Kurfürstendamm sports park
| Kurfürstendamm sports park | |
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 Berlin
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 30 '9.9 " N , 13 ° 18' 16" E |
| opening | 1897 |
| demolition | 1903 |
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The Kurfürstendamm sports park existed from 1897 to 1903 in the then independent city of Charlottenburg , which now belongs to Berlin, near the Kurfürstendamm . It included a cycling track and the athletic sports field, the first closed soccer field in the Berlin area. The first international football match in Germany took place here in 1899 .
location
The sports park on Kurfürstendamm was on the southern edge of the city of Charlottenburg and was enclosed by Wilmersdorfer Strasse , Sybelstrasse, Droysenstrasse and Mommsenstrasse. The cycling track was on the eastern part of the site and the athletic sports field to the west.
Velodrome
The association for velocipede races opened the cycling track on Kurfürstendamm on May 16, 1897 . The main entrance was on the west side of Wilmersdorfer Straße. The uncovered facility had a 500 meter long and four meter wide cement track, held up to 10,000 spectators and was particularly suitable for flying races . Willy Arend , who was the first German to win a cycling world championship in Glasgow in 1897, received a prize of 8,000 marks in the 1898 “Grand Prix of Germany” at the Kurfürstendamm cycling track . In September 1898, the Berlin cycling club organized the first international women's race on German soil on the Kurfürstendamm cycling track , which was well attended despite the high entrance fees. In 1899 a four-day race was held on the track.
Athletics sports field
The athletic sports field was the first sports field in the Berlin area designed for football. It was built by the Scottish photographer and journalist Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles , who lives in Berlin and was among other things editor of the magazine Sport im Wort . The place was fenced and only accessible for an entrance fee. It had a lawn, a covered grandstand for several hundred spectators and fixed goals with goal nets, which was still unusual for the time.
On November 23, 1899, the athletic sports field was inaugurated with the first game of an English national team on mainland Europe. The English defeated a German selection 13-2 in front of about 1500 spectators. The following day, a second game between the two teams took place in front of 512 spectators, which the English won 10-2. Both games were organized by the German football pioneer Walther Bensemann . Since there was no national football association in Germany in 1899, the DFB does not consider them to be official internationals today , but rather to refer to them as original internationals .
Poster for the two international matches against England
View with a view of the Velodrome
View with a view of the grandstand
BFC Preussen versus Richmond AFC on April 15, 1900
Poster for the Richmond AFC guest performances
Inauguration of the cycling track on May 16, 1897
In the period that followed, the Pitcairn-Knowles athletic sports field was made available free of charge to the Berlin football club BFC Preussen as a permanent venue. However, all entrance fees for the club's home games went to Pitcairn-Knowles. In its first game on the athletic sports field on December 26th, 1899, BFC Prussia defeated DFC Prague 4-2. In April 1900, the English amateur league team Richmond AFC competed on the athletic sports field. On April 14th, Richmond defeated a German student selection with 11: 1, on April 15, the BFC Preussen with 7: 2 and on April 16, a Berlin association selection with 3: 1. In March 1901, BFC Preussen succeeded 8: 3 over the Surrey Wanderers, the first victory of a German team over a club from England.
On May 25, 1902, the final of the Berlin championship took place on the athletic sports field . The BTuFC Viktoria 1889 defeated the BTuFC Britannia 1892 with 5: 1.
In 1903 the entire sports park was closed. In the following years the entire area was densely built over with tenement houses.
See also
literature
- Hans Dieter Baroth : When football learned to walk . Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1992, ISBN 3-88474-468-2 .
- Holger Joel, Ernst Christian Schütt: Chronicle of German football . Chronik Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-577-14377-6 .
- Christian Wolter : Lawn of passion. The football fields of Berlin. History and stories. Edition Else, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-036563-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plan of Berlin and its suburbs from 1900 (PDF; 20.4 MB)
- ↑ It all started with the wooden wheel In: Die Zeit , September 22nd, 1961
- ↑ Fredy Budzinski archive at the Sport University Cologne (PDF; 213 kB)