Stadium in the Borussia Park – Wikipedia

It Stadium in the Borussia Park , often abbreviated in Borussia-Park O Borussia Park , is a football stage of Mönchengladbach, Germany, which hosts the home games of Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Erected to replace the historian but small Bökelbergstadion, he was inaugurated in 2004, two years after the start of the construction works, and with an expense of 86.9 million euros. Is located within the Nordpark of Mönchengladbach, in the middle of an area of ​​209,072 square meters totally dedicated to sport which includes, in addition to numerous training camps, also the Warsteiner HockeyPark, one of the hockey stages on the most avant -garde in the world.

For Bundesliga meetings, the capacity is 54,014, while for international matches the stadium is approved for 46,249 places. There are also 45 stages for a total of 684 seats and 1,758 VIP armchairs.

In 1998 Rolf Rüssmann, sports manager and former footballer, presented for the first time a model and a project for a completely new stadium to be built in Mönchengladbach. After the agreement with the IBM sponsor and the Northpark site has already been identified, it was made to develop a project of the cost of 228 million German brands plus 25 million for the field and its maintenance. The plant should have had a capacity of 54,000 spectators for championship matches and 44,000 for international games. The characteristics of this stadium model were the retractable roof, the removable lawn and the multifunctionality. The project was, however, torn due to lack of budget.

In 1999, Adalberto Jordan, Siegfried Söllner and Rolf Königs took on the direction of Borussia M’Gladbach, keeping the stadium projects out of suspense, without completely abandoning it, because the priority was to replace the club’s debts.

In 2000, with the assignment of the organization of the 2006 World Championship to Germany, the construction plans of the new system emerged officially emerged. After the first spades of March 2002, the failure declaration of the Kirch group was already causing delays to the project, given that the reinterpretation and taking charge of the financial charges were necessary. Finally, the loans were guaranteed and the construction of the plant could begin.

Discarded construction projects that are too expensive, with a budget of 87 million euros, a reasonable and feasible solution was implemented. For the club, the original project would have provided for a debit of about 5 million euros per year of interest and reimbursements, an order of magnitude judged not adequate.

The crisis in the television sector caused by the failure of the media leo kirch and other factors further delayed the final green light. Despite the unexpected, the presidency and management of the club were activated profitably. On November 13, 2002, therefore, the pound works at Borussia-Park began.

The stadium, completed in 2004, was opened to the public on the occasion of the inaugural match of the Bundesliga 2004-2005. For the first time in the 104 years of the club history, all the institutions joined in a single place, the Borussia-Park. The area includes not only the new Borussia stadium in the heart of the park, but a total of 210,000 square meters of land owned by the club, with the seven new training camps, the football school with college, parking on an area of ​​nine hectares, offices affiliated with the stadium on 18,450 square meters, a museum, a fan shop, a sports bar and many other institutions.

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