Sports forum Hohenschönhausen

Athletics hall in the sports forum

The Sportforum Hohenschönhausen is a complex of several sports facilities in the Berlin district of Alt-Hohenschönhausen , Lichtenberg district . The site, which was built in 1954, is the second largest sports and training center in Berlin after the Olympic Park and is home to the Olympic base in Berlin . The entire ensemble of buildings erected from 1956 onwards according to designs by an architects' collective under the direction of Walter Schmidt (including the Dynamo sports hall built from 1956 to 1958 ) is a listed building .

Location and facilities

The complex is located in the west of the Alt-Hohenschönhausen district. In the north it is bounded by an industrial area (on which, among other things, the Berliner-Kindl-Schultheiss-Brauerei is located), in the east the cemetery of the St. Andreas and St. Markus parish , in the south the Konrad-Wolf-Straße and in the west of the Weißenseer Weg .

The area is between 45 and 50  hectares and comprises (as of 2015) 35 sports facilities, including three ice rinks , two gyms , a football stadium and a further eight halls and outdoor facilities for athletics , handball , volleyball , judo , fencing , archery , beach volleyball and soccer .

From the initial equipment, there are: the wall surfaces in the swimming pool designed by Wolfgang Frankenstein and two bronze sculptures Seated Swimmers by Gustav Weidanz and Standing Swimmers by Waldemar Grzimek at the outdoor pool, which could be covered with a sliding roof in winter.

Components of the sports forum

The sports forum, which was built in several stages in the 1950s, with its main entrance on Weißenseer Weg, consisted of an ensemble grouped around a stadium on a trapezoidal area:

• 1954–1956 was the first to build a boarding school.
• 1955–1958 was followed by the Dynamo sports hall , which was expanded to include a gym wing from 1957–1960.
• 1960–1962 a sports hotel was built (three-storey hotel and an attached octagonal restaurant).
• Ice sports facilities followed between 1958 and 1960.
• 1960–1964 a swimming pool was built and opened. It housed a 50 m swimming pool, diving boards, ancillary pools, changing and sanitary facilities and a snack bar in the anteroom.
• At the same time, a 400 m speed skating rink (open at the time) along with a 30 × 60 m artificial ice rink and an outdoor pool were built .
• In 1963, the speed skating rink was given a cantilever roof and training halls were built with the gable facing Konrad-Wolf-Strasse (then still Berliner Strasse ).

use

The main user of the first 10 buildings of the sports forum was the Dynamo Berlin sports club with its multi-sports squad. It was and is a training facility for competitive sports . Since the late 1980s, the sports forum became the Berlin Olympic Training Center (OSB). More than 300 national team athletes train regularly on the site. There are also eleven recognized state performance centers with around 800 state cadre athletes, one location of the Berlin School and Competitive Sports Center (formerly the “Werner Seelenbinder” sports school), the “House of Athletes” with around 200 boarding places and the Institute for Sports Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin with around 500 students and about 20 other sports clubs . The first boarding school building from the 1950s was sold to private investors in the early 21st century, who converted it into a student residence.

The main users among the clubs include BFC Dynamo , Eisbären Juniors Berlin , SC Berlin and SSG Humboldt zu Berlin , but the sports forum also serves as a training facility for other clubs: Berliner TSC , Füchse Berlin , ALBA Berlin (youngsters), SC Charlottenburg , SV Preußen Berlin and Weißenseer SV Rot-Weiß .

The swimming pool and the speed skating oval are also open to the public.

Ice rink

Speed ​​skating oval in the sports forum

Data
place	Berlin , Germany
Coordinates	52 ° 32 '24 "  N , 13 ° 28' 35"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '24 "  N , 13 ° 28' 35"  E
opening	17th November 1986
Extensions	262.5 meters small track 30 meters × 60 meters ice hockey rink
special
construction	Hall (tempered)
surface	Artificial ice
Track length	400 meters
Altitude	34 meters
Curve radii	26/30 meters
Total points	375.176 points
Societies)
Berlin TSC BSV 92 SCC EVB '08
Events
World Cup 2013/14 (December 6-8, 2013)

overview

The world's first 400 meter indoor speed skating rink was opened in the Sportforum on November 17, 1986, exactly one year in front of the Thialf Hall in Heerenveen, the Netherlands . The hall has not been given a name to this day. The speed skating hall runs internationally under the name Sportforum Hohenschönhausen . A separate hall, the Wellblechpalast - named after the exterior building material - is reserved for ice hockey , where the Eisbären Berlin played their home games until 2008 before they moved to the O2 World Berlin (since 2015: Mercedes-Benz Arena ).

