Prinzregentenstadion
The Prinzregentenstadion is located on Prinzregentenstrasse , one of the four most important boulevards in Munich , and is operated by Stadtwerke München. The “Prinze” has a sauna area all year round, it is the largest of the Munich baths. In summer, the Prinzregentenstadion offers cooling off in the outdoor pool with sunbathing lawn, sports and adventure pool. For children there are slides, a paddling area and a playground. There is an ice rink in winter.
The ice rink was set up by Friedrich Kranz (1888–1959) on his own property and opened on December 16, 1933. On this day, the Berliner SC and the SC Riessersee faced each other to repeat the final of the German Ice Hockey Championship in 1933 . The Prinzregentenstadion was the first open-air artificial ice rink in southern Germany. In 1936 the adjoining outdoor pool was added.
In the 1930s, Sonja Henie and the figure skating couple Maxi Herber and Ernst Baier trained in the stadium . The facility was partially destroyed during the Second World War, but rebuilt between 1946 and 1948. The Prinzregentenstadion has been owned by the City of Munich since 1957 and is operated by the Munich municipal utilities . At that time, the stadium had a capacity - if additional grandstands were installed up to 9,000 at times even up to 10,000 spectators. Until the time of renovations 2001, surrounded by bars skating area whose size deviated from the then applicable international specified dimensions, lay in east-west direction and had only two entrances to the field, so that when ice hockey matches between the players' benches, the Hockey court and the penalty benches found.
The demolition and cessation of operations at the end of the 1990s was up for discussion in the Munich city council. Renovation work and the construction of a new main building only began in 2001 after violent public protests. On December 6, 2003, the mayor of Munich, Ude, reopened the stadium. The total costs for the renovation work amounted to over 18 million euros. The ice rink was newly built in a north-south direction due to the valid international dimensions.
The use of the facility is public. During the week the ice rink is used by the surrounding schools and in the evenings by the MEKJ . The " Munich Ice Hockey Club for Children and Young People " is an association for the promotion of young Munich ice hockey players. The use of ice hockey games for adults, which was organized by the Bavarian Ice Sports Association until 2001, is no longer permitted after the renovation.
During the summer months - back in 1950 - the stadium was also used for boxing events.
literature
- The Prinzregentenstadion - a Munich living environment Author: Willibald Karl, Arnold Lemke, Alfons Schweigert, 2006, ISBN 3928432354
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chronicle 1933 at www.muenchen.de .
- ^ History of the Prinzregentenstadion .
- ↑ Sportkurier: purchase price over 1.5 million DM
- ^ History of the Prinzregentenstadion
- ↑ Sportkurier born 1949 to 1958
- ↑ http://www.mstatistik-muenchen.de/archivierung_historische_berichte/MuenchenerStatistik/1970/ms700604.pdf
- ↑ Sportkurier born 1949 to 1958
- ↑ Personal visit to ice hockey games in the 1999/00 and 2000/01 seasons in this stadium
- ↑ Rathaus Umschau, issue 230 (PDF file)
- ^ Munich ice hockey club for children and young people
- ↑ Bayerische Sportzeitung, May 2nd 1950 edition, viewed in the Bayerischer Staatsbibliothek
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 22 ″ N , 11 ° 36 ′ 13 ″ E