Frintrop Sports and Citizens’ Park

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Frintrop Sports and Citizens’ Park  is a meeting place for all generations, abilities and interests. 

The Frintrop Sports and Citizens’ Park promotes integration and creates space for socialising and participation.

The Frin­trop Sport and Citi­zens’ Park opened in Essen in October 2022. This forward-looking project is the result of the trans­for­ma­tion of a foot­ball ground into a versa­tile sports and leisure faci­lity of social and societal importance.

The faci­lity includes an outdoor hall with an arti­fi­cial grass playing field, a basket­ball court with a plastic surface, play, clim­bing and trend sports areas as well as open spaces for events and cele­bra­tions of all kinds.

With its faci­li­ties, the Frin­trop Sports and Citi­zens’ Park promotes inte­gra­tion and creates space for people to come toge­ther and parti­ci­pate.

When this former foot­ball ground was converted into a multi­func­tional sports and leisure faci­lity, high immis­sion control requi­re­ments had to be taken into account.

The McArena outdoor hall is certainly the most versatile offer in the Frintrop Sports and Citizens’ Park.

The park is run by the resi­dent SC Frin­trop 05/21, which was based on two clay sports grounds here three years ago. With the conver­sion of the first large sports ground into an arti­fi­cial turf pitch in the summer of 2020, the foot­ball future of the committed club was ensured with the motto “Inclu­sion. Inte­gra­tion. Coope­ra­tion. Future.”

The Frin­trop Sports and Citi­zens’ Park has now been built on the area of the second large sports ground – with barrier-free move­ment possi­bi­li­ties, adven­ture paths, lying areas, benches and various sports faci­li­ties.

The McArena outdoor hall is certainly the most versa­tile offer in the Frin­trop Sports and Citi­zens’ Park. Thanks to its canopy, the hall can be used all year round, and in the best condi­tions: in winter there is no snow on the playing field, in summer the athletes are in the shade, and on rainy days in the dry.

The technical equipment of the open-air hall is remarkable: digital scoreboard with time and goal counter, audio system controllable via Bluetooth and LED floodlight system.

The outdoor hall has an arti­fi­cial turf surface, which is also suitable for wheel­chair users. The revol­ving boards, the ball catching nets and the roof make the game fast and provide speed, commu­nity and a sense of achie­ve­ment.

This is also ensured by the versa­tile tech­nical equip­ment, which includes a perma­nently installed device measu­ring the speed of the shots on goal.

An indi­vi­du­ally controll­able digital score­board and an audio system can be controlled via Blue­tooth from any mobile phone for any form of acou­stic accom­p­animent – from an announce­ment that a car is incor­rectly parked to the beat for the Zumba course.

The flood­light system consists of energy-saving LED lights under the hall roof. This means that the hall can even be used in the dark.

Of course, the footballers of SC Frintrop are happy about the new hall. However, its versatility also makes it suitable for many other activities.

Another special feature of the hall is its adap­ta­bi­lity to the requi­re­ments of sound insu­la­tion. In Essen, two walls were closed for this reason. For people with visual impairm­ents, this design method can even be a benefit, because the sound feed­back improves their orien­ta­tion.

Of course, the foot­bal­lers of SC Frin­trop are also happy about the new hall. However, its versa­ti­lity also makes it suitable for many other acti­vi­ties – open sports and exer­cise offers, senior sports and gymnastics, girls’ dance lessons, taiji and qigong have been taking place since before the opening.

There will be groups and supervised training offers for practically all devices and playing fields, which will promote the success of the project.

Another high­light is the basket­ball arena. It’s not only acces­sible to wheel­chair users, but it’s also suitable for them thanks to the non-slip plastic cove­ring.

In this area of the Frin­trop Sports and Citi­zens’ Park , immis­sion control also played a major role, because the basket­ball arena is also located on a property boun­dary. Here, too, the plan­ners from Seeger Land­schafts­ar­chi­tektur have made a virtue out of neces­sity: the required sound­pro­ofing walls, which are more than five metres high, were desi­gned as gabions and are being expanded into a gene­rous clim­bing wall.

The boules court will certainly attract many older people. In addi­tion, there is a calis­the­nics complex, a tram­po­line field, wave running and parcours. The swing area has a net swing and equip­ment suitable for wheel­chair users, which promotes the inter­ac­tion of children with and without rest­ric­tions.

A beach volley­ball court and a func­tion buil­ding are still under cons­truc­tion. Both will be completed this year.

There will be groups and super­vised trai­ning offers for prac­ti­cally all devices and playing fields, which will promote the success of the project.

Frintrop Sports and Citizens’ Park  is a meeting place for all generations, abilities and interests. 

So the Frin­trop Sports and Citi­zens’ Park  is a meeting place for all gene­ra­tions, abili­ties and inte­rests. Thanks to the enormous commit­ment of the asso­cia­tion in the field of inclu­sion and the inte­gra­tion of refu­gees, an entire district and its social and societal deve­lo­p­ment can benefit here.

This is probably one of the main reasons why the Ruhr Confe­rence (which is an initia­tive of the NRW state govern­ment to streng­then the Ruhr area) is putting €1,500,000 into the “Frin­trop Sports and Citi­zens’ Park” project. The total cost is €2,000,000.

The park is open every day from 9 am to 9 pm and is freely acces­sible. Let’s go there!

Project data

Design

Seeger Land­schafts­ar­chi­tektur
Cyria­kusstr. 31 a
D — 41468 Neuss

Open-air hall

McArena GmbH
Karl-Ferdi­nand-Braun-Straße 3
D — 71522 Back­nang

Operator

SC Frin­trop 05/21 e.V.
Schem­manns­feld 29
D — 45359 Essen

Physical address

Sport- und Bürger­park Frin­trop
Schem­manns­feld 29
D — 45359 Essen

Opening

2022

Author

Johannes Bühl­be­cker
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