VfB arena

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VfB arena
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place GermanyGermany Bielefeld , Germany
Template: Coordinate / Maintenance / Stadium
owner VfB 03 Bielefeld
opening 1924
demolition 1970
surface Natural grass
capacity 15,000 seats
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The VfB-Kampfbahn was a football stadium in Bielefeld .

history

The stadium was located in the east of the Mitte district on Heeper Strasse at the corner of Huberstrasse. In 1921, VfB 03 Bielefeld acquired a fallow area and began building the arena. It opened three years later and had space for 15,000 spectators. It is not known whether the stadium offered seats or covered areas. The VfB-Kampfbahn became the new sporting home of the "Hüpker", who previously used a sports field on Theesener Strasse in the Schildesche district .

When VfB 03 Bielefeld qualified as West German runner-up for the final round of the German championship in 1931 , the club moved its round of 16 against Hertha BSC to Dortmund's Rote Erde stadium , because VfB 03 considered its own stadium too small. VfB 03 played from 1939 to 1944 in the then first-class Gauliga Westfalen and from 1950 to 1952 and in the 1955/56 season in the second-class II Division West. Then the club played in the Verbandsliga , the highest amateur league in Westphalia at the time.

A special feature of the stadium was the so-called “Arminenhügel”, on which supporters of VfB local rival Arminia Bielefeld stood and cheered on the respective visiting team. When "Hüpker" and Arminia met in winter , the supporters of both clubs regularly fought snowballs . From 1968 VfB 03 played its home games in the newly opened Rußheide stadium , which the club shared with local rivals and later merger partner SpVgg Fichte Bielefeld . Two years later, VfB 03 sold the VfB-Kampfbahn to the retail company Marktkauf . This demolished the stadium and built a supermarket on the property .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hendrik Köplin: Shadow player: VfB Fichte Bielefeld . In: Zeitspiel, No. 18, pages 20–23
  2. ↑ a b c Werner Skrentny (Hrsg.): The big book of the German football stadiums . Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-668-3 , p. 62 .
  3. ^ Hardy Green , Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 71.