Essen stadium
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 Essen , Germany
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 29 '12.1 " N , 6 ° 58' 35.4" E |
| owner | City of Essen |
| operator | SBG Sportstätten Betriebsgesellschaft Stadt Essen mbH |
| start of building | April 1, 2011 (building construction) |
| opening | August 12, 2012 August 6, 2013 (opening after completion) |
| First game | Rot-Weiss Essen U-19 - Borussia Dortmund U-19 3: 2 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| costs | 64 million euros |
| architect | Plan Forward GmbH |
| capacity | 20,650 seats |
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The Essen stadium is a football stadium in the Bergeborbeck district of Essen . Construction work began on April 1, 2011; the completion of the first operational construction phase and the associated opening was on August 12, 2012. The venue is currently the venue for the soccer games of the men's team from Rot-Weiss Essen from the Regionalliga West and the SGS Essen from the women's Bundesliga .
history
Planning and construction phase
It had long been clear that Essen needed a new stadium. Several reports had confirmed that the over 60-year-old main grandstand of the Georg Melches Stadium was in disrepair. Thereupon the city council of Essen decided in an extraordinary meeting on October 28, 2010, after the mayor of the city Reinhard Pass had ruled out the city's participation in the construction of the new stadium on April 28, 2010 , but the construction of a new stadium with a capacity of around 20,000 spectators .
Before that, on August 8, 2009, shortly before the local elections in Essen, a symbolic kick-off had taken place on the grounds of the new stadium. Shortly after the symbolic kick-off, the first part of the north stand of the old stadium was demolished and the first earthworks started.
After completion of the preparatory work (including setting up a site road and the underground work), the structural work began on April 1, 2011. The structural work of the warm building with the main grandstand and the guest grandstand were completed in January 2012, the opposite grandstand in April 2012. After completion of the individual grandstands, the grandstand roofs were installed. The grandstand roofs have a translucent surface and are free-floating, so that no pillars obstruct the viewer's view.
On March 30, 2012, the topping-out ceremony was celebrated in the shell of the warm building. In the further course of the construction work, the warm building with u. a. Booths, doping and referee rooms, VIP areas, office and fan shop of Rot-Weiss Essen as well as toilet facilities and kiosks in the main grandstand area and the other two grandstands completed.
Shortly before the stadium opened on August 7, 2012, RWE Deutschland AG , which had assumed most of the financing with the exception of the city with Sparkasse and thus received the naming rights to the stadium, announced the stadium name. As in the planning and construction phase, the stadium will be called Essen Stadium .
After the club moved in the summer of 2012, the stadium was completed with the construction of the home stand. The old Georg Melches Stadium was demolished and a parking lot was built on the site, which was put into operation at the end of March 2014.
The total costs for the construction of the stadium amount to 64 million euros, of which 49.5 million euros are for construction and ancillary construction costs, 11.6 million euros for “preliminary and consulting costs” and 2.9 million euros for “other costs” “, Including for the investigation of the subsoil. Originally, costs of 31 million euros were envisaged when the resolution was passed in 2009, although this estimate was raised to 42.5 million euros in 2012. To cover the financing gap, funds from the maintenance reserve for the Museum Folkwang were also misappropriated.
The operating costs amount to at least 2 million euros in 2016, with the city of Essen subsidizing the operation of the stadium with 1,500,000 euros annually.
opening
The opening of the new stadium was on August 12, 2012, on the day the Rot-Weiss Essen team was originally supposed to play against an amateur football team from Essen and the SGS Essen players against 1. FFC Frankfurt . In the end, the A-youth from Rot-Weiss Essen played against the A-youth from Borussia Dortmund . This was followed by the women's game, in which ten minutes before the end the team from 1. FFC Frankfurt was exchanged for eleven players from Rot-Weiss Essen. The A-youth of Rot-Weiss Essen won 3: 2, the women of SGS Essen lost 0: 3 against 1. FFC Frankfurt and the men of RWE beat the women of SGS 1: 0.
After the completion of the last grandstand shortly before the start of the 2013/14 season, an opening match between Rot-Weiss Essen and Werder Bremen (0: 2) took place. The completed stadium was opened on August 6, 2013 in front of 11,513 spectators.
For the first time, with over 20,000 spectators, the stadium was sold out on April 8, 2014 in the semi-final of the Lower Rhine Cup between Rot-Weiss Essen and MSV Duisburg .
At the game of the Football Regionalliga West on matchday 13 between Rot-Weiss Essen and SG Wattenscheid 09 it was possible to set the interim attendance record in the Regionalliga with an audience of 14,415.
