{"id":311,"date":"2024-07-31T11:10:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T09:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slickpix.de\/curbs\/?p=311"},"modified":"2024-07-31T11:10:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T09:10:01","slug":"the-builder-of-the-nuerburgring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slickpix.de\/en\/stories\/der-erbauer-des-nuerburgring\/","title":{"rendered":"The builder of the N\u00fcrburgring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your father was the builder of the N\u00fcrburgring<\/h2>\n

It is the year 2016.<\/p>\n

A lady in a red suit receives us in a house in Pforzheim. She lives in a spacious apartment. At the first Eifel Race, which Rudolf Caracciola from Remagen won. Gisela Creutz was there, head of district administration. Then it was off to Berlin, where my father worked in the Interior Ministry before becoming district administrator in Adenau. There was news that a race track was to be built near M\u00fcnstereifel to help the poor Eifel region \u2013 in Berlin they called it \u2018Prussian Siberia\u201a. Through his good connections in the capital, Berlin, he managed to have the race track built in the Adenau district instead, around the N\u00fcrburgring. Engineer Gustav Eichler Ravensberg was the actual designer of the then 30-kilometer-long race track with an altitude difference of about 300 meters. My father had the idea of building the race track without any crossings, so that race cars would not drive through the Eifel villages at high speed. He repeatedly traveled to Berlin to get new funding for the construction of the Eifel race track. I was five years old at the inauguration in June 1927.\u2018<\/p>\n

\"Gisela
Gisela Herbstrith is the daughter of the \u201eN\u00fcrburgring builder,\u201c Dr. Otto Creutz. She lives in Pforzheim, now a spry 92 years young.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Your
\nWe are not talking about the death of the district administrator, but Kurt Schumacher, N\u00fcrburgring historian and master barber from M\u00fcllenbach (located south of the N\u00fcrburgring), has unearthed a poem that was recited at the funeral in 1951 at the grave, and he reads it to the old lady. She didn't know it.<\/p>\n

Albums and \u201eModern Era\u201c<\/h3>\n

Gisela Herbstrith, who received her new name through marriage to the Pforzheim jewelry manufacturer Theodor Herbstrith, has always remained connected to the N\u00fcrburgring. When there were anniversary years, she was invited by Dr. Walter Kafitz, the longtime manager of the N\u00fcrburgring. She stayed overnight at the Dorint Hotel and spent the evenings in the Cockpit Bar, with its many exhibits and pictures from N\u00fcrburgring history. There she also met Kurt Schumacher, who subsequently acquired the guest book of the Creutz family.<\/p>\n

\u201eOnce I had to realize that my father's memorial stone at the foot of the Dorint Hotel was overgrown with weeds. I got a pair of shears and cleared all the memorial stones there. There was a complaint to the Dorint general manager, Moret, and after that, the memorial corner was always well-maintained,\u201c said Gisela Herbstrith. She hopes that she will also be invited by the new owner when the 90th anniversary is celebrated in three years.<\/p>\n