Old Tivoli

1928-2009 Alemannia Aachen 2009-2011 Alemannia Aachen II

The old Tivoli was a football stadium in Aachen and venue for football matches. Recently it was the home of the U23 Alemannia Aachen. The second division team played there until May 2009, the first stadium at its present location in Aachen was opened in 1928. ; the old Tivoli summed 21,300 spectators and offered 3,700 seats and 17,600 standing places. The old Tivoli was the Soers on the northern edge of downtown at the Krefeld Road ( B 57), near the A 4 The stadium was demolished. Since the fall of 2012 should be built on the site of houses.

The name of the stadium comes from the sports field Tivoli emerged from the northwest of the Lousberg located, former large estate Tivoli, reminded the park to the gardens of the Italian town of Tivoli. In the 19th century belonged to this good Hof -Photograph Jacob Wothly.

History

The old Tivoli took to his inauguration on June 3, 1928 at the 4:3 won the opening match against Preussen Krefeld 10,000 spectators. Ten years later, however, had to escape into the Forest of Aachen stadium for the German championship in 1939, as the capacity of the old Tivoli was no longer up to the number of spectators.

In 1953, the first major expansions, whereby the old Tivoli slowly got the look, which still existed largely to 2011 took the field: In the fall of 1953, the southern Standing Wall was opened, later the Marathon in the southeast corner of the stadium and the players' tunnel were built. The capacity of the end of this work 20,000 spectators.

In the spring of 1957 it was decided to cover over the seat grandstand to expand the Würselener Wall to a capacity of 11,000 spectators and to build floodlights. On August 28, 1957, the inaugural match of the new floodlights and the new grandstands took place. The Alemannia lost the game against Espanyol Barcelona before a record crowd of 35,000 spectators with 2:4. The new floodlights at that time was the most modern in Europe. A few weeks later, the up today valid attendance record for the old Tivoli with ( unofficially ) was erected 40,000 spectators against Schalke.

After completion of the season in 1957/58, the General Admission ranks were equipped with breakwaters, after a safety gate was broken in April 1958 in a match against 1.FC Cologne.

With the rise in the Bundesliga in 1967, a provisional steel tube stand with 1,300 seats was built at the Aachen Wall, which brought the meantime reduced by safety requirements and minor modifications of the stadium capacity to 29,900 spectators.

In the following years only minor measures were carried out. In 1973 a new house was built locker, built a new staircase to Würselener Wall, equipped of course with a drainage system and renewed the Admission ranks. Moreover, arrived on Wall Würselener added nine ranks, which increased the capacity of the stadium to 32,000.

With the roofing of the opposite stand on the east side of the stadium was awarded in February 1980 to be demolished existing appearance. Was officially opened the new roof at the home game against Arminia Bielefeld (2:3) on 3 February 1980. The project cost 440,000 DM, the total capacity was slightly reduced by the new construction.

In 1999, the lawn was renewed to extend a soil heating and leveled the slight height difference. The sound system and the floodlights were replaced. In winter 2000, the bucket seats were donated from the old Sportpark Kaalheide of Roda JC Kerkrade at the Alemannia and screwed onto the wooden benches of seating grandstands. 2003, the coach benches were laid before the seat grandstand and nets installed after the Nuremberg coach Wolfgang Wolf was hit by a throwing object from the auditorium in November 2003.

Finally, in 2004 all new seats new drains were assembled, placed and fastened the area between field and fence of stones.

On 24 May 2009 the last Bundesliga match took place on the old Tivoli, the Alemannia won 4-0. On 26 July 2009, the Aachen defeated the last friendly match at the old Tivoli Werder Bremen 3-2. From 2009/2010 season, see the games in a new stadium, which is also called Tivoli, instead. The second team of Aachen, however, launched on 14 August 2010 with their first home game in the 2010/2011 season is another season on the old Tivoli before the property advertised and the stadium was demolished. The last league game took place on May 7, 2011. Alemannia Aachen II won 3-1 against Schwarz-Weiß Essen, followed by the last game in which the team against a tradition Fanauswahl took.

After the demolition, which should take place from June 1, 2011 already, but officially began with a press conference on 26 June 2011, the 10,300 -square-foot site is sold through the city. Plans are single-family homes as well as a consumer market, office space and the new headquarters of Saint- Gobain Glass Germany.

Other events

In addition to the games of the old Tivoli Alemannia was also the site of several international matches:

U21 national team of men

• April 30, 1982 Germany - Soviet Union 5:0 (2:0)
• December 17, 1991 Germany - Luxembourg 3-0 (1-0 )
• November 17, 1998 Germany - Netherlands 2:2 ( 1:1)
• November 19, 2002 Germany - Netherlands 4:1 ( 4:1)

Women's National Team

• August 27, 2000 Germany - Denmark 7-0 (5-0 )

Records

The highest number of audience on the old Tivoli is unofficial 40,000 spectators at league game Alemannia -. FC Schalke 04 on October 6, 1957 The record low, does not consider the ghost game against 1.FC Nuremberg in 2004, 600 spectators at the home game against the Rheydter SV on 7 May 1994 in the Oberliga Nordrhein. The highest season average of Alemannia in the old Tivoli dates back to the 1967/68 season in the league with an average of 21,235 spectators, the worst section of the Oberliga Nordrhein - season 1991/92, where only 2,467 spectators were on average for Alemannia.

The new Tivoli

The new Tivoli was built since mid-2008 in close proximity to the old stadium, and on 17 August 2009 with the first home game of the season 2009 /10, which was lost with 0:5 against St. Pauli, the new home of Alemannia Aachen.

Pictures

Grandstand

Würselener Wall

Aachen Wall

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