Rußheide Stadium
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 Bielefeld , Germany
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 1 '14.3 " N , 8 ° 33' 45.8" E |
| owner | City of Bielefeld |
| opening | 1970 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| costs | 2.9 million DM |
| capacity | 12,000 |
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The Rußheide Stadium (officially: Rußheide District Sports Facility ) is a multifunctional stadium with an athletics facility in Bielefeld . The stadium is the home ground of the football team of VfB Fichte Bielefeld and the American football team Bielefeld Bulldogs . By 2017, the played second team of Arminia Bielefeld on the Rußheide.
Location and facilities
The stadium is located in the eastern part of the Mitte district on Mühlenstraße. It has a capacity of 12,000 seats. The main stand has 1,920 covered seats in seven rows of seats. The playing area is surrounded by a running track . The Rußheide stadium has four floodlight masts with twelve spotlights each.
There are three more seats next to the stadium. After renovation work, the former ash pit was given artificial turf . SpVgg Fichte Bielefeld , which merged with VfB 03 to form VfB Fichte Bielefeld in 1999 , once leased these spaces from the Oetker company .
history
The stadium Mühlenstraße , which was opened on August 14, 1927, used to be located on the grounds of the stadium . Nothing is known about the use and fate of the stadium. The stadium was presumably used by SpVgg Fichte or their predecessor clubs. The Rußheide stadium was built in the late 1960s and opened on April 22, 1968 with an athletics festival. The construction costs for Bielefeld's first "large-scale athletic track" amounted to around 2.9 million marks.
On June 16, 1974, the German Athletics Association held a three-country battle with the Republic of Ireland and Romania . When Bielefeld became a federal and state athletics base in 1975, the stadium got a new track and the main stand was roofed over. Since 1970 the football clubs VfB 03 and SpVgg Fichte Bielefeld have been using the Russheide for their home games. The city of Bielefeld gave both clubs unlimited playing rights in the stadium. This right to play also applies to the merger club founded in 1999.
In addition, in the 1979/80 season the stadium was used as an alternative venue for Arminia Bielefeld's men's team, which was playing in the 2nd Bundesliga North , for several games , as the Alm was being renovated. The club 's women's team played their first round match in the DFB Cup against second division club SV Victoria Gersten in the Rußheide stadium on August 9, 2010 and lost 1:10.
In 1981 the Bundeswehr carried out its solemn pledge in the Rußheide stadium. After violent riots broke out in Bremen's Weser Stadium last year , the pledge was carried out in Bielefeld under strong police protection.
Web links
- stadionwelt.de: picture gallery
- groundhopping.de: Visitor report from 2001
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Werner Skrentny (Hrsg.): The big book of the German football stadiums . Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-668-3 , p. 62 .
- ↑ bazi: VfB Fichte has finished. Neue Westfälische , accessed on July 8, 2015 .
- ^ Hardy Green , Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 71.
- ↑ Arminia Bielefeld - ALEMANNIA 2-0 (1-0). Ochehppaz.de, accessed on July 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Hans-Jürgen Heide: 1:10 lessons for Arminia. Neue Westfälische , accessed on July 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Felix Steiner: 6.5.1980: Riot at the Bundeswehr celebration. Deutsche Welle , accessed July 8, 2015 .