sponsor name (s)
  • Frankfurter Volksbank Stadium (2006-2017)
  • PSD Bank Arena (since 2018)
Data
place Richard-Herrmann-Platz 1 60386 Frankfurt am Main , Germany
GermanyGermany
Coordinates 50 ° 7 '41.2 "  N , 8 ° 43' 23.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '41.2 "  N , 8 ° 43' 23.7"  E
owner town Frankfurt am Main
operator FSV Frankfurt
opening 1931
July 23, 2009 (after the renovation)
First game July 23, 2009
FSV Frankfurt - Werder Bremen 1: 2 (after the renovation)
Extensions 2007-2009
2012
surface Natural grass
capacity 12,542 seats
Societies)
Events

The PSD Bank Arena , originally and in parlance often the stadium on Bornheimer Hang , is a football stadium in Frankfurt am Main . With 12,542 seats, the venue in the Bornheim district is the second largest in the city after the Commerzbank-Arena . The facility is located on Bornheimer slope in the immediate vicinity of the subway station Johanna-Tesch -Platz .

history

The stadium on Bornheimer Hang is the third venue in the history of FSV Frankfurt : In the early years of the club, the team played on an urban green area "Im Prüfling" in the center of Bornheim, in 1908 they acquired their own site on Seckbacher Landstrasse and finally moved in 1931 the FSV to the "Bornheimer Hang".

From the founding of the women's Bundesliga in 1991 to the dissolution of the FSV women's division in 2006, the PSD Bank Arena was the first division stadium for FSV women. In the final of the DFB Cup in 1983, the local FSV lost 3-0 to KBC Duisburg in the stadium on Bornheimer Hang in May 1983 . The record number of spectators in women's football on Bornheimer Hang was set by another club: On May 27, 2006, the 1. FFC Frankfurt won the European Women's Cup against the 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam with a 3: 2 in front of the record number of 13,200 spectators at the time -Victory.

Since the 2008/09 season, when it was promoted to the regional soccer league , the stadium was also the home of the Eintracht Frankfurt U23 team until its dissolution in summer 2014. Since its promotion to the Regionalliga Süd in 2010, the U23 team of the FSV in the Frankfurter Volksbank Stadium. Although the statutes of the DFL limit the number of home teams in a stadium to two, the Frankfurter Volksbank (Eintracht Frankfurt U23 FSV Frankfurt, FSV Frankfurt U23) could Stadium from the 2010/11 season thanks to a special permit as the home of three teams serve. The decisive factor here was a motion from the FSV, which wanted to avoid the U23 team having to play their home games in the Commerzbank Arena, which was oversized for the regional league. Financially alone, this would hardly have been possible, since almost three quarters of the U23's budget would have been covered by the cost of using the stadium.

The American football club Frankfurt Universe has been playing its home games on Bornheimer Hang since the 2015 season . In the 2016 season, Frankfurt Universe plays in the German Football League South, the top German division in American football.

The venue gained historical importance for the Kosovar national soccer team , which played their first official international match there on June 3, 2016 and won 2-0 against the Faroe Islands .

In February 2018, PSD Bank Hessen-Thüringen became the name sponsor of the Frankfurt stadium. The contract initially runs until 2021.

Remodeling

Conversion into a pure football stadium

The stadium, which was formerly also suitable for athletics , was converted into a pure football stadium between November 2007 and July 2009, which today offers 10,826 spectators, although the old main stand was initially left untouched. However, the stadium was initially not granted the building permit for a floodlight system as a prerequisite for approval as a second division stadium, as it was feared that road users on the neighboring A 661 could be dazzled . After numerous tests, including a complete closure of the motorway, the green light was given. For the same reason, the mobile video wall in the guest gallery was removed without replacement at the end of the 2009/10 season. In the following season, this was replaced by a permanently installed video wall. The converted stadium was inaugurated on July 23, 2009 with a friendly match between FSV and Werder Bremen (1: 2).

