Vienna ski jumps

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Site plan of the Vienna ski jumping hills 1931–1980

In the 20th century there were several ski jumping hills in Vienna , whereby the last existing ski jump (Himmelhofschanze) burned down in 1980. The unrealized project for the reconstruction of the Cobenzl-Schanze was awarded an Olympic gold medal in the discipline art competition for architecture in 1948 . The greatest distances ever achieved in Vienna were probably seen in the 1930s and 1940s on the ski jumps in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau, where jumps of up to 70 meters were possible.

Jumps

Himmelhofschanze

Charcoal drawing of the Himmelhofschanze

The Himmelhofschanze was located in Hietzing on the Himmelhofwiese opposite the Vienna Hütteldorf train station . The construction of a ski jump at Himmelhof had already been considered in the 1930s, but this project was only realized between 1948 and 1949. The builder of the wooden ski jump, whose critical point (K point) was 45 meters, was the ski Union Vienna. The opening competition took place on January 9, 1949.

The best-attended event on this hill was the Vienna Championship on January 12, 1953 in front of 20,000 visitors. The best of the day (from the guest class ) was Sepp Heher from Semmering with two times 36.5 meters, the Viennese champion was Ober St. Veiter Franz Rabensteiner with 36 and 36.5 meters.

With a width of 42 meters, the hill record was set in 1960 by Klaus Fichtner from Tyrol . The arithmetically achievable 45 meters were only reached once during Hans Rinnhofer's training in 1978 and even exceeded.

The increasingly snowless winters, the outdated facility and the lack of infrastructure led to the cessation of jumping operations. On June 1, 1980, the ski jump was so damaged by arson that it had to be demolished as a result. The perpetrators were determined in October 1981.

Cobenzl ski jump after renovation at the end of 1933

Cobenzl ski jump

The first Cobenzl ski jump was on the northern slope of the Latisberg . It was planned from 1919, built in 1928 and opened to over 3000 visitors on January 13, 1929. A week later, the ski jumping championships of the Vienna Workers' Gymnastics Club took place as the first official competition. A national ski jumping event was organized on February 16, 1930 by the Wiener Arbeiter Turn- und Sportverein (WAT), founded in 1919 . In front of 7000 spectators (out of competition) a distance of 39 meters was achieved. Around 20,000 spectators followed an international competition with jumps of up to 38 meters in 1931. From late autumn 1933 the ski jump was completely rebuilt, opened on January 1st, 1934 by the WAT and in the jumping (out of competition) held under unfavorable snow conditions a maximum distance of 40 meters was reached. On January 7, 1934, around 10,000 visitors watched an international jumping event with 37 competitors, the first of the Austrian Ski Association on site, at which Eduard Galleitner (Salzburg Ski Club) set a new hill record of 57 meters. At the event won by Josef Gumpold (1908–1942), Randmod Sörensen (1910–1985) fell at a distance of 57.5 meters . The system was described by Springers as having a lot of pressure and was in need of improvement. In the autumn of 1935, the mayor of Vienna Richard Schmitz (1885–1954) initiated the repair of the ski jump, but as a temporary measure up to the massive expansion of the facility as a ski stadium. On May 7, 1936, the ski jump was damaged by two mudslides . At the end of the year, the facility had fallen into disrepair, not least due to unclear ownership. Several structural adaptations took place up to 1940, which made jumps of up to 60 meters possible.

After the Second World War, a new ski jumping hill should be built on the Cobenzl. For this purpose, the Viennese Workers' Gymnastics Club organized an architectural competition . This was won by a project by Adolf Hoch (1910–1992) from Vienna. The design provided for a 60-meter hill with around 25,000 amphitheater- like seats. In the warm season, the facility should be used for outdoor performances, boxing events and concerts. With this project, Adolf Hoch won the gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London in the last discipline of art competition / architecture. However, the project never came to fruition.

