Grüttpark-Stadion, Sports stadium in Lörrach, Germany
The Grüttpark-Stadion is a sports facility in Lörrach featuring a natural grass pitch and an athletics track. The venue accommodates around 5,000 spectators and hosts both football matches and track and field events.
The stadium was built between 1964 and 1966 on the initiative of Fritz Gisy, chairman of TSV Rot-Weiss Lörrach, after the club had to give up land at Haagener Straße for road construction. It opened on 5 November 1966 as Rot-Weiß-Stadion. In the mid-1980s the financially burdened club sold the venue to the city of Lörrach, which renamed it Grüttpark-Stadion.
Since 1997 the TuS Lörrach-Stetten club has staged the Grüttlauf here, with an 800-metre course for small children plus 10 km and 5 km main races starting and finishing in the stadium; around 500 runners took part in 2019. The stadium also hosts the Bundesjugendspiele for local schools.
The stadium sits at the northern edge of the Grüttpark, right by the B 317, and is reached by a short access road past the parking area in front of it. The main entrance and ticket area are on the north side, where the covered but open, roughly 80-metre-wide spectator stand is located. Next to the car park are a public inline-skating and streetball facility.
On 12 July 2002 Bayern Munich beat FV Lörrach 9:1 in a friendly marking the club's centenary. Ottmar Hitzfeld, who played for FV Lörrach in his early years, arranged the match as a thank-you to his youth club; he had earlier invited Borussia Dortmund, whom he coached in the 1990s, for a friendly in Lörrach.
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