Kalkberg Stadium

The limestone Stadium is an open air theater in the center of Bad Segeberg, held each year since 1952 at the Karl May Festival.

The conditions for the creation of this oversized for a small town like Bad Segeberg amphitheater were given by the pit, which was created by centuries of mining gypsum on Segeberger limestone. In the 60s and 70s of the 19th century had been tried several times to open up the stored below the anhydrite of gypsum salt mountain masses. Holes were found anything, but the shafts that were driven down for the purpose of reducing, ran again and again full of water, which you Lord was not with the help of large steam pumps.

1931, the gypsum mining was terminated.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists, the unsightly open pit has been transformed into a place for mass rallies and first used for Nazi Thing games. According to plans by the architect Fritz Schaller (then Berlin), the plans of the garden and landscape designer Wilhelm Heintz 1927 took up, construction crews built the Reich Labor Service 1934-1937 the limestone stadium. The salt wells and hollows were filled and, as the water-soluble anhydrite of the mountain was not suitable for Control, processed over a thousand tons of optically similar Silesian granite. The stadium was named " celebration site of the Nordmark " and was inaugurated in 1937 by Joseph Goebbels and the performance of the play "The Battle of the white ships" by Henrik Herse. The limestone stadium is one of the many places Thing, which were built for the game Thing Thing or the movement ( including the Berlin forest stage ).

After the war, guested for example, in limestone round Circus Brumbach. The city was unsure of what could be done with this legacy from the era of National Socialism, until 1952 when Karl May Festival, a solution was found which proved to be. But open-air concerts are held there.