Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion is a football stadium in
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...
,
Saxony
Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...
. It is named after German athlete
Rudolf Harbig
Rudolf Waldemar Harbig (8 November 1913 – 5 March 1944) was a German athlete. As a middle distance runner he was best known for the 800 metres world record that he set in Milan in 1939. He also held the European record in the 400 metres from 1 ...
, and is the current home of
Dynamo Dresden
Sportgemeinschaft Dynamo Dresden e.V., commonly known as SG Dynamo Dresden or Dynamo Dresden, are a German association football club based in Dresden, Saxony.Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs 7. Vereinslexikon. Kasse ...
. Sports facilities have existed on the site of the stadium, the Güntzwiesen, since 1874. On 10 September 1911 the stadium hosted an international friendly match between Germany and Austria, which ended in a 1:2 defeat of host team Germany. The stadium also hosts events other than soccer games and has hosted several home games of the
Dresden Monarchs
The Dresden Monarchs are an American football team from Dresden, Germany. They have been a member of the first tier German Football League since 2002 and play in its Northern Division. They are the reigning champion after having won German Bowl XL ...
American Football team of the
German Football League
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, including their lone home appearance in the
BIG6 European Football League
The BIG6 European Football League (BIG6) was a European Cup style tournament for European American football teams. Originally organized by the EFAF (European Federation of American Football), the tournament had been run by the German Football L ...
in 2014.
History
Güntzwiesen, Hermann Ilgen and Georg Arnhold
The land on which the stadium sits today formed part of what was then called the English district of Dresden, an affluent area home to the city's
bourgeoisie
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and nobility. For more than 110 years the 8 courts equipped venue included a flat
velodrome
A velodrome is an arena for track cycling. Modern velodromes feature steeply banked oval tracks, consisting of two 180-degree circular bends connected by two straights. The straights transition to the circular turn through a moderate Track tran ...
,
tennis
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,
cricket
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and finally a
soccer pitch
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. In the 1870s, during the administration of the park by the "''Verein für Volkssport Dresden''", the newly established
Dresden English Football Club
The Dresden English Football Club was a football club founded in 1874 in Dresden, the first in Germany and likely the first outside Great Britain.
History Initial foundation
The Dresden English Football Club was founded in 1874 and was the fir ...
(D.E.F.C.) began playing its first matches in the area. D.E.F.C. were Germany's first football club, arguably the first football club established outside of Great Britain, and thus likely making the area the first in which
Cambridge rules football was played in Germany, meaning the park is of great significance to German football. here starts on the same known ground for competitors which flung the leather ball into the net, "With naked legs!". Until 10 March 1894, a game was never lost (during 20 years record period), without somebody not conceding a
goal
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A goal is roughly similar to a purpose or ai ...
. Some of the first soccer players were: Beb (
Captain
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), Burchard, Graham, Crossley, Spencer, Atkins, Ravenscraft, Johnson, Le Maistre, Luxmoore and Young. The president of the club and venue was the
Anglican
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Rev. Bowden. He came from the neighborhood and later by
Socialist Unity Party of Germany
The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (german: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, ; SED, ), often known in English as the East German Communist Party, was the founding and ruling party of the German Democratic Republic (GDR; East German ...
's blasted
All Saints Church
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* All Saints Church, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
* All Saints Anglican Church, Henley Brook, Western Aust ...
. In addition here was the fathoming of the youth football, what it takes to turn into – invincible versus other clubs. In 1883, the venue at ''"Güntzwiesen"'' was in first time recorded in public interests of organized
gymnastics
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federations. In 1885 the VI. German Gymnastics Festival (transl.: ''Deutsches Turnfest'') took place, with 20,000 participants and 270,000 marching athletes from the today known ''Deutscher Turnerbund''. Later in 1896, the city of Dresden has been purchased additional surrounded land to setting it up into a proportional manner of living standards. The ground of this constructed stadium was a part of about 8 courts, which every citizen of Dresden could use for free. The surface spread over 70,000 m
2. So far the complete area has been well-kept by gardeners. Every few years the area has been advanced in small ways. For a long time the ''Georg-Arnold-Bath'' has been an unknown part of the stadium. A 5m diving platform with extra 60m stands for swimming competitions existed. It was to be demolished in World War II again. Costs conducting oneself for all about 36,000
RM, to the extent of stronger money value. The new successor was the Dresdensia FC.
