Grünbach
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Pionierschanze Einheit:
K-Point: 20
m
Hill record: 22,0 m (R. Kretzschmann, 1973)
Year of construction: 1970
Further jumps: no
Plastic matting: yes
Ski club: BSG
Einheit Grünbach
History:
From May to December 1970
the club members of BSG Einheit Grünbach
had been constructing the small ski jumping at former “Ascheplatz”
in the middle of the small town in Vogtland in complete
manual voluntary work. In order to save money for construction materials, discarded
wooden power poles were used for the four meters high inrun construct. When Vogtlandschanze at Klingenthal-Mühlleiten
got a new plastic covering two years later, some of these old mattings could be
used for the plastic covering of the ski jump of Grünbach.
In the following years Pionierschanze was host of
children and youth Spartakiade of Auerbach
district in ski jumping and Nordic combination in very second year. With the
death of longtime coach Helmut Wolf in 1987 the declension
of ski jumping at Grünbach had started and could not
be stopped, in spite of some attempts to do so. Over the years the ski jumping
hill was no more in a good condition, it was dilapidated and finally demolished
in 1989.
After the political
turnover the “Ascheplatz”, a former garbage dump, was
refloated and greened and now only old domestics still remember the place of the
former jump.
The Pionierschanze
at Grünbach in 1971/72, as well as the area today
Collection F.H.
