Alemannia Eggenstein
| Alemannia Eggenstein | ||
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| Basic data | ||
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| Surname | Football Club Alemannia 1905 Eggenstein e. V. |
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| Seat | Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen , Baden-Wuerttemberg | |
| founding | April 23, 1905 | |
| Colours | black yellow | |
| Website | www.fc-alemannia-05.de | |
| First soccer team | ||
| Venue | Eggenstein sports area | |
| Places | nb | |
| league | District League Karlsruhe | |
| 2018/19 | 2nd place (district league Karlsruhe) | |
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The FC Alemannia Eggenstein 05 , shortly Alemannia Eggenstein is a sports club from Eggenstein north of Karlsruhe . The pure football club founded in 1905 had its sporting climax in the 1970s. In 1977 the first team qualified for the DFB-Pokal 1977/78 by reaching the final of the Badischer Pokal and reached the second main round there. During this time, FC Alemannia was also represented in the higher amateur leagues in southern Germany, in 1974/75 and 1977/78 they played in the - at the time third-rate - highest level of the amateur camp. Since the 1980s, Alemannia has only played in the regional leagues of the Karlsruhe soccer district.
history
From the foundation to 1945
Football became popular in the German Empire from the late 1880s. The city of Karlsruhe was one of the early strongholds of the new sport. However, it was not until the beginning of the 20th century that the first associations were founded in the surrounding villages. The establishment of FC Alemannia Eggenstein on April 23, 1905, Easter Sunday of that year, was one of the first in the towns around Karlsruhe. It was carried out in the forester's garden shed at Bahnhofstrasse 23 by nine young men who chose the club name “FC Alemannia” and the club colors black and blue. In September of the same year, the first official soccer game took place against FC Welschneureut, the forerunner of FC Germania Neureut. After a "Hardt Association" established in the summer of the same year with clubs from the neighboring communities Welschneureut , Blankenloch and Linkenheim failed after a short time, the Association of South German Football Associations was joined in 1907 to take part in its game operations. After some members split off briefly as "FC Nordstern" and their return, an agreement was reached on black and yellow as the new club colors.
From 1907 onwards, a leased space at the "Kopfbuckel" served as a venue, although it was often flooded by the floods of the Rhine. In the meantime, three to four teams played for the colors of Alemannia, until the First World War restricted the game. Both before and during the war, the first team was able to assert itself in the upper regions of the district league. In 1919 Alemannia acquired its own site in Hardtwald and the following year the new sports field and clubhouse were inaugurated. Football experienced a great boom throughout the German Empire in the years that followed. The Eggensteiner Alemanni succeeded in advancing from the C to the A class by 1922. So the still young club experienced its first heyday.
When the workers ' sports clubs were dissolved after the National Socialists came to power , FC Alemannia decided on March 24, 1933 to merge with the Eggenstein workers' athletes who had previously been at home in the ASV. From a sporting point of view, the merger brought little: Eggenstein did not play a significant role in the A-Class until the outbreak of World War II. During the war, the sporting activities in the club almost came to a standstill.
After the Second World War
Just a few months after the Second World War, the clubs in southern Germany were re-established and organized games were also resumed. In Eggenstein, the first game against neighbors VfB Knielingen took place in August 1945 , and two Eggenstein teams returned to the league game in late autumn. The Oberliga Süd was set up as the new top German league , including the state and district leagues. The FC Alemannia was finally divided into the fourth highest level, the A-class. The first team reached the championship with 15 wins and only one draw under the player- coach Maag, who came from VfB Mühlburg , and then played in the district league (from 1947 "district class"). With the reallocation of the divisions for the 1949/50 season, Alemannia was placed in the “2nd place” due to its good placements in the district class. Amateur League ", relay Mittelbaden, which was the fourth highest level in the German league system until 1963.
