BROTTERODE/RASCHAU: 25.07.2014 - Brotterode will celebrate its 975th anniversary this weekend. The small Thuringian town would probably never have become so well known if it had not produced numerous Olympians, among them Olympic champion Hans Georg Aschenbach and silver medalist Jochen Danneberg.
In time for the anniversary celebration, recalling the great successes, all visitors to Brotterode should be able to try a ski jump themselves – at least once. For this reason, our mobile K4 jump will travel from Saxony to Thuringia on Friday. For Nachwuchs jumpers and interested children, the K4 equipped with a special carpet will be set up in the town center to offer first-class ski jumping fun together with the WSV Brotterode until Sunday.
That Brotterode is the ideal location for Nachwuchsgewinnung already shows the fact that the small town houses the Leistungszentrum for Nachwuchsgewinnung for ski jumpers. Who knows, perhaps in the 975th year of the town there will be another small Aschenbach or Danneberg. And it all began on the K4...