Opel-Rennbahn
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Hessen, Germany | |
Coordinates | 49°57′54″N 8°24′59″E / 49.96500°N 8.41639°E |
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Capacity | 50,000[1] |
Opened | 1919 |
Closed | 1946 |
Oval | |
Length | 1.5 km (0.93 miles) |
Turns | 2 |
The Opel-Rennbahn 'Opel Racetrack'
Use from 1919 to 1946
Due to its design as an
State since 1946
Since 1946, the use of the Opel racetrack has been completely abandoned, but the facility was not demolished. In 1949 the lease with the city of Mainz expired. As a result, holes were made in the slope in order to plant trees there. In the 1960s, part of the home straight was demolished in order to facilitate the new construction of the L3012 state road. The slope is partly overgrown today, but it is still easy to see; in particular the steep wall curves are almost completely preserved. More recently, the historic complex has been integrated into the Rhein-Main Regional Park as an industrial heritage site.[4] A small, accessible platform with information boards has been protruding into the north curve since 2013.
References
- ^ a b "50,000 spectators once came to the Opel racetrack". FAZ online. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ "The Opel racetrack, automobile and technology history". Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ "Opel History 1920–1929". Opel Media. Archived from the original on 23 May 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ "Regionalpark-Tourenguide" (PDF). Regionalpark RheinMain. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
External links
- Automobil- und Technikgeschichte der Opel-Rennbahn by Werner Schollenberger, accessed on October 23, 2016.
- Die Opel-Rennbahn at www.ruesselsheim.de
- Kulturdenkmal OPEL-Rennbahn with the kind support of the Kulturdenkmal OPEL Rennbahn e. V., which is in the process of being founded in 2018/19