Schanze at the Hundsschüppe

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Schanze at the Hundsschüppe
Ski jump at Hundsschüppe (North Rhine-Westphalia)
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Location
city Wuppertal
country Germany
society Cronenberg Ski Club
Construction year 1932
Rebuilt 1950
Extended 1959
Shut down 1970s
Hill record 33.0 meters
(Paul Mehling, January 17, 1959)
Data
Landing
Construction point K 32

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 38 "  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 51"  E

The ski jump at Hundsschüppe was a ski jump of size K 32 in the Cronenberg district of the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Wuppertal .

history

The in Gelpe valley near the mouth of the hall brook in the Gelpe , on the outskirts of Remscheid , lying Schanze founded by three years earlier Ski Club Cronenberg was built after a long search for a suitable site 1,932th The hillside property was made available by the hammer smith Ernst Jöker, owner of the neighboring Hundsschüppe and the tourist restaurant Haus Zillertal , which was built in 1904 .

It was used for the first time, although not yet completely finished, when the snow conditions were favorable on February 28, 1933 by the Cronenberg Ski Club, which organized a show jumping event there. The official inauguration took place in 1934. The construction of the ski jump, which allowed jumps of up to 22 meters, required 4,000 working hours. It was the only ski jump that was located within the city limits of a major German city .

Bench and memorial plaque on the former ski jump

During the Second World War the ski jump fell into disrepair, the wooden boards and beams were used for heating. The reconstruction began in 1948, the official reopening took place on New Year's Day 1951. Since the run was quite short and could not be extended across the stream, it happened that jumpers landed in the Gelpe. In the 1950s, the hill was a regular venue for the Lower Rhine Ski Jumping Championships. In 1959 the ski jump was extended. On January 17, 1959, Paul Mehling, the chairman of the Cronenberg Ski Club at the time, set a new hill record with a height of 33.0 meters. A television team from Westdeutscher Rundfunk was on site for this jump. In the 1970s the ski jump was closed. On February 13th, 2009 a memorial plaque was inaugurated at the site of the former ski jump.

Web links

Commons : Schanze at the Hundsschüppe  - collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Günther Schmidt: Hammer and Kotten research in Remscheid. Volume 3: From Gerstau to Haddenbach with Gelpetal and Ibach. Buchhandlung R. Schmitz, Remscheid 2002, ISBN 3-9800077-3-1 , pp. 98f.
  2. ^ Paul Mehling - the aviator from Cronenberg . Article from February 20, 2009 by Barbara Opitz in the Westdeutsche Zeitung Wuppertal
  3. ↑ Flight into the brook . Article from January 10, 2009 by Hartmut Schmahl in the Westdeutsche Zeitung Wuppertal
  4. ↑ Memorial plaque in memory of the ski jumping hill in the Gelpetal . Article from March 15, 2015 on denkmal-wuppertal.de