BSC Winterberg

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The Sauerland Winterberg bobsleigh and sledging club , or BSC Winterberg for short , is a winter sports club from Winterberg that offers luge , skeleton and bobsleigh and operates the Winterberg Hochsauerland bobsleigh and toboggan run .

history

In May 1910 ten local dignitaries founded the “Sauerland Bobleigh Club for Rhineland, Hesse and Westphalia” in Winterberg. Richard zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg , who held the protectorate and was appointed honorary president, was one of the founding members of the association, who saw themselves at the beginning as a representative of an ideal concept of sport . The first board of directors was made up of chief forester C. Hagemann from Winterberg (1st chairman), bank director D. Becker from Essen (2nd chairman), Walter Dicke from Barmen (1st secretary), Hermann Eckert from Barmen (2nd secretary), Heinrich Kligge from Winterberg (cashier) as well as Max Hagedorn from Barmen (assessor) and Josef Dauber from Winterberg (assessor). The first office was at Gewerbeschulstrasse 74 in Barmen.

After the Oberhof (1906) and Schierke (1909) bobsleigh clubs, it was the third German bobsleigh club. A natural ice rink was laid out for the first time in the same year. The inaugural race was held on January 8, 1911. The winning bobsleigh team was called "Favorite". A clubhouse was also built in 1911. By the end of 1912 the association had 120 members, and by the 1930s the number was to increase significantly. In 1914 he was given responsibility for the first European skeleton championship .

After a forced break due to the First World War, there were sports competitions again from 1919/20. On January 28, 1923, the German bobsleigh championships took place on the Winterberger Bahnstatt. The winner was the five-man bobsleigh run by Winterberg pilot Willi Herbrechter . In the meantime the association was called "Sauerland Bobsleigh and Auto Clubs" and also had an automobile sport department. In 1933 the railway was expanded to 1,610 m in length and was considered the most modern of its time. There was a bobsleigh shed, start house and even a water sprinkler system. But the club experienced a decline in the 1930s. The elitist idea did not fit into the image of the Germans who were brought into line during the Nazi era. In 1937 the association only had 87 members. After the Second World War, the sporting reconstruction began in 1946. In 1954 they hosted the only all-German junior championship, and in 1961 the German championship. Completely surprisingly, the Winterberg four-man bobsleigh Butz / Butz / Wahle / Steinhausen won the title.

As the effort to prepare the track became more and more difficult, from 1969/70 the idea matured to build a second artificial ice rink in Germany based on the example of Berchtesgaden . After Ferdinand Tillmann, member of the Bundestag, among others, took up the issue, the decision to build a second artificial ice rink was made against resistance from Bavaria. Construction began on September 30, 1976, and the inauguration took place on December 10, 1977. It became one of the fastest railways in the world. On February 3rd, 1989 Georg Hackl was able to achieve the highest speed ever with a luge with 144.7 km / h. To date, several necessary modifications have already been made to increase security and enable better transmission by television. In 1993 the name was changed to BSC Winterberg . At the same time, several top athletes from the former GDR moved to Winterberg and helped lead the club to the top German and world leaders .

Personalities

Rene Spies are currently responsible for the bobsleigh area, Steffen Wöller, Katja Haupt for the luge area and Benjamin Piel, Uwe Schupp for the skeleton area as senior trainers.

Important athletes of the club are or were:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Was the cradle of Winterberg bobsleigh on the Heidt? . In: Heidter Leaflets No. 44 , 2014.