Erhard Wunderlich sports hall
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| place | Augsburg, Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 21 '23 " N , 10 ° 52' 48" E |
| owner | City of Augsburg |
| start of building | October 29, 1963 |
| opening | December 11, 1965 |
| surface | linoleum |
| costs | 3.95 million DM |
| architect | Hugo Gall engineering office |
| capacity | 3,093 places (4,431 places) |
| playing area | 26 × 48.18 m |
The Erhard-Wunderlich-Sporthalle (formerly Sporthalle Augsburg ) is a listed multi-purpose hall in Augsburg . It is located on the southern edge of Wittelsbacher Park in the Antonsviertel and was built between 1963 and 1965 at a cost of around 3.95 million DM. It is the first large hall built in Augsburg after the Second World War .
history
According to a construction plan from 1905, the construction site on which the hall is located today was originally intended for residential development. In the 1930s, these plans were abandoned and instead a large oak grove was planned . However, the planting was never carried out.
In the early 1960s, the city was looking for a suitable location for a new sports hall and finally found it east of the newly built Rosenaustadion on Ulrich-Hofmaier-Straße. City planning officer Walther Schmidt made the first drafts and in June 1962 launched an architectural competition for the new hall. In 1963, the jury decided in favor of the design by the engineer Hugo Gall from Reutlingen. Both the low construction costs and the unusual appearance convinced the jury. After the foundation stone was laid on October 29, 1963, the Augsburg construction company Thormann & Stiefel built the hall within two years. On December 11, 1965, the opening was finally celebrated with the international handball match between Germany and France.
Due to the special construction method ("cable girder hanging roof construction with antithetical, overhanging grandstands") the hall was added to the official list of monuments on May 15, 2003 . Overall, the construction proved to be extremely durable, only the roof skin had to be renewed in 2011.
Since 2012 the former Augsburg sports hall has been officially named "Erhard Wunderlich Sports Hall" in honor of the late former national handball player Erhard Wunderlich .
Architecture and construction
The sports hall designed by engineer Hugo Gall is now one of the "important buildings of post-war modernism " in Augsburg. It consists of a basement with a basement, on which a total of 18 cantilevered reinforced concrete columns with a height of 15 meters are placed. Two columns face each other and serve as abutments for the 60-meter-wide steel cables. The steel cables hang about five meters in the middle and form the support for the roof skin, which consists of about 1500 concrete slabs.
Inside there is a 26 m × 48.18 m main playing field with a clear height of 9.20 m, which is equipped with a sprung floor and linoleum covering. In the basement there are also two training rooms, a weight room and an archery range. The hall offers space for 3,093 spectators, 1,673 of which are in the east stand and 1,420 in the west stand. If the playing area has seats, the capacity increases to 4,431 spectators.
There is a parking lot with a capacity of around 200 parking spaces right next to the eastern exit.
use
Since its existence, the hall has primarily served schools and clubs as a training and competition venue. For example, indoor soccer, handball, basketball, hockey and volleyball are played on the field. But dance sports, badminton and fencing are also part of the spectrum of use there. Strength athletes, archers and martial artists train in the basement.
In the past, the hall was also the venue for the 1972 Olympic Games for six preliminary round handball games. In addition, the pre-Olympic qualification tournament in basketball was held in the hall in August 1972.
The Munich sports club TSV Milbertshofen carried out a few Bundesliga and European Cup games in the hall during the time it was playing in the handball Bundesliga.
On May 15, 1976, a show or sparring match between Muhammad Ali and Karl Mildenberger and Jimmy Ellis took place in the hall in front of 2,000 spectators. The boxing match was organized by the Augsburg sports journalist Horst Eckert and served to prepare Ali for the world championship match against Richard Dunn in the Munich Olympic Hall ten days later .
In addition to sporting events, cultural events and television shows were increasingly seen in the hall for many years. For a long time it served as an interim solution, because in 1963 the nearby Ludwigsbau had to be closed at short notice due to static problems and no other hall was available. For example, the ZDF show Wetten, dass ..? 1982 and 1983 as well as the ARD show Vier gegen Willi broadcast live from the hall several times. Only with the opening of the new congress hall in 1972 and the Schwabenhalle in the new exhibition center in 1987 did bookings for events of this type decline.
literature
- Franz Häussler: Augsburg's green island. context Verlag, Augsburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-939645-48-1 , pp. 81-85.
Web links
- Augsburg sports hall . In: Augsburgwiki.de
- Erhard Wunderlich Sports Hall - a monument with a history . In: Augsburg.de (city portal)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Günther Grünsteudel , Günter Hägele, Rudolf Frankenberger (ed.): Augsburger Stadtlexikon. 2nd Edition. Perlach, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-922769-28-4
- ↑ 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 25, 2018]).
- ↑ a b indoor sports facilities at www.augsburg.de
- ↑ International Olympic Committee : Jeux de la XXe Olympiade Munich 1972 Règlement du Basketball (PDF; 9.1 MB), page 19, accessed on August 10, 2012 (French, English, German)
Competition venues for the 1972 Summer Olympics
