Prince Park Races

The Prinzenpark race was a motorsport event for motorcycles and small racing cars that took place annually in Braunschweig between 1948 and 1951 . Between 20,000 and 50,000 spectators came to the races. The name of the event comes from the Prinzenpark in the eastern ring area of Braunschweig , where the event took place. The organizer was the Braunschweig DMV Club.

history

The first Braunschweiger Prinzenpark-race took place on August 22, 1948 in front of 30,000 spectators and was also a run for the German Championship F3 (500 cm³). Winners on the 3.8 km long circuit, which had to be driven five times, were: HP Müller with the 250 cm³ machines, Siegfried Wünsche with the 350 cm³ and Georg Meier , known as the "Cast Iron Schorsch", on a 500 series BMW .

The second race took place on May 8, 1949. The race "Um den Braunschweiger Löwen " went over 20 laps or 76 km. The third race followed on August 20, 1950, the fourth on July 22, 1951. In the summer of 1952, another race was to take place around the Prinzenpark, but just a few hours before the start, the Braunschweig district government banned all races within the city for safety reasons. That was the end of the Prinzenpark races.

Around 1948 there was even a board game that could be used to replay the Prinzenpark races. One specimen was discovered at a flea market in 2009. In February 2011, it was presented to the public in the old town hall in a greatly enlarged form, namely copied onto a truck tarpaulin .

Prince Park Revival 2010

On July 17 and 18, 2010, various motorcycle races took place in the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben, 85 km south-east of Braunschweig, in memory of those in Braunschweig's Prinzenpark.

literature

Kurt Hoffmeister : Time travel through Braunschweig's sports history. Self-published by Kurt Hoffmeister, Braunschweig 2001, ISBN 3-926701-50-1 .
Eckhard Schimpf : Prinzenpark. The first car and motorcycle races of the post-war period. Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-7688-3365-3 .
Cecilie Hollberg (Ed.) For the Braunschweig Municipal Museum : Braunschweiger Prinzenpark-Rennen. Exhibition catalog and calendar 2012. Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-65-9 .