Westsachsenstadion
- FSV Zwickau (until 2010)
The Westsachsenstadion is a sports stadium in Zwickau. The football teams of Motor Zwickau, Saxony Zwickau and the club FSV Zwickau completed here by 2010 almost all of their home games.
History
The stadium is located in the southern district of Zwickau Schedewitz. 1937 began the construction of the sports stadium on the site of the former dump coal plant association lucky. At that time, the requirement to establish an adequate sports facilities for this rapidly growing district of the city. 1940, the great tower was completed. The inauguration of the stadium took place during the Second World War, on 20 August 1942 under the name Südkampfbahn.
1949 the stadium received the name of a Bulgarian communists and was called up to the turn Georgi Dimitrov Stadium. Then it was renamed by a decision of the City Council in Zwickau Westsachsenstadion.
The stadium with a concrete velodrome and athletics running track received as a special access tunnel to the interior. Initially, it took well over 25,000 spectators. Thus, more than 50,000 spectators came for example to the matches against Madueiras Rio de Janeiro in the summer of 1954 or against Green Cross Santiago de Chile in the spring of 1956 to Georgi Dimitrov Stadium.
Similar high viewing figures date from the encounters in the European Cup Winners' Cup 1975/76. At the time, played the BSG Sachsenring Zwickau, the predecessor of today's club FSV Zwickau, in the European Cup Winners little more than 40,000 spectators. The Zwickau football team played from 1949 to 1982 without interruption in the Serie A, the highest DDR game class. In 1984, here a DDR -A- international match of the German Democratic Republic against Greece (1-0, 2,500 spectators ) It has even been held.
As a viewer magnet initially also proved pursuit race with race car, bike and pacemaker race. Due to implementation -related cracks and steadily decreasing amount of financial allocation for the ongoing maintenance and repair the concrete runway could not be used since the 1980s. Remains of it were at the bottom of the stands, some of them were overbuilt with temporary steel pipe stands.
After the turn was the Westsachsenstadion Borussia Dortmund, the club from the city of Zwickau partner, donated floodlights. The further decline of the sports complex has not stopped. After the district Zwickau freedom was denied, due to the withdrawal of allocations from the state budget even threatened the complete closure of the stadium.
From 2010 to 2013, the stadium was closed for renovation.
Stadium renovation
In the spring of 2010 began the renovation work that had a stadium for a maximum of 15,000 spectators to the destination. In three stages the project should be completed by 2014. It was planned to integrate the architecture of the already renovated listed stadium tower in a football arena without steeplechase. First, a separate entrance area was created for the visiting fans. Thus they should be separated from the Zwickau fans. In addition, it was planned to introduce the new bleachers after DFB standard close to the pitch. For the stadium renovation a total of approximately 15 million Euros was estimated.
Beginning of September 2011 stopped the Zwickau city council the stadium renovation. During the reconstruction phase turned out to be outdated by a later report that complex and deeper building measures would be required, which would have almost doubled the cost of construction result. According to the Zwickau Mayor Findeiß one can instead of a rebuild also build a new stadium with a cost of 20 to 30 million euros. As a result, the old stadium was reconstructed with significantly lower costs in a usable for amateur sports or major events state.
The reconstruction was completed in August 2013, the remodeled stadium was inaugurated with 5,000 standing places on 6 September 2013. For approximately 5.5 million euros, the stadium was converted into a school and recreational sports center. Instead of the old playing field a 64 × 94 -foot-tall artificial pitch was laid. Now are mini plastic playing fields at the Hintertorseiten. Be Hemmed the fields of a 400-meter asphalt track with banked curves. In addition to soccer, among other things volleyball, basketball, badminton, cycling or inline skating can be operated.
At present, the construction of a new stadium in Zwickau Eckersbach district in preparation. The main reason for this location was, inter alia, a much larger area with access through a well-developed transport infrastructure.
Plastic luge track
In the 1970s, a plastic luge track for the section of the luge ESV Lok Zwickau was built on the stadium heap. Here train young luger during the summer months on racing sleds with wheels.