Regatta course Berlin-Grünau
The regatta course Berlin-Grünau is an applied at the end of the 19th century regatta course in the southeast of Berlin in a bay of Dahme . It was the venue for the rowing and canoeing competitions of the 1936 Olympic Games .
The route is 2000 meters long, offers six lanes for rowing competitions and nine lanes for canoeing. It is owned by the Treptow-Köpenick district . In the 21st century, rowing and canoeing regattas , events in canoe polo , dragon boats and motor boat races take place there. Due to the shipping traffic and the current of the Dahme , however, the route no longer meets today's requirements for international championships.
The first official sailing regatta took place in 1868, the first rowing regatta on the route took place on June 27, 1880. This makes the Wasserkampfbahn the oldest sports facility in Berlin that is still in use.
history
On June 7, 1868, the first Berlin sailing regatta took place on the Langen See , making it one of the first inland regattas in Germany. It was organized by the Berlin Sailing Club founded in 1867 . 32 (34 of 39 boats registered) lined up between the Köpenick Rohrwallinsel and the Bammelecke . Even Theodor Fontane described in his walking tour through Mark Brandenburg on the Dahme sailing regattas.
On June 27, 1880, the first regatta of the United Rowing Clubs of the Oberspree took place in Grünau . For the second regatta, on September 11, 1881, the Spindlersfeld rowing club and the Berlin rowing club fought with a Dresden and a Szczecin rowing club, making it one of the first city regattas in Germany. Ten days later, on September 21, 1881, this regatta led to the founding of the Berlin Regatta Association , which, under its secretary Georg W. Büxenstein, made a significant contribution to the development of a set of rules for the sport of regattas in rowing and sailing . To this end, the Berlin Regatta Club was founded in Grünau in 1881, which organized rowing in Berlin and Büxenstein became its chairman in 1902.
Berlin regatta club
The Berlin regatta club (rowing and sailing) was founded on September 21, 1881 for the purpose of "creating a completely independent cooperation from the other rowing clubs with the exclusive task of organizing regattas." At that time, these were rowing and sailing regattas, In 1914 the club withdrew from sailing. Today's successor is the State Rowing Association Berlin.
Starting in 1882, the competition for the challenge prize of the Great Grünauer Regatta took place every year. In 1883 Büxenstein became a member of the management of the German Rowing Association . On June 15, 1883, Kaiser Wilhelm I donated a challenge award. The Kaiser-Vierer has existed since 1888 . Up to 50,000 people came to the regattas in imperial weather . In 1896 the regatta club leased the site for 90 years and in 1897 received the rights of a legal entity. A spit of land on the 1,000-meter corner was demolished in 1897 and shortly afterwards was there the Sporting monument . The Berlin Grand Prix has existed since 1898. The Grünau lido opened on May 31, 1908 . The regatta club unveiled a memorial for Büxenstein on June 21, 1925.
Regatta grandstand
First of all, a mobile, open grandstand was built on the marshy bank directly on the water for around 1250 people. The first permanent grandstand was inaugurated in 1899. In 1926/1927 the route was straightened by emergency work by the unemployed. The current grandstand was only opened a year before the 1936 Olympic Games and tested at the 1935 European Rowing Championships. Up to 9,000 visitors could sit in the stands at the 1936 Summer Olympics . In addition, the regatta houses East, Middle and West were built. Shipping traffic was diverted via the Gosen Canal, which was created for this purpose .
In the post-war period , the regatta course was used for training by the SC Berlin-Grünau, among others .
Since 2002 there are two exhibition rooms of the Grünau Water Sports Museum under the main grandstand. In the summer months, the DLRG's regatta course water rescue station is also manned.
Large events
In addition to national championships in rowing and motor boating, the following major events were held on the regatta course:
- 1935: European Rowing Championship
- 1936: Canoeing and rowing competitions at the Olympic Games
- 1937: German Grand Prix for motor boats
- 1956: European Championship in motorboat racing class OJ
- 1957: European Championship in motorboat racing class OJ
- 1958: European Championship in motorboat racing class OJ
- 1959: European Championship in motorboat racing class OJ
- 1960: European Championship in motorboat racing class OJ
- 1961: European Championship in motorboat racing class OJ
- 1962: European Rowing Championships (women)
- 1964: European Championship in motorboat racing class E01
- 1966: World Championships in Canoe Racing
- 1968: European Rowing Championship (women)
- 1992: Race for the European championship series in motorboat racing Formula 850
- 1992: International German University Championship in rowing and canoeing
- 1993: European championship in motorboat racing class O 250
- 1995: European Championship in motorboat racing class HR 1000
- 1999: World Championship in motorboat racing class O 500
- 2000: Race for the European championship series in motorboat racing Formula 500
- 2001: Race for the European championship series in motorboat racing Formula 500
- 2003: Race for the European championship series in motorboat racing Formula R1000
- 2004: World Championship in motorboat racing Formula 1000 and race for the European Championship series Formula R1000
- 2005: European championship in motorboat racing class O 700 and race for the European championship series Formula R1000
- 2006: World Championship in motorboat racing class S 550
- 2007: European championship in motorboat racing class S 550 and race for the European championship series Formula R1000
- 2008: World Championship in motorboat racing class OSY 400
- 2009: World Championship in motorboat racing Formula 4S and race for the European Championship series Formula R1000
- 2010: World championship in motorboat racing class O 700 and race for the European championship series Formula R1000
Classes in motorboat racing: "OJ": racing boats with an outboard engine up to 175 cm³, "E01": sports boats with an inboard engine up to 1000 cm³.
Since 1986, the upper cylinder capacity limit has been given in numbers for the classes; "O": racing boats with outboard motor, "R": racing boats with inboard motor, "S": sport boats with series outboard motor
literature
- Kurt Wernicke: ministerial concerns about honorary award . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 6, 1999, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 17-21 ( luise-berlin.de ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal Yacht (Berlin), 34th vol., Issue 24, pp. 5-11
- ↑ Magazine Illustrierter Motorsport (Berlin), 6th vol., Issue 20, pp. 12-13 (applies similarly to the following years)
- ↑ a b c Watersport Museum Grünau ( Memento from February 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Speedboat archive
- ↑ ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg racing program (also later years)
- ↑ AutoBild Motorsport magazine , issue 19/2008, p. 51
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 38.8 " N , 13 ° 36 ′ 19.7" E
Competition venues for the 1936 Summer Olympics
