Central Stadium Leipzig (1956)
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| Stadium of the Hundred Thousand Sports Forum Old Central Stadium |
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| place | Leipzig , Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 20 '44.8 " N , 12 ° 20' 53.8" E |
| start of building | April 15, 1955 |
| opening | 4th August 1956 |
| First game | 4th August 1956 SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt - Honvéd Budapest 1: 3 |
| Renovations | 1977 |
| demolition | 2000 |
| architect | Karl Souradny |
| capacity | 100,000 seats (official) |
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The central stadium , also called the stadium of the hundred thousand , sports forum or retrospectively old central stadium , was a stadium with an athletics facility in the Saxon city of Leipzig . The stadium, which opened in 1956 and was built on rubble from the air raids on Leipzig , was mainly used to host football matches on a national and international level. It was also the venue for various other events, such as the GDR gymnastics and sports festival . With a total capacity of 100,000 spectators, which earned the stadium the nickname Stadium of the Hundred Thousands , it was the largest stadium in the GDR and Germany . In 2000 the central stadium was demolished. At the same place was for the World Cup football in 2006 , the "new" Central Stadium (since 2010 Red Bull Arena ) as a pure football stadium built.
history
prehistory
The TSV 1867 Leipzig sports facility had been located at the site of the central stadium since 1867 . In the years 1926/27 a large arena was planned. However, the plans could never be realized because the Nazis built a parade ground in honor of Adolf Hitler at the same location . According to the plans of the Nazis, Leipzig was not to get a stadium for 100,000 spectators until after the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin . In 1939 Werner March , who had designed the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, presented his plans for the construction of a stadium, which however were not realized due to the Second World War. The development plan from 1948 provided for the rubble to be used to build the Leipzig Sports Forum . In 1952, the first property was completed with the Leipzig swimming stadium .
Construction and use
After the decision to build the central stadium had been decided in January 1955, construction work began on April 15, 1955 for a 100,000-seat stadium according to the plans of the architect Karl Souradny in the Sportforum Leipzig next to the Leipziger Festwiese . The grandstands were built on a 23-meter-high, 100-meter-wide and around 900-meter-long rampart, which was piled up with 1.5 million cubic meters of rubble from the Second World War. This corresponded to around a third of the rubble in Leipzig. The stadium was completed in July 1956 and opened on August 4, 1956 with the game of the reigning GDR champions SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt against the reigning Hungarian champions Honvéd Budapest (1: 3). Due to the fact that the stadium was built by 180,000 volunteers, its dimensioning, the stadium nicknamed the stadium hundred thousand earned, and because of the five-story main building on the east side and the large floodlights, the Central Stadium was a prestigious building and propaganda resources of the East .
From then on, the GDR gymnastics and sports festival , track and field competitions , cycling competitions , international games of the GDR national soccer team , games of 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig in the European Cup Winners' Cup and other national and international club soccer games took place in the central stadium seven times . In its first year of existence, more than 100,000 spectators came to the events five times. In September 1956, the German audience record was set at the GDR Oberliga game SC Rotation Leipzig against SC Lokomotive Leipzig , when 100,000 spectators visited the central stadium. The qualifying game for the 1958 World Cup between the GDR and Czechoslovakia in October 1957 attracted 110,000 spectators.
In 1977 the central stadium was renovated for the last time. In particular, the floodlights for color television were retrofitted.
After German reunification , the central stadium was used by VfB Leipzig , which emerged from 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig, as a venue for the Bundesliga games . Due to dilapidation, the capacity was limited to 40,000. After the descent of VfB Leipzig in 1994 and the associated move to the Bruno-Plache-Stadion , the stadium was only used for isolated events and was later completely closed.
After the then DFB President Egidius Braun linked a German application for the 2006 soccer World Cup to a venue in the new federal states , the “old” central stadium was demolished in 2000. The “new” central stadium was built in the green wall and opened in 2004.
gallery
Central Stadium, 1956
Central stadium bell tower, 1956
Central Stadium, 1956
At the 2nd German Gymnastics and Sports Festival on August 4, 1956
Interior view of the Central Stadium, 1978
Entry ticket GDR - France 1985
Block division on the back of the ticket to the game GDR against Belgium, 1983
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e “Risen from the ruins. The history of the Leipziger Zentralstadion ”, available as PDF (184 KB) at faszination-fankurve.de.
- ↑ Red Bull Arena Leipzig , leipzig.de, accessed on November 21, 2018.
- ↑ a b The history of the Zentralstadion , stadionwelt.de, August 2, 2006, accessed on November 21, 2018.
- ↑ Das Leipziger Zentralstadion , n-tv.de, November 16, 2004, accessed on November 21, 2018.
- ↑ Zentralstadion Leipzig , erlebnis-stadion.de, accessed on November 21, 2018.
- ↑ Audience records, wochenanzeiger.de, September 22, 2011, accessed on November 21, 2018.
- ↑ "The Central Stadium - Täve, Trümmer und Triumphe", documentation of the MDR , see from the minute 23:40, available on YouTube .
- ↑ The way to renovate the central stadium , erlebnis-stadion.de, accessed on November 21, 2018.
- ↑ Das Stadion der Hunderttausend , mdr.de, October 16, 2017, accessed on November 21, 2018.