Английская Википедия:Grenzlandring
The Grenzlandring ("border-region ring"), sometimes written Grenzland-Ring, was a high-speed oval race track in the Lower Rhine area of Germany, around the town of Wegberg and close to Mönchengladbach and the Dutch town of Roermond.
The concrete ring was secretly constructed in 1938-1939 as a "strategically important" supply route for construction of Nazi Germany's Westwall fortifications, at total cost of about 3.3 million Reichsmark.Шаблон:Citation needed As a military project, it was not shown on road maps. After minor use early in World War II, the ring was disused, but survived the war largely intact.
Immediately after the war, parts of the ring were used by U.S. and British military units. In 1947, the Grenzlandring, also known as the Wegbergring or Wegberg-Ring, was locally "rediscovered" when Carl Marcus, mayor of nearby Rheydt, drove one night along what seemed to be a more or less straight country road. When he passed a bicycle rider more than once, he suddenly realized that the road was in fact circular.
Beginning in the late 1940s, the ring was used for auto and motorcycle racing. The all-time lap record was set in September 1949 by Bavarian Georg "Schorsch" Meier on a supercharged BMW 500 motorbike at Шаблон:Convert, and in September 1951 Toni Ulmen set the all-time record for cars, driving his Veritas 2000 RS to Шаблон:Convert.Шаблон:Citation needed
On August 31, 1952, for reasons never completely explained, Berliner Helmut Niedermayr crashed his Formula Two Reif/Veritas-Meteor at the exit of the Roermonder Kurve at nearly Шаблон:Convert,Шаблон:Citation needed, killing 13 spectators[1] and injuring another 42.Шаблон:Citation needed Although the actual event was not stopped to avert panic in the crowds, racing was subsequently banned from the ring by the government, after a total of five competitions attended by an estimated 300,000 people.Шаблон:Citation needed
Subsequently, a southern section of the road was removed, while the remaining portion was asphalted for local traffic.
See also
References
External links
- http://www.forix.com/8w/6thgear/grenzlandring.html
- http://www.grenzlandring.de/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20051101233858/http://www.landkartenarchiv.de/rennstrecken_grenzland.htm
- http://www.oldtimer.de/aktuelles/Grenzland/Grenzlandring_Revival.htm
- Dr. Carl Marcus, the MI6 asset codenamed 'Dictionary'
- ↑ 13 Tote durch das Rennunglück auf dem Grenzlandring [13 dead in the racing accident on the Grenzlandring], Wiener Kurier, 2 September 1952 (in German), via Anno
- Английская Википедия
- Страницы с неработающими файловыми ссылками
- Defunct motorsport venues in Germany
- Motorsport venues in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Buildings and structures in Heinsberg (district)
- 1939 establishments in Germany
- 1952 disestablishments in Germany
- 1952 disasters in Europe
- Transport disasters in 1952
- Страницы, где используется шаблон "Навигационная таблица/Телепорт"
- Страницы с телепортом
- Википедия
- Статья из Википедии
- Статья из Английской Википедии
