Hennef sports school

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Hennef sports school
Hennef sports school, aerial view (2017)

The Hennef Sports School is a football school sponsored by the Mittelrhein Football Association in Hennef (Sieg) , which has been based here since January 1st, 2012. The sports school is also the federal performance center for boxing and wrestling and the state performance center for weightlifting and judo . The Hennes Weisweiler Academy has been based in the sports school since the summer of 2011 . With the 58th soccer teacher training course, which began in June 2011, it runs all coaching courses there.

founding

The sports school was founded on the initiative of the Mittelrhein Football Association with the support of the Hennef dentist Karl Jacobi and 688 clubs that organized so-called sacrificial games. The foundation stone of the sports school was laid on October 1, 1949, and it was opened on September 10, 1950. The area of ​​50,000 m² was donated by the municipality of Hennef.

Furnishing

In 1957 the sports school in Europe received its first artificial turf . The sports school originally had 135 beds, of which 125 were occupied on average. After extensive modernization with a total cost of 6.8 million euros for the 2006 World Cup , the sports school has three grass pitches, an artificial turf pitch, an artificial turf hall, two multi-purpose halls, a special hall each for judo, boxing, wrestling and weightlifting, and a weight room , an outdoor pool with 50 m lanes and a ten-meter tower, and an indoor pool with 25 m lanes. In addition, the sports school offers course participants and guests 232 beds in four different room categories, nine seminar rooms and a computer room.

Visitors

In addition to many well-known German athletes such as Uwe Seeler , Franz Beckenbauer and Eberhard Gienger , the national soccer teams of Qatar and Argentina have also been here as guests to prepare. The sports school has around 55,000 guests each year.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rhein-Sieg-Rundschau. May 13, 2010
  2. ↑ a b c d Cordula Orphal: Celebrities and sacrificial games. In: Rhein-Sieg-Rundschau. May 27, 2008, p. 25 (online at: rundschau-online.de )
  3. ^ Hennef Sports School becomes the new home of the Hennes-Weisweiler Academy . sportschule-hennef.de. January 20, 2011. Retrieved April 21, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b Theodor Rutt: Land on Sieg and Rhine - History-Culture-Economy. Scientific archive, Urkunde-Bild-Chronic GmbH, Bonn 1960
  5. ^ Rhein-Sieg-Rundschau of November 23, 2013

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Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 40 ″  N , 7 ° 16 ′ 30 ″  E