Oberwerth Stadium
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 Koblenz , Germany
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 19 '49.7 " N , 7 ° 35' 11.8" E |
| opening | June 15, 1935 |
| Renovations | 2006, 2007, 2017 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 9,500 seats |
| playing area | 105 × 68 m |
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The stadium Oberwerth is a football stadium with athletics track in the Sportpark Oberwerth in Koblenz . The home stadium of TuS Koblenz and Rot-Weiß Koblenz was inaugurated in 1935 in the Oberwerth district . It offers space for 9,500 spectators and has 2,000 seats and 7,500 standing places. The stadium stands on a 40,000 m² site. A six-lane and 400-meter-long all- plastic running track runs around the 105 × 68 meter playing field .
history
A first stadium on the Oberwerth was built in 1920 by American occupation troops. The “American Stadium” was operated by the US Army until 1929 . As part of a job creation program of the Nazis , it was 1934-1935, designed by Friedrich Neumann expanded. On June 15, 1935, Mayor Otto Wittgen inaugurated it as the Hermann-Göring-Kampfbahn . At the time, it had an audience capacity of about 30,000. After the Second World War, it was briefly used as Stade de Gaulle by the French occupying army in 1945 . The home games of TuS Neuendorf (name from 1982: TuS Koblenz) have been taking place in the Oberwerth stadium since 1946.
On May 3, 1958, a floodlight system was inaugurated in the stadium, which was then the most modern of its kind in Germany. In the 1960s, when TuS Neuendorf played in the Bundesliga promotion round, up to 30,000 spectators came to the Oberwerth stadium. The attendance record comes from the league game against FCK on January 8, 1950, when 40,000 spectators followed the game.
The Oberwerth Stadium was the venue for the International Evening Sports Festival between 1960 and 1992 . Four world records in athletics, five European records and eleven DLV records were set in Koblenz .
The Mini-International has been held for medium and long-haul routes since 1983. In 2004 it was held with ten nations (including Kenya , Tunisia and Ghana ) and was the official DLV Olympic qualification for the 800 meter runs for men and women and for the 5000 meters for men. The stadium was also the venue for international football matches and DFB League cup matches.
In the middle of 2006, following the rise of TuS Koblenz, the stadium was rebuilt and renovated based on the guidelines of the 2nd Bundesliga . The city of Koblenz took over the costs for this as owner and landlord. The floodlight got a strength of 1200 lux and a video wall was installed. The capacity for the 2nd Bundesliga was 15,000 people. During the summer break of 2007, the stadium received underfloor heating and a new turf surface. The standing ranks 1 to 4 were provided with new concrete steps in accordance with the requirements and an additional grandstand was installed in the south area.
In March 2011, the south stand, which was built in 2007, was closed for the time being due to static problems after it had been determined that the subsoil could no longer fully bear the loads on the stand. Subsequently, slight structural changes were made to the grandstand and its subsurface, so that the grandstand could be reopened just two weeks later.
After TuS Koblenz withdrew to the Southwest Football Regionalliga for the 2011/12 season, the additional grandstands on the back straight and the south grandstand were dismantled. The club could no longer bear the high rental costs. This reduced the stadium's capacity from 15,000 to 9,500 spectators. In order to make further savings, it was initially decided not to continue operating the video screen. In 2012, however, it was put back into operation as a sponsor took over the costs. The stadium's VIP area next to the main stand was also reopened in 2013 after the container construction had been renovated. The operator of the area has since been a sponsor of the association from the catering sector.
The approximately 40-year-old synthetic track was removed in 2017, the subsurface was completely renewed and a new running surface with 6 circular tracks (400 m) and 8 tracks on the home straight (110 m) were built. The two sand pits with the run-up track for the long jump were relocated to the north curve. In 2018, a new fully electronic timing system (Lynx) was purchased. This now has a color camera with a significantly higher resolution, an additional front camera for recognizing the start numbers for longer runs, as well as an anemometer with display integrated into the system. High-level athletics championships and sports festivals can again be held in the Oberwerth stadium. On June 22nd and 23rd, 2019, the South German Athletics Championships U23 and U16 with 1249 participants were held in the Oberwerth stadium.
literature
- Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz. Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt
- Vol. 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era. Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0876-X
- Vol. 2: From the French city to the present. Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1036-5
Web links
- Oberwerth stadium in: tuskoblenz.de
- Oberwerth stadium in: koblenz.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadion Oberwerth ( Memento of the original from October 22, 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. in: stadionsuche.de
- ^ Christian Ermert: Mini-Internationales in Koblenz dressed up , www.leichtathletik.de May 21, 2012
- ↑ Seltec LA.portal live results. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .
