Carisbrook

Carisbrook was a stadium in the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It was about three kilometers southwest of the city center in the suburb of Caversham, near South Iceland Main Trunk Railway and the New Zealand State Highway 1 The stadium took last 29,000 spectators, the main users were the rugby union teams Otago Rugby Football Union in ITM Cup and Highlanders in the Super Rugby championship; In addition, the stadium for cricket, soccer, rugby league and motocross was used.

History

The name of the stadium is derived from the Manor of MPs James Macandrew, this in turn from Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight. 1874 took advantage of the Carisbrook Cricket Club for the first time the site, which was owned by the Presbyterian congregation. In 1880 the first small grandstand was built. First major sporting event was in 1884 a cricket match between Otago and Tasmania. Two years later, the first rugby match took place here, as the selection team of New South Wales was visiting.

1906 acquired the Otago Rugby Football Union ( orfU ) the investment and built it in the following decades continuously. Since Foreign teams often had difficulties to win in Carisbrook, was the nickname of the stadium The House of Pain ( "the house of pain "). Test matches in the Rugby Union were held here since 1908, test cricket matches since 1955. Middle of the 1950s offered the stadium of 45,000 spectators. The comprehensive modernization of the stands in the early 1990s, the spectator capacity dropped to 29,000. Carisbrook was the venue of two matches in the Rugby Union World Cup in 1987, a game of Cricket World Cup 1992, the championship final of the 1998 National Provincial Championship and the Super 12 final in 1999.

In August 2006 there was the first time plans to replace the dilapidated stadium with regard to the Rugby Union World Cup 2011 by a roofed building near the University of Otago. Construction on the new Forsyth Barr Stadium began in 2009 and was completed two years later. The last rugby international match of the All Blacks in Carisbrook was held on 19 June 2010 against Wales, 3 June 2011 played for the last time the Highlanders. In mid-December 2011, the floodlight pylons removed for reuse in the Rugby League Park in Christchurch. In August 2013, the demolition work, which will last approximately four months began.

From the old stadium is only erected in 1926, are preserved brick existing ticketing cottage. This is registered under number 7782 as a monument of category I with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.