Sports center Schöneberg
The Schöneberg Sports Center (since 2003: Willibald Gebhardt Sports Center ) is a complex of several sports facilities in the Schöneberg district of Berlin . The center is located on Sachsendamm and the Schöneberg motorway junction , surrounded by two furniture stores and businesses. The center was established in 1955 and 1967 in order to build a West Berlin training center of the highest quality within the framework of the system competition . The sports hall was built in 1954 and opened on April 10th of the same year, the now demolished Schöneberg cycling track in May 1959 and the swimming pool in 1967. The area includes a sports field with a lawn and athletics facilities. The LSB Berlin's sports and exercise instructor school has also been on the site since 1969.
The swimming pool has 50-meter lanes and a grandstand for 1,000 spectators. It was and is the venue for national and international competitions, Olympic base and state performance center of the Berlin Swimming Association.
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The swimming pool was advertised as the most modern in Europe at the time, it has a lift on the diving tower, electronic timing and an underwater window in the diving pool. Mark Spitz swam several world records in the pool immediately after the opening. In 1978 competitions of the swimming world championships took place here. Around 20 swimming and water polo clubs train in the swimming pool, including the multiple German champions from Spandau 04 , who also play their home games in the Champions League here . If the Wasserfreunde host larger tournaments, they will also take place in the swimming pool, for example the final round of the 2011 German Cup.
The sports hall has a competition hall with 1400 seats and an adjacent gym. Among other things, the world championships in cadre 71/2 for billiards took place here in 1959 , as well as the German women's handball championship in 1964 .
In 2003 it was officially renamed the Willibald Gebhardt Sports Center after the founder of the Olympic movement in Germany, Willibald Gebhardt .
The sports center was built where the Dominicus sports field had been since the 1920s .
literature
- Bauwelt , 28/29 1967.
- D. Fabian (Hrsg.): Sports and swimming pools - recreational play and sports facilities . In: International Journal for Planning, Construction, Establishment, Operation and Research , Volume 7, No. 5, September 1967.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Berliner Sport from 1945 to 2009: The Chronicle of the Landes-Sportbund Berlin (LSB). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Michael Lemke: Showcase of system competition: the Berlin-Brandenburg region in the Cold War . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2006, ISBN 3-412-02606-9 , p. 347
- ↑ Schöneberg sports and teaching swimming pool . ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. berlin.de
- ↑ a b BBB Sport- und Lehrschwimmhalle Schöneberg (SSH) ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Zehlendorfer TSV
- ↑ A pool of records . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 9, 1997
- ↑ Cup final of the men in Schöneberger Halle . Deutschland-Wasserball.de
- ↑ Landessportbund Berlin: Sachsendamm 12 - Sporthalle Schöneberg
- ↑ Andreas Höfer and Uwe Wieck: Willibald Gebhardt - life and work, aftermath and commemoration in: Roland Naul, Arnd Krüger , Werner Schmidt: Cultures of youth sports . Meyer & Meyer Verlag, 2009, ISBN 3-89899-310-8 , p. 276
- ↑ Gustav Boess . (PDF) ddp-partei.de
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 35 ″ N , 13 ° 21 ′ 19 ″ E