Former Regenberg Ski Jump and View of Zella-Mehlis

It's interesting to see what it looked like.
And you have, among other things, a beautiful view of Zella Mehlis

Zella-Mehlis developed into a GDR ski jumping stronghold after the Second World War.
The SC Motor Zella-Mehlis was the home club of German ski jumping legends such as Helmut Recknagel, Horst Queck, Rainer Schmidt and Peter Lesser, and the former national coach Reinhard Heß.
Hans Renner, who was also the GDR national coach from 1954 until his death in 1970, was instrumental in the development of ski jumping in Zella-Mehlis.
At that time, the Regenbergschanze on the Black Hill above Zella-Mehlis was a 20-meter training hill.
Hans Renner installed and tested the world's very first plastic mats there!
After attempts to jump on irrigated mats initially failed due to the excessive friction, Renner decided to cut the mats into strips so that the plastic tufts still common today were born.
Renner originally came up with the idea because he slipped on the wet wiper in front of his front door!
The first test jump at 23 meters was carried out by Harald Pfeffer on August 25, 1954, with strict exclusion from the public.
After final tests on October 31, the invention, which was to change ski jumping sustainably, was presented to the public on November 21, 1954 with the first summer ski jumping on plastic mats on the Thuringian ski jump at Oberhofer Wadeberg.
In 1988, a memorial stone for Hans Renner was installed on the site of the long-demolished Regenbergschanze.
For the 100th birthday of the racer, who had died in 1970, the ski jump was rebuilt for a festive event in August 2019, sometimes even with original white mats from the 50s.
The SC Motor Zella-Mehlis is still very active in training young ski jumpers and has been operating the Hans Renner ski jumping facility in Stachelsrain since 1976.(Source: skisprungschanzen.com)