Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir

Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir
Interior of the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir (2009)
Earlier names
Stade du Matin (1907–1919) Stade de Colombes (1920–1924) Stade Olympique de Colombes (1924–1928)
Data
place	12, rue François Faber 92700 Colombes , France
Coordinates	48 ° 55 '45.7 "  N , 2 ° 14' 52.7"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 55  '45.7 " N , 2 ° 14' 52.7"  E
owner	Council of the Hauts-de-Seine department
opening	1907
surface	Natural grass
architect	Louis Faure-Dujarric
capacity	7,000 seats
Societies)
RC Paris (soccer)
Events
Racing 92 games (rugby, 1907-2017) 1924 Summer Olympics European Athletics Championships for men 1938 Football World Cup 1938 European Athletics Junior Championships 1970

The Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir is a rugby and football stadium in Colombes , a city about ten kilometers northwest of the city center of the French capital Paris , which was named Stade Olympique de Colombes (previously Stade de Colombes ) in 1924 and the venue for the Summer Olympics and in 1938 the final venue the soccer world championship was. In 1928 it was renamed in honor of rugby player Yves du Manoir .

history

The stadium was the main venue for the 1924 Summer Olympics and at that time had a capacity of 45,000 spectators. A few years later the stadium was expanded to a capacity of 60,000 spectators. At the 1938 World Cup, Colombes was the venue for a total of three games throughout the tournament, including the final between Italy and Hungary .

With the beginning of the Second World War , the sports facility also served as a Paris assembly camp for German and Austrian internees, who were then distributed to other internment camps in France. Those interned here included refugees such as Walter Benjamin , Hermann Kesten , Soma Morgenstern , Willi Münzenberg , Heinrich Rodenstein , Horst Rosenthal , Hans Sahl and WOLS . In his diary, Kurt Stern reported on his own experiences as an internee in the Stade Olympique and recorded several experiences of other internees in Colombes, which he later met in other camps. He also reported that survivors of the St. Louis were interned here, who must therefore have belonged to the contingent that France had accepted after the end of the ship's odyssey.

Until the 1970s, the facility was the scene of numerous final matches of the Coupe de France as well as home games for the national soccer team and the national rugby union team . Until the reopening of the renovated Parc des Princes in Paris in 1972, it was the largest stadium in the country. At that point, capacity in Colombes had dropped to below 50,000 due to stricter security regulations. The national soccer team played here for the last time in 1975.

In 2017 the rugby club Racing 92 left the former Olympic Stadium after 110 years and moved to their new home, the Paris La Défense Arena .

The Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir is now the home ground of the RC Paris football club . The capacity is now only 7,000 spectators.

gallery

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  The Stade du Matin in the 1910s, the predecessor of the Stade de Colombes

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  The stadium under construction in August 1923

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  The construction site in January 1924

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  The facility at the 1924 Olympic Games

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  The stadium in January 2009

Web links

Commons : Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• europlan-online.de: Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir - Colombes

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kurt Stern: What will happen to us? Diaries of internment in 1939 and 1940 , construction, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-351-02624-2 , p. 52