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Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion is a stadium in
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,
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, Germany. It is named after athlete
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and is the current home of
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. It also hosts fixtures of the German national team on an irregular basis since 1911. The stadium also hosts events outside
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, most notably as the home of the
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American football team that play in the
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. Sports facilities have existed on the site of the stadium, the Güntzwiesen, since 1874.


History


Beginnings

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
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and nobility. For more than 110 years, the venue included a flat
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,
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and finally a footbalal pitch. In the 1870s, during the administration of the park by the "''Verein für Volkssport Dresden''", the newly established
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(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
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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
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. Some of the first soccer players were: Beb (
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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
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Rev. Bowden. He came from the neighborhood and later by
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's blasted
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. 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
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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 m2. 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
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s, would it come nearly for a time of big fountains, but still when the
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was defeated in
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and the
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had only liabilities, because of paying
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. So it came the time of the noble donator, by an
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. 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
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s allocated for the expansion to ''Ilgen-Kampfbahn'' centrally located at inner city. As recently as 1937, it had been named after the
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, Saxon
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and inventor of the
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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), the ''Georg-Arnhold-Bad'' was opened, named after Londoner, New Yorker
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and Jewish industry banker Georg Arnhold, who gave 250,000
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.


Third Reich

Since the Nazis took power over Germany, a competition of
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builders such as
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(architect of the
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) and
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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
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square in front, due to the fact that the stadium has been also created for troops parades of the
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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
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, the German Hygiene Museum,
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and the Bell Tower. It would outclass the
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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
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, Frankfurt Oder,
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,
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and Bochum and in future it should stand in every '' Gau'' of the
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. The style corresponded to
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with monumental dimensions in order. The first three positions of 277 of elaborated designs were won Western Germans, but they lose the
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competition because of none presently membership of the
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. Prof.
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was following and advised personal of Adolf Hitler. The canceled winners were: * 1. Pos.: A. M. Schmidt (
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) * 2. Pos.: H. A. Schaefer (Berlin) * Purchase:(1) Hans Heuser and
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(
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) * (2) Leiterer & Wünsche * (3) Richard Steidle (
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) * (4) Hans Richter (
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) * G. Zielger (
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) * H. Freese (Dresden) * Hans Hopp (
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) Centre should be a
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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
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. In normal, contemporary ideas of those
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: ''"... 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
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proposed for the institute for
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and
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. Before the roadworks closed down, has been started the
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and thereby joined arms production. The occasion in another contemplation is the fulfillment of the
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s promise to create jobs and decrease a high number of unemployed human resources. After the law of new conception of German towns (''"Gesetz zur Neugestaltung deutscher Städte"'').
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has overtaken the new department for implementations in construction relations named ''"Durchführungsstelle"''.
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's
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,
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of the Interior of Reichsgau Saxony with master of Construction Worker School Dresden, 1940. He builds the tobacco mosque
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of Dresden, in 1907–09. Born in 1878 –
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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
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s mainly
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, League of German Maidens, military organisations like
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, SA and SS, which is taboo and also not reclaimed until today. On
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, the meeting hall and traverses with the pool at the oval were dropped full of bombs by
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and
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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
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, two
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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
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with
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.
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, an artist from the
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served from time to time in there, but he went into the West and was captured of the
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, notwithstanding that his work was degenerate art 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.


East Germany

In 1953, the Sportvereinigung Dynamo took over the stadium. It bore
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's name on 23 September. Three years later, the pitch was re-sodded. On 1 October 1966, a new stand was built. The stadium hosted a match between Dynamo and
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the following year. In 1971, the stadium was renamed "Dynamo-Stadion" and on 15 September of that same year, it welcomed another stand on the west side, raising its capacity to 36,000, which was further increased to 38,500 in 1980.


Into the 21st century

In 1992, the stadium, under the control of the city of Dresden in order to protect the site should Dynamo Dresden ever face financial problems, was given a DM 375,000 renovation package, raising it to international standards. On 9 May 2007, German sports magazine
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reported that an agreement has been reached with the city to finance another complete renovation of the stadium by 2009. The stadium in its new form, with 32,400 seats, was opened on 15 September 2009. A sold-out friendly match against
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, which Dynamo lost 1–2, was played for this occasion. In December 2010, the stadium's naming rights were sold for 5 years to
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-based energy company Goldgas under its Glücksgas brandname.


2011 Women's World Cup

On 30 September 2008, it was announced that Dresden had been chosen to be a host city for the
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. For this reason, the stadium underwent a complete rebuild. 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 football manager and former player who last managed the German women's national team. As a defender, she earned 111 caps for the national team between 1993 and 2007, helping her c ...
. The director of the local Dresden organizing committee for the World Cup was
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, then president of the Saxony Football Federation (Sächsischer Fußball-Verband, 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 Play is a range of Motivation#Intrinsic and extrinsic, intrinsically motivated activities done for recreation. Play is commonly associated with children and juvenile-level activities, but may be engaged in at any life stage, and among other high ...
: 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 mixersZimmermann, 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).


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Technische Universität Dresden TU Dresden (for , abbreviated as TUD), also as the Dresden University of Technology, is a public research university in Dresden, Germany. It is the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, the largest university in Saxony a ...
: Map of the Rudolf Harbig Stadium Dresden. –
Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...
: Institute for Cartographics, 1997
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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 abo ...
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List of European stadiums by capacity This is a list of the largest stadiums in European countries. Stadiums with a capacity of 30,000 or more are included. They are ordered by their audience capacity. The capacity figures are for each stadium's permanent total seating capacity. C ...
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List of football stadiums in Germany The following is a list of football stadiums in Germany with a total capacity of at least 20,000 spectators (seating and standing). Below a list of stadiums with a capacity of at least 10,000. Stadiums in bold are part of the 2024–25 Bundeslig ...
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Lists of stadiums The following are lists of stadiums throughout the world. Note that horse racing and motorsport venues are not included at some pages, because those are not stadiums but sports venues. Combined lists *List of stadiums by capacity * List of c ...


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