Schützenwiese stadium

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Schützenwiese stadium
View from the south (guest sector, August 2007)
View from the south (guest sector, August 2007, without the new grandstand)
Data
place Rennweg 5 8400 Winterthur , Canton of Zurich , Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwitzerland
Coordinates 696 346  /  261900 coordinates: 47 ° 30 '2.9 "  N , 8 ° 43' 2.6"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred ninety-six thousand three hundred forty-six  /  261900
owner City of Winterthur
surface Natural grass
capacity 9,400 seats (official)
playing area 105 m × 68 m
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Events

The Schützenwiese stadium is a football stadium in the Swiss city ​​of Winterthur in the canton of Zurich . The FC Winterthur football club plays its home games here. The official capacity is 9,400 visitors, of which approx. 1,100 are covered seats, 800 uncovered seats, 3,600 covered and 4,100 uncovered standing places. The stadium is owned by the city of Winterthur. The surface consists of natural grass with the dimensions 105 × 68 meters. The stadium also houses the training facility of the Judo & Ju Jitsu Club Winterthur under the grandstand .

The stadium is currently the only pure football stadium run by a Swiss Football League club in the canton of Zurich.

history

Early on, around 1900, FC Winterthur played on the Schützenwiese, which was then still called Kronenwiese. From 1911 the place was leased by the association. During the First World War from 1917 to 1919, the members of the association were able to prevent the conversion of the field into a field by cultivating a field the size of a football field in Wiesendangen .

In 1922 a small wooden grandstand with 550 seats was created, the financing was secured by a grandstand cooperative, which was dissolved in 1935 and left the grandstand almost debt-free to the FCW. In 1936 the playing field was re-leveled and an earth wall was built up as a back straight.

In 1957, the Schützenwiese Sports Grounds Cooperative (GSS) raised the money to build the current grandstand. The stadium was then expanded to include standing stands for the most successful period in the club's history, with the maximum capacity of 14,987 seats. The stadium record was set at an international field handball match between Switzerland and Germany. Officially, 23,000 spectators were present at the time. In the 1980s, GSS could no longer raise the money for a renovation, which is why the stadium became the property of the city of Winterthur, which from then on was responsible for its maintenance. Until 2004 the stadium itself was administered by the GSS. Since January 1, 2005, this task has also been the responsibility of the City of Winterthur.

On December 17, 2010, the city of Winterthur and the FC Winterthur club presented the plans for the expansion and renovation of the stadium. The concept of the Biel architects' office (Sollberger Bögli Architekten AG), which emerged from an architecture competition as the winner from 30 proposals, envisages a step-by-step conversion of the Schützenwiese into a Super League-compatible stadium with 10,000 covered seats (approx. 2/3 seats) .

In the first expansion stage, basic measures were taken by the end of August 2013 to meet the requirements for the Swiss Football League . This concerned the stadium lighting, buildings for the security of the match operations, as well as permanently installed sanitary facilities and catering stands. In 2015, the newly created opposite stand replaces uncovered standing space in the southeast of the lawn. The new grandstand was officially inaugurated and put into operation on March 2, 2015 during the championship game against FC Schaffhausen . It offers 3,600 covered standing room, which can later be replaced by covered seating. The incline of the grandstand is 35 ° and allows a good view of the field directly in front of it. The existing standing space behind the gates, the beer and syrup curve and the guest sector were largely retained. Apart from the Schützenwiese stadium, the “syrup curve” cannot be found in any other stadium in Switzerland. The fan zone set up in 2005 with its own grandstand and free syrup is particularly suitable for children. There is also the Salon Erika , an art gallery in the Winterthur fan sector , also unique in a European football stadium.

The planned budget of less than CHF 10 million was adhered to. The city of Winterthur contributed most of the costs with a little more than eight million francs, with the association and its supporters contributing one million. The cantonal sports fund won 920,000 francs. For cost reasons, the renovation of the main grandstand remains open Template: future / in 4 years.

The men's fistball world championship took place in the Schützenwiese stadium from 11 to 17 August 2019 .

literature

  • Werner Brunner (Ed.): 50 Years of the Winterthur Football Club 1896–1946 . Anniversary font. Winterthur 1946, p. 106-115 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Schützenwiese sports field. In: Winterthur Glossary. Retrieved September 11, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Construction documentation for the new construction of the Schützenwiese standing room. Office for Urban Development Winterthur, October 11, 2016, accessed on July 15, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Inauguration of the new opposite stand, Schützenwiese stadium, media release by the City of Winterthur on March 2, 2015
  4. ↑ Michael Hotz: A healthy mixture of preserving and renewing. In: winterthurer-zeitung.ch. Winterthurer Zeitung, July 4, 2019, accessed on June 22, 2020 .