Before creation of
tribune
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s, would it come nearly for a time of big fountains, but still when the German
Imperium
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lost World War I and the
town hall
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had only liabilities, because o fpaying
reparations
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* Acts of reparation, prayers for repairing the damages of sin
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*War reparations
**World War I reparations, made from G ...
. So it came the time of the noble donator, by an
agent
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Espionage, investigation, and law
*, spies or intelligence officers
* Law of agency, laws involving a person authorized to act on behalf of another
** Agent of record, a person with a contractual agreement with an insuranc ...
. He would be a patron of the new stadium. In 1922, on 21 December, workers laid the foundation stone. A quarter year later, the modern, up-to-date stadium had more than 24,000 admissions, including 300 seats and sheltered places. In opposite of the VIP today. The suites have been located towards the south side, before including a field for parades of the inside through the north side. Completed on 16 June 1923, a stadium in total amount of 500,000
German reichsmark
The (; sign: ℛℳ; abbreviation: RM) was the currency of Germany from 1924 until 20 June 1948 in West Germany, where it was replaced with the , and until 23 June 1948 in East Germany, where it was replaced by the East German mark. The Reichs ...
s allocated for the expansion to ''Ilgen-Kampfbahn'' centrally located at inner city. As recently as 1937, it had been named after the
Freemason
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, Saxon
royalist
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and inventor of the
rat poison
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: Friedrich Hermann Ilgen (1856–1940), before the English and Americans went to other ways. After everything else exists a spoken opening poem by himself for the youth:
The following provides the lyrics of the "Ilgen address" as written by himself. Only one verse is currently known at the archive of the city of Dresden rather entry of the former main entry nearly ''Hygienemuseum'':
Three years later (1926), opened the ''Georg-Arnhold-Bad'', named after Londoner, New Yorker
stockbroker
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and Jewish industry banker Georg Arnhold, who gave 250,000
Reichsmark
The (; sign: ℛℳ; abbreviation: RM) was the currency of Germany from 1924 until 20 June 1948 in West Germany, where it was replaced with the , and until 23 June 1948 in East Germany, where it was replaced by the East German mark. The Reich ...
.
Third Reich 1933 – 1945
Since the Nazis took power over Germany, a competition of
Nazi architecture
Nazi architecture is the architecture promoted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime from 1933 until its fall in 1945, connected with urban planning in Nazi Germany. It is characterized by three forms: a stripped neoclassicism, typified by the ...
builders such as
Wilhelm Kreis
Wilhelm Kreis (17 March 1873 – 13 August 1955) was a prominent German architect and professor of architecture, active through four political systems in German history: the Wilhelmine era, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the founda ...
(architect of the
Monument to the Battle of the Nations
The Monument to the Battle of the Nations (german: Völkerschlachtdenkmal, sometimes shortened to ''Völki'' or ''Schlachti'') is a monument in Leipzig, Germany, to the 1813 Battle of Leipzig, also known as the Battle of the Nations. Paid for mo ...
) and
Paul Wolf
Paul G. Wolf (October 5, 1915 – October 14, 1972) was an American competition swimmer. He won a silver medal as a member of the second-place U.S. team in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay, together with teammates Ralph Flanagan, John Macionis ...
was breaking out.
Both want to create a new world imperial "Saxon
Gauforum" of Dresden. So completed buildings are only the Imperial Ministry for Food and Agrarian Economics of Gau Saxony, German Air Force Academy Dresden-Klotzsche, ''Carusufer'' and ''Königsufer'', ''Knabenberufschule'', Autobahn Bridge, Dresden ''German Air Force Command (Dresden)'' and the
Hygiene Museum, handily in the city center. The main part should turn into a with 40,000 seats equipped ''Saxon Hall'', in ensemble for the
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...
square in front, due to the fact that the stadium has been also created for troops parades of the
Saxon
The Saxons ( la, Saxones, german: Sachsen, ang, Seaxan, osx, Sahson, nds, Sassen, nl, Saksen) were a group of Germanic
*
*
*
*
peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor ...
Reichswehr
''Reichswehr'' () was the official name of the German armed forces during the Weimar Republic and the first years of the Third Reich. After Germany was defeated in World War I, the Imperial German Army () was dissolved in order to be reshaped ...
until World War I, before. If the complex would have ever finished, main segments of the forum had get chiefly the management houses of the
NSDAP
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that crea ...
, the German Hygiene Museum,
Hall
In architecture, a hall is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age and early Middle Ages in northern Europe, a mead hall was where a lord and his retainers ate and also slept. Later in the Middle Ages, the gr ...
and the Bell Tower. It would outclass the
baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
part of Dresden, if ever finished, but this was underlined as mad. Also the sense was to give propaganda for make war for citizens of Dresden, they had to imagine the triumphatic symbol for a heroic future. Models in instance were the Gauforum in
Weimar
Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...
