Six-day race in Frankfurt
The Frankfurt six-day race was held with interruptions from 1911 to 1983.
On December 12, 1911, the first six-day race took place in Frankfurt am Main . It was held in the festival hall , which had opened two years earlier and was then Europe's largest dome. Since the cycling track was not ready in time, the visitors had to be put off for a day. The second event took place at the same location in 1928, the last in 1933 before the Second World War . Because the spectators stayed away because of the political events and a flu epidemic, the organizer could not pay the hall rent and therefore had to let the trade fair and exhibition company, as the lessor, take over the entire cycling track with the driver's cabs and the interior boxes. The railway was put into storage and burned in the Second World War when the festival hall was destroyed.
The rebuilt festival hall was opened in 1950 and a six-day race was held again in 1951. The new railway with a length of 192.30 meters was designed by the Münster railway architect Clemens Schürmann . In 1983 the last six-day race for the time being took place in Frankfurt. Record winners are Frankfurt local hero Dietrich Thurau and Belgian Patrick Sercu with five wins each.
Winners list
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literature
- Jacq van Reijdendam: 6-daagsen-statistieken , 2008, ed. from the Union Internationale des Vélodromes