Park Stadium

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Park Stadium
The Park Stadium before the game between FC Schalke 04 and 1. FC Nürnberg on September 12, 1998
The Park Stadium before the game between FC Schalke 04 and 1. FC Nürnberg on September 12, 1998
Data
place Parkallee 3 45891 Gelsenkirchen , Germany
GermanyGermany
Coordinates 51 ° 33 '33.3 "  N , 7 ° 4' 3.5"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 33 '33.3 "  N , 7 ° 4' 3.5"  E
start of building 29th August 1969
opening 4th August 1973
First game August 4, 1973
FC Schalke 04 - Feyenoord Rotterdam
March 29, 2020
FC Schalke 04 - Zenit St. Petersburg (postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic )
Renovations 1998
2015–2020 (conversion to amateur stadium)
demolition 2004 (part), 2008 (part)
surface Natural grass
capacity 70,600 places (1973–1998)
62,004 places (1998–2001)
02,999 places (since 2020)
Capacity (internat.) 55,340 places (1973–1998)
55,877 places (1998–2001)
Societies)
Events

The original Parkstadion was a football stadium with athletics facility that existed from 1973 to 2008 in the Erle district of the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Gelsenkirchen . The football club FC Schalke 04 played its home games in the football arena from 1973 to 2001. The facility initially held 70,600 spectators, after the renovation in 1998 it still offered 62,004 spectator seats. In the summer of 2001, FC Schalke 04 moved to the newly built AufSchalke arena . Most of it was then demolished.

A football stadium with 5,000 seats under the old name Parkstadion was built on the ground of the old stadium . In the future, the youth teams of the U17, U19 and the second team (U23) of Schalke 04 will play their home games there.

history

The old park stadium

Initially, the Parkstadion should be called Ruhrstadion . But they decided otherwise. Ironically, the converted stadium on Castroper Straße , home of VfL Bochum , was renamed Ruhrstadion in 1979 . The Park Stadium was built on the site of the Buer airfield and from 1973 was the venue for the home games of FC Schalke 04, which previously played in the Glückauf-Kampfbahn . The German national soccer team played a total of eight games in the Park Stadium between 1973 and 1998. Furthermore, Bundesliga home games by Rot-Weiss Essen (1975) and Borussia Dortmund (1977), the deciding game of the relegation in 1991 between the Stuttgarter Kickers and FC St. Pauli , three semi-finals in the DFB Cup (FC Schalke 04 against 1. FC Köln 1980 , FC Schalke 04 versus FC Bayern Munich 1984 and Rot-Weiß Oberhausen versus FC Bayern Munich 1999 ) as well as two final games of the competition ( Fortuna Düsseldorf versus 1. FC Köln 1978 and 1980 ), three German athletics championships ( 1975 , 1981 , 1987 ), concerts (including Marius Müller-Westernhagen , Wolfgang Petry , Michael Jackson , Pink Floyd , Genesis or the Rolling Stones ), and a papal mass (1987), due to which the then Pope John Paul II was an honorary member of the FC Schalke 04 was held. The stadium also gained international fame as the venue for the 1974 World Cup with one qualifying game, five games in the tournament and the 1988 European Football Championship with two games.

Originally, the main grandstand was to have a tent roof similar to that of the Munich Olympic Stadium . However, this was discarded for reasons of cost. The system initially had a display panel in the north curve. A video screen was later installed in the south curve. The fans of FC Schalke 04 stood in the north curve, especially in Block 5. However, Block I in the upper tier of the main grandstand was also known for its good atmosphere in later years. Although the stadium was often reviled for its spaciousness, a cult developed around the Schalke home games in the UEFA Cup in the 1996/97 season . All six games, including the final first leg against Inter Milan , remained clean, which was considered a basis for Schalke's European Cup success.

In its final years, the home of S04 showed signs of aging, particularly due to mountain damage . The then Schalke President Günter Eichberg announced a new arena in 1989 with an opening date in 1992. However, it was not until 2001 that the Parkstadion was finally closed. The last Bundesliga game in the Park Stadium was known as a negative highlight for FC Schalke 04. On the last match day of the 2000/01 Bundesliga season, the club missed the possible German championship despite its 5-3 win against SpVgg Unterhaching , which FC Bayern Munich won through its late equalizer at Hamburger SV . Most recently, only friendlies were played against lower-class opponents in the Parkstadion. The last soccer game of the first team of FC Schalke 04 in the Parkstadion was a friendly against MSV Duisburg on November 17th, 2008 (3: 1). The FC Schalke 04 players continue to train in the old park stadium. In 2004, the partial demolition of the Park Stadium began and a rehabilitation center and hotel were built on the site of the former south curve. After that there were still around 23,000 places available. The second demolition phase of the Park Stadium had to be postponed at the beginning of 2008 due to hazardous substances in the building structure. In May 2008, work continued and the rest of the main stand demolished.