,
Frankfurt Oder,
Augsburg
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,
Hanover
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and Bochum and in future it should stand in every ''
Gau'' of the
Third Reich
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
. The style corresponded to
bauhaus
The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the Bauhaus (), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 200 ...
–
neoclassicism
Neoclassicism (also spelled Neo-classicism) was a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassicism was ...
with monumental dimensions in order. The first three positions of 277 of elaborated designs were won Western Germans, but they lose the
architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...
competition because of none presently membership of the
Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
The Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (; RMVP), also known simply as the Ministry of Propaganda (), controlled the content of the press, literature, visual arts, film, theater, music and radio in Nazi Germany.
The ministry ...
. Prof.
Wilhelm Kreis
Wilhelm Kreis (17 March 1873 – 13 August 1955) was a prominent German architect and professor of architecture, active through four political systems in German history: the Wilhelmine era, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the founda ...
was following and advised personal of Adolf Hitler. The canceled winners were:
* 1. Pos.: A. M. Schmidt (
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
)
* 2. Pos.: H. A. Schaefer (Berlin)
* Purchase:(1) Hans Heuser and
Helmut Hentrich
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(
Düsseldorf
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)
* (2) Leiterer & Wünsche
* (3) Richard Steidle (
München
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)
* (4) Hans Richter (
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...
)
* G. Zielger (
Kaiserslautern
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)
* H. Freese (Dresden)
* Hans Hopp (
East Prussia
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)
![After bombing Ilgenkampfbahn Dresden](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/After_bombing_Ilgenkampfbahn_Dresden.jpg)
Centre should be a
parade
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square in measures of 75,000m², in favor of 120,000 peoples stage-managing.
The ''Gauhaus'' (210 x 190 m) as well as ''Sachsenhalle'' (140 x 220 m) should both on the whole surround 80,000 seats, of militarised fellowship for celebration enslavemented poor
peoples
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. In normal, contemporary ideas of those
German
German(s) may refer to:
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**Germania (historical use)
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** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ger ...
guide
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Expl ...
: ''"... in der klaren, geraden und wuchtigen Architektur, die der Ausdruck unserer Zeit und unseres Lebensgefühls ist."''. (transl.: ... in clearly straight line and shattering architecture, which is the expression of our time and our livestyle.)
The suggestion of the area made Prof. Paul Wolf (Building mayor of Dresden). The area had stabile ground and was undeveloped. City mayor Ernst Zörner and
Paul Wolf
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proposed for the institute for
eugenics
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and
German Society for Racial Hygiene
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. Before the roadworks closed down, has been started the
Invasion of Poland
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and thereby joined arms production. The occasion in another contemplation is the fulfillment of the
dictator
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s promise to create
jobs Jobs may refer to:
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People
* Steve Jobs (1955–2011), co-founder and former CEO of Apple Inc
** Steve Jobs (disambiguation)
* Laurene Powell Jobs (born 1963), widow of Steve Jobs
* Lisa ...
and decrease a high number of unemployed human resources. After the law of new conception of German towns (''"Gesetz zur Neugestaltung deutscher Städte"'').
Martin Hammitzsch
Angela Franziska Johanna Hammitzsch (née Hitler; 28 July 1883 – 30 October 1949) was the elder half-sister of Adolf Hitler. She was the mother of Geli Raubal by her first husband, Leo Raubal Sr.
Life
Angela Hitler was born in Braunau, A ...
has overtaken the new department for implementations in construction relations named ''"Durchführungsstelle"''.
Hitler
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's
Brother-in-law
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,
secretary
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of the Interior of Reichsgau Saxony with master of Construction Worker School Dresden, 1940. He builds the tobacco mosque
Yenidze
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of Dresden, in 1907–09. Born in 1878 –
suicide
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: 1945, the project ''Gauforum'' was failed. In 1939, however the groundbreaking completed for the hall.
From 1933 to 1945 the stadium was in use of Nazi
organisation
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The word is derived from ...
s mainly
National Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise
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,
Hitler Youth
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,
League of German Maidens
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, military organisations like
Wehrmacht
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,
SA and
SS, which is taboo and also not reclaimed until today.
