White meadow (Dortmund)
| White meadow Borussia Sportpark |
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| place | Dortmund , Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 31 '32.9 " N , 7 ° 29' 14.6" E |
| owner | City of Dortmund, Borussia Dortmund |
| opening | August 14, 1924 |
| demolition | 1937 |
| surface | race |
| capacity | 10,000 |
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The White Meadow was Borussia Dortmund's first sports field . It was located on Wambeler Strasse in the immediate vicinity of Borsigplatz and the industrial facilities of Hoesch-Hüttenwerke in the north of Dortmund .
The White Meadow was originally an urban ball playground with a running track and jumping pit. The goals were initially only made of square timber and crossbars and were always dismantled after the games, otherwise there was a risk that they could be stolen. The name of the square is said to have originated from the white flowers thrown off by adjacent poplars in spring, which transformed the field into a "white meadow".
Since the sports field did not meet the association's regulations for promotion to the district class , the club had to undertake extensive construction work in the summer of 1924. In addition to the erection of a 450 meter long and 1.80 meter high wall and the construction of the changing and ticket booths, the completion of the spectator walls was in the foreground. The total cost of the renovation was 50,000 Reichsmarks; after the renovation work, the stadium had a capacity of around 10,000 seats. The new Borussia sports field was handed over to the club by Mayor Eichhoff on August 14, 1924.
The sports field was supposed to give way to an outdoor pool in the newly built Hoeschpark , which was only built as the Stockheide outdoor pool in 1951. A memorial plaque reminds of the historic venue. When Hoesch AG was forced to expand in 1937 as the National Socialists were preparing for war, the association had to leave the White Meadow site and move to the Rote Erde arena south of the city center .
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- ↑ Westfalenstadion - The story of a football stage . Gerd Kolbe and Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling. Page 13. Publisher: "Die Werkstatt" GmbH.