Buschallee stadium
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| Main square of the stadium | |
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Arena at the Faulen See |
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 Berlin , Germany
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 33 '19.8 " N , 13 ° 29' 17.9" E |
| owner | State of Berlin |
| start of building | 1920 |
| opening | August 25, 1923 |
| First game | Weißenseer FC - Wacker 04 Berlin |
| Renovations | 1951 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 3000 places (before 1939 up to 8000 places) |
| playing area | 103 m × 68 m |
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The Buschallee stadium is a sports facility in the Berlin district of Weißensee in the Pankow district . The system serves u. a. as the home ground for the soccer club Weißenseer FC and the rugby club Rugbyklub 03 Berlin .
Location, equipment and use
The sports facility is located in the east of Weißensee near the local border with Alt-Hohenschönhausen and is bordered to the north and west by Hansastraße , to the east by the Fauler See nature reserve and to the south by Buschallee .
In addition to the actual stadium and its side courts, the approximately 15.6 hectare site also includes the Buschallee tennis stadium and the Hansastraße sports hall complex. In addition to the main stadium, there are four other large fields (two each with artificial turf and turf), two small fields (artificial turf), seven tennis fields, various athletics facilities (including a 400-meter running track) and two sports halls. The main stadium has a capacity of 2400 standing and 600 seats.
Apart from the aforementioned clubs also use the track and field athletes of the Weißenseer SV Rot-Weiss and the SV Prussia Berlin , the tennis player of the TC Berlin-Weissensee and the anglers of the German Angler Association the system. In addition, the side pitches serve as a playground for numerous recreational soccer players.
history
At the beginning of the 1920s, as part of job creation measures to today's Buschallee in Berlin-Weissensee of Lazy Lake Volkspark created, which includes a football and athletics stadium belonged. The stadium was inaugurated on August 25, 1923 with a soccer match between Weißenseer FC and Wacker 04 Berlin . On June 6, 1937, the then Berlin champions Hertha BSC defeated a selection from the Weißensee district 7-0 in front of 8,000 spectators in the stadium on Buschallee . From the 1937/38 season onwards, the stadium, then known as the Kampfbahn am Faulen See , was the permanent home of Weißenseer FC.
On May 27, 1945, the first two football games in Berlin after the Second World War were played in the stadium on Buschallee and in the Lichtenberg stadium. The main users of the stadium were initially the soccer players of SG Weißensee , which in 1949 became ASV Weißensee, in 1953 Blau-Weiß Weißensee and finally in 1956 the BSG unit Weißensee.
The Hohenschönhausener SC also used the stadium during this time. HSC was one of the founding members of the GDR League . The stadium was therefore the venue of the second highest soccer league in the GDR at the time. The stadium was the home of the Hohenschönhauser SC in the league in the seasons 1950/51, 1951/52 and 1955/56.
For the 3rd World Festival of Youth and Students in August 1951, the stadium was renovated and equipped with benches. The football games between Romania and Poland and between Poland and Italy were played in the stadium as part of the World Festival.
In 1956, the stadium was the first stadium in East Berlin and one of the first stadiums in Germany to have a floodlight system. In November 1956, SC Dynamo Berlin played its FDGB-Pokal home game against BSG Progress Meerane here in front of 2,000 spectators .
Current
In the summer of 2007, RK 03 Berlin started planning the expansion of two adjacent spaces in the facility. On the one hand, these should be combined into a double lawn area and, on the other hand, equipped with a floodlight system. However, the construction project was initially delayed due to the necessary approval from the Berlin authorities. In January 2009, the association's application was finally granted, so that construction work began. On May 16, 2010, the course was reopened with the game against the Berlin Rugby Club .
literature
- Christian Wolter: Lawn of Passions . The football fields of Berlin. History and stories. Edition Else, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-036563-8 , pp. 116-120 .
Web links
- Profile of the sports facility at the Landessportbund Berlin
- Inspection report by the Berlin-Pankow District Sports Association
- Photos and information about the stadium
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mirko Tamkus: Sanwald plan Berlin 1926. (Not available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 26, 2009 . ( 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.
- ^ History of the association. (No longer available online.) Weißenseer Fußball Club e. V., archived from the original on November 9, 2013 ; Retrieved November 9, 2013 . 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.
- ^ Encyclopedia of GDR football Hans Leske, page 188
- ^ [1] Neues Deutschland, March 23, 1951
- ^ [2] New Germany, August 12, 1951
- ^ Max Joachim: Buschallee project; Shortly before the goal. (No longer available online.) Rugby Klub 03 Berlin, August 29, 2007, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 4, 2009 . ( 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.
- ↑ Alexander Schmidt: Buschallee project: construction can begin! (PDF) (No longer available online.) Rugby Klub 03 Berlin, January 22, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 4, 2009 . ( 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.
- ↑ Berlin rugby derby enthusiastic. RBB, May 16, 2010, accessed August 26, 2010 .
