Weinau Park Stadium

Weinau Park Stadium
Weinau Park Stadium
Earlier names
Handrick-Kampfbahn, Willi-Gall-Stadion
Data
place	Zittau , Saxony , Germany
Coordinates	50 ° 54 '4.7 "  N , 14 ° 50' 16.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '4.7 "  N , 14 ° 50' 16.7"  E
owner	City of Zittau
opening	1915
Renovations	1955, 1995
Extensions	2010
capacity	10,000 seats, of which 465 are covered and 4,535 are uncovered
Societies)
HSG Turbine Zittau eV VfB Zittau eV
Events
Athletics: German Forest Running Championships 1958 German Junior Championships 1959 Club team athletics cup finals in 1962 GDR final round of the adult DVfL Cup 1975 GDR finals DVfL youth cup A 1976 GDR student championships 1985 International German University Championships 1997 German Senior All-Around Championships 2001 German Senior Championships II 2004 80th German Walking Championships 2007 German Senior Championships I 2007 82nd German Walking Championships 2009 Senior European Championships 2012

The Weinau Park Stadium is located on the eastern outskirts of Zittau ( Saxony ) in the Weinau Park . At the end of the 19th century, a cycling track was built on the site , the covered wooden stand of which is the oldest sports facility stand in Germany and is a listed building. The athletics facility was built in 1915. From 1955 to the beginning of the 1990s it was called the Willi Gall Stadium after a resistance fighter murdered during the Nazi era in 1941 .

history

On the initiative of the Zittau cycling club, a cycling track was built and inaugurated on August 19, 1894. The construction costs up to then amounted to 8,700 marks. After the ten-year lease with the cycling club (from 1899 it called itself the “Zittau Cycling Club”), the city council offered the Weinau racecourse with a grandstand for 4,000 marks. After negotiations, the city council bought the racetrack with grandstand and all accessories for 1,000 marks. The takeover took place on June 1, 1904.

Furnishing

After the floods in 2010, the facility was rebuilt and expanded into a type A competition site. The stadium has:

• 8 circular tracks (400 m each; also for sprints and hurdles)
• 1 obstacle course
• 4 long jump facilities
• 2 high jump facilities
• 2 pole vault facilities
• 3 javelin systems
• 2 discus and hammer throw systems
• 3 shot put systems

There are lawn play areas, hard courts and volleyball fields as well as a sauna, relaxation pool, club room and casino.

Web links

• Sports fields and stadiums on zittau.de
• Stadium on hsg-zittau.de
• Weinaupark Stadium on die-fans.de
• Picture with flood damage 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1894-2009. The grandstand in Weinau is 115 years old ( memento of the original from November 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at zittau.de, accessed on November 11, 2013.