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The Sportpark Duisburg (formerly Sportpark Wedau) is a 200-hectare sports and recreation area in Duisburg, Germany. [1]
It is one of the largest contiguous sports parks in Germany and offers training and competition venues for water skiing, wakeboarding, football, ice hockey, athletics, swimming, canoeing and rowing.
History
[edit]End of the 19th century, the former forest area of the Krupp company served for the purpose of filling up slag of the steel industry.
In 1919, Krupp left the area to the city of Duisburg with the requirement to build there a sports and recreation area for the Duisburg population.
Three lakes were created: Margaretensee, Bertasee and Barbarasee. Bertasee and Barbarasee are connected by canals to the regatta course, which was built between these two lakes to the south.
The sports facilities
[edit]Rowers, canoeists and runners work out at the regatta track in the Sports Park.
The Duisburg regatta course is today an important international and national venue for canoeing, rowing and motorboat sports. In addition to numerous German championships, the following events were held there:
1979, 1987, 1995, 20072007, 2013 and 2023 : the World Canoe Championships 1983 : the World Rowing Championships 1989: the rowing competitions in the summer Universiade 2001: the Junior World Rowing Championships 2005: the Kanupolo, dragon boat and water ski competitions during the World Games 2005.
In addition to the swimming stadium, the beach, illuminated night-run track, water skiing and other sports facilities, the sports ground includes the Schausland Travel Arena, the home grounds of MSV Duisburg, and the ice rink in which the EV Duisburg plays its home games. Between Margarethenstraße and Kalkweg there is an athletics stadium (Wedau III district sports facility). Other facilities
In the southern part of the sports park on Friederich-Alfred-Allee are the offices of the Landessportbund NRW and the West German Football Association, which are based here along with more than 20 other sports federations. This includes the federal office of the German Canoe Association at Bertaallee.
The Wedau sports school of the is also located on the grounds of the Landessportbund, which, according to its own information, is one of the most important sports schools in the Federal Republic. The DFB sighting tournaments take place several times a year as a talent factory for German football. The Federal Gastronomic Centre for Canoeing is located on the Regattabahn.
South of the sports park is the recreation area of the Duisburger Sechsseen-Platte, which covers about three square kilometres. Recent extensions The artificial parallel channel (parallel to the regatta path).
The city council of Duisburg was held on 12. June 2006 decided to build a parallel channel on the west bank of the regatta course so that it will continue to meet international standards for canoeing and rowing competitions in the future. At the beginning of 2007, about six hectares of forest were cleared. Fishing areas in the north of Duisburg are to be reforested as a compensation area for the waterfall forest. In a first construction phase, a branch canal were created from the regatta course to Lake Berta and a camera track, which were already used for the 2007 World Canor Championships. The total expansion of €14 million was completed in spring 2008, with significant cost increases.
There were protests against these plans by local residents and environmentalists, not least because a rare bat species was supposed to live in the forest and the public was informed comparatively little in relation to the size of the project. Alternatives such as the construction of a canal on the eastern side of the regatta race were also proposed, but they were rejected as inappropriate by the administration and sports organisations.
Federal Government for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND), Naturschutz Association Germany (NABU) and the Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald (SDW) had spoken out against the measure and filed a lawsuit against the Planning Assessment Decision. The planning approval decision of the city of Duisburg allowed the construction project to be completed immediately. A urgent application against this passageus in the context of the lawsuit failed both in the Düsseldorf Administrative Court and the Higher Administrative Court of Münster. The courts had placed emergency aspects from the funding of funding carefully examining the aspects of species and landscape protection.
On the 5th The parallel channel was officially opened in July 2008. The "Water World Wedau" includes the parallel channel, a new water playground and a climbing garden. The cost of the entire project is approx. 18 million euros. In total, just over 6.6 hectares of forest were cleared. The city has planted four new ones as a compensation measure for every tree cut down.
In September 2008, the name of Sportpark Wedau was changed to Sportpark Duisburg to better represent the significance of the facilities that go beyond the district.
In 2013, a new youth hostel was built in the northern part of the sports park. This replaced an older one near the municipal clinics and focuses on nature and sports.
Web Links
[edit]https://www.duisburg.de/sport/sportpark_duisburg/sportpark-duisburg.php
- ^ url=http://www.duisburg.de/sport/sportpark_duisburg/sportpark-duisburg.php Offical web site
- ^ Cioc, Mark (17 November 2009). The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 18152000. University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295989785. Retrieved 11 December 2016 – via Google Books.