Rostock Volksstadion
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| place | Rostock , Germany |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 5 '2 " N , 12 ° 5' 18.7" E |
| opening | 1928 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 8,000 |
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The Rostocker Volksstadion is a football stadium in Rostock . It was built between 1923 and 1928 and has 8,000 standing places on natural grandstands. It is located near the Ostseestadion , the athletics stadium and in the immediate vicinity of the swimming pool. Before the Ostseestadion was built, the Volksstadion was Rostock's largest sports facility. There are said to have been soccer games with more than 20,000 spectators, which seems unlikely due to the small area. There is a fenced-in guest fan block, which was only closed completely for "problem games", such as against the BFC Dynamo .
Planning and construction
As early as 1912 the Rostock workers' athletes had their first ideas and plans to create their own space. Due to the outbreak of World War I, however, all considerations were postponed and only resumed in 1923. The Mecklenburg state government provided the Rostock workers' sport cartel with 200,000 marks in June 1923, provided that the city of Rostock also grants a corresponding subsidy. Just a month later, the city transferred the Barnstorfer Sandkuhle, an area of 38,000 square meters, to the cartel, behind what was then the racetrack. The Rostock horticultural architect Lehmann designed an arena for 20,000 spectators, which was huge for Mecklenburg conditions at the time. The first measurements began in December 1923. Due to the inflation of the time, the 200,000 marks provided by the state government were devalued when construction began. Thereupon the workers' sports cartel decided to impose a special contribution of 20 marks on each of its adult members. Athletes and the unemployed were used to do earthworks. In July 1926 a prehistoric burial site was believed to have been found, but closer investigations invalidated this assumption. In front of the main entrance at the Barnstorfer Wald, a 2.60 m boulder made of red Swedish granite was found. The city confiscated the memory of the Ice Age and let the "old Swedes" bury them back in place until they were later used. After the construction work was completed, the playing field measured 70 by 105 meters and was surrounded by a 400-meter-long running track made of clay, peat waste and slag. In the curves there were jumping and throwing areas, on the west side a 2.70 meter high standing grandstand and on the east side a lawn slope rose up.
Consecration
The then largest stadium in Rostock, also the first athletics stadium in Mecklenburg and one of the largest stadiums built by worker athletes in the Weimar Republic, was consecrated on July 29, 1928 after slow completion. The festive day began with a concert by 200 proletarian minstrels on Margaretenplatz in the Kröpeliner-Tor-Vorstadt . 3000 enthusiastic people took part in the subsequent parade to the workers' sports stadium . The flags of the ATSB , the Republic, the State of Mecklenburg and the City of Rostock waved in the arena . Four speakers on display brought the announcements of the keynote speakers, including Mecklenburg's Prime Minister Paul Schröder , the Reichstag deputy Carl Schreck and the city councilor Dr. Langerstein, listened to to all 10,000 spectators. After several sports demonstrations, the festivities did not end until the evening hours.
renaming
In 1933, just a few years after its consecration, the National Socialists confiscated the workers' sports stadium and renamed it the Volksstadion . The sports facility in Rostock still bears this name today.
use
In the 1951/52 season , five GDR league games of BSG Motor Wismar were played in the Volksstadion in front of up to 13,000 spectators . The official reason was that Jahnplatz in Wismar was not playable. In the 1986/87 season , FC Hansa also played nine point and two cup games in the Volksstadion, while a new lawn was sown in the Ostseestadion. A year later they had to move to the Volksstadion again when the league game against Wismut Aue was about to be canceled due to the main square being unusable. In 1989, FC Hansa even played its home games of the Intertoto Cup in the Volksstadion. Opponents were Boldklubben 1903 , TJ Plastika Nitra and Malmö FF .
The stadium was also often used for the home games of the reserve team of FC Hansa Rostock , which temporarily played in the second highest GDR division, the league . The home games of the amateurs of FC Hansa Rostock in the Oberliga Nordost were played in the Volksstadion; However, while they were part of the regional football league in 2008/09 and 2009/10 , they played in the Ostseestadion because the Volksstadion was rejected as unsuitable. For the 2010/11 season the team - although not relegated in terms of sport - was registered for the football league in order to be able to compete in the Volksstadion again for cost reasons.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert Rosentreter , Günter Simon: Always close to the wind. 40 years of FC Hansa Rostock . Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-504-5 , p. 210
- ↑ a b c d Arbeiterfussball.de: Volksstadion Rostock. Retrieved August 5, 2018 .
- ^ Nordic workers' sport , stadium inauguration in Rostock , August 6, 1928, accessed on August 5, 2018
- ↑ FC-Hansa.de: Promotion to the regional league also means moving to the DKB-Arena. Retrieved June 1, 2008 .
- ↑ Sport1: Hansa II gets down voluntarily ; News from June 4, 2010.