Werner Seelenbinder Sports Park
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Neukölln Stadium |
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| place | Berlin-Neukölln |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 28 ′ 9 ″ N , 13 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E |
| start of building | 1925 |
| opening | 1928 (sports park)
1930 (great arena) |
| Renovations | Grandstands were dismantled in the 1970s |
| architect |
Ottokar Wagler , Konrad Glocker, Kurt Pöthig
Georg Bremer (reconstruction 1946) |
| capacity | 3500 spectators |
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The Werner-Seelenbinder-Sportpark is located in the Berlin district of Neukölln , along Oderstrasse, directly adjacent to the former Tempelhof Airport .
history
The Neukölln Sports Park (also known as the Tempelhofer Feld Sports Park ) was officially opened on October 14, 1928 after three years of construction. By this time, six sports fields, a playground, three digging places and four special gardens had been completed. This gave the extremely densely populated district an urgently needed recreational and green space. With an area of 433,550 m², the sports park provided 80% of the sports and play areas in Neukölln when it opened. This park was also a special facility for Berlin standards. In the period that followed, a hockey rink , another playground and a large arena that could hold 25,000 spectators were created. This was inaugurated on June 15, 1930. Three years later, the 4000 m² paddling pool was opened , which in summer was a playground for the whole family. The designs came from Neukölln's gardening director Ottokar Wagler, Konrad Glocker, who worked for the horticultural company Späth, and Wagler's successor, Kurt Pöthig.
Decisive for the popularity of the sports park was the attractive variety of offers and rich flora. Magnificent native and foreign tree species lined the paths. Rose and dahlia gardens as well as lawns invited to linger. Plant and ornithological tours were offered. Various sports fields offered something for everyone. The paddling pools, meadows and digging spots were a paradise for children. In winter, the promenades were even open for cross-country skiing .
Today, the park occupies the area along Oderstrasse opposite the confluence of Siegfriedstrasse and the former Grüner Weg (now part of Kirchhofweg). Originally, however, the entire system extended to what was then Flughafenstrasse on the northern edge of Tempelhofer Feld . Even after the start of construction on the new Tempelhof Airport in 1936 and even during the Second World War , the sports park remained largely intact, with the exception of individual areas for aircraft direction finding systems and an air raid shelter on the area of the former paddling pool. The entire northern part of the sports park from the Grüner Weg fell victim to the expansion of Tempelhof Airport during the Berlin Airlift in 1948.
On July 29, 1945, right after the end of World War II, the stadium was named Werner-Seelenbinder-Kampfbahn . The municipal administration selected Werner Seelenbinder , who had trained in Neukölln for years, to be the namesake . He was multiple German wrestling champion and Olympic participant in 1936. Seelenbinder was executed in 1944 in Brandenburg prison.
From 1948/1949 the name was no longer used because of the communist sentiments of Seelenbinder. Until the 1960s, the grave site was only accessible twice a year - on the birthday and anniversary of the death of the Seelenbinder. In his honor, only 50 years later, on 24 October 2004, which Sportpark Neukölln now Werner Seelenbinder Sportpark renamed. At the memorial ceremony and the unveiling of the new name badge, District Mayor Heinz Buschkowsky and the President of the State Sports Association , Peter Hanisch , paid tribute to the successful athlete and resistance fighter, whose 60th anniversary of death was on this day.
Velodrome
A cycling track was built on the site in 1946 and the construction was initiated by the Neukölln Sportring . Originally, the Münster-based architect Clemens Schürmann was supposed to plan the railway, but he did not receive a travel permit in post-war Germany. The contract was awarded to Georg Bremer, who had already built the Rütt-Arena in the 1930s . From a cinder track, a 500 meter long track sealed with cement was created entirely by hand through the heap of rubble. On May 26, 1946, the first race took place in front of 20,000 spectators. In October 1947, the " Albert Richter Prize " was held in memory of the Cologne world champion who was allegedly murdered by the Gestapo in 1940 . The cycling track was in operation until 1955; it had proven to be unsuitable for the popular standing races at the time .
Playing fields
Today's sports park can no longer be compared with the venue that was opened in 1930. Originally built for over 20,000 spectators, it was dismantled in the 1970s and today only offers space for 3,500 spectators (350 of which are uncovered seats).
The stadium experienced a record attendance at the benefit game for the policeman Uwe Lieschied who was shot on March 21, 2006 at the Neuköllner Hasenheide and who trained with the SV Stern Britz 1889 team in the stadium until his death . During the game Hertha BSC against "Polizei & Friends" (a team made up of colleagues and friends of the deceased), over 4,000 people came to the small stadium.
