Veltins ice arena

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Veltins ice arena
Logo VeltinsEisarena.jpg
Veltins-Eisarena (Germany)
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Winterberg bobsleigh track map deutsch.svg
Plan of the train
place GermanyGermany Winterberg , North Rhine-Westphalia
owner Hochsauerlandkreis and the city of Winterberg
operator Sports center Winterberg Hochsauerland GmbH
Installation December 10, 1977
Orbit data
Maximum height difference 110 m
begin length Curves
Bob start 1330 m 15th
Skeleton start 1330 m 15th
Toboggan start men 1324 m 15th
Toboggan start women 1293 m 15th
Double-seater start 945 m 11

Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 3 ″  N , 8 ° 30 ′ 24 ″  E

The Veltins-Eisarena (spelling: VELTINS-EisArena ) is an artificial ice rink for tobogganing, skeleton and bobsleigh and is located in Winterberg . It is the fourth oldest artificial ice rink in the world after those in Königssee , Oberhof and Innsbruck- Igls .

Orbit data

Upper part of the track in summer with start house

The bobsled run has a total length including run-out of 1609 meters and a total of 15 curves. In the labyrinth between curves 12 and 13, a top speed of up to 140 km / h can be achieved. The ice surface is approximately 6500 square meters. The average gradient is 9.8 percent. At the steepest point it reaches 15 percent. The curves have radii from 16 to 55 and a height between 2.5 to 5 meters. About 70 kilometers of pipes run under the ice, through which 40  tons of ammonia run to cool the track and maintain the ice.

Rail operations take place from mid-October to the end of February.

history

On May 19, 1910, the Sauerland Bobsleigh and Automobile Club of Hesse and Westphalia , today the Sauerland Winterberg bobsleigh and sledge sports club , was founded and that same year in autumn, a natural ice bobsleigh track was built, which started on the cap and near the Daubermühle ended. In 1911, the club built an Art Nouveau clubhouse on the summit . This was named Bobhaus and is now a mountain restaurant.

The first European bobsleigh championships in Winterberg took place in 1914. From 1920 to 1965 numerous national and regional bobsleigh races were held on the old natural ice rink. The last bobsleigh race was held in 1965. The attempt to rebuild the railway in the following years failed due to the weather.

After the opening of the world's first artificial ice rink at Königssee in 1969, politics and sport strove for a second German artificial ice rink for a long time. Winterberg finally prevailed against other applicants, including Garmisch-Partenkirchen . After the openings in Oberhof and Innsbruck-Igls, the world's fourth artificial ice rink for bobsleigh and toboggan was inaugurated in Winterberg on December 10, 1977. The railway operator was the Erholungs- und Sportzentrum Winterberg GmbH, together with the two shareholders, Hochsauerlandkreis and the city of Winterberg.

In 1986 renovation work took place in the target area. The outlet curve 15 and the old outlet route, which led towards the city of Winterberg, were demolished. The curve 14 has been lengthened to a 180 degree curve. A new run-out / braking section was built uphill.

After the fire in a functional building, it was rebuilt in 2004 in the area of ​​starting height 2. In 2005/2006, weather protection roofs with roller blinds were installed in the areas of curves 2 to 4 and 9 to 14.

Start house 1, curve 0 in the foreground

The second renovation took place in 2005/2006 and cost 3.1 million euros, 80 percent of which was borne by the federal government and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and 20 percent by the city of Winterberg and the Hochsauerlandkreis. The old start house 1 was demolished and rebuilt. The old starting route was also torn down and relocated to the valley side, and a new starting curve was built, which has been called curve 0 since then, in order not to have to change the usual numbering. The storage areas and the starting straight for the bobsleigh and skeleton sledges have been completely covered. A warm-up track was built along the building for the athletes. The starting height of the women's luge has now been moved from the starting tower at curve 4 up to the basement level of the new starting building 1. A new starting tower was built for the luge men. In 2006/2007 a new workshop building was built near the target house.

In 2013, the finish arena was redesigned with the construction of a functional building, a weighing house and an enlargement of the loading platform. In 2014, as in 2006, weather protection roofs and roller blinds were installed, now over curves 7 and 14.

At the beginning of 2015, a 25-year-old man died while illegally using the toboggan run. His two companions were seriously injured.

At the beginning of the 2015/16 season, the Veltins brewery acquired the naming rights to the sports facility . On October 20, 2015, the change from Winterberg Hochsauerland bobsleigh run to Veltins-Eisarena was announced.

The mascot of the FIL Luge World Championships 2019 and the artificial ice rink is the penguin "Kufi".

At the end of 2018, a lounge in a two-story multifunctional building in the finish area of ​​the track was completed for the 2019 Luge World Championships.

Events

After the construction of the new artificial ice rink, numerous major events have taken place since 1979, including:

year event
1987 " Bet that ..? “Outside bet
2003, 2005, 2009 Wok World Cup
1979, 1999, 2003 Bob EM
1988 Skeleton EM
1992, 2000, 2001 European Luge Championship
2011 Bobsleigh and Skeleton EM
1989, 1991, 2019 Luge World Championships
1995, 2015 Bobsleigh World Cup
2000, 2003 Women's Bobsleigh World Championship (very first women's World Championship)
2015 Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships
2019 FIL Luge World Championships

Records

Starting records

Two-man bobsleigh 4-man bobsleigh men Two-man bobsleigh women
5.05 seconds - December 5, 2015
Francesco Friedrich / Thorsten Margis GermanyGermany
4.98 seconds - January 4, 2014
LatviaLatvia Latvia
Oskars Melbārdis
Daumants Dreiškens
Arvis Vilkaste
Jānis Strenga
5.43 seconds - December 5, 2015
Elana Meyers Taylor / Kehri Jones United StatesUnited States
Skeleton men Skeleton women Toboggan men Toboggan women Toboggan double
4.75 seconds - January 3, 2014
Alexander Tretyakov RussiaRussia
5.18 seconds - December 4, 2015
Elena Nikita RussiaRussia
3.773 seconds - December 21, 2013
Andi Langenhan GermanyGermany
4.903 seconds - December 5, 2010
Natalie Geisenberger GermanyGermany
2.983 seconds - November 26, 2016
Toni Eggert / Sascha Benecken GermanyGermany

Track records

Two-man bobsleigh 4-man bobsleigh men Two-man bobsleigh women
55.02 seconds - December 5, 2015
Francesco Friedrich / Thorsten Margis GermanyGermany
53.48 seconds - March 8, 2015
GermanyGermany Germany
Nico Walther
Andreas Bredau
Marko Hübenbecker
Christian Poser
56.54 seconds - February 28, 2015
Anja Schneiderheinze / Annika Drazek GermanyGermany
Skeleton men Skeleton women Toboggan men Toboggan women Toboggan double
55.51 seconds - March 6, 2015
Martin's course LatviaLatvia
57.42 seconds - March 7, 2015
Lizzy Yarnold United KingdomUnited Kingdom
51.654 seconds - November 18, 2018
Felix Hole GermanyGermany
55.323 seconds - November 26, 2016
Natalie Geisenberger GermanyGermany
42.943 seconds - November 26, 2016
Toni Eggert / Sascha Benecken GermanyGermany
Luge team relay time
Natalie Geisenberger , Felix Loch , Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt GermanyGermany 2: 23.102 min. - November 18, 2018

Web links

Commons : Veltins-Eisarena  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 25-year-old bled to death in Winterberg bobsleigh run. In: spiegel.de. January 6, 2015, accessed February 8, 2016 .