Willy Kressmann Stadium
| Willy Kressmann Stadium | |
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| View of the Katzbachstadion in Kreuzberg, 2008 | |
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Katzbachstadion (until 2010) |
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| place | Dudenstrasse 40 10965 Berlin-Kreuzberg , Germany
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 29 '10 " N , 13 ° 22' 40" E |
| owner | State of Berlin |
| opening | 1914 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| architect | Georg Demmler |
| capacity | 5,000 seats |
| playing area | 105 m × 68 m |
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The Willy-Kressmann-Stadion (until 2010: Katzbachstadion ) is a football stadium with an athletics facility in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district .
Location, equipment and origin of name
The stadium is located in the southwest of Kreuzberg and borders Katzbachstrasse in the west, Dudenstrasse in the south, a former brewery site in the east and Viktoriapark and Kreuzberg in the north . In addition to the grass play area for the soccer field , the area also has a 400-meter running track as well as a throwing and jumping facility for athletes . The flat roof buildings adjoining the playing field, faced with red clinker bricks, accommodate a club bar and changing rooms. The stadium offers a total of 5,000 spectators, of which 500 are seated and 4,500 are standing.
The original name of the stadium and the adjacent street are based on the Battle of the Katzbach during the Napoleonic Wars on the Katzbach River (a left tributary of the Oder , in the former district of Liegnitz ).
On October 6, 2010, the stadium was given its current name in honor of the long-serving Kreuzberg district mayor of the 1950s and 1960s, Willy Kressmann (1907–1986). As part of the district sports festival, a memorial plaque and lettering were inaugurated on the stadium.
history
The stadium opened in 1914. Albert Brodersen's facility at that time consisted of a playing field with a circular track and a long-sided earth stand. In 1924 it was expanded to a capacity of 12,000 spectators based on a design by Georg Demmler . There were standing steps on the long sides, which were held on the front sides by a quarry stone masonry characteristic of the time. In 1928 a red brick building was added to house the changing rooms and the club restaurant. The running track was also installed at this time.
During the Second World War the sports field was used for air defense. For this purpose there was a spotlight and a so-called "listening device". After the war the stadium had to be cleared of the rubble stored there and was inaugurated again on August 11, 1951. On April 19, 1954, at a meeting between BFC Südring and Hertha BSC , the audience record for this stadium was set in front of an estimated 10,000 fans. This cannot be broken for the time being, since in 1981 the audience capacity was reduced to its current value.
use
The stadium has been the home ground of the Türkiyemspor Berlin football club since the late 1980s . Between 2008 and 2012, Türkiyemspor played its regional league home games in the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark because the Katzbachstadion did not meet the guidelines set by the German Football Association. After Türkiyemspor's bankruptcy and the crash into the Berlin League , the club is back in Kreuzberg. The stadium is still the home of FC Internationale Berlin . In addition, the facility is also used by the athletes of the Berlin gymnastics association.
On June 1, 2007, there was to be a women's soccer encounter between the team from the Berlin club BSV Al-Dersimspor and the Iranian national soccer team in what was then the Katzbach Stadium . Both teams faced each other in Tehran in 2006 and had caused an international stir, as it was the first public women's soccer game in Iran since the Islamic revolution in 1979. However, there was no second leg, as the Iranian association canceled the game at short notice due to 'technical problems'.
Web links
- Landessportbund Berlin: Sports facilities - Katzbachstadion. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 20, 2016 .
- Pictures from the stadium
- Pictures and information about the stadium
Individual evidence
- ↑ naming. ( Memento from August 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Article on www.katzbach.net ( Memento from August 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) .
- ↑ Swantje Karich: Less than ninety minutes of freedom. ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 1, 2007.