The new park stadium

From January 2015 , extensive excavation work was carried out on the Berger Feld site between the districts of Erle, Buer and Schalke , in the vicinity of the Veltins-Arena, for the subsequent conversion and expansion of the previous training site with additional training grounds and a new, regional league-compatible stadium for 5,000 visitors. The northeastern floodlight mast will be retained as a landmark . The spectator stands are on the former back straight. The original park stadium with athletics facility was converted from 2015 to 2020 into a small stadium suitable for regional leagues. The entire renovation project on the new Berger Feld includes the Park Stadium as a junior stadium, a professional performance center, new training grounds and a parking garage . The buildings have largely been completed and should be completed in 2021 with the completion of the parking garage. In the future it will serve as a venue for the second team as well as the U19 and U17 of the S04. The official reopening should be celebrated with a friendly game on March 29, 2020 between Schalke 04 and Zenit St. Petersburg . An opening game between the U19s and FC Viktoria Köln , which was previously scheduled for the beginning of February of that year, had to be moved to an artificial turf pitch due to the weather . The proceeds from the ticket sales of the first game will go to the association's own Foundation Schalke helps! . Entry costs (0) 4 euros. S04 is investing a total of 95 million euros in the new site. On March 11th, the new opening and the opening game were postponed. Due to the rampant COVID-19 pandemic , Zenit St. Petersburg will not be arriving. You want to make up for the event at a later date. Despite the postponed opening ceremony, the stadium will serve as the home ground for the U23 and U19 teams from the 2020/21 season.

International matches

International matches of the German national soccer team

The German national soccer team played eight games in the Park Stadium. The German team remained undefeated in this stadium.

Games of the 1974 World Cup in Gelsenkirchen

  • June 18, 1974, first round, Group II: Yugoslavia - Zaire 9-0 (6-0)Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia ZaireZaire 
  • June 22, 1974, First Round Group II: Zaire - Brazil 0: 3 (0: 1)ZaireZaire BrazilBrazil 
  • 26 June 1974, Second Round, Group A: Netherlands - Argentina 4: 0 (2: 0)NetherlandsNetherlands ArgentinaArgentina 
  • June 30, 1974, Second Round, Group A: Netherlands - DDR 2: 0 (1: 0)NetherlandsNetherlands Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR 
  • 0July 3, 1974, Second Round, Group A: Argentina - DDR 1: 1 (1: 1)ArgentinaArgentina Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR 

Games of the European Football Championship 1988 in Gelsenkirchen

  • June 14, 1988, preliminary round, group 1: Germany - Denmark 2-0 (1-0)Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany DenmarkDenmark 
  • June 18th, 1988, Preliminary Round, Group 2: Ireland - Netherlands 0: 1 (0: 0)IrelandIreland NetherlandsNetherlands 

gallery

  • The Parkstadion, in the background the Veltins-Arena (2005)

  • Main stand of the Parkstadion - start of dismantling (2006)

  • Back of the former stands of the Park Stadium (2006)

  • The Park Stadium is now used as a training ground (2010)

  • Park Stadium, aerial photo (2016)

  • Arena and Park Stadium (2016)

literature

  • Stefan Barta My Park Stadium - loved, hated, missed ... , Verlag Ecke-Tor, Hamm 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-028437-3 .

Web links

Commons : Parkstadion  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Park Stadium. In: gelsenkirchener-geschichten.de. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Moritz with a broken cheekbone - Huntelaar back in training ( Memento from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Park Stadium is being demolished. In: derwesten.de . May 19, 2008, accessed February 18, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Manfred Hendriock: This is how FC Schalke 04 is building its new home. In: derwesten.de . October 4, 2017, accessed February 18, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Schalke begins renovating the Park Stadium. In: derwesten.de . RevierSport , January 28, 2015, accessed on February 18, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Norbert Neubaum, Matthias Heselmann: 70 million euros for the further renovation of the Schalke club grounds . In: ruhrnachrichten.de. Ruhr Nachrichten , July 9, 2018, accessed on February 18, 2020 .
  7. ↑ The new Berger field. In: s04-bautagebuch.pageflow.io. Retrieved February 17, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Hendrik Niebuhr: Schalke test match: New date for Parkstadion opening is. In: reviersport.de. February 17, 2020, accessed February 17, 2020 .
  9. ↑ The Park Stadium will be reopened. In: stadionwelt.de. February 18, 2020, accessed February 18, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Coronavirus: Schalke postpones the opening of the Park Stadium and test match. In: wa.de . March 11, 2020, accessed March 28, 2020 .