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Kurt-Moosdorf-Schanze am Hoherodskopf:

K-Point:	32 m
Hill record:	34.0 m (Lothar Gerstner )

Year of construction:	1953
Conversions:	1972
Further jumps:	K14
Status:	destroyed
Plastic matting:	no
Ski club:	SC Friedberg

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History:

Already in the 1930’s a ski jumping hill existed at the Hoherodskopf near Schotten in Hessia, but this one was in a bad condition after World War II.
So in 1953 the SC Friedberg began with the help of TGV Schotten and under the lead of council member and architect Wilhelm Momberger the construction of a new jump. The jump was then named after the state parliament member Kurt Moosdorf, who support the construction very strongly. Depending on the snow conditions every year district championships of the former ski district Vogelsberg-Wetterau-Westerwald where hosted. Hessian championships were only held 3 times, because the ski jump was too small with a K-Point of only 32 m.
In 1972 the jump was converted with the help of American soldiers from Hanau. Bombing and soil moving work had to be done in the outrun in order to reach a hill size of K43. The outrun was also shaped like an arena and enlarged. The final works in the above third of the landing hill could unfortunately not be completed, because the district of Büdingen was destroyed through the land reformation. Friedberg was now member of the Wetteraukreis and Schotten part of the Vogelsbergkreis. Short time later the postal service built a sending pole directly at the ski jump and the leading of the new district had little interest in completing the ski jump project and so the facility was closed and finally removed in 1976.

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Comments:

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2) Dr. Klaus Rhein wrote on 2012-02-18 at 17:24:

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gibt es im Vereinsarchiv noch Aufzeichnungen (z.B. Siegerlisten) aus den Jahren 1955 bis 1960 die Kurt-Moosdorf-Schanze betreffend?

1) Dr. Klaus Rhein wrote on 2011-12-02 at 18:20:

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zufällig habe ich übers Internet erfahren, dass die Schanze, wie so viele kleinere Schanzen in den Mittelgebirgen, abgerissen wurde. Was hatten wir da Ende der 50er Jahre für einen Spass. Vielleicht sollten sich die "alten Kämpen" aus dieser Zeit, die noch am Leben sind mal treffen.

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