Rose Stadium

Rose Stadium
The Rosenaustadion in October 2006
Data
place	Augsburg , Germany
Coordinates	48 ° 21 '19.5 "  N , 10 ° 52' 34"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '19.5 "  N , 10 ° 52' 34"  E
owner	City of Augsburg
opening	September 16, 1951
First game	September 16, 1951
Renovations	most recently 2006/2007
surface	Natural grass , rekortan
costs	1.1 - 1.8 million DM
architect	First plans: Thomas Wechs , execution: City Planning Officer Werner
capacity	Official: 28,000 Unofficial: 31,300 Record: 64,856 (1952)
playing area	Kampfbahn Type A
Societies)
FC Augsburg II FC Augsburg women's team
Events
DFB Cup final 1957 Football games of the 1972 Summer Olympics Athletics international competitions International matches of the German national soccer team International matches of the German women's national soccer team International matches of the German national handball team Football matches and training for FC Augsburg

The Rosenau stadium with an official capacity of 28,000 spectators after the WWK Arena , the second largest stadium in Augsburg . It was opened on September 16, 1951 and, due to its size and modernity, was of great importance for German football and international athletics until 1972 . With the opening of the Munich Olympic Stadium, this position gradually disappeared. The FC Augsburg completed by the end of the 2008-09 season, his home games in Rosenaustadion. In 2014 it was listed as a historical monument.

history

The Rosenaustadion is a multi-purpose stadium with an athletics facility in a classic elliptical shape. The city of Augsburg built the stadium on rubble from the Second World War . The back straight of the stadium is leaning against the mountain of rubble. Construction of the stadium began in 1949 and the main stand was built in 1951. The construction costs amounted to approx. 1.1 - 1.8 million DM. It was the first new construction of a large sports arena in Germany after the Second World War.

• "One of the largest and most modern facilities in Germany," wrote the Sport-Kurier on September 13, 1951.
• “One of the most beautiful stadiums in Europe,” wrote the Neue Zeitung on September 13, 1951.
• "The post-war development of German sport is inconceivable without the Rosenaustadion," said Willi Daume , former IOC vice-president and NOK boss.

The Rosenaustadion is now one of the "important buildings of post-war modernism " in Augsburg and is considered to be a "particularly early example" of this architectural style.

The main stand

Rosenau is a field name in Augsburg, derived from the Rössen, the former water arms of the Wertach . Au (also river floodplain ) refers to a lowland along a stream or river, characterized by the changing high and low water levels. The Rosenaustadion is located in such an area next to the Wertach.

The record number of spectators for FC Augsburg was in 1973 at the regional league match against 1. FC Nürnberg with 42,000 spectators. The highest number of visitors to a football match was with almost 65,000 spectators on November 9, 1952 at the international match between Germany and Switzerland, made possible by temporary additional grandstands. The German team from 1954 was also called "Augsburg Elf" because of this encounter, as eight out of eleven World Cup players were already playing together.

The absolute Rosenau record, however, was in 1958, when a total of 85,000 spectators watched the athletics competition BRD - USSR over two days . Ludwig Müller became the "hero of Augsburg" with victories over 5,000 and 10,000 meters.

The guest block is on the left under the scoreboard.

The Augsburg boxer Willi Färber was groundskeeper in the Rosenaustadion from 1951 to 1972 .

Big events

Athletics and field handball

The old scoreboard

By 1978 twelve found Athletics - international matches and two field handball - international matches held at the Rosenau Stadium, it was in Germany, thanks to excellent organization and begeisterungsfähigem audience as first choice - you spoke of the "sports city of Augsburg." By 1961, almost 3.5 million viewers came to over 400 events.

