Herschdorf

Data | History | Hill records | Map | Comments

Lange-Berg-Schanze:

K-Point:	40 m
Hill record:	41.0 m ( Hauenschild , 1958)

Further jumps:	K15
Plastic matting:	no
Year of construction:	1926
Conversions:	1948, 1957
Operating until:	ca. 1969
Status:	destroyed
Ski club:	SG Vorwärts Willmersdorf
Coordinates:	50.620379, 11.028697 ✔

to top

History:

The winter sports club of Willmersdorf, which was founded in the 1920s, painstakingly built its own ski jumping hill on the steepest southeast slope of the Langen Berg (Long Mountain) near Willmersdorf in the former municipality of Herschdorf. On February 13th, 1927 the new "Lange Berg Schanze" was inaugurated with a sports festival.
Ski jumping was widespread in Thuringia at that time and the ski jumping hill made a name for itself beyond the region. Jumpers from Cursdorf, Masserberg, Stützerbach, Schmiedefeld, Neustadt and Ilmenau also traveled to the competitions. In the winter of 1928/29, Willmersdorf organized two winter sports festivals. Even a Norwegian jumper entered the list of winners with a hill record of 28 meters at the time.
When many young men were called up to the front during World War II, sporting activities came to a complete standstill until 1948. When SG Vorwärts Willmersdorf was founded on November 1, 1948, the winter sports section also had the idea of re-activating the ski jump. The traditions of the annual winter sports festivals were revived and even expanded to include the disciplines of cross-country skiing, Nordic combined, slalom, and downhill skiing. In the 1950s, the Altenburg and Schmölln districts also held their winter sports championships in Willmersdorf.
Jumpers like Arno Traute, Lothar Korn, Werner Jünger, Horst and Bernd Möller, Wilfried Siegmund and Wolfgang Lödel shaped the history of the club. The double jumps of the Möller brothers, which had come into fashion at the time, were legendary. At that time, Wilfried Siegmund (in the photo on the right) and Wolfgang Lödel (left) made it to national sporting honors by participating in the GDR championships in Oberhof in 1951, as well as in the opening competition in Oberwiesenthal.
At the end of the 1950s, a pioneer jump was built in the Hölltal with distances of up to 20 meters. Young jumpers such as Edgar Traute, Jürgen Wegner and Horst Vinzens continued the jumper tradition here. In 1957, the Lange-Berg-Schanze was rebuilt so that jumps over 40 m were possible. Shortly afterwards, the Ilmenau jumper Hauenschild increased the hill record to 41 m.
Until the 1960s, the Langen Berg Schanze was used for jumping. The annual jumping events attracted several hundred spectators from the surrounding villages. Contemporary witnesses reported of many hiking groups who made their way from the surrounding villages over the Langen Berg to the ski jump. With the "Höhenblick" guesthouse on the mountain top and the "Beyermann" below the outrun, which were still in operation at the time, such Sundays usually only ended late at night.
Gradually the interest in ski jumping flattened out, so that the hill was given up in the late 1960s. The wooden inrun and judges' tower fell into disrepair or were used by the population as firewood. In the meantime, nature has almost completely reclaimed the terrain. Only a few concrete foundations and the contours of the former take-off, which can be guessed at, bear witness to the past of ski jumping, once here on Langer Berg.

to top

Map:

to top

Comments:

Post comment:

to top

Token:
Name:
Email:
Title:
Post:	bold \| italics \| underline \| link

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Recent news:

Send us your ski jumping hill photos and information via email!

Latest updates:

Herschdorf

Data | History | Hill records | Map | Comments

Lange-Berg-Schanze:

History:

Map:

Comments:

Social Bookmarks

Ski Jumping Hill Archive on Facebook:

Stay connected:

About us:

Partner: