Maßfelder Weg stadium
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Rudi-Arnstadt-Stadion |
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| place | Maßfelder Weg 9 98617 Meiningen , Germany
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 33 '18.3 " N , 10 ° 24' 45.7" E |
| owner | Sports facility development association Meiningen |
| opening | 1920 |
| surface | 4 × natural grass 1 × artificial grass |
| capacity | 8,000 places (currently 2,000 places) |
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The Maßfelder Weg stadium is a football stadium with an athletics facility in the southern Thuringian district town of Meiningen . The sports facility is the home of the football club VfL Meiningen 04 .
Stadium facility
The stadium has three natural grass pitches, one artificial turf pitch and one small pitch pitch on soccer fields . Two places are equipped with floodlights. There is also a complete athletics facility with a tartan track , two beach volleyball courts and a basketball court. In addition to the football club VfL Meiningen 04, there is a DFB base for young footballers , the SG Meiningen (youth football) team, the ESV Lok Meiningen women's football team , VV 70 Meiningen (volleyball) and the PSV Meiningen police sports club (athletics). The stadium as a whole is one of the largest sports facilities in Thuringia.
history
Today's Maßfelder Weg Stadium was laid out in the 1920s and at that time already had two soccer fields. The stadium was used by the soccer teams VfL Meiningen 04 and Gelb-Rot Meiningen . After the Second World War, the stadium was the home of the football club Dynamo Meiningen. At the end of the 1950s, the main square received trusses with seats.
- Rudi-Arnstadt-Stadion
The ASG Vorwärts Meiningen emerged from Dynamo Meiningen in 1962 and played in the GDR league from 1965 . In 1962 the sports facility was named Rudi-Arnstadt- Stadium. At that time the main square had a capacity of 10,000 spectators, including around 2,000 seats. The attendance record of 12,000 was achieved in 1965 in a derby against Motor Steinach . The ASG received the teams from Dynamo Dresden , FC Karl-Marx-Stadt , Wismut Aue or Rot-Weiß Erfurt (also 12,000 spectators) at championship and cup games . GDR television reported on two cup games during this time. In 1974 the ASG was relocated to Plauen and from then on the stadium served as an alternative venue for other football clubs in the region and major sporting events.
- Maßfelder Weg stadium
At the beginning of the 1990s, the sports area was renamed “Stadion Maßfelder Weg”. On May 23, 1996 a traditional game took place here in memory of the soccer World Cup 74 encounter between the FRG and the GDR . Not only players from 1974 like Georg Schwarzenbeck , Bernd Hölzenbein , Martin Hoffmann , Joachim Streich and Jürgen Croy , but also well-known footballers like Uwe Seeler , Wolfgang Kleff and Guido Buchwald met at this game .
Since 2006 the stadium has been the home of the soccer club VfL Meiningen 04. Due to its location directly on the Werra , the stadium area is in the flood area. For the purpose of flood protection measures, the standing and seating crossbars consisting of earth walls were removed, so that the capacity was initially reduced to 2,000 places.
In May 2009, after a two-year construction period, the artificial turf pitch was handed over. The symbolic first kick was made by world footballer Birgit Prinz . In a subsequent friendly match, the then German champions 1. FFC Frankfurt beat FF USV Jena 3-2.
In June 2014 there was a charity game in the stadium to promote physical activity for Thuringian elementary school children between " Bernd Schneider & Friends" and "Winter Sports Stars", which the professional footballers won with 13-5 goals in front of 1,800 spectators. In addition to Schneider, Axel Kruse , Ansgar Brinkmann , Carsten Ramelow , Stefan Beinlich on the football side and Maximilian Arndt , Jens Filbrich , Patrick Beckert and Jan Eichhorn on the side of winter sports enthusiasts were there. In 2018 the main square was given a covered grandstand.
Beach volleyball court and artificial turf (rear)
Birgit Prinz carries out the symbolic impetus for the inauguration of the artificial turf field in 2009
Entry ticket from 1996 on the occasion of the traditional game BRD – GDR
Spectator entrance on the north side
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Web links
- ssfv-meiningen.de: Website of the sponsor Sportstättenförderverein Meiningen