date	event	Remarks
23rd August 1952	Athletics international match Germany - Switzerland	30,000 spectators
1953	Field handball international match Germany - Austria	35,000 spectators
July 25-26, 1953	German Athletics Championships 1953	50,000 spectators (multi-day event)
3rd August 1954	Field handball international match Germany - Sweden	40,000 spectators - "The miracle of Augsburg" (final score: 15: 9 for the German national team)
September 20-21, 1958	Athletics international match Germany - USSR	85,000 spectators (two-day event) - final result: 115: 105 points
August 9-11, 1963	German Athletics Championships 1963	60,000 spectators (event lasting several days)
August 11, 1965	Athletics international competition of men Germany - USA	35,000 spectators - final result: 91: 142 points
5th August 1969	Athletics international match Germany - USA	35,000 spectators
June 23-24, 1972	Athletics international match Germany - USSR	World record in the women's discus by the Russian Faina Melnik with 65.48 meters
July 13, 1974	Athletics international match Germany - Poland	Final result for men: 239: 191 points - final result for women: 130: 148 points
June 24, 1978	Athletics international competition of women Germany - Romania

Soccer

On November 9, 1952, an international match between Germany and Switzerland took place in the Rosenaustadion , with eight national players from the later World Cup winning team on the German side . The game in front of 64,586 spectators ended 5: 1 for Germany. This team was therefore also known as the "Augsburg Elf". The eight players were: Toni Turek (goal), Werner Kohlmeyer , Horst Eckel , Josef Posipal , Max Morlock , Ottmar Walter , Fritz Walter and Hans Schäfer .

The new scoreboard

The Bayern Munich won in 1957 in Rosenaustadion his first German Cup -Sieg. At the Olympic Games in 1972 , the stadium venue was a total of five matches of the preliminary and intermediate rounds. Augsburg footballer Helmut Haller played for FC Augsburg in the Rosenaustadion from 1973 to 1979.

The Datschiburger Kickers played in the Rosenaustadion several times in the 1960s and 1970s. 30,000 spectators came to their first game on July 17, 1965 against FC Schmiere .

In the 1986 DFB Cup game between FC Augsburg and Hamburger SV , HSV goalkeeper Uli Stein had to leave the pitch after being shown a red card. He said goodbye to the Augsburg fans with the finger after he had previously been massively provoked. The scene is legendary, the photo was printed in all the newspapers.

In 1988 the final of the unofficial Fuji Cup between FC Bayern Munich and Borussia Mönchengladbach (3-0) was held in the Rosenaustadion.

On October 5, 1993, the first charity match in DFB history took place in Augsburg: the national team against "Bundesliga international", a selection of foreign Bundesliga players. The motto was: " My friend is a foreigner " against xenophobia .

27,000 spectators on June 4, 2005

Four league cup semi- finals were awarded to Augsburg from 1997 to 2001. FC Bayern Munich played twice against Borussia Dortmund , once against 1. FC Kaiserslautern and once against Hertha BSC .

In 2001 TSV 1860 Munich hosted the two UI Cup games against FK Smederevo and RKC Waalwijk in the Rosenaustadion.

On June 4, 2005, FC Augsburg played against SSV Jahn Regensburg in front of 27,000 spectators for promotion to the second division. FC Augsburg lost 2-1 and did not get promoted. In the 2004/2005 season 64,517 spectators came to the 17 home games of FC Augsburg.

Other major events

Between 1982 and 1997 there were five large open air concerts in the Rosenaustadion, u. a. in September 1983 with The Police as the main act, who then started their European tour of the Synchronicity Tour in Augsburg. A total of 75,000 spectators came to the major events.

The final rally of the 27th German Fire Brigade Day on June 24, 2000 was also held in the Rosenaustadion in front of over 12,000 spectators. The then Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder gave a speech.

Modernization 2006/2007

The stadium plan

The back straight of the Rosenaustadion

Due to the rise of the FCA, the Rosenaustadion was modernized in the summer of 2006 in accordance with the UEFA stadium infrastructure regulations for the Second Bundesliga :

• Repairing the lawn with rolled turf
• Concrete renovation of the standing walls
• Additional barriers
• More powerful sound system
• Installation of video surveillance
• Modernization of the floodlight system
• Conversion of two guest blocks: instead of 1,571 standing places, now around 600 seats.