On
Dresden Bombing
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, the meeting hall and traverses with the pool at the oval were dropped full of bombs by
Royal Air Force
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and
US Air Force
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. On renovation, the workers found an explosive bomb directly located under bench and players entry. A bomb defuser worked successfully one an hour before. Before the
bombing
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, two
battalion
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s of the
People's assault Dresden met here for her swearing, on 5 November 1944, at 9 o'clock in the morning, with men aged 16 to 60 years. The reason was simply the assault by the
Soviet 1st Guards Tank Army
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The army traces its heritage back to the 1st Tank Army, formed twice in July 1942 and in January 1943 and converted into the 1st Guards Tank Army in January 1944. The arm ...
with
13th Guards Rifle Division
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Formed in January 1942 from the 87th Rifle Division ...
.
Otto Dix
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, an artist from the
Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
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served from time to time in there, but he went into the West and was captured of the
Armée de terre
History
Early history
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, notwithstanding that his work was
degenerate art
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for Nazis and he received a labor ban. The poem by Ilgen and sobriquet ''Kampfbahn'' (fighting drome) obtaining complemental so for new bloody definitions of war.
SV Dynamo takeover
The stadium was renamed to the Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion in 1951, which lasted until 1971. In 1953, the
Sportvereinigung Dynamo
The Sportvereinigung Dynamo () (''Dynamo Sports Association'') was the sport association of the security agencies (Volkspolizei, Ministry for State Security, fire department and customs) of former East Germany. The association was founded on 27 ...
took over the stadium and on 23 September 1953, the stadium was renamed after German athlete
Rudolf Harbig
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.
Benches were replaced via individual seats and the pitch was re-sodded, the first time 1956.
''
Loved white mouse'' movie was held for final credit scene in overfilled oval, 1964.
On 1 October 1966, the rest of the ice hall is use for repairing the new stand. 1967, however, an international match versus the
Rangers F.C.
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: soccer teams must go to ''
Heinz-Steyer-Stadion
The Heinz-Steyer-Stadion, in Dresden, Germany, is an association football, American football and athletics stadium currently used by the Dresdner SC and the Dresden Monarchs. It has a capacity of about 30,000 but is currently restricted to about 5 ...
'', by the reason of slight capacity. Once upon a time, the new
floodlights
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, nicknamed "
Giraffe
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s", were first used during a match involving Dynamo Dresden and
GDR
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...
's national football team. Floodlights were built by PGH Electro-Construction Dresden. The four floodlight pylons, had a height of about 60 meters, an incline of 20 degrees, and a weight of 60
ton
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Mainly it describes units of weight. Confusion can arise because ''ton'' can mean
* the long ton, which is 2,240 pounds
...
s per example. Each
mast
Mast, MAST or MASt may refer to:
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* Flagmast, a pole for flying a flag
* Guyed mast, a structure supported by guy-wires
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* Radio mast ...
has six stages, which are equipped with 26 x 6.7
lux
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floodlights. At the end following in the last day's emphasize in 2008, if cars drove into the
Elbe valley of the
City
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, it was a lightning
symbol
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beside the
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donated golden Cross of the
Church of Our Lady. The visibility in the heights around the city in radiant shine captivated all footers.
In 1971, the stadium was renamed to the Dynamo-Stadion, which was used until 1990. Since 15 September 1971, a new steel stand would build on the west side, inasmuch as the
European Cup
The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competit ...
attracted the masses. After it should cut back,
fans resist again. With a speaker tower included over 6
TV commentator cabins. In addition came three TV podiums, which must mount with in a close steel stepladder. The speaker tower was also the lost-and-found office for
match
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day's. If anybody lost possessions, the speaker informed the complete stadium with implied tens of thousands of spectators mocking attentiveness.
The electric scoreboard was first used on 6 July 1979, during a match between
Dynamo Dresden
Sportgemeinschaft Dynamo Dresden e.V., commonly known as SG Dynamo Dresden or Dynamo Dresden, are a German association football club based in Dresden, Saxony.Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs 7. Vereinslexikon. Kasse ...
versus
1. FC Magdeburg. It is made up of over 4,333 lamps, and is driven by a
computer
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, searched in a 15 years period in imperfection.
1971, it was done the name "Dynamo-Stadion-Dresden". In a case of constructions, the capacity won measures of 36.000 seats, 1976. Four years later, 38,500 seats done installed for cup matches. In the summer of 1971, it was renamed Dynamo-Stadion for the SG Dynamo which used the stadium as its home ground for martial arts
State Security and
People's Police games, or small publicity festivals, with
SV Dynamo
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and
Free German Youth
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The organization was meant ...
