Kronsberg · Hannover · since 2016
Eisenlager is a barbell gym. Squat, bench, deadlift — calibrated plates, competition platforms, coaches who referee at the weekend. There is nothing else in the building, and that is the point.
We took over 1,400 square metres of a former parts store on the Kronsberg industrial strip in 2016, pulled out the racking, poured a slab that takes a dropped deadlift, and bolted twelve power racks to it in one straight line.
Everything on this floor exists to load a barbell. The hall is loud, the light is hard, the ceiling is high enough that nobody has ever hit it with a press. There are no mirrors on the lifting floor — you get told what your depth looked like by a person, not by a reflection.
Counted at the last stock check, 31 August 2026.
They are stencilled at the entrance in white paint. Nobody has needed a ninth since 2019.
Plates back on the pegs by size, collars in the bin at the end of the rack. The next lifter should find the bar empty.
Chalk up over the bowl, not over the platform. Broom and dustpan hang on every second upright.
Ask before you take an occupied rack. Between-set rest is long here — two lifters share a rack without either one waiting.
When somebody is waiting for a competition platform, fifteen minutes is the limit. Set a timer, then rack it and hand over.
Record your own lift from behind the platform, then step out of the walkway. No calls on the floor — the corridor is right there.
A deadlift comes down under control to the knee. Never drop an empty bar, never drop on the training platforms, never drop calibrated plates.
Lifting shoes, flats or socks with grip. Bare feet only on your own platform, and only for deadlifts.
If you do not know the start, press and rack commands, ask a coach before you need them in a meet. That is what we are here for.
The hall is open every day. These are the hours when one of the three of us is on the floor with a clipboard, running the platform. Slots are included in the membership — turn up, put your name on the board.
Squat technique — bracing, depth, bar path
Ruth Kalkbrenner · 8 places
Early shift, open platform
— · Open floor
Bench block — pause, leg drive, commands
Bogdan Ilić · 8 places
Deadlift technique — set-up, lockout, grip
Meike Söhnholz · 8 places
Meet simulation — three attempts, real commands
Ruth Kalkbrenner · 12 places
Open platform with a coach on the floor
Rotating · Open floor
Heavy Saturday — singles, spotters, loaders
All three · 16 places
Quiet shift, unstaffed floor
— · Open floor
Outside these hours the floor is open and unstaffed. Sunday is the quiet shift: open floor, no coaching, no music.
Everybody on the floor pays the same. There is no premium lane, no joining fee and no minimum term — you give a month’s notice and that is the end of it. Chalk is included, and so is every coached platform slot.
Full membership
The whole hall, every opening hour, every coached platform slot on the timetable.
€49per month
Drop-in platform hour
One hour on a competition platform without a membership. For visitors, for lifters passing through Hannover, for the week before a meet.
€8per hour
Technique clinic
Ninety minutes, one coach, one lift. Filmed from two angles, and you leave with the video and three things to change.
€45one-off
Meet preparation, 12 weeks
Twelve weeks of written programming to a dated platform, with a weekly review of your videos and a coach handling you on the day.
€39012-week block
Prices include VAT. Under-18s lift here only with a written declaration from a parent or guardian and only in a coached slot.
All three coach on the floor every week and all three referee. Between them they have handled lifters at more than two hundred meets.
Head coach · keeper of the records board
Founded Eisenlager in 2016 after fifteen years of competing in the -76 class. Ruth runs the squat evenings, writes most of the meet-prep blocks and is the only person allowed to change a number on the records board.
Coach · meet handler
Competes in the -83 class and holds the house bench record he set in 2025. Bogdan runs Tuesday’s bench block, and if you are lifting at a meet he is usually the one shouting your name from behind the barrier.
Coach · deadlift and beginners
Takes every first session in the building. Meike runs Wednesday’s deadlift evening and the youth slots, and she is the reason most people here can hold a hook grip past the knee.
We do not print testimonials. There is a painted board at the entrance with every house record on it, by weight class, and the same numbers are here. A record goes up when a coach has watched the lift — in this hall or at a meet — and signed it off. Nothing goes up on a phone video.
Board kept by Ruth Kalkbrenner · last signed off 31 August 2026
122.5kg
Mira Sandholt
At a meet
67.5kg
Mira Sandholt
In the hall
147.5kg
Jule Wehrmann
At a meet
330kg
Mira Sandholt
At a meet
142.5kg
Lena Prieß
At a meet
77.5kg
Lena Prieß
At a meet
165kg
Lena Prieß
At a meet
382.5kg
Lena Prieß
At a meet
157.5kg
Katharina Ostermann
At a meet
85kg
Svea Lührmann
In the hall
182.5kg
Katharina Ostermann
At a meet
422.5kg
Katharina Ostermann
At a meet
170kg
Fenja Timmermann
At a meet
92.5kg
Fenja Timmermann
At a meet
197.5kg
Fenja Timmermann
In the hall
Awaiting sign-off
455kg
Fenja Timmermann
At a meet
180kg
Annika Brauer
At a meet
102.5kg
Annika Brauer
At a meet
205kg
Nele Kortkamp
In the hall
482.5kg
Annika Brauer
At a meet
197.5kg
Rike Dallmann
At a meet
115kg
Rike Dallmann
In the hall
220kg
Rike Dallmann
At a meet
527.5kg
Rike Dallmann
At a meet
Two lifts are waiting on the second referee’s signature. They stay grey until then.
340kg
Timo Reineking · Deadlift · -120 kg class
Every template that gets written on the whiteboard eventually ends up here. Take one, run it, come back with the video. Percentages are of your best single in that lift.
What every new member runs first. Three sessions, the three lifts on all of them, and enough repetition that the set-up stops being a decision.
These are training templates, not personal advice. If anything hurts, stop the set and speak to a coach — and to a doctor or physiotherapist, not to us.
In-house meets are run on our own platforms with licensed referees. The federation dates are the ones our lifters are entered for — say so early if you want a place, because entries close weeks in advance.
26Sept 2026
Eisenlager, Kronsberg
Three attempts, full commands, two referees. The dress rehearsal before the autumn season.
Entry
Free for members
17Oct 2026
Braunschweig
Nine of our lifters entered across five classes. Coaches travelling with the team.
Entry
Entries closed
14Nov 2026
Eisenlager, Kronsberg
Bench only, open to guests, three attempts. Weigh-in from 08:00.
Entry
€25
05Dec 2026
Eisenlager, Kronsberg
Full total, members only, teams of three drawn on the morning.
Entry
Free for members
30Jan 2027
Hamburg
Qualification from the Lower Saxony result. Entries through Ruth by 15 December.
Entry
Entries closed
13Mar 2027
Leipzig
Two lifters qualified so far. Meet-prep blocks for this date start in December.
Entry
Entries closed
You will not be shown around a room of machines. You will warm up, we will watch you squat with an empty bar, and by the end of the hour you will have done all three lifts with something on them. Bring flat shoes and something you can bend in.
Eisenlager Kraftsport GmbH
Thurnithistraße 12
30539 Hannover-Kronsberg
Yard entrance at the back of the building, third gate. Free parking on the yard, bike racks under the canopy.
Tram 6 to Kronsberg, then eight minutes on foot. Bus 365 stops at Thurnithistraße.
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