Waldstadion Homburg
| Waldstadion Homburg | |
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| Waldstadion in Homburg, view from the east | |
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 Homburg , Germany
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 18 '58 " N , 7 ° 21' 18" E |
| owner | City of Homburg |
| opening | 1937 |
| Renovations | 1986 |
| architect | Willy Schwilling |
| capacity | 16,488 seats |
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The Waldstadion Homburg is a football stadium with an athletics facility in Homburg in the Saarland . It offers 16,488 spectators, 1,723 of which are seated, 1,345 of which are covered. The main user of the stadium is the soccer club FC 08 Homburg .
History of the stadium
The stadium of FC Homburg was inaugurated as the main arena on August 14th and 15th, 1937 with a district sports festival during which a soccer game against SSV Jahn Regensburg was played . The arena was to become the center of a large-scale sports field, the realization of which the then Homburg mayor and NSDAP district leader Jakob Knissel had set himself the goal. The design of the sports field came from Ludwigshafen architect Willy Schwilling . Previously, today's FC Homburg had played on the Schlossberg, the city's landmark.
In 1974 the stadium was renamed Waldstadion and the audience capacity was given as 38,000.
During the renovation work in 1986, the main stand was expanded with new changing rooms and sanitary facilities and the standing stands were renovated. As the new main grandstand replaced a lot of standing room with seats, the capacity was reduced to 21,813 spectators.
In addition, an electrical display panel was installed in 1989 (which has since been destroyed) and a floodlight system in 1990 . In 2012, an electrical display panel was installed again, as well as various cosmetic repairs.
Big sporting events
On November 19, 1952, the stadium hosted a friendly international match between Saarland A and Germany B. This game ended 4-3 for Germany B.
In the Bundesliga years of FC Homburg in 1986/87 , 1987/88 and 1989/90 , an average of 8,000 spectators per game came to the stadium. Most of them with over 20,000 each against FC Bayern Munich and 1. FC Kaiserslautern . At that time, the city of Homburg with 43,000 inhabitants was the “smallest Bundesliga city” in the history of the Bundesliga.
On March 1, 2006, the international match of the women's national teams of Germany and China (final score 0: 1) was played in front of 20,000 spectators .
At the 2006 World Cup in Germany , the Waldstadion was the training venue for the Italian national team, which was quartered in Homburg alongside Japan and Paraguay . In addition, public viewing events for the finals were held in the stadium .
Others
The Waldstadion ranks 71st on the list of the largest football stadiums in Germany (as of July 2019). At the back of the stadium wall there has been a so-called “Hall of Fame” since 2008, where graffiti artists can immortalize their works.
literature
- Tobias Fuchs: Waldstadion - Contemplative venue in what was once the smallest Bundesliga city. In: Werner Skrentny (Ed.): The big book of the German football stadiums. New edition. Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89533-668-3 , pp. 192f.
See also
Web links
- FC 08 Homburg - Stadium Information about the stadium on the website of FC Homburg
- FC 08 Homburg vs. Wormatia Worms 3: 0 Visitor report from August 3, 2004 with lots of details about the stadium, on groundhopping.de
- Waldstadion Homburg, FC 08 Homburg-Saar detailed picture gallery on stadionwelt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Waldstadion
- ↑ Around 4,000 fans at the public viewing in the city park - atmospheric World Cup conclusion - Mayor Joachim Rippel welcomes the audience ( Memento from December 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Article from July 11, 2006 on the website of the city of Homburg, accessed on October 19 2011.