Model of the Deutsches Stadion (“German Stadium”) – part of the NSDAP rally grounds in Nuremberg

The Deutsches Stadion (“German Stadium”) was a monumental stadium designed by Albert Speer as an important part of the NSDAP rally grounds in Nuremberg, southern Germany. Its construction began in September 1937, and was slated for completion in 1943. Like most other National-Socialist monumental structures, however, its construction was interrupted by the outbreak of World War II and was never finished.

 

The stadium’s five tiers of seats for 405,000 spectators had to be supported in the usual Roman manner by massive barrel vaults. The external façade of pink granite blocks, which would have risen to a height of about 90 metres, consisted of a series of arches 65 metres high resting on a podium of dark red granite.