RheinEnergieSportpark

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The facilities of the RheinEnergieSportspark

The RheinEnergieSportpark is a sports facility owned by 1. FC Köln in Cologne-Sülz . The facility surrounds the club house of the club, the "Geißbockheim". It consists of nine courts, four with natural grass, which are used to train licensed and young players, as well as two artificial turf fields , a soccer cage and a soccer tennis court . The site has had its current name since 2007.

Position and extent

The sports park is located in the conservation area Outer greenbelt . It can be reached via Berrenrather Strasse, which it is adjacent to, via the approximately 300-meter-long Franz-Kremer-Allee access road. The park can be reached via footpaths from the Beethovenpark . The north side is about 600 meters along the military ring road, from which it is separated by a narrow strip of forest. The plant is about 200 meters wide; south of the clubhouse, the park with its lawn extends over 400 meters wide to the Decksteiner Weiher . The total area is about 10 hectares. Parking spaces are located at the club home and separately on the north-western border and are accessible via a short spur road from the military ring.

history

Training ground, office and club house of the FC, the "Geißbockheim"

Sports facilities were already on the site in the 19th century. In 1876, the intermediate plant  VI b was built at this point as part of the Cologne fortress ring, which was razed in 1921, whereby the components serving fortification purposes were demolished or destroyed. The core building of the intermediate plant, the Kehlkaserne and the sports grounds prepared according to designs by the city garden architect Fritz Encke on the former military site and adjacent areas have been used by the Frischauf Sülz workers' sports club since 1930, by SV Sülz 07 from 1939 and their successor 1. FC from 1948. The 1. FC predecessor club Spielvereinigung Sülz 07 had its clubhouse above the Kehlkaserne of the intermediate plant, parts of which are still preserved in the basement of today's clubhouse. The lower senior and junior teams of the club played on the adjacent Aschenplatz.

Until 1953, the original intermediate plant served 1. FC Köln, which had merged with SV Sülz 07 since 1948, as a clubhouse. In 1949, at the suggestion of the then club president (1948–1967) Franz Kremer , the FC set up a special account for the "creation of a large sports facility", to which 10 percent of every game income of the first team was paid. The "billy goat home", named after the FC mascot , a billy goat , was rebuilt by the company of the then DFB president Peco Bauwens and inaugurated in 1953. In 1961 it was extensively renovated and a hall and new grass pitches were handed over to their destination. Since 2008, the newly renovated and now expanded Geißbockheim has housed the FC office in addition to a restaurant. Remnants of the intermediate plant can still be viewed.

The FC's plans to enlarge the site are hampered by its location in the L 17 landscape protection area, “outer green belt from Müngersdorf to Marienburg and connecting green corridors”. Adjacent sub-areas within this landscape protection area have also been under monument protection since 1980 . One of the FC's “master plans” includes a modern performance center. In this context, the FC is planning an expansion by creating several artificial turf pitches on the Gleueler Wiese, which was previously open to the public. Against this project, which affects, among other things, problems of monument protection, environmental protection and the privatization of public spaces, the citizens' initiative Green Belt for All was formed at the beginning of 2016 .

Franz Kremer Stadium

Franz Kremer Stadium
The Franz Kremer Stadium
The Franz Kremer Stadium
Earlier names

Amateur stadium

Data
place GermanyGermany Cologne , North Rhine-Westphalia
Template: Coordinate / Maintenance / Stadium
start of building 1966
opening 1971
capacity 5,457
(1,900 covered)
Societies)

The centerpiece of the site is the Franz Kremer Stadium. The construction began in 1966 and was completed in 1971 and was initially called the amateur stadium. In 1977 it was named after Franz Kremer . The youth teams (U17, U19), the second men's team (U21) and, until the 2014/15 season and promotion to the women's Bundesliga, the women's team of 1. FC Köln play their home games in the venue. In the meantime, the home games of the first women's team are being played again in the Franz Kremer Stadium.

The stadium's audience capacity is 5457, including 3557 uncovered standing and 1900 covered seats. For the re-promotion of the U23 of 1. FC Köln in the Regionalliga West 2005 it was adapted to the requirements of the league. So got z. For example, the guest fans have a separate entrance that leads into a separate spectator area on the opposite side. In 2007 the sports facility received underfloor heating .

Web links

Commons : RheinEnergieSportpark  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Express.de: First laid in Germany: Cologne now has high-tech artificial turf. In: express.de. August 19, 2014, accessed March 6, 2015 .
  2. ↑ 1. FC Köln - Sportpark. In: fc-koeln.de. Retrieved March 6, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger: The training ground will be “RheinEnergieSportpark”. (No longer available online.) In: ksta.de. April 10, 2007, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 6, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ksta.de
  4. ↑ a b Fortifications: Attractions in the countryside. Day of the forts Cologne, accessed on March 8, 2015 .
  5. ↑ a b Geißbockheim - ambience. (No longer available online.) Geissbockheim-fckoeln.de, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 6, 2015 . 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. (PDF file) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geissbockheim-fckoeln.de
  6. ^ The Cologne medieval and Prussian city fortifications. City of Cologne, accessed on March 6, 2015 . (PDF file)
  7. ↑ Editor: FC: Geißbockheim construction site. In: koelnsport.de. December 27, 2014, accessed March 6, 2015 .
  8. ↑ C. Oeynhausen, T. Christ: Expansion plans: 1. FC Cologne is too big for the Geißbockheim. In: ksta.de. January 29, 2015, accessed March 6, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Monument protection green belt. (No longer available online.) In: politik-bei-uns.de. October 1, 2006, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 6, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / politik-bei-uns.de
  10. ^ Expansion of Geißbockheim - Talks between the district government and 1. FC Cologne. Report-K, March 16, 2015, accessed March 16, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Extension of the green belt: Citizens' initiative demonstrated against FC plans. In: Kölnische Rundschau . March 13, 2016, accessed April 8, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Green belt for everyone! Retrieved March 8, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Köln.Sport from May 13, 2014, FC women move to the Südstadion

Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 30 ″  N , 6 ° 54 ′ 20 ″  E