Paul Janes Stadium

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Paul Janes Stadium
Aerial photo of the Paul Janes Stadium (left) from the north from a height of 600 meters in June 2016
Aerial photo of the Paul Janes Stadium (left) in June 2016
Earlier names

Fortunaplatz
Flinger Broich

Data
place Flinger Broich 87 40235 Düsseldorf , Germany
GermanyGermany
Coordinates 51 ° 13 '30 "  N , 6 ° 49' 38"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '30 "  N , 6 ° 49' 38"  E
owner City of Düsseldorf
opening 1930
Renovations 1970, 2001-2002
surface Natural grass
capacity 7,200 seats
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Events
The Paul Janes Stadium in Düsseldorf-Flingern (March 2007)

The Paul-Janes-Stadion is a football stadium in the Flingern district of the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital Düsseldorf . It is one of the home venues of the Fortuna Düsseldorf football club (1930 to 1972 and from spring 2002 to 2005). The former club's own stadium, which was built in 1930, has now been named after the long-time Düsseldorf national football player Paul Janes since 1990 . Until then, the stadium was called "Fortunaplatz" or "Flinger Broich".

history

In 1930, the city of Düsseldorf provided the club with a site to build a stadium. A grass pitch was created there with space for around 20,000 spectators. The first game took place there on September 28, 1930; SSV Oberkassel was beaten 2-0. For financial reasons, the grandstand was only later dismantled on the previous Fortuna venue and rebuilt in the new stadium. It was completed on November 1, 1932.

The stadium was only slightly damaged in the Second World War . A well-attended game took place on September 30, 1945. 20,000 spectators saw FC Schalke 04's 5-2 win in a friendly against Fortuna Düsseldorf. After regular game operations began again in 1947/48, there was another game against Schalke on October 22, 1950. Since the Rheinstadion was occupied by an event of the British Army, the Flinger Broich was played and an additional grandstand with standing room for 5,000 was built there. That led to the still valid stadium record of 36,000 spectators. Nevertheless, it was far too tight at the Flinger Broich. That's why Fortuna played in the Rheinstadion from 1952. The Flinger Broich was therefore no longer used regularly and slowly fell into disrepair. In addition, a storm in 1958 destroyed the corrugated iron roof .

In 1967 the Fortuna Düsseldorf clubhouse was built on the site.

Fortuna did not play the home games of their first first division season in 1967/68 at Flinger Broich, but in the Rheinstadion. Because of the major renovation of the Rheinstadion, Fortuna played all home games throughout the first division season 1971/1972 but in the stadium at Flinger Broich.

During a further renovation of the Rheinstadion in 1975, the Paul-Janes-Stadion was again the Bundesliga venue for five games. It received a floodlight system suitable for the Bundesliga .

In 1988 Fortuna sold the stadium to the city in order to avert a license withdrawal with the approximately 1.85 million DM.

Another renovation took place from 2001 to 2002, because the Fortuna should have an acceptable venue after the Rhine Stadium was torn down. New standing room ranks and a grandstand were created on the back straight. The renovation, which the city of Düsseldorf financed, cost five million euros. After the completion of the ESPRIT arena , Fortuna Düsseldorf continued to play up to three home games a year in the Paul Janes Stadium and the remaining games took place in the modern arena. Since the 2007/08 season, no championship games for the first team have been played in the old venue. The Paul Janes Stadium serves exclusively as a venue for test, friendship and cup games as well as for all home games of the second team of Fortuna Düsseldorf and their youth teams.

Events

On June 8, 1986 an open air concert and a. Hosted with BAP , Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, and Katrina and the Waves . A preview of the football feature film The Miracle of Bern took place on October 15, 2003 in the Paul Janes Stadium. The stadium also saw important filming of the documentary Why half past four , which was shown at the 2006 Berlinale .

In 2006, the stadium was during the football World Cup with 12,600 seats the venue for the largest public viewing -Veranstaltung in non-World Cup city in Germany.

Capacity

  • 7,200 spectators
  • covered seats: 2,280
  • not covered:
    • Standing places at home: 3,550
    • Standing guest: 1,370
  • Record attendance: 36,000 (1950 against FC Schalke 04; 2: 3)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fortuna's historical home. Retrieved August 17, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Michael Bolten, Marco Langer: "Everything else is just football" , 2nd edition, Göttingen 2009, p. 371ff.
  3. ^ FRG 1971/72 Bundesliga, Fortuna Düsseldorf, all matches. wildstat.com, accessed August 17, 2016 .
  4. ^ FRG 1975/76 Bundesliga, Fortuna Düsseldorf, all matches. wildstat.com, accessed April 28, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Eintracht-Frankfurt-Archiv, Bundesliga 1975/1976 - 4th matchday. Retrieved April 28, 2013 .
  6. ↑ according to the concert poster