Stadion am Bieberer Berg
Kickers Offenbach
The stadium at Bieberer Berg in Offenbach am Main was a pure football stadium and lay on homonymous hill in the city, between Offenbach and the district Bieber at the Bieberer road. In this stadium the team played Offenbach's soccer club Kickers Offenbach. It was torn continuously between February 2011 and 2012 to build the to be constructed on the same site Sparda- Bank Hessen Stadium.
History
The stadium at Bieberer mountain ( in dialect " Bieberä Bärsch " with a very short "ä " in the word " Bärsch " ) was opened on 21 May 1921. The main grandstand of wood then took 1,200 spectators. In 1952, a covered grandstand was completed opposite the grandstand. The first floodlight system with four poles in 1956 and inaugurated in 1959 dismantled. The main grandstand was built in 1960 new, 1968 followed by the steel tube stand and floodlighting, which consisted of only two light poles. In 1973, the South East grandstand was built (since 1 April 2007 " Henninger -Tribune "). After a club crisis of 1991, the city of Offenbach am Main considerations to the stadium to sell or demolish. These plans were discarded and the Offenbach Kickers Soccer Club 1901 eV 1992 passed the stadium on a long lease. The defective roof of the main grandstand could Bieberer the mountain will be renovated with the money from the fundraiser Rescue in 1993. In 1997, a scoreboard was built which, however, only briefly - was in operation, and was operational for only one game - in 1999. 1998 Block 2 of the grandstand was extended.
As part of a special investment program " Sports Land Hessen 2005-2007 " 1.2 million euros were allocated to urgently become necessary by the rise in the 2nd Bundesliga redevelopment of the stadium by the Land Hessen. During the summer break of 2006/07 season, the stadium received a new lawn including lawn heating. At the beginning of the season 2007/ 08 a new changing rooms for home and visiting team as well as the referee was completed under the Henninger -Tribune.
Capacity
The stadium had on Bieberer mountain to the made in the summer of 2005, remodeling and renovation work a seating capacity of 25,000. This is broken down as follows:
- Grandstand with 3,500 covered seats ( including 240 business seats )
- Southeast grandstand with 3,000 covered seats
- Waldemar Klein grandstand with blocks 1, 2a / b and 3 with 10,000 covered standing areas
- Ostkurve 2,500 uncovered standing area below the Southeast Tribune
- Tubular steel grandstand including West curve 6000 uncovered standing area
The attendance record was set on September 19, 1968 while playing for Kickers Offenbach against TSV 1860 Munich with 33,000 spectators. Kickers Offenbach defeated 2:3.
New stadium
Plans up to 2008
In May of 2006, plans were unveiled for a part reconstruction of the stadium: Instead of the steel tube stand a business hotel should be built with 159 rooms of which 60 rooms would have provided a direct view into the stadium. In the hotel a new seat grandstand with about 1,800 seats had been integrated. The investment for the entire project in the amount of 19.4 million Euros should have been entirely privately funded. Since no investors could be found for the project, the project was abandoned in the summer of 2007.
Instead, a complete new stadium was envisaged by the OFC under the direction of Thomas Delhougne. The design by architects Geiseler Gergull saw a 29,300 -seat stadium before forming two rank at the training ground north of the existing stadium. The construction costs would have amounted including all infrastructure projects to about 40 million euros. After the descent of the OFC from the 2nd Bundesliga in the summer of 2008, the plans were dropped again.
Sparda- Bank Hessen Stadium from 2011
On 18 June 2009 the Offenbach magistrate approved a 25 million Euro building in a landmark decision. Is the building principal stadium newly established company Bieberer mountain as a subsidiary of Stadtwerke Offenbach Holding ( SOH), which rented the stadium for 450,000 euros to the OFC, which has outsourced for its professional department in a corporation.
The new Sparda- Bank Hessen Stadium, an A - rank Stadium in the " English style " with four separate stands, was built by Bremer AG in Paderborn at the site of the old stadium. In February 2011, began the demolition work. The reopening of the approximately 20,500 seats ( 10,300 seats and 10,200 standing) comprehensive stadium took place on 18 July 2012.
The naming rights were sold in December 2009 for five million euros to Sparda - Bank. The contract runs for ten years.
In February 2008, the conversion of the former drummer Badge busi ness opposite the stadium was decided in a sports center with two artificial turf fields and a natural grass field. The costs amount to five million euros.