Under the coaches Weindel (come from KFV), Kellermann and Karch, the team was not only able to stay in midfield in this class until the early 1960s, but also played an important role in the mid-1950s. The facilities around the new clubhouse at Hardtwald, which was started in 1946 and completed the following year, grew steadily. With Heinz Schmitt , the club's youth grew up in the 1950s and later celebrated the South German championship with Karlsruher SC . At the beginning of the 1960s, the strength of the team decreased and in 1962 the Alemanni rose for the first time in the A-class and changed from then on as an elevator team between these two levels.
The successes in the 1970s
In 1970, the club was able to sign Manfred Eglin , a trained sports and soccer teacher who had been a goalkeeper at Karlsruher FV and top division club Stuttgarter Kickers, to become a coach at A division club FC Alemannia Eggenstein. The most successful years of the association to date followed. A third place in 1970/71 was followed by the championship the following year and thus the return to the 2nd amateur league. In addition to the improvement in training conditions at that time, the former KSC stopper Jürgen Weidlandt , who is now a teacher in Eggenstein , was persuaded to lace up his football boots for FC Alemannia again. The team reached the runner-up in the first season and was now aiming for promotion to the top amateur division. Another year later, in the summer of 1974, the championship of the 2nd amateur league, relay middle Baden, and thus the promotion could be celebrated. FC Alemannia started the season with the regular line-up from the previous year, reinforced by ex-professional Theo Menkhaus , and was able to hold onto a midfield position, at the end of the round they finished 11th out of 16 teams. But since two teams behind were tied and the 13th had to be relegated, playoffs were set for relegation, in which they could not prevail against Feudenheim and Knielingen and despite a respectable season performance, relegated again after only one year.
Since Eglin was not available for the 1975/76 round for professional reasons - he was a full-time employee of the DSB Committee for Competitive Sport preparing for the 1976 Olympic Games - the new uter Werner Roth, a former KSC player, a new coach signed up. His training, however, was felt to be too hard and not only led to tension in the team but also in the club. In January Roth left the Alemannia again, the team missed promotion at the end of the season with a third place. After Manfred Eglin had taken over the sporting management again for the 1976/77 round, FC Alemannia won the championship and, after relegation games against FC Kirrlach, was promoted to the top amateur class now known as the "Baden League". At the same time, the Eggensteiners qualified for the first time for the main round of the DFB Cup by winning the Karlsruhe District Cup and reaching the final of the Badischer Verbandspokal (which was lost 5-1 to SV Sandhausen), since Sandhausen was already an amateur runner-up was qualified.
The encounter in the first main round against the Hamburg amateur club Horner TV went down in the history of the DFB Cup. The team of FC Alemannia Eggenstein had to compete on a hard court, the Baden lost the game with 1: 2. The protest, which the Eggensteiners had lodged before the game started, led after the game through several instances to the Federal Court of the DFB, where the club's appeal was finally granted. The first round match had to be repeated, although the Horner TV had now competed in the second round against TSV 1860 Munich. The now due replay in Hamburg, this time on turf, won the FC Alemannia 8-0 and moved into the second main round. In the 60s, however, Alemannia lost "befitting" 1: 7.
Relegation to the lower amateur classes
Reaching the 2nd main round of the DFB Cup is still the sporting climax in the history of FC Alemannia Eggenstein last year the team under coach Eglin just managed to keep it in the association league as the highest class of the Baden association. The club's financial resources were soon no longer sufficient to maintain a team in the upper divisions. Respectable seasonal performances with the 6th place after the 1979/80 season and a 9th place 1980/81 followed in 1982 the descent from the association league and thus the farewell to the national football events.
Since then, FC Alemannia has been commuting between national and regional leagues. Currently (2019/20) the first team plays in the Karlsruhe district league.
literature
- Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 , p. 137.
- FC Alemannia 05 Eggenstein (Hrsg.): Festschrift 100 years of FC Alemannia 05 Eggenstein. 1905-2005 . Self-published, Eggenstein 2005 ( fc-alemannia-05.de [PDF; 16.0 MB ; accessed on February 13, 2010]).