International competitions

Individual distance world championships	2003
Sprint World Championship	1998
All around world championship	1993 , 2008 , 2016
World cup	1986/87 , 1987/88 , 1988/89 , 1989/90 , 1990/91 , 1991/92 , 1992/93 , 1993/94 , 1994/95 , 1995/96 , 1996/97 , 1997/98 , 1998 / 99 , 1999/2000 , 2000/01 , 2001/02 , 2004/05 , 2006/07 , 2008/09 , 2010/11 , 2011/12 , 2013/14

Track records

The following overview contains a selection of the current track records.

The Sportforum Hohenschönhausen is one of the fastest speed skating rinks in the world.

Women

route	athlete	time	date	competition
0 0100 m	Jenny Wolf	0000 10.58	Oct 28, 2005	German championships 2006
0 0500 m	Sang-hwa Lee	0000 37.36	0Dec 6, 2013	World Cup 2013/14
01,000 m	Heather Richardson	0001.14.51	0Dec 8, 2013	World Cup 2013/14
01,500 m	Ireen Wüst	0001.54.83	0March 6, 2016	All-around World Cup 2016
03,000 m	Martina Sáblíková	0003: 58.11	0March 6, 2016	All-around World Cup 2016
05,000 m	Martina Sáblíková	0006.52.57	0March 6, 2016	All-around World Cup 2016
10,000 m	Grit Mertens	0017.21.72	0March 8, 2008	Team Cup of the BTSC 2008
Team Pursuit (6 rounds)	Netherlands Ireen Wüst Jorien ter Mors Marrit Leenstra	0002.58.19	0Dec 8, 2013	World Cup 2013/14
All-around	athlete	Points	date	competition
2 × 500 m	Jenny Wolf	0075.690	0Nov 9, 2012	German Championships 2013, on two days in a row
Sprint MK	Anni Friesinger	0154.530	Feb 21, 2009	German Championships 2013
Mini MK	Judith Hesse	0166,954	0Feb 8, 2002	German championships 2002, two days in a row
Small MK	Anni Friesinger	0162.147	Dec 29, 2006	German championships 2006, on two days in a row

Not or no longer held in international competition.

• As of March 6, 2016.
• Sum of the individual routes broken down to 500 m (500, 1000, 1500, 3000, 5000 meters): 194.959 pts.

Men

route	athlete	time	date	competition
0 0100 m	Denny Ihle	0000 9.78	February 6, 2010	Review competition 2010
0 0500 m	Joji Kato	000 34.70	November 8, 2008	World Cup 2008/09
01,000 m	Shani Davis	001.08.53	November 6, 2009	World Cup 2009/10
01,500 m	Shani Davis	001.44.47	November 8, 2009	World Cup 2009/10
03,000 m	Jan Szymański	003.44.59	November 8, 2014	1st Berlin Cup
05,000 m	Sven Kramer	006.09.76	November 17, 2006	World Cup 2006/07
10,000 m	Sven Kramer	007/13/19	March 6, 2016	All-around World Cup 2016
Team Pursuit (8 rounds)	United States Jonathan Kuck Shani Davis Trevor Marsicano	003.43.10	November 21, 2010	World Cup 2010/11
All-around	athlete	Points	date	competition
2 × 500 m	Jeremy Wotherspoon	0069.970	13-14 March 2003	2003 World Championships for Individuals
Sprint MK	Nico Ihle	0140.495	16.-17. January 2016	German Championships 2016
Mini MK	Wesly Dijs	0151,802	3rd to 4th December 2011	Junior Country Match 2012
Small MK	Patrick Beckert	0157.041	1st – 2nd February 2008	German Championships 2008
Big MK	Sven Kramer	0148.494	9-10 February 2008	All-around World Cup 2008

Not or no longer held in international competition.

• As of March 6, 2016
• Sum of the individual routes broken down to 500 m (500, 1,000, 1,500, 5,000, 10,000 meters): 180.217 pts.

