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Verdict to the Freiburg stadium: quick shot

2019-10-24T12:52:46.487Z


At first, it looked as if the SC Freiburg suffered shipwreck at the new stadium. However, there are many indications that a high court has ruled too quickly.



For employees and supporters of the SC Freiburg held Wednesday a changeable feelings. For several hours, they had to assume that a high court, the Baden-Württemberg Administrative Court (VGH) in Mannheim, had just forbidden their club to play in the new stadium on Friday or Saturday night and early Sunday afternoon. Not an ideal situation for a football club.

In the evening, the all-clear followed via "Badische Zeitung", according to which the VGH should have admitted to the Freiburg regional council that he had made his decision based on a meanwhile outdated noise protection regulation. It provided for a standard value of 50 decibels in general residential areas during rest periods until 2017, which may be exceeded up to 18 times a year. But not to the legal rest periods.

Since 2017, however, 55 decibels are the maximum. If one were to base these figures, the sports club could, as planned, play in the new stadium from August 2020. And at all kick-off times, which are then assigned to him by the DFL.

In any case, it will be embarrassing for a party

This changes the evaluation of the rogue too. The SC had to accept the question on Wednesday, as he wanted to justify the embarrassment to have disregarded the noise protection regulation in a 130-million-euro construction project, the situation is now embarrassing for the lawyers in Mannheim. They had decided in an urgent procedure that six residents of the neighborhoods bordering on the new building had brought against the Freiburg regional council.

However - it seems now - Mannheim decided a bit too hasty. At least that's the opinion of Freiburg's mayor Martin Haag: "The court did not use the current valid values ​​of the Sportanlagenlärmschutzverordnung but the valid values ​​until 2017." This is also the view of the regional council, which has now announced a "hearing complaint".

The question of whether it is simply a mistake aufgesessen, wanted to answer a Mannheim court spokesman on Thursday against the SPIEGEL. That "in parts" an outdated legal basis could have been used, but one excludes "expressly not". A language rule that indicates that the VGH will officially acknowledge its mistake within a few weeks at the latest in the hearing.

SC is currently playing with an exemption

Meanwhile act city, regional council and sports club equally stunned by the quick shot. Should the Mannheim resolution be valid, it is hoped that the main proceedings, which could confirm or correct the decision of the VGH. Otherwise you would have the summer and Sunday games from the coming summer well or bad at the current venue unsubscribe, the Black Forest Stadium.

However, the SC plays there for years only with a special permit. Whether this would be prolonged in case of cases, is uncertain.

For the SC, a temporary return to the current stadium would entail serious financial losses. The new stadium will accommodate 34,700 spectators, 10,700 more than before. In addition, there are 1,800 business and 200 box seats available. All in all, the additional revenue per game should be several hundred thousand euros. When SC wants to wait for a written statement from Mannheim, before you speak publicly.

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Former SC President Fritz Keller is now DFB boss

Incidentally, if the city, the regional council and the club had actually made such a cardinal mistake as Mannheim had done, that would have been surprising. Finally, the new stadium in Freiburg was minutely prepared - also because he was fought from the outset by a local resident initiative, who wanted to offer no legal targets. Especially with the particularly neuralgic noise emissions could be secured several times by expert opinion.

Nevertheless, the local initiative and the sports club have been fighting for years. For desert polemics, however, had the then Lord Mayor Dieter Salomon worried, who accused the initiative misinformation and referred to them as "Pegida without Islamophobia". A little less striking was expressed by the former SC and today's DFB President Fritz Keller, who indirectly attested "foul play" and "fake news".

In fact, the initiative, which strained the way to Mannheim (and had already failed there with the desire for a construction freeze), seems to have difficulty accepting the citizens' vote from the year 2015. At that time, 60 percent of Freiburg voted for the new stadium. It should be completed in a few months. Meanwhile, everything points to the fact that from summer on as planned can be played there.

Source: spiegel

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