Velodrome at the horse tower

Velodrome at the horse tower
Data
place	Hanover , Lower Saxony
Coordinates	52 ° 22 '9.5 " N , 9 ° 46' 35.8" E Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '9.5 " N , 9 ° 46' 35.8" E
opening	1888
Extensions	1903
demolition	1960
surface	Asphalt (racing surface from 1895)
capacity	10,000
Societies)
	Hannover 96 (until 1958)
Events
	Track cycling; Hanover Grand Prix (from 1897); Motorcycle racing; motor race;

September 25, 1910: In the grass field inside the racetrack, the footballers from Hannover 96 played against Holstein Kiel 1: 1;
in the background advertising banners for Göricke bicycles and the company Triumph
Documentary Photography in the fund of the Historisches Museum Hannover

The cycling track at the horse tower was the first cycling track built in the (today's) state capital Hanover . The location of the sports facility , initially built exclusively for cycling races in the 19th century and operated until the 1950s, was between the municipal slaughterhouse in the Bult district and the horse tower in the Kleefeld district .

history

1905: The club flag of the HFC v. 1896 ;
in front of a banner of the " Adler - Mortorwagen - Finest Brand "

The cyclist racing club founded especially for this purpose had campaigned for the construction of Hanover's first cycling track, until an initially simple cinder track on urban leased land at the horse tower was inaugurated in 1888. Only a few years later, the racing surface was replaced by asphalt in 1895 .

From 1897 the Hanover Grand Prix was held on this track until the 1950s.

In 1903 a more extensive renovation of the entire facility was carried out: the racetrack, with its now reinforced and higher curves, was lengthened to 500 meters, and a 400-meter long track was added to the interior as an athletics facility . With a newly built standing grandstand , the facility was designed for 10,000 spectators.

2012: One shot - one goal , “ Extra time! “Of the exhibition in the Historisches Museum Hannover

In the 1920s of the Weimar Republic and - after the period of National Socialism and the Second World War - the bicycle racing track at the Pferdeturm was also used to host motorcycle and car races in the first post-war years . In addition, the Hannover 96 football club used the facility for its home games until 1958 . A few years earlier, however, racing had been officially banned from 1955 due to construction defects in the facility, which was now half a century old. It was completely demolished by 1960.

The Hanover-Wülfel cycle race track, which opened in May 1965, was replaced five years later for the horse racing track at the Pferdeturm .

Media coverage

Simon Benne : Photos from the founding time / historical photos of Hannover 96 discovered , illustrated article on rediscovered historical photos from the so-called "Toni-Denecke-Team" and on the exhibition in the Hanover Historical Museum in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung on January 6, 2012

literature

Walter Euhus : Spoke sport . Hanover's historic cycling. Die Speiche, Langenhagen 1999, ISBN 3-9807011-0-7 .

Christian Wolter: The Radrennbahn am Pferdeturm (1888–1960) - as a football stadium, one of the oldest , in ders .: On the history of the football stadiums in Hanover. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . New episode. Vol. 60, 2006, pp. 5f., 13-17

Wolf-Dieter Mechler (texts): One shot - one goal. Hannover 96 pictures from the early years. Booklet accompanying the exhibition One Shot - One Goal - Hanover in the Hanover Historical Museum from May 16 to July 22, 2012, Historical Museum, Hanover 2012.

Web links

Commons : Radrennbahn am Pferdeturm - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Karl-Heinz Grotjahn MA: Radrennbahn am Pferdeturm. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 511.

↑ oV : History of the Lower Saxony Cycling Association ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2017 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. on the website of the Lower Saxony Cycling Association [undated], last accessed on September 6, 2017 @1@ 2

↑ Walter Euhus, Walter Klemp, KPH: Werner Potzernheim / His career began in a pacemaker cabin ( memento of the original from September 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Lower Saxony Cycling Association from May 2, 1996, updated on May 13, 2015, last accessed on September 7, 2017 @1@ 2

↑ The last professional track races took place in 1944, cf. Arnd Krüger : Exercise now all the more! Sports in World War II. 1991, pp. 185–188, In: Arnd Krüger, Hans Langenfeld (ed.): Sport in Hanover - from the founding of the city to today. Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1991, ISBN 3-923478-56-9 ; Arnd Krüger: Germany and Sport in World War II. In: Can. Journal of the History of Sport. 24: 1, pp. 52-62 (1993).

^ Karl-Heinz Grotjahn MA: Radrennbahn Hannover-Wülfel. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 511

[SLH-1] Karl-Heinz Grotjahn MA: Radrennbahn am Pferdeturm. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 511.