A capacity of 45,000 seats for national games and 36,500 seats for international games, a new form with a steep grandstand: Hertha BSC presented details of the adapted drafts of the planned new stadium in the Olympic Park for the first time on Friday at the sports committee meeting of the Berlin House of Representatives – based on a model from South America.
Herthas Vorbild: La Bombonera in Buenos Aires.
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Hertha’s finance director Ingo Schiller presented the relevant plans to the sports committee on Friday. According to the draft, the new stadium with a capacity of 45,000 seats, including 17,000 standing and 500 box seats, could be built on the Lindeneck site on Friedrich-Friesen-Allee. For international games, 36,500 fans could go to the stadium. Hertha’s plans for the new building originally envisaged a capacity of 55,000 spectators.
“Our role model is La Bombonera in Buenos Aires. It’s in the middle of a residential area and has been structurally adapted accordingly,” said Schiller. “Our stadium would look similar.” Specifically: Unlike the previous drafts, the basic shape would no longer be oval. The new stadium, the cost of which Schiller estimated at 250 million euros, would have a “flat” side based on the “La Bombonera” (“chocolate box”) stadium in Buenos Aires, which opened in 1940 and was remodeled in the mid-1990s and is the home ground of traditional club Boca juniors
Lindeneck is now the favorite area
The Rominter Allee location on the Olympic site is now definitely off the table for the new building project. Iris Spranger, Berlin’s Senator for the Interior, Digitization and Sport, made this clear again. The club originally wanted to build there. However, this failed due to the housing cooperative in 1892, whose houses would have had to be demolished. The Lindeneck, located between the Maifeldtribüne and the bell tower, is now the preferred area.
I am convinced that Hertha should get a football stadium.
According to Hertha BSC’s ideas, the new stadium should open up more to the public under the “Myfield” label. Hertha also advocates managing the new stadium together with the Olympic Stadium and the Waldbühne in order to create synergies and To save costs. Schiller, who is leaving Hertha at the end of October after 24 years, said in the sports committee that they plan to continue playing top games in the Olympic Stadium. There is talk of three top games per season. Timo Rohwedder, Managing Director of Olympiastadion GmbH, on the other hand, fears one Hertha BSC moves out of the Olympic Stadium Loss of profits for the state-owned company.
Spranger announces a steering and project group
Rohwedder describes the limited number of major events with high noise emissions that can be held annually on the grounds of the Olympic Park, which also includes the Waldbühne and the Maifeld, as a sticking point. “In order to be able to generate major events, the whole issue stands and falls with noise emissions,” said Rohwedder. Meanwhile, Senator Spranger once again advocated building a new stadium. “I am convinced that Hertha should get a football stadium,” said the SPD politician on Friday in the sports committee. At the same time, Spranger announced that after the parliamentary summer break, a steering and project group would be convened to lead them. There, elementary questions such as noise protection, climate protection, transport connections and monument protection will be discussed in detail.
