Schwelgernstadion
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| The Schwelgernstadion in January 2014 | |
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| place | Wiesenstrasse 74 47169 Duisburg , Germany
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 30 '11.7 " N , 6 ° 44' 38.3" E |
| opening | 1925 |
| Renovations | 1998 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 28,000 seats |
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The Schwelgernstadion is a football stadium with athletics track in Duisburg municipality Hamborn . For a long time it was used for football. The facility currently houses the American football team of the Duisburg Vikings and is home to several other Marxloh sports clubs.
history
At the beginning of the 1920s, the industrialist August Thyssen gave the then independent town of Hamborn 56 acres in Schwelgernbruch, an old arm of the Rhine on which the Schwelgernpark, Schwelgernbad and Schwelgernstadion were built within two years in the immediate vicinity of the Thyssen-Hütte. The stadium opened in 1925.
In addition to the playing field, at the time of the inauguration the stadium had a 7.20 m wide and 500 m long cinder track, which was bordered by a 570 m long and 7.20 m wide aircraft and motorcycle track made of reinforced concrete. Outside the racetrack parapet wall, a total of 28,000 standing and seating spaces were available. At that time, the stadium was one of the largest stadiums in northwest Germany, alongside the Wedaustadion and the stadiums in Cologne and Düsseldorf and the Wuppertal stadium at the zoo . It served at times as a venue for the Hamborn 07 football club . The record number of spectators in the Schwelgernstadion was celebrated when Hamborn 07 played against Schalke 04 on September 14, 1947 with 33,000 visitors. The entrance building of the stadium, a three-wing brick building, was built according to plans by the Hamborner Stadtbaurrat Franz Steinhauer.
Football games were still held in the stadium until the 1970s. But the ravages of time gnawed at the stadium; it had become very ailing over the decades. At the end of the 1990s, it was renovated by the Duisburg development company in coordination with the monument protection authorities. The historic grandstand was covered with floor because it was no longer usable. The buildings belonging to the stadium were also renovated.
literature
- Werner Skrentny: The big book of the German football stadiums , Göttingen (2001), Verlag Die Werkstatt GmbH, ISBN 978-3-89-533668-3
See also
Web links
- schwelgernpark.de: The Schwelgernstadion