Water damage in summer 2013
On the night of Friday, July 26, 2013, a water pipe broke in the basement of the main grandstand of the Essen stadium and put the entire lower floor about 1.15 meters under water. The championship game of Rot-Weiss Essen against Viktoria Köln, scheduled for the following Saturday, had to be canceled because the entire stadium was not operational. All changing and referee rooms, as well as the mixed zone and the main distribution board for the stadium's electrical system, are located on the floor concerned. In order to make the stadium operational again at short notice, a diesel generator was set up behind each grandstand to supply power to the respective grandstand and behind the main grandstand containers were set up in which the referee and changing rooms were located. The damage was estimated at around 1.5 million euros.
In the following months, among other things, the entire floor covering and screed was removed and the electrics and water pipes replaced. The basement of the main stand was put back into operation in March 2014.
The stadium
In the first stage of expansion, the stadium is a classic single-tier stadium with 32 rows of seats or standing. It holds around 20,000 spectators and meets the requirements of the German Football Association for the regional league, the 3rd and the 2nd league. It can also be used for events outside of normal gaming operations.
In a second expansion stage, the corners can be closed and the stadium increased to a capacity of 25,000 spectators. A third expansion stage is also possible, in which an upper tier would be placed on the stadium in order to increase the capacity by a further 10,000 spectators to 35,000 spectators.
The warm building has four floors: In the basement there are the players' and press areas as well as the storage rooms for the catering and the mixed zone. The Rot-Weiss Essen office, the club's fan shop, the Kulturfreunde 97A restaurant area and other kitchen and toilet areas are located on the ground floor . The Assindia business area is exclusively located on the first floor . The boxes and the area for the stadium announcer, security staff and the police are located on the top and second floors.
There are four toilet facilities under each of the four grandstands, with the ones under the main grandstand being slightly smaller. There is also a kiosk under the main stand. In the opposite stand there are two kiosks, the police station and one of the two branches of the AWO fan project . The guest and home stands each have three kiosks and the home stand has the second branch of the AWO fan project .
There are a total of seven ticket booths around the stadium, two of which are in the opposite, guest and home stands and one in front of the warm building. In addition, with the exception of the warm building, the stadium has nine stadium entrances.
facts and figures
All figures refer to the first expansion stage.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 64 million euros - the Essen stadium is getting more and more expensive derwesten.de, May 13, 2015
- ^ Aaron Knopp: RWE: City council gives green light for new stadium ; ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2013 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. Reviersport.de, October 28, 2010.
- ↑ Aaron Knopp: RWE: City Director Hülsmann ends all speculation (update!): The stadium is coming - “Fall of the Wall” on August 8th ; Reviersport.de, July 24, 2009
- ↑ Wolfgang Kintscher: The real impetus before empty ranks ; from: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung from April 1, 2011; on: DerWesten.de.
- ↑ Marcus Schymiczek: Rot-Weiss Essen will soon be playing in the “Essen Stadium” ; from: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of August 7, 2012; on DerWesten.de.
- ↑ SBG Sportstätten Betriebsgesellschaft Stadt Essen mbH: Construction phases - A stadium for Essen ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2012 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. ; at: stadion-essen.de, accessed on October 14, 2013.
- ^ Resolutions and construction costs: Chronology of stadium construction derwesten.de, March 5, 2015
- ^ Public prosecutor's office is investigating the financial affair surrounding the Essen stadium derwesten.de, March 19, 2015
- ↑ Higher operating costs: Sports and culture pay for the Essen stadium derwesten.de, November 27, 2015
- ^ Aaron Knopp: RWE: Stadium construction - inauguration on August 12 ; Reviersport.de, May 29, 2012
- ^ Adrian Bohrdt: Werder Bremen wins Bundesliga dress rehearsal at Rot-Weiss Essen ; sportal.de, August 6, 2013
- ↑ Game against Viktoria Köln and public training canceled ; ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 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. stadion-essen.de, July 26, 2013
- ↑ Niklas König and Dominika Sagan: RWE Stadium under water - game against Viktoria canceled ; derwesten.de, July 26, 2013
- ↑ Niklas König and Dominika Sagan: The water damage in the Essen stadium is expected to be completely repaired in January ; radioessen.de, October 4, 2013
- ↑ Fan conference on the new stadium - photos ; RWE Fanzine jawattdenn.de, November 17, 2011
- ↑ SBG Sportstätten Betriebsgesellschaft Stadt Essen mbH: facts and figures on architecture and stadium capacity ; ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2012 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. stadion-essen.de, November 15, 2011 (PDF; 559 kB)
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