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| Location | Dresden, Germany |
| Owner | City ofDresden |
| Operator | Stadion Dresden Projektgesellschaft mbH & Co KG |
| Executive suites | Boxes 18 VIP 1366 Business Club 1 Promenade 1 |
| Capacity | 32,085[3] (27,000 International Matches) |
| Record attendance | 38,000 (Dynamo Dresden –BFC Dynamo, 19 March 1983)[4] |
| Field size | 105m x 68m (7140m2) |
| Surface | Grass |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1922 to 1923 |
| Opened | 16 May 1923; 102 years ago (1923-05-16) |
| Renovated | 1951, 1990 and 2009 |
| Closed | 1944–1951 |
| Construction cost | 1923:RM 500,000; 2009:€ 45,000,000 |
| Architect | Hermann Ilgen (1922–1923) Günter Schöneberg & Manfred Mortensen (1969)[1] b+p Projekt (2007–2009)[2] |
| Tenants | |
| Dynamo Dresden (1953–present) Germany national football team (selected matches) | |
Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion is a stadium inDresden,Saxony, Germany. It is named after athleteRudolf Harbig and is the current home ofDynamo Dresden. It also hosts fixtures of theGerman national team on an irregular basis since 1911. The stadium also hosts events outsideassociation football, most notably as the home of theDresden Monarchs American football team that play in theGerman Football League. Sports facilities have existed on the site of the stadium, the Güntzwiesen, since 1874.
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'sbourgeoisie and nobility.[5] For more than 110 years, the venue included a flatvelodrome,tennis,cricket and finally a footbalal pitch. In the 1870s, during the administration of the park by the "Verein für Volkssport Dresden", the newly establishedDresden English Football Club (D.E.F.C.) began playing its first matches in the area. D.E.F.C. were Germany's first football club,[6] arguably the first football club established outside of Great Britain, and thus likely making the area the first in whichCambridge 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 agoal. Some of the first soccer players were: Beb (Captain), Burchard, Graham, Crossley, Spencer, Atkins, Ravenscraft, Johnson, Le Maistre, Luxmoore and Young. The president of the club and venue was theAnglicanRev. Bowden. He came from the neighborhood and later bySocialist Unity Party of Germany's blastedAll Saints Church.[7] 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 organizedgymnastics federations. In 1885 the VI. German Gymnastics Festival (transl.:Deutsches Turnfest) took place, with 20,000 participants and 270,000 marching athletes[8] from the today knownDeutscher Turnerbund.[9] Later in 1896, the city of Dresden has been purchased additional surrounded land to setting it up into a proportional manner of living standards.[10] 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 theGeorg-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 36,000RM, to the extent of stronger money value. The new successor was the Dresdensia FC.
Before creation oftribunes, would it come nearly for a time of big fountains, but still when theGerman Empire was defeated inWorld War I and thetown hall had only liabilities, because of payingreparations. So it came the time of the noble donator, by anagent. He would be a patron of the new stadium. On 21 December 1922, 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.[11] Completed on 16 June 1923, a stadium in total amount of 500,000German reichsmarks allocated for the expansion toIlgen-Kampfbahn centrally located at inner city. As recently as 1937, it had been named after theFreemason, Saxonroyalist and inventor of therat poison: Friedrich Hermann Ilgen (1856–1940), before the English and Americans went to other ways.[12] 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 nearlyHygienemuseum:
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| Poem of the Ilgen Kampfbahn | |
Durch opferwill'gen Bürgers Sinn geschaffen | By sacrificing bourgeois sense created |
Three years later (1926), theGeorg-Arnhold-Bad was opened,[13] named after Londoner, New Yorkerstockbroker and Jewish industry banker Georg Arnhold, who gave 250,000Reichsmark.[14]
Since the Nazis took power over Germany, a competition ofNazi architecture builders such asWilhelm Kreis (architect of theMonument to the Battle of the Nations) andPaul Wolf was breaking out.[15] Both want to create a new world imperial "SaxonGauforum" of Dresden. So completed buildings are only the Imperial Ministry for Food and Agrarian Economics of Gau Saxony,[16] German Air Force Academy Dresden-Klotzsche,[17]Carusufer andKönigsufer,[18]Knabenberufschule,[19] Autobahn Bridge, Dresden[20]German Air Force Command (Dresden)[21] and theHygiene Museum, handily in the city center. The main part should turn into a with 40,000 seats equippedSaxon Hall, in ensemble for theAdolf Hitler square in front, due to the fact that the stadium has been also created for troops parades of theSaxonReichswehr until World War I, before. If the complex would have ever finished, main segments of the forum had get chiefly the management houses of theNSDAP, the German Hygiene Museum,Hall and the Bell Tower. It would outclass thebaroque 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 inWeimar,[22]Frankfurt Oder,Augsburg,Hanover[23] and Bochum[24] and in future it should stand in everyGau of theThird Reich. The style corresponded toBauhaus –neoclassicism with monumental dimensions in order. The first three positions of 277 of elaborated designs were won Western Germans, but they lose thearchitecture competition because of none presently membership of theMinistry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Prof.Wilhelm Kreis was following and advised personal of Adolf Hitler. The canceled winners were:
Centre should be aparade square in measures of 75,000m², in favor of 120,000 peoples stage-managing.