Established world records

List of world records in speed skating set up in the Hohenschönhausen Sportforum

No.	discipline	Time / points	athlete	date
3	Team run (men)	3: 46.44	Netherlands Carl Verheijen , Wennemar's heirs , Mark Tuitert	November 21, 2004
2	Team run (women)	3: 03.07	Canada Cindy Klassen , Clara Hughes , Kristina Groves	November 20, 2004
1	1,500 meters	1: 49.81	Ids Postma	November 29, 1997

Football stadium

Stadium in the Sportforum
Stadium in July 2017
Earlier names
Dynamo Stadium in the Sportforum
Data
place	Berlin
Template: Coordinate / Maintenance / Stadium
owner	State of Berlin
opening	1970
surface	race
costs	1 million marks
capacity	13,500 spectators
Capacity (internat.)	02,500
Societies)
BFC Dynamo

The stadium was completed in 1970. Previously, the Steffenstrasse sports field , which had already been used by the BFC and its predecessor, the football department of SC Dynamo Berlin , was located on the site . The first SC Dynamo game took place here in 1954. After the reopening, the BFC only played one season in the Sportforum before moving to the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in what was then the Prenzlauer Berg district in 1971.

As a result, the stadium was rarely used for larger games. In the 1972/73 season, the BFC played its UEFA Cup home games against SCO Angers , Levski-Spartak Sofia and Liverpool FC here. The 20,000 visitors to the game against Liverpool mean the current attendance record to this day. It wasn't until 1986 that higher-class football returned when the BFC returned to the Sportforum for the major league season 1986/87, as the Jahn-Sportpark was being renovated. The two home games in the European Cup against Örgryte IS and Brøndby IF also took place here.

In 1992, the former GDR series champion BFC Dynamo (under the meanwhile name FC Berlin ) returned to the Sportforum. For its home games in the Oberliga Nordost , the club used the main stadium, which has a capacity of 11,000 standing and 2,500 seats (400 of which are covered). As a result, the club tried to buy the stadium or to build a new stadium, but failed because of the lack of financial resources.

For almost all league games, the BFC moves to the Jahn-Sportpark, because it is more conveniently located and offers more spectator seats. The BFC holds cup and friendly matches in the Sportforum.

With the regional league promotion achieved in 2014 and the associated higher media and audience interest, the BFC returned permanently to the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark for the 2014/15 season.

The DFB has classified the stadium as suitable for the third division; only small changes need to be made - such as creating new press spaces and a better separated press block.

Dynamo sports hall

Dynamo sports hall (1958)

The Dynamo sports hall, located at Weißenseer way was on 25 January 1958 in the presence of, among others, Erich Mielke , Walter Ulbricht and the sprinter Christa Stubnick inaugurated . It held 2000 to 4000 spectators depending on the sport. Its internal dimensions (width 47 m, length 65 m, height 15 m) enabled events in numerous sports such as athletics, handball, boxing, judo, basketball and gymnastics. For the first time in the GDR there was a transportable, 143 m long circular track with elevated curves.

There were also congresses of GDR mass organizations in the hall: on two weekends in December 1989, the special party congress of the SED met here , at which it was decided to rename the party to SED / PDS .

The sports hall is still there and is used for various smaller events.

Web links

Commons : Sportforum Hohenschönhausen  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Web presence on berlin.de
• Sportforum Berlin site on berlin.de
• Entry in the Berlin State Monument List

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sports facilities ( Memento from November 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Top sport ( Memento from April 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Sportforum Berlin. In: Landesdenkmalamt Berlin. Retrieved October 4, 2019 . 
4. ^ ^{A b c} Joachim Schulz, Werner Gräbner: Berlin. Capital of the DDR. Architecture guide GDR. VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1974; P. 125 f.
5. ↑ isu.sportcentric.net ( Memento from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Communication No. 1807 (July 29, 2013)
6. ↑ Berlin Sportforum Speed ​​Skating Hall ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 47 kB)
7. ↑ ^{a b} Track records Sportforum Berlin . ( Memento of September 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) As of March 6, 2016 (PDF).
8. ↑ In its own place, Motor Ob is a favorite . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 9, 1954, p. 4.
9. ↑ Stadium in the Sportforum Hohenschönhausen ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
10. ^ Rainer Lüdtke: Facts. In: bfcdynamo.de. Retrieved October 15, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Ingo Rößling: FC Berlin wants to buy a stadium in the Sportforum. In: Berliner Morgenpost . April 19, 1998, accessed July 24, 2012 . 
12. ↑ BFC is planning a new stadium at the old location. In: stadionwelt.de. June 4, 2006, accessed July 24, 2012 . 
13. ↑ The Dynamo Hall opens its doors. In: Neues Deutschland , January 22, 1958, p. 6.
14. ↑ Oldtimers in the Dynamo Hall. Der Tagesspiegel , February 1, 2012, accessed on October 28, 2019 .