Post Stadium

Post Stadium
Exterior facade of the main stand after the renovation
Data
place	Berlin , Germany
Coordinates	52 ° 31 '48 "  N , 13 ° 21' 34"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '48 "  N , 13 ° 21' 34"  E
owner	State of Berlin
opening	May 28, 1929
surface	Natural grass
architect	Georg Demmler
capacity	10,000 seats
playing area	105 m × 62 m
Societies)
Berlin AK 07 SC Union 06 Berlin (among others)
Events
Games of the German national soccer team Final of the 1934 German soccer championship Final of the 1936 German soccer championship Boxing match between Schmeling and Uzcudun in 1935 Games of the 1936 Olympic Football Tournament Hertha BSC games (1980s) Games of the Berlin Adler (American Football) (2010s)

The Poststadion is a sports stadium with athletics facility at Lehrter Strasse  59 in the Berlin district of Moabit , which was completed in 1929 and has been listed as a historical monument since April 30, 1990 . It borders on the Fritz-Schloß-Park . Together with the Fritz-Schloß-Park, the facility is also known as the SportPark Poststadion .

The sports facility is one of the largest sports facilities in Berlin. It essentially consists of a stadium with natural grass , five large fields with artificial turf , a small playing field with artificial turf, two athletics facilities, a sports and rowing hall, a roller sports facility, a skate park , a street workout facility, a family sports field and a climbing hall for the German Alpine Club and tennis courts managed by the Tiergarten tennis club.

history

Bucket seats were installed on the back straight

The stadium was built for Post SV Berlin on behalf of the Reich Postal Administration on the site of the former parade ground of the Guard Uhlans not far from the Lehrter train station .

The complex was created between 1926 and 1929 according to the plans of the architect Georg Demmler . At the facility, lawn, water and indoor sports were combined into a large popular sports facility . It was a model for similar sports parks that were set up in other German cities during the Weimar Republic .

The large competition stadium with a grandstand building originally for 35,000 spectators was surrounded by ten tennis courts, a tennis stadium, four soccer fields, a swimming and rowing hall and a summer pool. The inauguration of the main facility took place on May 28 and 29, 1929.

Parts of the stadium were destroyed in the Second World War and largely rebuilt in 1945, so that games could be resumed in summer 1945 and the outdoor pool reopened on August 19, 1945. The indoor swimming pool, which was rebuilt in a modern design, was closed in 1984 and converted into a gymnasium in 1990. In the 1950s, the roller sports facility was built north of the entrance area on Lehrter Strasse.

In 2002 the outdoor pool was closed and from May 2006 to 2012 it was the camping site tent station . A wellness resort opened there in June 2014. The plans for an outdoor pool behind the Stadtbad Tiergarten in Seydlitzstraße, as a replacement for the outdoor pool, were initially discontinued in 2013 and resumed in 2018. The outdoor pool is to be built by 2021 as part of the renovation of the Tiergarten public swimming pool.

After the entire facility slowly fell into disrepair since the 1970s, the first renovation work on the stadium began at the end of 2003. The stadium has had a synthetic track since 2005 . In the meantime, the grandstand building with the main grandstand has been refurbished in accordance with the monument. 2,200 new seat shells were installed on the back straight, so that it now has a capacity of around 10,000 people.

Since 2008, the urban redevelopment funding program has been redesigning areas and sports facilities around the stadium. In 2010 the skater hockey facility was given a roof and new seating and standing areas. The former throwing area was redesigned into a family sports field with sports and play equipment in 2013. The forecourt in front of the grandstand building was renovated in 2015 and received a street workout facility. At the end of 2018, a 1000 m² skate park with floodlights was opened. The outdoor pool of the Tiergarten public swimming pool is also to be financed through the funding program.

Outstanding events

Post Stadium grandstand, 2018

Memorial plaque on the stadium grounds

In the Post Stadium, especially in the 1920s and 1930s, many football matches of national importance took place. In 1934 FC Schalke 04 and 1. FC Nürnberg played the German soccer final in front of 45,000 spectators in the Poststadion and in 1936 1. FC Nürnberg became German champions in the final against Fortuna Düsseldorf . Berlin clubs played their final round of the German championship, such as Union Oberschöneweide , Hertha BSC , Berliner SV 92 , Blau-Weiß 90 and BSC Kickers 1900 .

The Poststadion replaced the Grunewaldstadion , where the finals in 1922, 1923, 1924 and 1927 were held. After the Olympic Stadium was built on the site of the Grunewald Stadium for the Olympic Games in 1936 , the Post Stadium lost its role as the most important sports facility in Berlin. All finals from 1937 to 1944 and six finals in the 1950s and 1960s took place in the Olympic Stadium. One day before the 1943 final in the Olympic Stadium, the game for third place was played in the Post Stadium.

The German national soccer team played three games in the Poststadion. At the Olympic Games in 1936, the preliminary round games for footballers took place here. When the German national soccer team played against Norway on August 7, 1936, a record number of spectators was set in the now expanded stadium with 55,000 visitors. The German team lost 2-0 under the eyes of the entire leadership of the Third Reich and robbed themselves of all medal chances. This was the last international match under the leadership of the Reich trainer Otto Nerz , whose successor was Sepp Herberger . Germany won the last international match in Berlin before the opening of the Olympic Stadium in 1936 in front of 12,000 spectators in the Poststadion against Luxembourg 9-0.