In the summer of 2007, underfloor heating was installed. The cost was around 400,000 euros.

The audience capacity is unofficially around 31,300 seats (before the renovation in 2006: 32,354). For security reasons, only 28,000 spectators are admitted to the league games. This is also the official capacity.

2009-2013

The FCA has been playing its home games in the WWK Arena since autumn 2009 . Since then, the Rosenaustadion has continued to be used for clubs and school sports. The FCA women's team plays their home games there, as does the second team from FC Augsburg. The Rosenaustadion was used as a training ground for the 2011 women's soccer World Cup .

To save renovation costs, parts of the stadium were closed. B. the spectator blocks of the curves and back straight, which previously had to be repaired every year due to the weather damage to the concrete.

The original plan to demolish the stadium in order to sell the site as building land for private homes and thus finance the city's share of the costs of the WWK arena was no longer pursued . One reason was that contaminated sites were found when the underfloor heating was installed. In the case of the one meter deep excavation, these were bomb fragments, parts of high-explosive bombs and old firearms (carbines). Comprehensive, in-depth investigations into ordnance, contaminated sites and building ground (including under the adjacent playing field) were not carried out. Pollution with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons was known or expected .

In 2011, the Augsburg Athletics Association began collecting signatures in order to renovate the Rosenaustadion. The city of Augsburg then commissioned a planning office to determine the project costs. In 2013, the city of Augsburg included planning costs in the financial budget. A fundamental decision of the city council provided for the renovation of the athletics facility from 2014.

Since 2014

The athletics facility in the Rosenaustadion was renovated in two construction phases. In 2014, the old systems were removed and the substructure built, and the new construction began in 2015. The final theses took place in July 2015. The official opening after the renovation for 1.2 million euros took place on September 19, 2015 with a city championship. While running backwards over 4 × 100 meters, the existing world record was broken by Aleksandar Askovic, Stefan Siegert, Roland Wegner and Roland Hailer (now 62.07 seconds). The resulting eight-lane track is a specialty. In Bavaria, in addition to the Rosenaustadion, only the Grundig Stadium in Nuremberg has a competitive eight-lane circular track (the track in the Olympic Stadium in Munich is only laid for optical purposes and is not suitable for competitions). Due to the missing eighth track at the 110 m hurdles start (there is a building for the turf heating that was not taken into account during the planning for the renovation), the athletics facilities are mainly used for regional events (such as the Bavarian ones Athletics Championships 2017).

See also

• List of the largest football stadiums in Germany

literature

• Werner Lutz: Augsburg's way to the modern city 1907–72 . The Augsburg artists' association “Die Ecke” as a critical companion . Ed .: Architekturmuseum Schwaben , Arno-Buchegger-Stiftung (=  writings of the Architekturmuseum Schwaben . Volume 3 ). Architekturmuseum Schwaben, Augsburg 2001, ISBN 3-9807563-1-9 , p. 81 ff .

Web links

Commons : Rosenaustadion  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Rose Stadium . In: Augsburgwiki.de
• Rosenaustadion - ready for new heroes . In: Augsburg.de (city portal)
• Blog about the Rosenaustadion
• Groundsman tells of the past days in Rosenau

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See section Postwar Modernism in Augsburg in the flyer : German National Committee for Monument Protection (Ed.): Won - Lost. Draw? 11th student workshop in Augsburg . German National Committee for Monument Protection, 2016 ( digital copy [PDF; 1.5 MB ; accessed on August 26, 2018]).
2. ↑ Hello Rosenau . In: A-Guide , No. 26, Augsburg, pp. 18f.
3. ^ Augsburg.de: Rosenaustadion on the website of the city of Augsburg
4. ↑ Olympiapark Munich :: New career in the Olympiastadion :: Press Olympiapark Munich, concerts in Munich, events in Munich, leisure sports in Munich, entertainment in Munich. Accessed December 30, 2018 .