West Saxony Stadium
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| The entrance tower of the Westsachsenstadion | |
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Georgi Dimitroff Stadium (1949–1990) |
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 08056 Zwickau , Germany
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 41 '49.6 " N , 12 ° 29' 8.3" E |
| owner | City of Zwickau |
| operator | City of Zwickau |
| opening | 1942 September 6, 2013 |
| Renovations | 2010-2013 |
| surface | artificial grass |
| capacity | approx. 5,000 standing places |
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The Westsachsenstadion is a sports stadium in Zwickau . The soccer teams of Motor Zwickau , BSG Sachsenring Zwickau and FSV Zwickau played almost all of their home games here until 2010.
history
The stadium is located in the southern Zwickau district of Schedewitz . In 1937 the construction of the sports stadium began on the dump site of the former Vereinglückschacht ( Zwickauer Steinkohlenbau-Verein ). At that time there was a requirement to build an adequate sports facility for this fast growing district town. In 1940 the great tower was completed. The stadium was inaugurated during the Second World War on August 20, 1942 under the name Südkampfbahn .
In 1949 the stadium was named after the Bulgarian communist Georgi-Dimitrov . After reunification , it was renamed Westsachsenstadion by a city council resolution .
The stadium with a concrete cycling track and athletics cinder track was given an access tunnel to the interior as a special feature. Initially it held well over 25,000 spectators. So came z. B. to the encounters against Madueiras Rio de Janeiro in the summer of 1954 or against Green Cross Santiago de Chile in the spring of 1956 over 50,000 spectators in the Georgi-Dimitrov-Stadion.
Similar high numbers of viewers date from the matches in the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1975/76 . Back then, the BSG Sachsenring Zwickau , the predecessor club of today's FSV Zwickau, played in the European Cup Winners' Cup in front of a little more than 40,000 spectators. The Zwickau soccer team played from 1949 to 1982 without interruption in the Oberliga, the top division of the GDR. In 1984, a GDR A international match between the GDR and Greece (1-0, 2,500 spectators) was played here.
In the beginning, pursuit races with racing cars, bike races and standing races also proved to be a crowd puller . Due to settlement-related cracks and steadily decreasing financial resources for ongoing maintenance and repair, the concrete track could no longer be used since the 1980s. Remains of it were in the lower area of the grandstands, some of them were covered with temporary tubular steel grandstands.
After the fall of the Wall , the Westsachsenstadion received a floodlight system as a donation from Borussia Dortmund , the club from the Zwickau twin town. However, the further deterioration of the sports complex was not stopped. After Zwickau was deprived of its district freedom, the stadium was even threatened with complete closure due to the withdrawal of allocations from the state budget.
From 2010 to 2013 the stadium was closed for renovation work.
Stadium renovation
In the spring of 2010, the renovation work began with the aim of creating a stadium for a maximum of 15,000 spectators. The project should be completed by 2014 in three construction phases. It was planned to integrate the architecture of the already renovated, heritage-protected stadium tower into a football arena without a racing track. First a separate entrance area was created for the guest fans. This should separate them from the Zwickau fans. It was also planned to bring the new spectator stands in accordance with the DFB standard right up to the pitch. A sum of around 15 million euros was estimated for the stadium renovation.
At the beginning of September 2011, the Zwickau city council stopped the stadium renovation. During the renovation phase, an appraisal obtained at a later date revealed that complex and more in-depth building ground measures would be required, which would almost double the construction costs. According to the mayor of Zwickau, Findeiß , instead of a renovation, a new stadium could be built at a cost of 20 to 30 million euros . The FSV Zwickau temporarily moved to the “Soyuz 31” sports forum in the Eckersbach district . As a result, the old Westsachsenstadion was refurbished in a usable condition for mass sports or major events at significantly lower costs.
The renovation was completed in August 2013, and on September 6, 2013 the converted stadium was inaugurated with around 5,000 standing places. The stadium was converted into a school and mass sports center for around 5.5 million euros. Instead of the old playing field, a 64 × 94 meter artificial turf pitch was laid. There are now mini plastic playing fields on the back of the gate. The fields are bordered by a 400 meter asphalt track with banked curves. In addition to soccer , volleyball and basketball , badminton , cycling or inline skating can be enjoyed .
Plastic toboggan run
In the 1970s, a plastic luge track for the luge section of the ESV Lokomotive Zwickau was built on the stadium dump . Young tobogganers train here on racing sleds with wheels in the summer months.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Motor Zwickau: program for the game Motor Zwickau against Green Cross Santiago de Chile from March 14, 1956
- ^ All international matches of the GDR national soccer team
- ↑ www.freipresse.de Article from June 13, 2011
- ↑ freiepresse.de: Westsachsen Stadium will not become a professional football arena ( Memento from December 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Article from September 5, 2011
- ↑ Sara Thiel: Westsachsenstadion is experiencing a second spring after 71 years. Freie Presse, September 7, 2013, accessed November 18, 2013 .
- ↑ mdr.de: Old stadium on the stockpile will be finished soon ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2016 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. Article of August 27, 2013
- ↑ radiopsr.de: Opening of Westsachsenstadion in Zwickau article from September 6, 2013
- ^ History. www.rodelbahn-zwickau.de, accessed on November 18, 2013 .