The backdrop of the Poststadion was also used for political activities. During the Nazi era, for example, there was a parade of the Hitler Youth on May 1, 1935, at which Adolf Hitler gave a speech. On June 20, 1946, the SPD's first public rally after the Second World War took place in the Poststadion, with Kurt Schumacher speaking .

When Hertha BSC was relegated to the third-class league in the 1980s , the club played its games in the Poststadion. Hertha BSC also switched to the Poststadion for some home games in the second division season 1988/89 due to the lack of spectator interest.

On July 7, 1935, the stadium became a boxing arena when Max Schmeling fought Paulino Uzcudun .

Current usage

Soccer

Berliner AK 07 - ZFC Meuselwitz in the 2016/17 season

The sports facilities serve as training and play facilities for over 200 clubs as well as for school sports. It is administered by the Central District Office .

In the 2007/08 season, the league club SV Yeşilyurt Berlin played its home games in the main stadium. The team is now playing on the side seats. BFC Tur Abdin, SC Union 06 Berlin , Minerva 93 Berlin and ASV Berlin , among others, also play their home games mostly on the side courts . The regional league team Berliner AK 07 (BAK) plays its home games in the main stadium. In 2008, Tennis Borussia Berlin briefly considered a return to the Post Stadium for the 2009/10 season as well as a comprehensive renovation of the stadium, which should then hold 16,000 spectators. The plans were not carried out.

On August 15, 2010, the Berlin AK 07 played its home game in the first round of the DFB Cup against 1. FSV Mainz 05 in the Poststadion, after it had been prepared accordingly during the summer break. On August 18, 2012, the Berliners achieved a sensation in the first round of the DFB Cup, the regional league team sent TSG 1899 Hoffenheim home with a 4-0 and thus made it into the second round, in which the BAK, however, 3-0 lost against TSV 1860 Munich and was eliminated.

athletics

Since 1949 the ASV Berlin e. V. the main square as a training facility. Since then the athletics department has provided many Berlin and German champions and had its greatest successes in the 1960s.

tennis

The eight tennis courts are leased to a tennis club. No major sporting events have been held since 1990.

Inline skater hockey

Refurbished roller skating rink with a newly built roof

The roller sports facility has been the official playing area of ​​the German Inline Skaterhockey League (ISHD) since 2011 . In addition to the MO Buffalos Berlin , who play in the 1st Bundesliga, use the area as a substitute venue for their home games, the Poststadion houses the Spreewölfe Berlin , who have been playing in the Regionalliga Nord since 2011.

American football

In addition to the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark , the Poststadion is the venue for home games of the Berlin Adler .

Roller derby

The roller sports facility is used as the home ground of the Roller Derby Leagues Bear City Roller Derby and Berlin Rollergirls.

Street workout

The street workout facility is not tied to a club and is available to everyone.

skateboard

The skate park is not tied to a club and is available to everyone.

literature

• Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The big book of the German football stadiums , Göttingen 2001, pp. 50–52. ISBN 3-89533-306-9 .

Web links

Commons : Poststadion  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Lexicon entry on luise-berlin.de
• Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
• Information about the Post Stadium
• Detailed picture gallery on stadionwelt.de
• Information on the Poststadion sports park
• SportPark Poststadion operator concept

Individual evidence

1. ↑ District Office Mitte of Berlin: Sportpark Poststadion. Retrieved February 9, 2018 . 
2. ^ List, map, database / Landesdenkmalamt Berlin. Retrieved February 9, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Stefan Strauss: Open-air party in the tent station in Moabit: Last dance in the swimming pool . In: Berliner Zeitung . ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed on February 9, 2018]).
4. ↑ Uwe Aulich: Swimming pool in the Post Stadium: Dried out: No swimming pool in Moabit . In: Berliner Zeitung . ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed on February 9, 2018]).
5. ^ Christian Latz: Stadtbad Tiergarten gets an outdoor pool. January 15, 2019, accessed on February 25, 2019 (German). 
6. ↑ Berlin, your football stadiums. Retrieved February 9, 2018 . 
7. ↑ News in brief. Retrieved February 9, 2018 . 
8. ^ Urban redevelopment Berlin: Projects. Retrieved December 14, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Thomas Hummel Düsseldorf: When Hitler left the stadium furious . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2010, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on February 9, 2018]).
10. ↑ chronoshistory: Jungvolk and Pimpfe (excerpt from “History of the Hitler Youth”, Part 2). April 25, 2014, accessed February 9, 2018 . 
11. ^ Schumacher speech 1946 / first public rally of the SPD . In: Getty Images . ( gettyimages.de [accessed February 9, 2018]).
12. ↑ Chronicle: Berlin in 1946, facts day by day. Retrieved February 9, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Albert Speer designs the football arena for Mitte. In: Der Tagesspiegel , March 22, 2008.
14. ^ Announcement on the homepage of Tennis Borussia with a location and usage study for download