The soccer fields are used by Tasmania Berlin .
- Lawn (large playing field)
- Dimensions: 70 m × 110 m
- Equipment: floodlights
- Artificial turf (large pitch)
- Dimensions: 62 m × 94 m
- Equipment: floodlights
- Lawn (playing field)
- Dimensions: 59 m × 76 m
- Use: Neuköllner Sportfreunde 1907 (Hockey Department)
Ice stadium Neukölln
The ice rink Neukölln is an open-air stadium (open artificial ice sports facility ) that first opened in the winter season 1956/1957 and is immediately south of the lawn sports park (address: Oderstraße 182). It consists of the arena, an ice rink with standard dimensions of 60 m × 30 m for competitions and a public lane (around 65 m × 39 m) intended for public ice skating.
In winter the stadium is used for ice sports and in summer for basketball , as a roller skating rink, inline skaters as a hockey field and, above all, for the streetball tournaments that often take place there.
In 2005 and 2006, the facility was renovated with considerable funds during the summer months. For the first renovation phase from March to October 2005 alone, five million euros were raised. Since the 2006 winter season, just in time for its 50th anniversary, the ice sports facility has shone in new splendor.
Users of the ice rink are among others
- Berlin Ice Sports Association
- DEC ice hare Berlin
- FASS Berlin
- OSC Berlin
- SC Charlottenburg
- Neuköllner Sportfreunde 1907 (Figure Skating Department)
Track records
In the 1960s, speed skating speed records were set on the 200 meter long open-air track.
| Disciplines | Times / points | Surname | date |
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| 500 meters | 51.30 sec | Eva-Maria Sappl | March 11, 1967 |
| 45.40 sec | Erhard Keller | March 11, 1967 | |
| 1,000 meters | 1: 47.00 min | Eva-Maria Sappl | March 12, 1967 |
| 1: 37.50 min | Peter Häusler | December 13, 1970 | |
| 1,500 meters | 2: 44.20 min | Eva-Maria Sappl | March 16, 1968 |
| 2: 19.00 min | Gerhard Zimmermann | March 12, 1967 | |
| 3,000 meters | 6: 03.40 min | Paula Dufter | 17th March 1968 |
| 4: 43.50 min | Gerhard Zimmermann | March 16, 1968 | |
| 5,000 meters | 8: 16.30 min | Gerhard Zimmermann | 17th March 1968 |
| 10,000 meters | 21: 26.30 min | Richard Schulze | December 31, 1961 |
| Small four-way battle | 189,280 points | Gerhard Zimmermann | 16.-17. March 1968 |
| Great four-way battle | 244,142 points | Gerhard Kerin | 22-23 February 1958 |
District sports hall
- 3-fold multi-purpose hall
- 500 seats, with an extendable grandstand
- Boxing field
- Music system for dance tournaments
Other purposes
- snack
- Changing and sanitary facilities
See also
literature
- Holger Maraun: The sports park on Oderstrasse . In: Neukölln moves. From gymnastics father Jahn to Tasmania (book accompanying the exhibition of the same name). Berlin 2004, pp. 151–157.
- Matthias Heisig: The fight for the field. The creation of Tempelhof Airport, Volkspark Tempelhof and Sports Park Neukölln . In: Werner Breunig, Uwe Schaper (Hrsg.): Berlin in past and present . Yearbook of the Landesarchiv, Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-7861-2727-7 , pp. 75-108.
- Matthias Heisig: Werner Gutsche - With a view of the field. Remembrance of Volkspark Tempelhofer Feld and Sportpark Neukölln . In: Frieder Boehne, Bernhard Bremberger, Matthias Heisig (eds.): “You have to take care of it” - Werner Gutsche (1923–2012) and Neukölln. Traces, memories, suggestions . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86331-322-7 , pp. 131–152
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Maraun: The sports park on Oderstrasse . In: Neukölln moves. From gymnastics father Jahn to Tasmania . Berlin 2004, p. 152 f.
- ↑ Carsten Grab, Detlef Kurth, Katharina Radeck: Insights into the history of the Schillerpromenade in Berlin Neukölln. District history as the basis for careful urban renewal (ISR discussion contributions). Berlin 1992, pp. 89-98
- ↑ Matthias Heisig: Werner Gutsche - With a view of the field. Remembrance of Volkspark Tempelhofer Feld and Sportpark Neukölln . In: Frieder Boehne, Bernhard Bremberger, Matthias Heisig (eds.): “You have to take care of it” - Werner Gutsche (1923–2012) and Neukölln. Traces, memories, suggestions . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2016, p. 150 f.
- ^ Renate Franz: Fredy Budzinski . Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-939390-43-5 , p. 81