“Walk of Fame”: Uniting the past with the future | OneFootball

Eintracht Frankfurt has created a memorial area within Deutsche Bank Park where important people and milestones will be immortalised on bronze plaques, with the first six already in place.

Emotions ran high as Helga Grabowski, Jutta Hölzenbein and Evi Nickel unveiled the 40cm-by-40cm bronze plaques in front of the main stand at Deutsche Bank Park. The widows of the three club legends who passed away in recent years, Jürgen Grabowski (in 2022), Bernd Hölzenbein (in 2024) and Bernd Nickel (in 2021), had come with their families to experience – and be an integral part of – this unique moment. Applause from the more than 100 guests rang out as three more plaques were revealed, commemorating the founding of the club in 1899, the only German league win to date in 1959, and the first DFB Cup triumph in 1974.

“Recognition of outstanding achievements”

“It is a recognition of outstanding achievements, and ones that are important for any club, because they show the way forward for the current generation,” said CEO Axel Hellmann, who had been working hard along with the entire club in recent years to “bring to life the unique character that Eintracht has, here in the stadium, piece by piece”.

This special day was an expression of the “dynamic connection” that has always kept the broad community of the Eintracht family together. As such, it came as no surprise that Helga Grabowski, Jutta Hölzenbein and Evi Nickel were all delighted to attend the ceremony at Deutsche Bank Park along with their families, at a venue which their partners had lit up with their achievements over so many years. All three of them were part of the 1974 DFB Cup-winning side, which also had German league winner Dieter Stinka as assistant coach.