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Location:
Europe,
Germany, Berlin
Category:
Stadium Webcam
Description:
View
of the Olympiastadion in Berlin
Location Information:
The
Olympiastadion (Olympic Stadium) is
a sports stadium in Berlin. There
have been two stadiums on the site:
the present facility, and one that
is called the Deutsches Stadion
which was built for the aborted 1916
Summer Olympics. Both were designed
by members of the same family, the
first by Otto March and the second
by his son Werner March.
The current Olympiastadion was
originally built for the 1936 Summer
Olympics in the southern part of the
Reichssportfeld (today Olympiapark
Berlin). During World War II, the
area suffered little damage. After
the war, the British military
occupation used the northern part of
the Reichssportfeld as its
headquarters until 1994. From 1951
to 2005, the Olympischer Platz had a
giant antenna transmitting for all
the portable radios in Berlin.
Aside from its use as an Olympic
stadium, the Olympiastadion has a
strong footballing tradition.
Historically, it is the ground of
club Hertha BSC. It was also used
for 3 matches in the 1974 FIFA World
Cup. It hosted six matches,
including the final, in the 2006
FIFA World Cup and was renovated for
that reason. The German Cup final
match is held each year at the
Olympiastadion. The stadium sees use
in other sports as well; at one
point it held the world record for
the attendance of a baseball game,
thought to be over 110,000. Werner
March built the new Olympiastadion
on the foundation of the original
Deutsches Stadion, once again with
the lower half of the structure
buried 12 meters underground.
The capacity of the Olympiastadion
reached 110,000 spectators. It also
possessed a special stand for Adolf
Hitler and his political associates.
At its end, aligned with the
symmetrically-designed layout of the
buildings of the Olympischer Platz
and toward the Maifeld, was the
Marathon Gate with a big receptacle
for the Olympic Flame.
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