Stadium at the city park
| Stadium at the city park | |
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| Bayerplatz | |
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| Penalty in the stadium at the city park | |
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| place | Am Stadtpark 46–50 22c Leverkusen Germany 
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 2 '1.8 " N , 6 ° 59' 58.4" E |
| owner | SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen |
| start of building | 1932 |
| opening | September 4, 1932 |
| First game | Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Youth Kalk |
| demolition | 1960 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 18,000 seats |
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Bayer 04 Leverkusen (soccer) |
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The stadium at the Stadtpark was a venue built in 1932, which was expanded into a football stadium in the following years. It was in Leverkusen - Wiesdorf , where the football and field handball team of SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen played their home games. The stadium was demolished in 1960 after the club moved to the site on Bismarckstrasse in Küppersteg .
history
In 1923, the club's members built the first sports field facility with two courts, which was briefly called Dhünn-Platz . In 1931 the Bayer soccer players achieved promotion to the 1st Cologne District League. A year later, the square on the Dhünnaue was abandoned and the new sports field at the city park , which was later simply called Bayer-Platz in the vernacular , was officially opened in Bayer residential colony III. Unemployed members of the association built the facility independently during the year.
Bayer 04 played Jugend Kalk in the opening game on September 4, 1932 . The championship game was supposed to take place in Cologne - Kalk , but it was moved to Leverkusen on the occasion of the inauguration . Bayer 04 Leverkusen decided the game against a backdrop "which the club could not have wished for stronger" (General-Anzeiger) with 3-1 (1-0).
In 1936 the Bayer-Elf made it to the second highest German league at this location. During the Second World War , the stadium in the Stadtpark was given a wooden grandstand in 1941, increasing the capacity to 15,000 spectators. During the last months of the war, aerial observation towers were installed on the sports complex.
After Bayer 04 lost two promotion opportunities against 1. FC Köln and FC Schalke 04 in 1949 , the Werkself, led by Richard Job and Hans Frömmel, were promoted to the first-class Oberliga West in 1951 . In the first league season, an average of more than 10,000 spectators attended the games in the city park , which was remarkable for a city with 70,000 inhabitants at the time. In 1953/54 entry into the final round of the German championship was only missed by three points, also because a 2-0 lead was lost in a game against direct competitor SV Sodingen .
Within five years, the sporting advancement was surprisingly followed by the descent into the second class. Nevertheless, the club continued to believe in sporting success and began building a new venue. On April 23, 1956, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Ulrich Haberland Stadium on Bismarckstrasse in the neighboring district of Küppersteg took place . In the same year, the handball players, who are also based in the stadium at Stadtpark, won the German handball championship, which was the club's greatest success to date. After the team around Opladener Robert Will failed in the final after extra time last year, they were able to prevail against SG Leutershausen with 15: 8 in front of 20,000 spectators in the Wuppertal stadium at the zoo in 1956 . For handball players, the so-called Small Haberland Stadium was created right next to the Ulrich Haberland Stadium , which today carries the name Ulrich Haberland Stadium and is used for friendly and youth football matches. The association had swapped the area at the city park for the area on the A1 motorway, which is in the immediate vicinity on the other side of the Dhünn river , with the city. In 1960 the stadium was demolished, on the ground of which there is now a day-care center and the sports hall of the Lise-Meitner-Gymnasium . The school itself was built on the site of the former training grounds next to the stadium. After moving to the Ulrich Haberland Stadium, however, the footballers avoided the stadium at the city park even more often.
Infrastructure
The stadium had a "totomat" that was attached to the south stand of the stadium. The stadium spectators were informed of the results in the other stadiums via this large display board. The games were assigned numbers, next to which the current results were displayed.
To the north of the stadium, a barrack was built as a clubhouse in 1935, which served as a shower and changing room. Later the barrack was used as the first separate meeting room. In the post-war years, a new stone clubhouse was built by members of the club. It was located next to the street Am Stadpark and had indoor and outdoor catering.
The main entrance to the stadium was on the corner of Am Stadtpark / Walter-Nernst-Straße. Between two flagpoles on brick steles was a metal grille on which the club's coat of arms and underneath the inscription "Sportvereinigung Bayer 04 Leverkusen" could be read. Above the inscription was the club's coat of arms with a Bavarian cross and the digits 04. The Leverkusen Ultras, in cooperation with fan support, are pursuing the goal of rebuilding the old entrance gate as a memorial for the old stadium in the same place, but in a smaller form. In June 2020, the proposal of the DIE LINKE council group for smaller investments in district I was accepted to support the reconstruction by the Ultras in principle and financially and to restore the brick pillars to their original size, if possible.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alex Feuerherdt: Bayer 04 Leverkusen - the football chronicle, Göttingen 2011, p. 18
- ↑ Inauguration of the SVg Leverkusen, in: Opladener Zeitung of September 5, 1932
- ↑ Alex Feuerherdt: Bayer 04 Leverkusen - the football chronicle, Göttingen 2011, p. 23
- ↑ History and history of the stadium ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2010 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. at bayarena.de, accessed November 5, 2013
- ^ Association announcement from SV Bayer 04 from August 1958, pp. 2–3
- ↑ SessionNet | Small investment measures in District I in 2020. Accessed June 26, 2020 .
