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Spital am Semmering
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Zerrwald-Schanze:
| K-Point: | 50 m |
  Hill record: |
55.0 m (Leopold Kohl , 1949-02-20) |
| Further jumps: | no |
| Plastic matting: | no |
| Year of construction: | 1909 |
| Conversions: | 1938, 1947 |
| Status: | destroyed |
| Coordinates: | 47.612772, 15.764909 ✔ 
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History:
The Zerrwald-Schanze ski jump in Spital am Semmering traces its origins back to 1909, when the Vienna-based ski club Die Weißen Elf built the first hill in the area, enabling jumps exceeding 30 meters — at the time, one of the largest in the region. In 1938, the hill was modernized by ski jumper Viktor Kaiser in cooperation with members of the paramilitary SA (Sturmabteilung), which operated in Austria following the Anschluss. The construction point at that time was 40 meters.
After World War II, the jump was rebuilt by the local club Sportklub Spital/Steinhaus and renamed Zerrwald-Schanze, now featuring a K-point of approximately 50 meters. It hosted competitions of both regional and national significance. In February 1941, Viktor Kaiser reached 40 meters on the hill. After the war, on 22 February 1948, he improved that distance to 48 meters. A year later, on 20 February 1949, Leopold Kohl — who would later become a three-time Olympian in Nordic combined — set a new hill record with a jump of 55 meters.
The exact date when the hill was decommissioned is unknown, but it had already fallen out of use by the second half of the 20th century. Today, only the overgrown outlines of the inrun and landing slope remain visible in the landscape.
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