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Bad Tölz
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Isarwinkler Schanze:
| K-Point: | 50 m |
  Hill record: |
56.0 m (1949) |
| Year of construction: | ca. 1940 |
| Further jumps: | no |
| Plastic matting: | no |
| Year of destruction: | 1964 |
| Status: | destroyed |
| Ski club: | Skiclub Bad Tölz e.V. |
| Coordinates: | 47.752250, 11.553111 ✔ 
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History:
The ski jumping hill in Bad Tölz, known as the Isarwinkler Schanze, was located on the slope of the Studentenbühel (Wackersberger Leite), overlooking the town and the valley of the river Isar. It was built in the second half of the 1940s, when Skiclub Bad Tölz – founded in 1923 and long dedicated to preserving the local ski jumping tradition – decided to construct a larger and more modern hill to replace the earlier small natural jumps in the Sauersberg and Boxleiten areas. The construction was an important community effort, led by club members such as Toni Fichtner and Hans Gotz, with significant logistical support from the American military stationed in Bad Tölz.
The official opening took place on 6 February 1949 and attracted around five thousand spectators, demonstrating the importance of the sport to the local community. During the inaugural competition, jumps of up to 56 metres were recorded – a distance remembered for many years as one of the longest reached on the hill, although no official information about the hill record holder has survived. In the following years, club and regional competitions were held regularly, forming an essential part of the town’s sporting life. Many generations of young jumpers associated with the club trained here, continuing the earlier traditions established by athletes such as Franz Mächler – an internationally experienced ski jumper from the 1930s and one of the icons of ski jumping in Bad Tölz.
The golden age of the Isarwinkler Schanze lasted until the early 1960s. The development of the sport, increasing safety requirements, and the lack of space to expand the hill on the limited terrain of the Studentenbühel led to the decision in 1964 to cease its operation. In the same year the structure was dismantled, and the area gradually returned to its natural state. Today, it is almost completely overgrown with forest.
Although many years have passed since the demolition, the memory of the Bad Tölz ski jumping hill has endured. In 2019, it was brought back into public awareness thanks to the exhibition “Verfallene Sprungschanzen im Oberland”, prepared by forester and regional sports historian Franz Mettal. The exhibition presented photographs and documents of former ski jumping hills in the region, including the Isarwinkler Schanze, which for many years was an important symbol of the town’s sporting life and a testament to post-war enthusiasm for winter sports in the Bavarian Oberland.
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