Cycle track at Schyrenplatz

The cycling track on Schyrenplatz was a cycling track in Munich .

history

After the Wittelsbach Bridge was built , the Munich Velocipede Club created a practice area on its eastern bridgehead on the meadows of the right bank of the Isar . The Munich Bicycle Club expanded the area into a cycling track with a 500 meter long track and elevated curves.

On May 16, 1886, Germany's first professional bike race took place there, endowed with 1,000 marks. There were three “cash prize drivers” (professionals) from abroad. How long the railway existed is not known. It is no longer included in a list of German cycling tracks dating from 1904.

Web links

• May 16, 1886: The world's first “professional cycling track” on the “Schyrenplatz”. Munich Zeitensprünge, accessed on September 1, 2014 . 
• Facts - Schyrenplatz. Munich Zeitensprünge, accessed on September 1, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A Brief History of German Cycling Part I, 1868 to 1918. Cycling4Fans, accessed on September 1, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Radrennbahnen in Deutschland, as of 1904. Cycling4Fans, accessed on September 1, 2014 . 

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 14.2 ″  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 1 ″  E