Winterberg bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track
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The Winterberg bobsleigh is a skating rink for the luge, skeleton and bobsleigh sports in Germany and is in Winterberg. It is the fourth oldest ice rink after Koenigssee, Oberhof and Innsbruck -Igls.
Path data
The bobsled track has a total length of 1609 m with spout and has a total of 14 curves. You can reach the maze between the curve 12 and curve 13 a top speed of up to 140 km / h The ice surface is approximately 65000 m². There are at the bobsleigh track 25 track their own cameras to monitor the rides.
History
(Now Bob and Luge Club Sauerland Winterberg eV ) On 19 May 1910, the club the Sauerland Bobsleigh and Automobile Club of Hesse and Westphalia eV was founded and built in the same year in the fall of a natural ice bob run. With the launch on the cap and the goal in Dauerbermühle. 1910/1911, the first bobsleigh rides were organized. At the top of the club built 1911, a club house in Art Nouveau style. This was given the name Bobhaus and is now a mountain restaurant.
The first Bob championship in Winterberg took place in 1914. Between 1920 to 1965 numerous national and regional bobsled race were held on the old rink. The last bobsled race was held in 1965. The attempt in the years to build up the path again failed due to the weather.
After the opening of the world's first artificial ice rink in Koenigssee in 1969, tried politics and sports for a long time about a second German ice rink, and Winterberg finally prevailed over other candidates, including Garmisch -Partenkirchen. Following the opening in Oberhof and Innsbruck-Igls the world's fourth ice rink and toboggan for Bob was inaugurated in Winterberg December 10, 1977. Railway operator is the recreation and sports center Winterberg GmbH, together with the two shareholders Hochsauerlandkreis ( 50%) and the town of Winterberg (50 %).
The first reconstruction of the new ice rink was held in 1986 and was at the level of the target outlet. The discharge curve 15 and the old outlet path that led towards the town of Winterberg, were demolished. Curve 14 has been extended in a 180 - degree bend. Uphill was built a new Auslauf-/Bremsstrecke.
After the fire of a functional building that was newly built in 2004 in the launch height 2. 2005/2006 have been placed in the areas of the curves 2 to 4 and 9 to 14 weather protection roofs with blinds.
The second reconstruction took place in the years 2005/2006 and cost 3.1 million euros that were worn to 80% by the federal government and the state of North Rhine -Westphalia; the remaining 20% paid the town of Winterberg and Hochsauerlandkreis. One has the old start house I pulled down and rebuilt. The old start line was demolished, she was transferred to the side of the valley and sometimes built a new start curve. The shelves and the start line for the bobsleigh and skeleton sled has been completely covered. For athletes a warm-up track was built along the building. The starting height of the Luge Women is now moved from the launch tower curve 4 up on the basement level of the new building I start. For the Luge Men, a new launch tower was built.
In the vicinity of the target building a new workshop building was 2006/2007 built. A fire destroyed the location on the Winterberg Cap historical Bobhaus on June 6, 2009. The dome of the Bobhauses was demolished and is currently being restored.
Events
After the construction of the new ice rink since 1979 numerous major events took place, including World, European Championships and the 1st, 3rd and 7th " WOK WM" with Stefan Raab. For years, held the luge and bobsled and skeleton sled bobsled World Cup race. In 2015 a world championship in Bob will be held on the bobsled track in Winterberg 20 years after the last World Cup again.