Pottenau sports field
| Pottenau sports field | |
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| Arminia sports field | |
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 Bielefeld , North Rhine-Westphalia
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| opening | 1910 |
| First game | Arminia Bielefeld - black and white food |
| demolition | 1926 |
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The Pottenau sports field , also known as the Arminia sports field , was a football stadium in Bielefeld . From 1910 to 1926 Arminia Bielefeld played his home games there.
location
The sports field was located in the northeastern city center between what is now Eckendorfer Straße and the now closed container station Bielefeld Ost . The Nicolaifriedhof is located north of the sports field. The place was in a lowland and tended to become muddy . Above the playing field was a railway embankment that many visitors went to to see the games without having to pay admission.
history
In 1909 the club had to give up its previous sports field on Kaiserstrasse, today's August-Bebel-Strasse. The city had confiscated the site because a dairy and the household association wanted to build there. The young club member Otto Brune, who played for Arminia's school team at the time, persuaded his father to provide the club with a site on the Pottenau for a rent . The new course was opened with a friendly against the Essener Turnerbund . Although the Bielefeld lost 1: 4, they were happy about a daily income of 216.50 Reichsmarks .
Arminia was very successful in their new place and remained unbeaten at home for entire seasons. In the final round of the West German championship, the Bielefeld team played at least twice at the Pottenau. In 1925 Rheydter SV was beaten 6-0. A year later, Arminia won 5: 4 against Sportfreunde Siegen . The final round of the German championship was played on neutral courts. Other highlights at Pottenau were friendly games against Rapid Vienna or Sparta Prague . In 1926 the sports field was given up and the club moved into the Alm stadium .
literature
- Jens Kirschneck, Marcus Uhlig , Volker Backes, Olaf Bentkämper, Julien Lecoeur: Arminia Bielefeld - 100 years of passion . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-479-0 , p. 20, 21, 83 .