Hadersdorf-Weidlingau

The first ski jump in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau was built at Kasgraben in 1932 . The so-called "Carsten-Dagfin-Schanze" allowed jumps over 50 meters. In 1936 the “Wienerwaldschanze” was built nearby. In the winter of 1937/38 Walter Reinhart from Bischofshofen set the hill record with 65 meters. The ski jump in the forest was very popular with the spectators (see also this archive recording from 1938). In 1940 the ski jump in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau was rebuilt to enable jumps of up to 70 meters.

A few winters with little snow in 1969 gave rise to the idea of ​​building a new 50 m facility on the site of the dilapidated old ski jump and preparing it with the artificial snow produced on the Hohe Wand meadow . But this idea never came to fruition.

Projects

When Engineer Award 2002 won students of the Technical University of Vienna with one of them planned for the area on the Himmelhof and FIS - guidelines corresponding 90-meter hill.

The ski jumping club Wiener Stadtadler , founded in 2005, has been advocating the construction of plastic covered jumps since 2014. Three jumps (15 m, 30 m, 60 m) are proposed near the Hohe-Wand-Wiese, i.e. near the historic jumps in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau.

literature

  • Austrian Ski Association : Arithmetic tables with instructions for jumping evaluation and instructions for calculating grades. Supplement to the race regulations of the Austrian Ski Association. Self-published by the Austrian Ski Association, Vienna 1932, OBV.
  • Hans Thirring : The floating run. German publishing house for youth and people, Vienna 1939, OBV.
  • Sepp Bradl : My path to becoming a world champion. 2nd edition, increased content. Keys Verlag, Innsbruck 1952, OBV.
  • Andreas Hans Peyerl: Ski jumpers and their jumps. Technical publishing house - sports book department, Salzburg 1949, OBV.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Weeger: Ski jump at the Himmelhof. In: skisprungschanzen.com. 2002–2010, accessed March 18, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b hojos: Winter sports in Ober St. Veit. In: 1133.at. 2001 and 2009, accessed March 18, 2015.
  3. ↑ Sepp Bradl wins the jumping tournament. (...) 20,000 at the Hütteldorfer Schanze . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 13, 1953, p. 8 , top left ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ^ Arson on Himmelhofschanze . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 2, 1980, p. 5 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ↑ Burglars also set fire to ski jump . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 29, 1981, p. 09 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. ↑ a b The new Kobenzl ski jump. In:  Wiener Bilder , No. 1/1934 (XXXIXth year), January 7, 1934, p. 7. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrb.
  7. ↑ The expansion of the Kobenzl ski jump. Retrieved March 18, 2015 .
  8. ↑ a b c Historic ski jumps in Vienna. ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). (PDF; 73 kB). On: WienerSkispringer.at. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
  9. ↑ Sports. (...) Andre winter sports events. The opening of the ski jump on the Cobenzl. In:  Kleine Volks-Zeitung , No. 14/1929 (LXXV. Year), January 14, 1929, p. 4, column 2. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / kvz.
  10. ↑ winter sports. (...) Ski jumping championships of the Vienna Workers' Gymnastics Club. In:  Kleine Volks-Zeitung , No. 21/1929 (LXXV. Year), January 21, 1929, p. 6, column 1. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / kvz.
  11. ↑ winter sports. (...) Ski jumping on the Cobenzl. In:  Kleine Volks-Zeitung , No. 47/1930 (LXXVI. Year), February 17, 1930, p. 5, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / kvz.
  12. ↑ Oliver Weeger: Cobenzl. In: skisprungschanzen.com. 2002–2010, accessed March 18, 2015.
  13. ↑ winter sports. On the Cobenzlschanze. In:  Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , No. 1/1934 (LXVIII. Year), January 2, 1934, p. 7, column 1. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wst.
