Viktoria-Platz (Berlin)
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| place | Berlin-Mariendorf |
| opening | September 3, 1905 |
| First game | Viktoria 89 - Magyar AC Budapest |
| demolition | 1964 |
| capacity | 10,000 |
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The Victoria Square at the Eisenacher Strasse in Berlin-Marie village was the traditional venue of the two-time German soccer champion BFC Viktoria 1889 and two among other venue football internationals between Germany and England .
history
The BFC Viktoria 89 initially played like several other Berlin football clubs on the Tempelhofer Feld . After the soccer fields there had proven to be out of date at the beginning of the 20th century, the leading Berlin soccer clubs looked for suitable locations to set up their own soccer fields.
Viktoria 89 acquired a site in the then still independent rural community of Mariendorf between Eisenacher Strasse and today's Westphalweg. The course, which initially held about 10,000 spectators, was opened on September 3, 1905 with an international friendly game between Viktoria 89 and Magyar AC Budapest. A covered wooden grandstand for 200 visitors was built on one of the long sides. In 1912 two uncovered grandstands with 12 rows of seats each were added on either side of the main grandstand. In 1914 the old main grandstand was replaced by a larger new building.
Due to its relatively large capacity for the time and its representative design, Viktoria-Platz was a popular venue for important football matches in the years before the First World War . On April 19, 1907, the Prussian Crown Prince Wilhelm visited Viktoria-Platz on the occasion of a comparison of cities between Berlin and Vienna .
Larger football stadiums had been available in Berlin since the 1920s, so Viktoria-Platz was now only used for normal games by Viktoria 89. First division football was played on Viktoria-Platz for the last time in the Gauliga season 1939/40 . At the end of the Second World War , the wood of the old grandstands was burned and in the post-war period the US occupation forces used the field as a baseball field . In 1951 Viktoria-Platz was reopened for football and was one of the first football pitches in Berlin to have a lighting system. The first team of Viktoria 89 has not played on Viktoria-Platz since the Second World War, but in the Friedrich-Ebert-Stadion in Berlin-Tempelhof . In 1964, Viktoria 89 sold the square on Eisenacher Straße, which was still owned by the association until then. Today there are residential buildings and the Westphalweg tennis facility on the old Viktoria site .
Major games
International matches
On April 20, 1908, the German national soccer team played their first official international match on German soil on Viktoria-Platz . In front of 6,000 spectators, the German team lost 1: 5 to the English amateur selection . Another international match against England on Viktoria-Platz took place on March 21, 1913. In front of the then record crowd of more than 15,000 spectators, the English won 3-0.
German championship
On May 6, 1906, VfB Leipzig defeated Berlin's FC Hertha 92 3-2 in the semi-finals of the German championship on Viktoria-Platz . The Berlin Master SV north-northwest struck on May 21, 1922 quarter-finals of the German Cup to Viktoria Forst 1: 0th This was the last nationally significant game on Viktoria-Platz.
Crown Prince Cup
In 1909 , 1910 , 1911 and 1918 the finals for the Crown Prince's Cup took place on Viktoria-Platz. The Kronprinzenpokal was a cup competition in which the teams selected from the regional associations of the German Football Association competed against each other, and it was the first ever Germany-wide cup competition.
International friendlies
Before the First World War, Viktoria 89 was one of the leading German football clubs and invited prominent foreign professional teams to international comparative matches on Viktoria-Platz. On May 27, 1906, Celtic visited Glasgow and beat Viktoria 4-1. In 1911 and 1912 Viktoria drew 3: 3 against Middlesbrough FC and 2: 2 against Arsenal . The 2-1 win over Bolton Wanderers in front of 4,000 spectators on May 4, 1913 caused a sensation . On May 25, 1913 Victoria 89 lost 4-2 to Blackburn Rovers and in May 1914 Burnley FC in front of 9,000 spectators 1: 2.
In August 1920, the Young Boys Bern came to a friendly game on Viktoria-Platz and beat Viktoria 89 4-1. This was one of the first guest appearances by a foreign team on German soil after the First World War.
Web links
literature
- Christian Wolter : Lawn of passion. The football fields of Berlin. History and stories. Edition Else, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-036563-8 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '46.2 " N , 13 ° 23' 37.4" E