Reconstruction of the main grandstand

Another requirement is the renovation of the main grandstand, which was retained in the renovation phase from 2007 to 2009 and which requires considerable renovation. The stadium can only be used in the second division thanks to a special permit. Above all, disagreement in politics on how and when to convert and at what cost delayed a decision on how to proceed by many months. The issue of costs seemed to be the crux of the matter, since up to a further 20 million euros can be expected in addition to the 18 million euros already invested.

As a result, the action alliance “ FRANKfurt do something! “, Which wants to bring movement back into the deadlocked situation with the help of a signature campaign.

The dispute over the renovation of the main stand was u. a. the trigger for the resignation of the then managing director of FSV Frankfurt 1899 Fußball GmbH , Bernd Reisig . At the end of February 2011, a solution to the renovation problem appeared to be in sight, when the Frankfurt city council approved the renovation of the main grandstand beginning in autumn 2011. The renovation work should therefore be completed by the 2012/13 season. However, this resulted in another problem: Since the stadium is already violating the DFL statutes - 15,000 seats are required for matches in the second division - the further reduction in audience capacity during the renovation phase to significantly less than 10,000 people made it possible to revoke the Special permit from the DFL. Thus, the FSV would have had to move to an alternative location for the time of the renovation, as in 2008/09. The Commerzbank-Arena was under discussion, but stadiums outside Frankfurt also seemed not to be ruled out if the DFL persisted in their decision.

In May 2011, however, it was announced that the FSV Frankfurt may also play during the renovation of the main stand in the Frankfurter Volksbank Stadium, provided that no license-relevant conditions are violated.

According to information from the sports business magazine Sponsors, the city council of Frankfurt “approved the construction and financing proposal for the reconstruction of the main stand of the Frankfurter Volksbank Stadium in its plenary meeting”. The construction company Walter Hellmich GmbH was awarded the contract for the € 10.5 million refurbishment of the main stand.

In January 2012 the grandstand was finally demolished. During the demolition, used oil was found under the old floor slab, which led to additional costs, as the contaminated soil had to be removed. The "reconstruction" should be completed in summer 2012. On November 24, 2012, the new main grandstand was officially inaugurated as part of a home game against 1. FC Kaiserslautern . Almost six months after completion, the FSV Frankfurt was relegated to the second division after eight years, so that the renovation is rated as a "questionable investment" and a "million dollar grave".

gallery

  • South side to present the new sponsor

  • Interior of the stadium on the day of the reopening

  • View of "Am Bornheimer Hang"

  • The stadium with the old main stand (left in the picture)

literature

  • Werner Skrentny (Hrsg.): The big book of the German football stadiums . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89533-306-9 , pp. 120–122.

Web links

Commons : PSD Bank Arena  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fsv-frankfurt.de: PSD Bank HT gets naming right - partner until 2021 Article dated February 9, 2018
  2. ↑ Tobias Rösmann: Down to the last rank. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 11, 2010, accessed on June 29, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Petition: Frankfurt do something: No building ruins for 18 million - grandstand renovation now! ( Memento from October 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Jörg Daniels: Back to the city forest? Frankfurter Neue Presse, April 27, 2011, accessed on June 29, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Michael Helms: The FSV Frankfurt remains on the slope. Frankfurter Neue Presse, May 12, 2011, accessed on June 29, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Green light for stadium renovation in Frankfurt. sponsors.de, October 4, 2011, accessed on January 10, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Linda Wickert: The old main stand has been torn down. FSV Frankfurt 1899 Fußball GmbH, January 26, 2012, accessed on June 29, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Frankfurter Neue Presse (ed.): Used oil was buried under the grandstand. March 23, 2012. Retrieved June 29, 2012 .
  9. ^ FSV Frankfurt 1899 Fußball GmbH (ed.): Reconstruction of the main stand of the Frankfurter Volksbank Stadium. Retrieved June 29, 2012 .
  10. ^ Frankfurter Neue Presse (ed.): Hard work before the premiere. November 23, 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2013 .
  11. ↑ Daniel Gräber: Bornheimer Hang grave of millions - taxpayers have to compensate for losses. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . May 25, 2019, accessed December 19, 2019 .