Stadium on Zweibrücker Strasse

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Stadium on Zweibrücker Strasse
Horeb
Data
place Zweibrücker Strasse 150 66954 Pirmasens , Germany
GermanyGermany
Coordinates 49 ° 13 '3.2 "  N , 7 ° 35' 46.4"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '3.2 "  N , 7 ° 35' 46.4"  E
opening April 5, 1912
demolition 2003
capacity 16,000 seats
playing area Natural grass
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The stadium on Zweibrücker Straße was a football stadium in Pirmasens in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Location and facilities

The stadium on Zweibrücker Strasse was located a little outside the Pirmasens city center. The capacity used to be 25,000 spectators, recently only 16,000. There were around 1,000 covered seats in the main stand. The natural grass play area was surrounded by a small cinder track , which, however, could not be used for athletics . The stadium had no floodlights and was the home ground of FK Pirmasens .

history

Four members of FK Pirmasens acquired a 2,400 square meter site on which the stadium was built in 1911 . The brewery Park & ​​Bellheimer granted a loan of 20,000 marks to finance it . In return, the association had to buy 30,000 liters of beer from the brewery every year . The stadium on Zweibrücker Strasse was finally inaugurated on April 5, 1912 with a friendly match against BSC Old Boys Basel . The guests from Switzerland won the game 4: 3; the number of spectators is unknown.

In the summer of 1912, the main grandstand and the clubhouse were inaugurated. A hurricane destroyed large parts of the stadium in 1920. Six years later the main stand was replaced by a covered stand with seats. In 1939 the city of Pirmasens had to be evacuated , so that FK Pirmasens had to move to Kaiserslautern . At the end of the Second World War in 1945, the stands and the clubhouse were destroyed and the playing area was covered with bomb craters. The damage was quickly repaired, so that the club could play its home games in the then first-class Oberliga Südwest on the Horeb.

The attendance record was set on December 6, 1953, when 25,000 people saw the Bundesliga match between FK Pirmasens and 1. FC Kaiserslautern . The late 1950s and early 1960s were the most successful times in the club's history. From 1958 to 1960 the FK Pirmasens was champion of the Oberliga Südwest and in 1962 still secured the runner-up. For the final round of the German championship, however, the club moved to the Südweststadion in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , as this stadium has a higher capacity. According to Honorary President Gustav Käfer, "the money that the Pirmasens received in the Südweststadion was enough for a year".

In 1963, the club was not included in the newly created Bundesliga and continued to play in the second-rate Regionalliga Südwest . In 1974 he qualified for the newly created 2nd Bundesliga and was runner-up behind Karlsruher SC in the first season . In the promotion games to the Bundesliga, Pirmasens failed at Bayer 05 Uerdingen ; 15,000 spectators saw a 4: 4 in the first leg on the Horeb. In the meantime, FK Pirmasens, which was in debt with around 800,000 marks , had to sell the stadium to the city for two million marks in order to avoid bankruptcy .

The stadium was given up in 2003 because it had to give way to an expansion of the neighboring company Kömmerling . FK Pirmasens said goodbye with friendly matches against 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Werder Bremen and the Albanian national team from the stadium on Zweibrücker Straße. During the demolition work, an aerial bomb weighing five hundred pounds was discovered under the main stand . FK Pirmasens played in the stadium in Spesbach in the 2003/04 season before moving into the newly built Husterhöhe Sports Park in summer 2004 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Werner Skrentny (Hrsg.): The big book of the German football stadiums . Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-668-3 , p. 306 .