TheGauhaus (210 x 190 m) as well asSachsenhalle (140 x 220 m) should both on the whole surround 80,000 seats, of militarised fellowship for celebration enslavemented poorpeoples. In normal, contemporary ideas of thoseGermanguide:"... in der klaren, geraden und wuchtigen Architektur, die der Ausdruck unserer Zeit und unseres Lebensgefühls ist.".[25] (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 andPaul Wolf proposed for the institute foreugenics andGerman Society for Racial Hygiene. Before the roadworks closed down, has been started theInvasion of Poland and thereby joined arms production. The occasion in another contemplation is the fulfillment of thedictators promise to createjobs 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 has overtaken the new department for implementations in construction relations named"Durchführungsstelle".Hitler'sBrother-in-law,secretary of the Interior of Reichsgau Saxony with master of Construction Worker School Dresden, 1940. He builds the tobacco mosqueYenidze of Dresden, in 1907–09. Born in 1878 –suicide: 1945, the projectGauforum was failed.[26] In 1939, however the groundbreaking completed for the hall.From 1933 to 1945 the stadium was in use of Naziorganisations mainlyNational Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise,Hitler Youth,League of German Maidens, military organisations likeWehrmacht,SA andSS,[27] which is taboo and also not reclaimed until today.[15] OnDresden Bombing, the meeting hall and traverses with the pool at the oval were dropped full of bombs byRoyal Air Force andUS Air Force. 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 thebombing, twobattalions of thePeople'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 theSoviet 1st Guards Tank Army with13th Guards Rifle Division.Otto Dix, an artist from theDresden Academy of Fine Arts served from time to time in there, but he went into the West and was captured of theArmée de terre, notwithstanding that his work wasdegenerate art for Nazis and he received a labor ban. The poem by Ilgen and sobriquetKampfbahn (fighting drome) obtaining complemental so for new bloody definitions of war.[28]
In 1953, theSportvereinigung Dynamo took over the stadium. It boreRudolf Harbig'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 andRangers F.C. 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.[29][30]
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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 aDM 375,000 renovation package, raising it to international standards. On 9 May 2007, German sports magazinekicker 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 againstFC Schalke 04, which Dynamo lost 1–2, was played for this occasion.
In December 2010, the stadium's naming rights were sold for 5 years toBavaria-based energy company Goldgas under its Glücksgas brandname.[31][32]
On 30 September 2008, it was announced that Dresden had been chosen to be a host city for the2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. For this reason, the stadium underwent a complete rebuild.[33] 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.[34]
The director of the local Dresden organizing committee for the World Cup wasKlaus Reichenbach, then president of the Saxony Football Federation (Sächsischer Fußball-Verband, SFV).[35]
| Date | Local time | Home | Final score (halftime score) | Visitor | Game type | Attendance |
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| 31 May 1969 | 15:00 | 1. FCM | 4:0 (1:0) Goals scored:Jörg Ohm (FCM) 28',Joachim Walter (FCM) 51',Jörg Ohm (FCM) 60',Jürgen Sparwasser (FCM) 68' – Television:Deutscher Fernsehfunk | FCK | FDGB-Cup- finals – Referee: Hans-Joachim Schulz (Görlitz) | 20,000[36] |
| 15 June 1970 | 15:00 | Vorwärts Berlin | 4:2 (2:0) Goals scored: Begerad (Vorwärts) 4', H. Wruck (Vorwärts) 15', Gießner 52' (Lok, own goal), Löwe (Lok) 62', Köditz (Lok) 67', Nöldner (Vorwärts) 82' – Television:Deutscher Fernsehfunk | Lok Leipzig | FDGB-Cup- finals – Referee: Gerhard Kunze (FC Karl-Marx-Stadt) | 22,000[37] |
| Date | Local time | Home | Final score (halftime score) | Visitor | Game type | Attendance |
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| 14 July 2010 | 15:00 |  Switzerland | 0:4 (0:2) Goals scored:Ji So-yun (KOR) 34', Lee Hyun-young (KOR) 42',Ji So-yun (KOR) 52',Ji So-yun (KOR) 64' – Television:Eurosport,FIFA |  South Korea | 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Group D – Referee: Silvia Reyes (PER) | 9,430[38] |