. The other club which needs these oval, was the SG Dynamo Zentral Dresden. Fences stood only between the block and
grass
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, with a quantity such as in a garden. The new parking area was an ice skating course before. The capacity of the stadium was twice expanded: to 36,000 in 1976 and then to 38,500 in 1980. Often the capacity has been beautified by officials. Years ago, here hold championships of
Dynamo Dresden
Sportgemeinschaft Dynamo Dresden e.V., commonly known as SG Dynamo Dresden or Dynamo Dresden, are a German association football club based in Dresden, Saxony.Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs 7. Vereinslexikon. Kasse ...
or couples have been married at the inner soccer circle, for their live together.
![Dynamo Stadium (Dresden, Saxony; complete)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Dynamo_Stadium_%28Dresden%2C_Saxony%3B_complete%29.jpg)
In 1992, the stadium was upgraded to meet
German Football Association
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and
FIFA
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standards and the national building code. This included improved security measures to help protect players and referees. Benches have been replaced by individual seats and the pitch was re-sodded, the first time since 1956 that the playing surface has been renewed with the €375,000 cost being borne by the city of Dresden. That same year, the facility was again named for Rudolf Harbig.
In 1990, the name was restored to Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion, which remained until 2010. Since 1 January 1992, the stadium has been under the control of the city of Dresden in order to protect the site should Dynamo Dresden ever face financial problems. On 9 May 2007, German sports magazine
kicker
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* ''Kicker'' (sports magazine), in Germany
* Kicker, the German colloquial term for an association football player
* Kicker, the word used i ...
reported that an agreement has been reached with the city to finance the complete renovation of the stadium into a modern 32,400-seat arena by 2009. The stadium in its new form was opened on 15 September 2009 with a sold-out friendly match against Schalke 04, which Dynamo lost 1–2.
In December 2010, the naming rights were sold for 5 years to Bavarian energy company Goldgas which wanted to promote its Glücksgas brandname.
2011 Women's World Cup host
On 30 September 2008, it was announced that Dresden had been chosen to be a host city for the
2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
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. As a result, the old stadium that had stood on the site for over 100 years was torn down and completely rebuilt.
The ceremonial "first kickoff" in the newly rebuilt stadium was taken by the director of the German organizing committee for the World Cup,
Steffi Jones
Stephanie Ann Jones (born 22 December 1972) is a German-American Association football, football manager and former player who last managed the Germany women's national football team, German women's national team. As a Defender (association footba ...
The director of the local Dresden organizing committee for the World Cup is Klaus Reichenbach (who is also president of Saxon Football Federation (''SFV''))
State cup- and international matches
National FDGB-Cup finals
2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
Other international football matches
Statistics
* Area: 72,000m²
* Stadium: 190m x 150m x 32m (912,000m³)
*
Playing field
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: 105m x 68m (7140m²)
* Capacity: 32,085
* Distance from top seat: 89m
* Underfloor field heating: 25,000 m small water tube made in elastic plastic -must start 6 days before with 180,000 Euro costs
* Arched roof: 19,400m² (7,500,000 Euro) with 14,600m² ''Soprema'' slide
* Concrete: 2500m³ = 333
In-transit mixer
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s
[Zimmermann, Gert (2009). Das neue Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion: FANtastische Fans und Emotionen pur. ORKA-MEDIA; page 74.]
Media
Gallery
File:House Stadium Dresden 1900.jpg, Postcard showing the stadium as it appeared in 1900.
File:Ilgenkampfbahn Dresden post card.jpg, Postcard showing a stadium map from 1922.
File:Rudolf Harbig Stadium Dresden.jpg, The stadium as it appeared in 2009
File:Germany vs Canada in Dresden (pic7).JPG, An exhibition game between the German and Canadian women's national teams.
File:DDV Stadium Dresden 31 July 2016 DSC04660.jpg, 2016: The new name DDV Stadium (by a Dresden Media Group).
Literature about
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Maps or cards about
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Technische Universität Dresden
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: Map of the Rudolf Harbig Stadium Dresden. –
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...
: Institute for Cartographics, 1997
SLUB OPAC
See also
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Heinz-Steyer-Stadion
The Heinz-Steyer-Stadion, in Dresden, Germany, is an association football, American football and athletics stadium currently used by the Dresdner SC and the Dresden Monarchs. It has a capacity of about 30,000 but is currently restricted to about 5 ...
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List of European stadiums by capacity
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They are ordered by their audience capacity. The capacity figures are for each stadium's ...
References
External links
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