1. Bockenheimer FC 1899

The first Bockenheimer FC 1899 is a former football club based in the Frankfurt district of Bockenheim .

The club was founded in 1899 and was one of a number of football clubs that were founded in the Main metropolis in 1899 and 1900. These include the two predecessor clubs of Eintracht, Victoria 1899 and Frankfurter Kickers , as well as the FSV Frankfurt . As for many other Frankfurt footballers, the Bockenheimers' venue was the so-called "Hundswiese" north of Frankfurt city center, where they staked their own playing field on the southern edge of the three existing courses ( Germania , Victoria and Kickers) parallel to Miquelstrasse. The people of Bockenheim competed in light blue sweaters with a yellow sash and the yellow beekeeper's mark - Bockenheim's city coat of arms - on the chest and white trousers.

When the first Reich-wide umbrella organization was established in January 1900 with the German Football Association , 1. FC Bockenheim was one of 86 clubs among the founding members. In the same year, the Bockenheimer joined the first local football association, the Frankfurter Association Bund , which had recently been founded and which held its first championship round in autumn 1900. 1. FC took third and last place here, but was still qualified for the finals of the Association of South German Soccer Clubs for the South German Championship, where the Frankfurt clubs had no chance.

The Bockenheimer FC also made a name for themselves through their games against clubs outside the city. For example, the first documented game of the Offenbacher Kickers, founded in 1901, took place against FC Bockenheim in 1899 and ended 2: 1 for the leather townspeople.

After some players had been drafted into the army in the autumn of 1901, the club disbanded at the beginning of the third year of its existence. He only played three of the games in the 1901/02 FAB round and did not appear in the return games from December 1, 1901. For October 20, 1901 a friendly game against Victoria is documented (0: 2). The remaining players were distributed to other clubs in the district or were co-founders of the same. The FV Amicitia 1901 Bockenheim (founded on November 11, 1901), the FC Germania 1901 Bockenheim , the Bockenheimer FVgg 1901 and the FC Helvetia 1902 , the forerunners of the later nationally successful and still existing club Rot-Weiss Frankfurt , all emerged in the Years 1901 and 1902. One of the founders of Bockenheimer FC, Justus Riese, was chairman of SC Rot-Weiß in the 1920s.

In order to set up their own game operation apart from the existing football associations, the Bockenheimer clubs founded their own association in the spring, the Bockenheimer Fußball-Bund , which only existed for a short time.

literature

• Ludwig Isenburger: From the Stone Age of Frankfurt football . Buchdruckerei Otto E. Schröder, Frankfurt am Main 1929, p. 28ff.