Stadium at the Quenz

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Stadium at the Quenz
Steel stadium
Stahlstadion brandenburg, opposite stand.JPG
The opposite stand in the steel stadium
Data
place GermanyGermany Brandenburg an der Havel , Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 24 '47.7 "  N , 12 ° 30' 3.3"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 24 '47.7 "  N , 12 ° 30' 3.3"  E
owner City of Brandenburg
opening 1955
Renovations 1971, 1984-86, 1996
surface Natural grass
capacity 15,500 seats
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Events

The Stadion am Quenz (also steel stadium ) is a multi-purpose sports facility with athletics facility in the city of Brandenburg an der Havel , which is mainly used for soccer games and athletics events. The stadium is located in the western part of the city in the Quenzsiedlung and is owned by the city. It is part of a sports complex that includes two training grounds in addition to the main stadium itself. The steel hall was also part of a larger sports complex until it was converted into a steel palace .

history

The stadium was built between 1952 and 1955 by Stahl- und Walzwerk Brandenburg for its company sports association Stahl Brandenburg and was initially not given an official name. The piled-up stadium walls largely consisted of the rubble from the prisoner-of-war camp, which was located in the same place until 1945. When the soccer team of the BSG Stahl Brandenburg achieved promotion to the second-rate GDR league in 1970, expansion work was carried out from December 1970 to August 1971. For example, the first 7 standing rows were created in the south curve, the speaker's tower and, on today's back straight, the grandstand for around 1,800 spectators (later their capacity increased to 2,000 with an additional row of seats). The audience capacity was increased to 12,000 (later to 15,000). After Stahl Brandenburg was promoted to the GDR league in 1984 , the main stand was built with around 800 covered seats, the standing room in the curves was expanded and an electronic display board was installed in 1986. For the 1988/89 season, the construction of a floodlight system began, which could only be completed in 1996 due to the collapse of the GDR .

As mentioned, the stadium initially had no official name; popularly it was often called the Activist Stadium after the neighboring “Straße der Aktivisten” (now “Magdeburger Landstraße”), until the name Stahlstadion established itself over the years.

On April 30, 1967, the final of the GDR soccer cup between Motor Zwickau and Hansa Rostock (3-0) was played in the steel stadium in front of 10,000 spectators . 3,000 spectators saw the international match between the GDR national soccer team against Czechoslovakia (2-0) on May 13, 1987 . The national youth soccer team also played two international matches in the steel stadium. Two rugby international matches were also played. In 1989 the GDR lost to Czechoslovakia 19:38, in 2006 Germany played against the amateur team Wales. The attendance record with officially 18,000 spectators was set up on November 5, 1986 at the UEFA Cup game between BSG Stahl and IFK Göteborg . In fact, up to 22,000 spectators are said to have been in the stadium.

Current situation

After the steelworks withdrew from financing sports due to economic conditions in 1990, the city of Brandenburg took over the stadium. In January 1993 the sports facility was renamed Stadion am Quenz. In 1996 the old ash track was replaced by a new tartan track and the floodlight system with 2,000 lux was put into operation. The scoreboard, which was built in 1986, was converted into a manually operated scoreboard in the 2008/09 season due to the ailing condition of fans of FC Stahl. The back straight was renovated in summer 2010. The stadium has 15,500 seats, of which around 3,000 are covered and 1,000 are uncovered. The football club Stahl Brandenburg plays its home games in the stadium. The athletics facilities are used, for example, by the Association for Athletics (VfL) Brandenburg, the former section of the BSG Stahl that was founded.
The floodlight masts were dismantled and scrapped at the end of July 2017 by resolution of the city ​​council , as the city administration questioned the stability and claimed disproportionately high renovation costs, despite reports to the contrary.

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