The Salza-Gymnasium sports park
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Ahner Landscape Architecture
The Salza-Gymnasium sports park literally seeks and finds new ways, especially for athletics – and fulfills all the requirements of school sports and popular sports. At the same time, new rooms and areas are being created for socializing before and after sports.
School sports in the sports park
The Salza-Gymnasium in Bad Langensalza consists of two parts: While the upper school resides in a stately-looking building from 1867, grades 5 to 10 are housed in a more pragmatic structure from 1980. However, the Salza Hall, which was renovated in 2020, and the new Salza Sports Park offer outstanding sports and leisure facilities.
The restructuring of the Salza-Gymnasium sports park had become necessary because the existing running tracks and the long jump facility had to make way for an extension to the Salza hall.
The new Salza-Gymnasium sports park makes a virtue of this need by literally seeking and finding new paths, especially for the running tracks – and taking into account all the requirements of school sports (including those relevant to examinations) and popular sports. At the same time, new rooms and areas are being created for socializing before and after sports.
The offer
The facilities now include a 55x40m artificial turf pitch, mainly for soccer and frisbee, a synthetic pitch (40x25m) for basketball and handball separated by a ball catch fence, and a 300m circular running track that frames both pitches.
To the south, the facility is framed and structured by six short-distance running tracks, a long jump facility suitable for competitions with its own run-up lanes, beautifully designed seating and appropriate planting.
The curved pathways of the running tracks in combination with the sunbathing lawn, which offers the best contact with both the playing fields and athletics, are particularly distinctive and truly unusual.
Instead of a large pitch
All of this takes place on the surface of a traditional large playing field and is a fine example of overcoming monofunctional core sports facilities. In addition, two fields for beach volleyball were created at the western end, which can also be used for shot put.
The Salza-Gymnasium sports park overcomes the classic, rectangular and flat sports landscape with many different, multifunctional and designed areas and facilities – and it does so with verve.
Project data
Designer
Ahner Landschaftsarchitektur
Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB
Schlossstraße 7
D – 15711 Königs Wusterhausen
Building owner
District Office Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis
Building and Property Management Department
Users
Salza-Gymnasium
Address
Salza-Gymnasium
School section II
Hannoversche Str. 1
D – 99947 Bad Langensalza
Opening
2023
Photos
Ahner Landscape Architecture
Text
Johannes Bühlbecker
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