Langenbruck

Erzenberg

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Erzenbergschanze:

K-Point:	90 m
Hill record:	84.0 m (Andreas Däscher , 1957)
Further jumps:	K41

Year of construction:	1911
Conversions:	1955
Further jumps:	no
Status:	destroyed
Plastic matting:	no
Ski club:	SC Langenbruck

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History:

The SCL was founded in 1909. It is one of the oldest ski clubs of Switzerland and also one of the oldest clubs at Langenbruck. The first ski jumping hill at Langenbruck was 1911 built Erica-Schanze, located behind Hotel Erica. Later the large Erzenbergschanze followed, where Sigmund Ruud set up a hill record of 69 meters in 1931. In 1940's there were two ski jumps with K-Points of 76 and 41 meters.
In 1955 with renovated Erzenbergschanze Switzerland's largest ski jump was opened. Ist modern hill profile was calculated on K90 by Prof. Straumann and an early hill record was 84 m by Andreas Däscher. In 1950’s there regularily the world’s ski jumping elite competed, but today the former ski jumping hill does no longer exist.
The 3 Frechelen-Schanzen were built in 1963, then in 1987 the judges tower was reconstructed and in 1997 a floodlight was added to the facility in order to promote night competitions. With these ski jumping hills Langenbruck had the only homologated ski jumping facility in whole northwest Switzerland.
After the last official competition on the large hill took place already back in 2000 with Swiss Junior Championships of Nordic Combined, the final decision to close the hill fell in December 2010. Due to a lack of young jumpers and the old-fashioned condition the jumping facility will be torn down, only the take-off will remain as a relict.