Lichtenberger Stadium
| Lichtenberger Stadium | |
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| Stadium entrance 1934 | |
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 Berlin-Lichtenberg
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 31 '47 " N , 13 ° 30' 15.8" E |
| opening | July 1920 |
| Renovations | at the beginning of the 1970s |
| demolition | 1973 (converted into a campsite), since 1990 disintegration |
| surface | race |
| costs | 885,000 marks |
| architect | Rudolf Gleye |
| capacity | approx. 20,000 |
| playing area | 100 m × 65 m |
| Events | |
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Training games for the Olympics in Berlin |
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The Lichtenberger Stadion (also: Stadion Lichtenberg ) was a sports facility in the East Berlin district of Lichtenberg (since 2001 in the district of Lichtenberg ). It was built between 1914 and 1920 in the then still independent town of Lichtenberg according to plans by Rudolf Gleye . In 1973 the site was used as a campsite for young construction workers. Around 1990 the area was cleared, bushes and trees spread. After the Herzberge Landscape Park was created in the southern area of the Elisabeth Hospital from a piece of former agricultural land , the area of this stadium was included in the expansion measures. After extensive dismantling and renaturation work, the sports grounds were opened in November 2013 as a new pasture for cattle.
Location and facilities
The stadium area was located in the north of today's district of Lichtenberg. Agricultural areas along what is now Landsberger Allee in the north, which were later built on, the park of the City Insane Asylum Herzberge (location of the Evangelical Hospital Queen Elisabeth Herzberge ) and the industrial railway connections to the west for the companies on Herzbergstrasse delimited the sports grounds. The stadium could be reached from Herzbergstrasse to the south via an access promenade.
In addition to the actual main stadium, there were at least seven tennis courts (another four were planned; implementation unclear), a soccer field and several athletics and gymnastics fields. The stadium itself included an oval 400-meter cinder track that enclosed the football field and several athletics facilities, a standing room to the east and a covered seating grandstand to the west. There were changing and toilet rooms under the standing room, with several air shafts leading out onto the grandstand. There was space for 700 spectators on the grandstand. The stadium had a total capacity of 20,000 spectators.
In the immediate western neighborhood, separated by the tracks of the aforementioned industrial railway, was the BVG stadium , which was also built in the 1920s and still exists and is the home ground of SV Berliner VG 49 .
history
Due to the lack of sports facilities in the then still independent city of Lichtenberg, the municipal authorities decided on June 19, 1913 to build a suitable sports facility. In February 1914 from the manor owner Hermann Roeder for 150,000 Mark of Herzbergstraße a 100,000 square meter site north acquired in the same year in the fall of the earthworks began. However, the First World War interrupted the construction work, so that it was only resumed in spring 1919 and completed a little later. The inauguration of the sports facility and training ground took place on July 25, 1920. District Mayor Oskar Ziethen gave the keynote address.
In addition to sporting events, political events were repeatedly held in the stadium in the following years. On May 21 and 22, 1923, rallies by the Red Front Fighter League and the Red Young Storm took place here in front of over 40,000 listeners. In doing so, u. a. also Ernst Thälmann to the audience. On September 9, 1923, a football competition between representatives of Soviet workers' sport and the German Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association (under the official title “Workers' Football Competition Moscow-Berlin) attracted around 25,000 spectators to the stadium. From around 1932 onwards, all of the sports fields in this facility were used as training facilities for the teams participating in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
Just twelve days after the end of the Second World War in Europe, another soccer match took place on May 20, 1945 in the Lichtenberg Stadium in front of 10,000 spectators. The teams consisted of soldiers from the Red Army and presumably a team from the forced labor camps that had just been liberated, which were plentiful in this industrial district. From 1946, the SG Lichtenberg-Nord (predecessor of today's SV Lichtenberg 47 ) used the stadium as a home ground until the traditional sports field on Normannenstrasse was expanded into the Hans-Zoschke Stadium . Aerial photos from December 1943 and December 1953 show that the stadium was fundamentally redesigned in the years after the end of the war: the actual stadium was moved further north, the grandstands and buildings on the western edge of the access promenade that were still in place in 1943 had disappeared. The Lichtenberg stadium then served as the home stadium of the BSG Chemie Lichtenberg (today: TSV Lichtenberg ) during the GDR era , until it was converted into a campground in 1973, which was in use until around 1989. Then the facility fell into disrepair.
On May 20, 2017, a commemorative plaque for the first football games in 1945 was unveiled at Herzbergstrasse 81 at the entrance to the Herzberge Landscape Park .
The former stadium area
The stadium has not been visible since 2012; until then it was almost overgrown with trees. Some earth walls suggested that the facility was used for sport. All of the buildings that could still be seen in part in 2009 have been completely demolished. In connection with the restoration and renaturation work, suspected remains of ammunition were then removed. Instead of the stadium, the north-western part of the Herzberge Landscape Park is now expanding with new paved paths and resting points.
literature
- Rudolf Gleye: The Lichtenberger Stadium. Memorandum for the inauguration in July 1920 . Ed .: Städt. Deputation for games, sports and gymnastics. Berlin 1920.
- 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
- Photos and general information about the stadium die-fans.de
- Photo of the stadium from 1912 schoelkopf.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heart Mountains around 1920 ( Memento from December 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ aerial photo 1928 / No. 060 (edited) ( Memento from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Lichtenberger Tageblatt , July 1924
- ↑ BVG stadium. Fans Media GmbH, accessed on January 9, 2009 .
- ^ Günter Klein: The Red Front Fighter League . 2005, p. 13
- ↑ Jürgen Fischer: The Russian Games - United Front of Workers' Athletes for Democracy and International Solidarity . In: Wilhelm Hopf: Soccer - sociology and social history of a popular sport . Münster 1998, p. 150.
- ^ Rüdiger Thomas: United Separately - Inner German Sports Relations 1945–1956 . In: Helmut Wagner, Heiner Timmermann: Europe and Germany - Germany and Europe: Liber Amicorum for Heiner Timmermann on his 65th birthday . Berlin / Hamburg / Münster 2005, p. 258.
- ^ A chronicle of TSV Lichtenberg. TSV Lichtenberg e. V., accessed December 19, 2008 .
- ↑ fallow land. (No longer available online.) Förderverein Landschaftspark Herzberge, formerly the original ; Retrieved January 9, 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.
- ↑ Reminder plaque for the first soccer games . Press release from the district office of Berlin-Lichtenberg, May 15, 2017.
- ↑ The old Lichtenberger Stadium is now a cattle pasture on agrarboerse.worldpress.com; Retrieved December 13, 2013.
