Stadion am Bornheimer Hang

• FSV Frankfurt
• Eintracht Frankfurt II
• 1st FFC Frankfurt

The Frankfurter Volksbank Stadion ( stadium by mid-2006 at the Bornheimer Hang ) is a football stadium in Frankfurt am Main. The stadium in the Bornheim district is the second largest in the city with 12,542 places according to Commerzbank - Arena. Title sponsor is the Frankfurter Volksbank eG. The stadium is located directly on the U7 ( station Johanna-Tesch-Platz/Frankfurter Volksbank Stadion ) at the Bornheimer Hang.

Use

The stadium at the Bornheimer Hang is the third venue in the history of FSV Frankfurt: In the early years of the club, the team played on an urban green space " in the test item" at the Bornheimer center, in 1908 they acquired their own site on the Seckbacher Highway and 1931 eventually moved the FSV to the " Bornheimer Hang ".

From the founding of the Bundesliga Women 1991 until the dissolution of the FSV Women's Department, 2006, the former " Stadion am Bornheimer Hang " was the Erstligastadion the FSV - women. The record number of audience in the women's football at the Bornheimer Hang but was set up by another club: On 27 May 2006, the first FFC Frankfurt won against the then record attendance of 13,200 the European Football Cup of women against 1 FFC Turbine Potsdam by a 3:2 victory.

Since the season 2008/ 09, the rise in the Football Regional, the stadium is also home to the U23 team of Eintracht Frankfurt. Since the rise in 2010 in the Regionalliga Süd, the U23 team of FSV Frankfurt at the Volksbank stadium plays. Although the statutes of the DFL limit the number of home teams a stadium to two, the Frankfurter Volksbank may serve Stadium from the 2010/11 season thanks to a special permit to be the home of three teams ( FSV Frankfurt, FSV Frankfurt U23, Eintracht Frankfurt U23 ). The leading case was a request of the FSV, who wanted to avoid the U23 team must deliver their home games in the oversized for the Regional Commerzbank - Arena. This would hardly have been alone financially to stem, as the budget of the U23 would have been subjected only to the cost of stadium use for almost three quarters.

Reconstruction measures

Conversion into a pure football stadium

The former is also suitable for athletics stadium was rebuilt from November 2007 to July 2009 in a pure football stadium, which now offers 10,826 spectators, the old grandstand at first remained untouched. However, the stadium first building permit for a floodlight as a condition for approval as zweitligatauglichem stadium was not issued because it was feared a possible glare of road users on the adjacent A661. After many tests, including a full closure of the highway, but the green light was given. For the same reason, the mobile video wall on the seats for special guests at the end of the season 2009/10 has been removed without replacement. This was in the following season, replaced by a fixed video wall. The renovated stadium was inaugurated on 23 July 2009 with a friendly match between FSV against Werder Bremen (1:2).

Reconstruction of the grandstand

Another constraint is the renovation of the main grandstand, which was preserved in the conversion phase from 2007 to 2009 and has substantial need for rehabilitation. Only thanks to a special permit, the stadium must be ever played in the Second Bundesliga. Especially disagreement in politics in the question of how and when to be converted and at what cost delayed a decision on the way forward for many months. In particular, the question of costs the sticking point seemed to be, as to those already invested 18 million euros costs could be expected up to a further 20 million euros.

As a result, was formed in October 2010, the Coalition for Action " Frankfurt Do Something! " Which again would bring movement to the deadlock by using a signature campaign. The dispute over the redevelopment of the grandstand was, inter alia, the trigger for the resignation of the then managing director of FSV Frankfurt 1899 Fußball GmbH, Bernd Reisig. End of February 2011, a solution of the reconstruction problem seemed to emerge, as the Frankfurt city council approved the reconstruction of the grandstand starting in autumn 2011. The conversion work should therefore be completed by 2012/13 season. However, this resulted in another problem: As the stadium already violated the statutes of the DFL - are required for the operation of gambling in the Second League 15,000 visitors places - pioneered by the further reduction of seating capacity during the reconstruction phase to significantly less than 10,000 people, the withdrawal of special permit to the part of the DFL. Thus, the FSV should have like 2008/ 09 move to an alternative site for the period of the works. In conversation, the Commerzbank Arena was, but also stages outside Frankfurt seemed not excluded, should the DFL remain at its decision .. In May 2011, however, announced that the FSV Frankfurt may play stadium during the renovation of the main grandstand to the Frankfurter Volksbank unless the relevant license conditions are violated. According to information of the sports business journal sponsor the City Council of the City of Frankfurt has " agreed in its plenary session of the construction and financing template for the reconstruction of the main grandstand of the Frankfurter Volksbank Stadium " in. The contract for € 10.5 million euro renovation of the grandstand was the construction company Walter Hellmich GmbH.

In January 2012, the stands were finally demolished. Demolition of waste oil was found under the old base plate, which resulted in additional costs because the contaminated soil had to be removed. The completion of the " reconstruction" should take place in summer 2012. On 24 November 2012, the new grandstand was officially inaugurated during a home game against 1 FC Kaiserslautern.

Gallery

View of "Am Bornheimer Hang "

Frankfurter Volksbank Stadion with the old grandstand ( left)