Weser Stadium (Minden)
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Adolf-Hitler-Kampfbahn (1933–1945) |
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| place | Am Weserstadion 4 32423 Minden , Germany
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 17 '0 " N , 8 ° 55' 6" E |
| owner | City of Minden |
| opening | 1928 |
| Renovations | 1992 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 6,800 seats |
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The Weserstadion is a football stadium with an athletics facility in the East Westphalian city of Minden , North Rhine-Westphalia . The facility was built in 1928 and last renovated in 1992. The main users are the athletes from TuS Eintracht Minden and the regional soccer division Union Minden.
Location and facilities
The stadium is located in an old Weser meadow in Mindener Glacis , the Mindener Stadtpark , between Johansenstrasse and the Weser promenade. A little further east runs the Weser , which is also the name of the stadium. The Weser Stadium has a capacity of 6,800 spectators. The main stand is covered with a wooden roof and offers 1,300 seats. In the middle there is a speaker's booth. The grandstand is a listed building .
The lawn is surrounded by a six-lane running track, which is widened to eight lanes in the area of the main stand. On the other three sides there are standing crossbars that follow the oval of the track. The standing grandstand on the back straight has twelve, the standing grandstands of the curves each have six steps. The Weserstadion has a floodlight system .
history
The Weser Stadium was built in the former Schweinbruch , a wet meadow near the Weser. At first, the stadium was a pure football stadium with no running tracks. In the period from 1933 to 1945 the stadium was called Adolf-Hitler -Kampfbahn . For decades, the user was the Minden 05 club , which was promoted to the then third-class Westphalia Association in 1969 and welcomed up to 4,000 spectators to its home games. The Mindener handball club Grün-Weiß Dankersen played its home games in field handball in the Weser Stadium until the mid-1970s . In 1992 the Weser Stadium was completely renovated. The stadium received the athletics facilities and floodlights. The main grandstand partially burned down in 2003 and was restored true to the original a year later.
Significant events
On August 16, 1970, the final of the field handball Bundesliga 1970 for the German championship between Grün-Weiß Dankersen and TV Hochdorf was played in front of 18,000 spectators. This is also the attendance record for the Weser Stadium. The highest number of spectators at a football match was recorded on July 10, 2004, when 5,500 guests saw the friendly game between Werder Bremen and the Turkish club Trabzonspor . Union Minden regularly plays friendly matches against professional clubs and welcomed clubs like Hamburger SV , FC Schalke 04 , Hannover 96 and Arminia Bielefeld .
Other major sporting events in Minden's Weser Stadium were the German gymnastics championships on September 1 and 2, 1956, and the German senior athletics championships from July 29 to 31, 2011.
Web links
- union-minden.de: Stadium on the Union Minden website
- europlan-online.de: Weserstadion - Minden / Westphalia
- groundhopping.de: Visitor report from 2003
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Werner Skrentny (Hrsg.): The big book of the German football stadiums . Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-668-3 , p. 258 .
- ^ Sven Webers: Field handball Bundesliga 1970 - finals. Bundesligainfo.de, accessed on August 6, 2015 .