Forest meadow (stadium)

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Forest meadow
Soccer game VfB Kiel against SC Comet Kiel in the 1st amateur league, 3-2 (Kiel 76.936) .jpg
Data
place Kiel , Schleswig-Holstein
Coordinates 54 ° 18 '11.6 "  N , 10 ° 6' 55.9"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 18 '11.6 "  N , 10 ° 6' 55.9"  E
opening 1923 or
June 21, 1925
capacity 2,000
playing area Natural grass
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Events

The Waldwiese is a football stadium in Kiel .

history

Handball game between THW Kiel and Viktoria Hamburg, final round of the German championship, May 1957

There are contradicting statements about the opening of the stadium. Depending on the source, the stadium was opened in 1923 or June 21, 1925. The original capacity was 18,000, but has been reduced to 7,500, then to 5,000 and now to 2,000. The stadium is also known as VfB-Platz Waldwiese .

The first user of the stadium was SV Hohenzollern-Herta Kiel , which was dissolved after bankruptcy in 1928 and re-established as VfB Kiel . The handball club THW Kiel also played its field handball games on the forest meadow. The Kiel district club SV Friedrichsort used the forest meadow between 1963 and 1966 for various home games in what was then the second-class Regionalliga Nord . The Waldwiese has been the home ground of the Holstein Kiel soccer players in the 2nd Bundesliga North since 2014 .

On May 28, 1950, the round of 16 for the German soccer championship 1949/50 between Hamburger SV and Union Oberschöneweide was played in front of 13,500 spectators on the forest meadow. A few days later, on June 17, 1950, the forest meadow was the scene of the semi-final game and the 1950 German field handball championship between THW Kiel and Frisch Auf Göppingen . In addition, the Schleswig-Holstein Football Association started various play-offs that were expected to attract a high number of spectators on the Kiel forest meadow.

Web links

Commons : Waldwiese  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 , p. 51.
  2. ^ A b Hardy Green, Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 265.
  3. ↑ Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 , p. 301.
  4. ^ Handball final: Police - Hassee. Hamburger Abendblatt , accessed on February 4, 2015 .