Waldstadion Giessen

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Waldstadion Giessen
Main grandstand Waldstadion Gießen during the game FC Gießen: SC Waldgirmes July 28, 2018
Data
place GermanyGermany Giessen , Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 35 '8 "  N , 8 ° 42' 15.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 35 '8 "  N , 8 ° 42' 15.7"  E
surface Natural grass
capacity 4999
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The Waldstadion (also forest sports field ) is an urban sports facility opened in 1925 in the east of the central Hessian city ​​of Gießen . It is located near the university sports grounds on the Kugelberg. Access is from Grünberger Straße.

Equipment and use

The stadium has a capacity of 4,999 spectators. These are distributed over the covered grandstand with seating (645 seats) and the uncovered standing room (4,354 seats). There are no grandstands behind the gates, but this area is used for standing room.

Since the 2018/19 season, the stadium has been the home ground of FC Gießen for its home games in the soccer Hessenliga and the Regionalliga Südwest. With the commitment of FC Gießen, the city hopes to have the chance to adapt the Waldstadion to the current requirements for high-class football. In August 2018, a usage contract was signed between FC Gießen and the city council for the Waldstadion with the aim of concluding a long-term leasehold contract by the end of the year.

The home games of the Gießen Golden Dragons in the German Football League 2 are also played here.

history

The stadium opened in 1925. In the 1950s, the Americans, as the occupying power, claimed the Volkshalle , the football field at the Philosophenwald and the forest sports field for themselves. On August 18, 1957, VfB 1900 played the first home game on the forest sports field, which was expanded for the first time and offered an enlarged playing area, a standing grandstand and space for 15,000 spectators. The stadium was expanded again for the Hessentag 1969, which took place in Gießen.

The Bizarre Festival took place on 29./30. June 1991 in the Gießen Waldstadion

In the past, DFB junior football matches were held in the Waldstadion . In 2006, a district selection from Gießen played against the professional team from Borussia Dortmund as part of the Bundesliga preparation . In addition, the stadium used to be the venue for larger events in the Gießen area, such as B. 1991 the Bizarre Festival .

In 2014, the athletics facility with a 400 m circular running track, two long jump pits, a shot put ring and the area for high jump was dismantled for cost reasons.

The stadium has been used by FC Gießen as a leaseholder since 2019, previously VfB Gießen held this right.

literature

Christian von Berg: Back then on the forest sports field ... VfB 1900 and football in Gießen. Publishing house "Die Werkstatt". Göttingen, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7307-0140-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Europlan: Waldstadion - Gießen (stadium profile with pictures), accessed on August 10, 2018
  2. ↑ Future of the Gießener Waldstadion , press release of the city of Gießen from March 25, 2018, accessed on August 10, 2018
  3. ↑ a b Burkhard Möller: "Intermediate Step" for FC Giessen . In: Gießener Allgemeine, August 13, 2018, accessed on August 14, 2018
  4. ^ Christian von Berg: The city of Giessen and the long history of former soccer fields . In: Gießener Anzeiger, July 4, 2018
  5. ^ Christian von Berg: Gießen in the 50s: Associations and politics face great challenges . In: Gießener Anzeiger, August 6, 2017
  6. ↑ Christian von Berg: Football: VfB 1900 Gießen is quasi history and has written many stories . In: Gießener Anzeiger, May 15, 2018
  7. ↑ Dismantling of the athletics facilities in the Waldstadion Chance für den Fußball , press release from the City of Giessen from February 25, 2014, accessed on August 10, 2018