| 14 July 2010 | 18:00 |  United States | 1:1 (0:1) Goals scored:Elizabeth Cudjoe (GHA) 7',Sydney Leroux (USA) 70' – Television:Eurosport,FIFA |  Ghana | 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Group D – Referee:Dagmar Damková (CZE) | 9,430[39] |
| 17 July 2010 | 15:00 | Ghana | 2:4 (1:1) Goals scored: Deborah Afriyie (GHA) 28',Ji So-yun (KOR) 41',Elizabeth Cudjoe (GHA) 56', Kim Na-rae (KOR) 62', Kim Jin-young (KOR) 70',Ji So-yun (KOR) 87' – Television:Eurosport,FIFA | South Korea | 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Group D – Referee:Christina Pedersen (NOR) | 17,234[40] |
| 17 July 2010 | 18:00 | United States | 5:0 (3:0) Goals scored:Kristie Mewis (USA) 4',Sydney Leroux (USA) 23',Zakiya Bywaters (USA) 25',Sydney Leroux (USA) 52',Sydney Leroux (USA) 76' – Television:Eurosport,FIFA | Switzerland | 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Group D – Referee: Etsuko Fukano (JPN) | 17,234[41] |
| 20 July 2010 | 11:30 |  Costa Rica | 0:3 (0:2) Goals scored:Daniela Montoya (COL) 24',Daniela Montoya (COL) 40', Yorely Rincon (COL) 90'+3 (penalty) – Television:Eurosport,FIFA |  Colombia | 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Group A – Referee:Cristina Dorcioman (ROU) | 12,863[42] |
| 20 July 2010 | 14:30 |  New Zealand | 1:4 (0:1) Goals scored: Ludmila (BRA) 25',Leah (BRA) 59', Debora (BRA) 87',Rosie White (NZL) 89', Debora (BRA) 90' – Television:Eurosport,FIFA |  Brazil | 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Group B – Referee:Dagmar Damková (CZE) | 12,863[43] |
| 25 July 2010 | 18:30 |  Mexico | 1:3 (0:2) Goals scored: Lee Hyun-young (KOR) 14',Ji So-yun (KOR) 28', Lee Hyun-young (KOR) 67',Natalia Gomez Junco (MEX) 83' – Television:Eurosport,FIFA | South Korea | 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Quarterfinals – Referee:Dagmar Damková (CZE) | 21,146[44] |
| Date | Local time | Home | Final score (halftime score) | Visitor | Game type | Attendance |
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| 28 June 2011 | 18:15 | United States | 2:0 (0:0) Goals scored:Cheney (USA) 54',Buehler (USA) 76': – Television:ESPN (USA) |  North Korea | 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Group C – Referee:Bibiana Steinhaus (GER) | 21,859[45] |
| 1 July 2011 | 18:15 | New Zealand | 1:2 (1:0) Goals scored:Gregorius (NZL) 18',Scott (ENG) 63',Clarke (ENG) 81' – Television:ESPN (USA) |  England | 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Group B– Referee: Therese Neguel (CMR) | 19,110[46] |
| 5 July 2011 | 20:45 |  Canada | 0:1 (0:0) Goals scored:Nkwocha (NGA) 73' – Television: ESPN (USA) |  Nigeria | 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Group A – Referee: Finau Vulivuli (FIJ) | 13,638[47] |
| 10 July 2011 | 17:30 | Brazil | 2:2a.e.t. (3:5PSO) (0:1) Goals scored:Daiane (BRA) 2'OG,Marta (BRA) 68'(Pen), 92',Wambach (USA) 120'+2 – Television: ESPN(USA) | United States | 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup quarterfinals – Referee:Jacqui Melksham (AUS) | 25,598[48] |
| Date | Local time | Home | Final score (halftime score) | Visitor | Game type | Attendance |
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| 9 October 1911 | 16:00 |  Germany | 1:2 (0:0) Goals scored: Schmieger (AUT) '25,Willi Worpitzky (GER) '35, Neumann (AUT) '49 |  Austria | Exhibition game – Referee: Herbert James Willing (NED) | 7,500[49][50] |
| 12 August 1923 | 16:00 |  Germany | 1:2 (0:0) Goals scored:Henry Müller own goal (GER) 10', Linna (FIN) 27',Walter Claus-Oehler (GER) 31' |  Finland | Exhibition game – Referee:Johannes Mutters (NED) | 25,000[51] |
| 14 October 1992 | 18:00 |  Germany | 1:1 (0:0) Goals scored:Rudi Völler (GER) 58',Carlos Hermosillo (MEX) 72' – Television:Das Erste | Mexico | Exhibition game – Referee:Jozef Marko (CZE) | 27,000[52] |
| 22 April 2010 | 18:00 | Germany (Women) | *:* (*:*) Cancelled (2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull) |  Sweden (Women) | Exhibition game | N/A[53] |
| 15 September 2010 | 18:00 | Germany (Women) | 5:0 (1:0) Goals scored:Inka Grings (GER) 2' (penalty),Fatmire Bajramaj (GER) 54',Alexandra Popp (GER) 76',Melanie Behringer (GER) 79',Celia Okoyino da Mbabi (GER) 83' – Television:Das Erste,DFB TV | Canada (Women) | Exhibition game,U-20 World Champion winner ceremony, Birthday ofHelmut Schön, Honor forInka Grings – Referee:Dagmar Damková (CZE) | 20,431[53] |
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