German Football Museum

German Football Museum Dortmund

The German Football Museum (German: Deutsches Fußballmuseum) aka DFB-Museum is the national museum for German football in Dortmund, Germany. It was opened on 23 October 2015.[1]

Genesis

After the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, the DFB decided to fund from the profits of the World Cup, the establishment of a national German football museum. From 14 cities that had applied as a location for the football museum DFB board elected in May 2007, the cities of Cologne, Oberhausen, Gelsenkirchen and Dortmund and decided to order for a site in the most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia. In an extraordinary Bundestag of the DFB on 24 April 2009, the delegates chose the downtown area south near the Dortmund main station , which had been used until the start of construction of the museum as a bus station.[2] Construction of the museum began in September 2012; took place in the presence of DFB president on September 20, Wolfgang Niersbach and Prime Minister Hannelore Kraft of the ground-breaking ceremony. [3]

The groundbreaking ceremony took place on April 29, 2013. Present were among others Wolfgang Niersbach, Reinhard Rauball and Ute Schäfer . [4] A year later, in 2014, the topping-out ceremony was celebrated. [5]

Land and buildings

The German Football Museum is located close to the main train station and is part of an art and culture mile between the creative center Dortmunder U and the Konzerthaus Dortmund .

For building a was architectural competition advertised. [6]

Architecture competition Following an international architectural competition announced by the city of Dortmund, three designs were awarded on 4 May 2011 by the jury of the architectural competition from 24 works. A full winning design did not exist. The judges awarded instead a price group of three equal awards to architects HPP Hentrich-Petschnigg + Partner (Dusseldorf), ARGE Petersen BWM Architekten und Partner (Dortmund) and pmp Architekten (Munich). In addition, the jury awarded recognitions of their work on the office Bolles + Wilson (Münster), LOOC / M (Frankfurt / Main) and Schulte-Frohlind (Berlin).

Outcome of the architectural competition On 29 June 2011 the city of Dortmund and the DFB football museum was announced at a joint press conference that the office HPP Hentrich-Petschnigg + Partner , Dusseldorf and pmp Architekten , Munich equal footing, occupy first place in the international architectural competition. The ARGE Petersen BWM Architekten und Partner, Dortmund , reached third place. Following the recommendation of the jury was in talks the final winning design determined [7] [8] and published on 26 September 2011 in the daily press. [9]

References

  1. ↑ Ruhrnachrichten "German Football Museum to open not before 25 October 2015" Check |url= value (help). Ruhrnachrichten (German). Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  2. ↑ Gregor Boldt (2009-04-25). "Fußball-Museum: Ein Volltreffer für die Stadt". derwesten.de (in German). Retrieved 2016-04-24.
  3. ↑ Alexandra Neuhaus (2012-09-20). "Bauarbeiten für das DFB-Museum starten". ruhrnachrichten.de (in German). Retrieved 2016-04-24.
  4. ↑ "Dortmund: Grundstein für DFB-Museum gelegt". reviersport.de (in German). Retrieved 2016-04-24.
  5. ↑ "Deutsches Fussballmuseum in Dortmund-Startseite". dfb-fussballmuseum.de (in German). www.dfb-fussballmuseum.de. Retrieved 2016-04-24.

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