Prussia Stadium
| Municipal stadium on Hammer Strasse | |
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| Prussia Stadium | |
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 Munster , Germany
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 55 '47 " N , 7 ° 37' 28.5" E |
| owner | City of Munster |
| operator | SC Preußen 06 Münster |
| opening | 1926 |
| Renovations | 2008 / 2009 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 14,300 |
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The Preußenstadion is a sports stadium built in 1926 in Münster, Westphalia . The stadium is the home of SC Preußen 06 eV Münster , to which it owes its name.
history
At the time of construction, the Preußenstadion was one of the most modern football stadiums in Germany. It had a capacity of around 40,000 spectators. For safety reasons, the audience capacity has been reduced more and more over time, so that today it is 14,300, including almost 3,000 seats. The standing room is divided into 4,500 covered and 7,500 uncovered. However, the total number of seats is not a result of structural conditions, but of noise protection reasons. Therefore, for games that are expected to be of particular interest, an exemption is possible so that up to 18,500 visitors can then be admitted. The Preußenstadion was the first football stadium in Germany with its own train station (Münster-Preußenstadion) on the Preußen – Münster railway line , which has since been closed.
On November 1, 1925, the match between Preußen Münster and Arminia Bielefeld was broadcast from the current location of the Preußenstadion as the first live broadcast of a football match on German radio. The commentator for this game was Bernhard Ernst .
The attendance record, which is still valid today, was achieved in 1951 in a championship round match against 1. FC Nürnberg with 40,000 visitors.
The home games of the Prussians took place in the Prussian stadium in the first Bundesliga season 1963/64 . On the first day of the 1963/64 season in the game against Hamburger SV, the Preußenstadion was the only and therefore the first sold-out Bundesliga stadium.
In addition to sporting events, the stadium is also used for other purposes. On April 24, 1965, Lieutenant General Ulrich de Maizière, as inspector of the army, handed over the troop flags to 17 selected battalions. In the summer of 1981 and 1985, the International Jazz Festival was held twice in the Preußenstadion, which in 1981 was attended by around 5,500 spectators.
Although the SC Preußen Münster also has an athletics department and athletics sports festivals were held in the Prussian stadium in the 1960s, the cinder track was not replaced by a plastic track.
Refurbishment since 2008
On May 14, 2008, the preliminary reconstruction plans for the renovation of the old main grandstand from 1948 were presented to the public. Initially, the club planned to build the new grandstand with the construction company Walter Hellmich . However, these plans were not put into practice because the Duisburg company suddenly asked for more than the available € 5,150,000. As a result, the Paderborn-based Bremer AG , which had already built the Benteler Arena , was brought on board as a new construction company. During the complete new construction of the grandstand (demolished on November 11, 2008), the standing areas on the back straight were also covered. For the game against Leverkusen II on November 14, 2008, the roofing of the back straight was completed.
On January 17, 2009, parts of the roof structure of the shell of the new main stand collapsed, injuring two construction workers. After a two-day break, work was resumed and the construction project was completed on schedule.
The new main grandstand has a capacity of 2,885 seats, including almost 800 business seats, and also offers various function rooms, press rooms and initially ten VIP boxes. The city of Münster bore the renovation costs of € 4.8 million. The grandstand was handed over on May 16, 2009 and officially inaugurated on August 21, 2009 before the championship game against Schalke 04 II.
In the further course of the renovation work, an electronic scoreboard was installed in the Preußenstadion for the first time in the summer of 2010. The board, which was previously used in a ThyssenKrupp plant , went into operation for the DFB Cup game against VfL Wolfsburg on August 15, 2010.
During the 31st match day of the 2010/2011 season, 18,500 spectators came to the regional league game against Borussia Mönchengladbach's second team. This was not only a new attendance record in the 4th division, but also the game in which Preußen Münster secured promotion to the 3rd division with a 3-0 win.
At the beginning of the 2011/2012 season, the floodlight system was modernized, as required by the DFB for television broadcasts. The inauguration of the new floodlight system took place on August 17th on the occasion of the home game against SV Babelsberg (1: 1).
During the summer break before the start of the 2012/13 season, the more than 60-year-old turf, on which the Prussians played their first Bundesliga home game in 1963, was replaced and a new turf was laid. In the course of this, pipes were also laid for later lawn heating. The opening of the new field took place on July 28, 2012 in the first home game of the new 2012/13 season against Chemnitzer FC. In addition, minor renovation work was carried out, which was carried out with the voluntary help of fans and sponsors.
Public transport
The stadium is served by bus lines 1, 5 and 9, which all connect the main train station with Hiltrup . The plan is to build a Münster-Preußenstadion station as part of the future Münsterland S-Bahn , at which the trains for the S9 (Münster-Hamm), S1 (Münster-Dortmund), S2 (Münster-Haltern) and S3 (Münster- Coesfeld).
Web links
- Stadium on the homepage of Preußen Münster
- Stadium guide at stadionwelt.de
- Visitor report from 2004 on groundhopping.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: 100 years of Preußen Münster. The workshop, Münster 2006, p. 29.
- ↑ Stadium at scpreussen-muenster.de, accessed on May 9, 2019.
- ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : bankruptcies pave the way to success - history of the jazz festival: changing concert venues and financial fiasco , Münster / Kultur, Münster, January 8, 2015.
- ↑ Preußenstadion in the council: The new plans even provided for an increase in seating capacity compared to Walter Hellmich Baugesellschaft. ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Ruhr Nachrichten: After the grandstand collapsed in Münster: Public prosecutor's office determined ( 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. , January 21, 2009.
- ↑ Cup game: premiere for scoreboard
- ↑ New lawn in the Preußenstadion ( 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.
- ↑ Fans take the initiative ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
