The beautiful new view into the future of the Ebersberg Forest Sports Park was enjoyed (from left) by Mayor Uli Proske, Christian Stalla (Head of the Building Authority), Dominic Mayer (TSV Managing Director) and Olaf Heid (EZ Sports Editor) on the two-stage porch of the new main building. © S.ROSSMANN
The new construction and renovation work in the Ebersberg Waldsportpark is on the home stretch almost two years after the groundbreaking ceremony. In just four weeks, the new wing of the building with changing rooms, office, multi-purpose hall and guest room could be opened for regular school sports and club operations. The Ebersberger Zeitung was given an exclusive tour of one of the major public prestige projects of the district town in advance.
Ebersberg – In the last ten to 20 years, far-reaching modernization measures of the sports facilities in the Ebersberg Waldsportpark have repeatedly been hotly debated in the city council. And postponed again and again. "When I think about where we actually come from with this project, I'm actually super satisfied with the adherence to our schedule," says Uli Proske. On this Tuesday morning, Ebersberg's mayor (independent), Christian Stalla, and the managing director of TSV Ebersberg, Dominic Mayer, invited the Ebersberger Zeitung to visit the (almost finished) construction site in a small circle.
The excavators are still humming, freight forwarders are still delivering building materials by the truck, the outdoor facilities are still being paved, the banisters are still missing inside and the heating, ventilation and sanitary systems are still being worked on. Not everything is ready yet. "We'll still need a month," estimates Christian Stalla, who, as head of building construction at the city's building department, completed the general planning for the site together with architect Alexander Schmidmaier at the beginning of 2017 and has been involved since then.
Cost: 5 450 089 Euro
He puts the current order backlog, including supplements, at 5,450,089 euros. The initial cost calculation (dated 13 April 2021) was EUR 4 373 971. According to the report, a cost increase of approx. 24 percent, "which was not only due to cyclical price increases, but also due to additional necessary designs".
Even from the driveway, visitors are made aware of the new building and its two-level forecourt: Everything is now one size bigger here. This impression is confirmed when you look at the very glassy east front with a two-stage porch in the interior of the Waldstadion, where a construction worker is just beginning to install railings.
At their first competitions in the previous weeks, the athletes of the LG 90 Ebersberg-Grafing as well as the footballers of the TSV Ebersberg had already shown themselves to be very enthusiastic about their new, large-scale and, above all, maximally functional sporting home. The athletes from school sports as well as from the two clubs TSV and FC Ebersberg as the main users – Christian Stalla cannot emphasize this often enough – would have been at the center of all architectural considerations with their needs, as well as accessibility and sustainability.
"Just like in the Munich Arena," he says with a laugh as he leads the visitors from the new dressing room up the stairs that end exactly at the level of the stadium turf or the artificial turf pitch on the other side of the street.
"But the lazier kickers can also take the elevator," adds TSV managing director Dominic Mayer. He has always tried to keep the "hot phase" of the large-scale project since 2017, both as a club official and later as a city councillor (Pro Ebersberg), at least warm. However, the decisive impetus and ultimately the green light were a good three years in coming.
Modern, bright and needs-based
"The forest sports park was simply a must for everything that's going on here right now, including youth work," says Uli Proske, explaining that even as a young goalkeeper for the boars, he never really warmed up to the spatial conditions. The perennial issue of defective or moldy sanitary facilities in the old cabin wing under the iconic wooden grandstand is now finally off the table.
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The budget for the rough renovation of the existing building has already been approved. Here, the water pipes are to be expanded and the power lines are to be relaid. "Ultimately, this will result in a large usable space on each floor," says Stalla.
The wet rooms of the eight new team changing rooms as well as in the spacious referee's cabin (with work table) in the new building are equipped with self-flushing fittings against legionella and cloth towel dispensers, as are the visitor toilets. Among other things, the water comes from a 500 cubic meter rainwater cistern, which directs service water into the toilet flushes, for example. Hot water is provided by a total of four buffer tanks with a capacity of 1500 litres each.
As in the entire building, the colour concept was also stringently implemented in the showers: lots of wood, lots of glass, with decorative elements in light green and anthracite. In two rooms, the intended mood effect is particularly visible. On the ground floor, the modernly designed event and catering area, which is well equipped for culinary purposes, invites you to expansive victory celebrations. In addition, ticket sales and kiosk operations on match and competition days are handled at the window fronts.
In the meantime, the office has already been largely set up on the first floor, where, in addition to Mayer, the head of the TSV's children's sports club, Max Weigl, and FSJ member Philip Metternich have moved into their workplace. The corridor leads to the approximately 200 square meter multi-purpose hall, "which will save us after the Whitsun holidays, when the Floßmannhalle and Dr.-Wintrich-Halle are closed," explains Dominic Mayer. On the daylight training area, which is equipped with a surface-elastic foam rubber floor, the children's sports club and other club courses will be able to sweat with the best view of the stadium turf in the future.
For the next hundred years.
Mayor Uli Proske
When you arrive at the shimmering red running track, which has been renovated with two fresh layers of tartan rubber, you can already hear the athletics' hearts beating faster: a new, now standard-compliant high discus and hammer throwing ring, new aluminum covers for the equipment and poles of the pole vaulters, who have now inaugurated the new high and long jump facilities; in addition, the generously laid out shot put facility south of the new building with four drop rings. According to Stalla, this was funded with 94,000 euros from FAG state funds.
Only a moderately long ball throw away, the athletes reach their long-awaited material room, which has been expanded over two levels, which adjoins a warehouse and the heated workshop for the groundskeeper as well as the wood chip warehouse. "We want to add the photovoltaic system next year," says Christian Stalla at the end of the long tour.
"For the next hundred years", as Uli Proske would like to see the useful life, the new building in the forest sports park is unlikely to quite hold up. However, the district town has definitely made an impressive, modern calling card for the Ebersberg sports location with a lot of future potential.
Inviting catering area designed for multiple use (ticket sales, kiosk). © S.ROSSMANNHhe TSV office: Director Dominic Mayer (right) and Max Weigl from the children's sports club. © S.ROSSMANN
