Ochsenkopf Ski Jump Arena

The Ochsenkopfschanzen, officially Schanzenarena today, are three ski jumps in Bischofsgrün. The facility includes two small ski jumps and one medium ski jump, they are covered with plastic mats.

When you stand on top of the ski jump you get very uncomfortable looking at the valley. Respect to all those who plunge down here and take the flight with pleasure

The first ski jump at the 1024 m high Ochsenkopf in Bischofsgrün from 1933 already had a wood inrun (K35) and was a popular meeting for ski jumping in the snow-sure Fichtelgebirge until the 1950s. Numerous jumps were held on it and the best jumpers from east and west went over the bakken. In 1956, through the sporting contacts with Oberhof, they got to know the new plastic covered ski jumping hill there and the club tried to create such a summer jumping surface in Bischofsgrün as well. With the help of the Black Forest company Braun & Wettberg, the first plastic covered ski jumping hill (K54) in the western world (!) Was inaugurated in front of 20,000 spectators in 1957. For years, Bischofsgrün was a top address for successful summer jumping races.
In 1975 it was converted to the K60 and two years later the K20 was built.
In the mid-90s it became necessary to fundamentally modernize the ski jump in order to meet the new ski jumping requirements. In 2000 the tower was dismantled and the re-profiling of the ski jump began. The new ski jumping hill inrun was completed in 2002, but in May 2003 the new ski jumping hill suffered a severe setback, because the landing slope and the mat foundation slipped overnight. Years of legal dispute followed before building could continue in 2006 under the direction of a new planning team.
With the Ladies COC in summer 2007, the HS 71 plastic covered hill was inaugurated. Based on the concept of increasing hill sizes for the state center of Nordic disciplines in the Fichtelgebirge, two more ski jumps were subsequently built in the Ochsenkopf ski jumping arena: the K20 hill in the previous facility was replaced by a K15 beginners' hill (inauguration 2009) and one K30 school jump (inauguration 2015).
An interesting technical feature of the new K30 school jump is that it has parabolic transition arcs in the run-up and run-out - in contrast to the previously usual circular arcs.
Source: skisprungschanzen.com/DE/Schanzen/GER-Deutschland/BY-Bayern/Bischofsgr%C3%BCn/0603-Ochsenkopf-Schanzenarena