  14. ↑ Alpine and Sport. (...) Galleitner jumps hill record on Cobenzl. In:  Salzburger Chronik für Stadt und Land / Salzburger Chronik / Salzburger Chronik. Tagblatt with the illustrated supplement “Die Woche im Bild” / Die Woche im Bild. Illustrated entertainment supplement to the “Salzburger Chronik” / Salzburger Chronik. Daily newspaper with the illustrated supplement “Oesterreichische / Österreichische Woche” / Österreichische Woche / Salzburger Zeitung. Tagblatt with the illustrated supplement "Austrian Week" / Salzburger Zeitung , No. 5/1934 (LXX. Year), January 8, 1934, p. 6, column 3. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / sch.
  15. ↑ winter sports. (...) Magnificent performances on the Cobenzl-Schanze. In:  Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , No. 6/1934 (LXVIII. Year), January 8, 1934, p. 6, column 3. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wst;
    New Kobenzl record: 57 meters. In:  Der Sport-Morgen , in: Der Morgen. Wiener Montagblatt, No. 2/1934 (XXV. Year), January 8, 1934, p. 14, column 2 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dmo.
  16. ^ Slo:  A ski stadium on the Cobenzl. In:  Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , No. 281/1935 (LXIX. Volume), October 11, 1935, p. 7, column 1. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wst.
  17. ↑ Weather service. (...) Heavy downpours over Vienna. In:  Salzburger Volksblatt , No. 106/1936 (LXVI. Volume), May 8, 1936, p. 9, column 1. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / svb.
  18. ↑ Winter sports news between Vienna and Semmering. (...) The ski jump of the Viennese. In:  The morning. Wiener Montagblatt , No. 45/1936 (XXVII. Year), November 9, 1936, p. 15, column 2 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dmo.
  19. ↑ Gina Galeta: Vienna 1948: reports from April 1948. April 29 , 1948 : International ski jump on the Kobenzl . In: wien.at. City of Vienna, accessed on March 18, 2015 .
  20. ↑ Marcus Hudec (Red.): Biographies. Adolf Hoch continued Austria's tradition in the art competition and won gold. In: oeoc.at. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
  21. ^ Ski jumper Walter Reinhardt. Retrieved March 18, 2015 .
  22. ^ Ski jumping in Vienna. In: austria-forum.org. Retrieved March 18, 2015 . Wienerwald ski jump in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau in 1938.
  23. ^ Vienna Ski Association: Ski jump in Vienna. In: wienski.at. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
  24. ↑ Felix Friembichler, Frank Huber: Engineering Prize of the Austrian Concrete and cement industry in 2002. From: cement and concrete. Leaflets and information from the building advice center of the Austrian cement industry. Issue 1/2003, p. 10. - Text online (PDF; 255 KB).
  25. ↑ Viennese ski jumpers want a hill. In: ORF.at. January 20, 2014, accessed March 18, 2015 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ In autumn 1919, the planning of the Kobenzl sports club to build the first ski jump in Vienna was well advanced. Representatives of the authorities concerned had already inspected the intended terrain and made positive statements. - See: winter sports. New ski jump. A generous project. - The first ski jumping hill in Vienna. In:  Illustrierte Sportblatt , No. 44/1919 (15th year), November 1, 1919, p. 10. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ios.
  2. ↑ Length of the jump (jump-off area): 240 m; Vertical height (table landing): 50 m, (table run-out): 80 m. - See: What do you want to know? (...) Cobenzl. In:  Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , No. 15/1934 (LXVIII. Year), January 17, 1934, p. 4, column 3. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wst.
  3. ↑ In January 1934 the ski jump was completed by the voluntary labor service and at the end of 1936 the subject of an expansion project (creating one hundred jobs for four months) . - See: The expansion of the Kobenzl ski jump. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 25958 A / 1936, December 15, 1936, p. 1 below. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp;
    Verena Pawlowsky:  Factory soldiers, gray mandlins, 50 groschen dragoons. The voluntary labor service in Austria. (...) The work assignments. In:  Zeitgeschichte , year 1989, No. 5/1989 (XVII. Year), p. 226 below. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ztg.
  4. ↑ It was more likely to have been named after the Norwegian skier Dagfin Carlsen , who was celebrated in Austria at that time . According to his specifications , a ski jump had been built in Kronstein , Lower Austria , before 1929 . - See: Sport. (...) There is jumping in Kronstein. In:  Wienerwald-Bote , No. 3/1929 (XXX. Volume), January 19, 1929, p. 3, column 3. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wwb.