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Klingelbrunnenschanze:

K-Point:	35 m
Hill record:	42.0 m (Heinrich Zapf )

Further jumps:	K20
Plastic matting:	no
Year of construction:	1927
Conversions:	1947, 1956
Status:	destroyed
Ski club:	TS Arzberg
Coordinates:	50.052930, 12.202630 ✔

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History:

The Klingelbrunnenschanze in Arzberg was a wooden ski jumping hill with a construction point of K-35, located on the slopes of the Sieben-Linden-Berg in the Klingelbrunnen area, on the eastern edge of the Fichtelgebirge range in Upper Franconia. The facility belonged to Turnerschaft Arzberg 1860 e.V. and for many decades served as the centre of local Nordic skiing. The complex also included a smaller training hill, K-20.
The hill was built in 1927 on the initiative of Arthur Stöhr and a group of local winter sports enthusiasts. It was constructed as a community project: trees growing on the Klingelbrunnen slope were felled on site, debarked, and used as raw material for the wooden inrun tower. In the second half of the 1930s, ski jumping competitions were held there regularly, and the hill became an important part of the town’s winter sports life.
The last pre-war competition was held around 1940. During World War II, the inrun tower was destroyed and the hill fell out of use. Shortly after the war, the ski section of TS Arzberg began rebuilding it. In 1947, the Klingelbrunnenschanze was reopened, and in the first half of the 1950s it hosted many club and regional events. At times, short winters and insufficient snowfall posed difficulties, due to the relatively low elevation of the hill.
In the mid-1950s, the facility underwent major modernisation. During the work, dismantled steel power line poles from the Bayernwerk utility network were reused as construction material for a new inrun tower, about eighteen metres high. The reconstruction was completed in 1956, and in the following years — around 1958 — the hill was formally reopened. After its modernisation, it became more up-to-date and more attractive to athletes from the region.
The hill record was 42 metres, achieved by Heinrich Zapf from Bischofsgrün — one of the leading West German ski jumpers of the time, a participant in the Four Hills Tournament and holder of several hill records in Bavaria. The Klingelbrunnenschanze also saw performances by the best athletes of TS Arzberg, including Gerhard Stöhr, a native of the town and in his youth one of the strongest ski jumpers in the Fichtelgebirge region.
By the late 1960s, interest in ski jumping on small local hills began to decline. The last competition on the Klingelbrunnenschanze was held in 1967. In the mid-1970s, like many similar hills in the region, the facility was finally dismantled — this occurred around 1976. In the following decades, only an illuminated ski lift remained on the slope, which is also no longer in operation today.
Although the hill no longer exists, it retains an important place in local memory. It is still recalled by former members of TS Arzberg, including Oswald Kutzer, a long-time member of the ski section and custodian of an archive of photographs documenting winters in Arzberg. During one of the town’s historical parades, the club even presented a wooden miniature of the former hill, paying tribute to a facility that shaped the town’s sporting life for nearly half a century.

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