Borussia Rheine
Borussia Rheine was a sports club from Rheine in the Steinfurt district . The first soccer team once took part in the West German soccer championship .
history
The club was founded on September 11, 1908 as 1. Rheiner FC Borussia 08 . In 1919, the high school sports club Rheine joined Borussia, which merged with SC Rheine to form SC Borussia Rheine in 1923 . SC Rheine was created in 1921 when the football department of TC Westfalia Rheine split off.
In 1926 Borussia was promoted to the then first-class 1st district class Westphalia , where the team immediately secured the championship of the western relay. The finals for the district championship were clearly lost against Arminia Bielefeld . In 1928, Borussia prevailed 3-2 in the decider for the district championship against VfB 03 Bielefeld , and only achieved fifth out of seven places in the West German championship . Two years later, Borussia was again Westphalian runner-up behind VfB 03 Bielefeld and failed in the semi-finals of the second round to Fortuna Düsseldorf .
In 1933 the Rheiner missed the newly introduced Gauliga Westfalen . For this, the team had qualified athletically in 1944 after a successful promotion round, but the club decided not to participate. After the Second World War , Borussia became an elevator team between the regional and regional leagues. With Erich Rutemöller , the club produced a Bundesliga coach who worked for 1. FC Cologne and Hansa Rostock . Ludwig Gerdes played in the top league at the time for VfL Osnabrück , Schwarz-Weiß Essen and VfR Kirn .
On June 22, 1969, Borussia Rheine merged with VfL 1926 Rheine to form Rot-Weiß Rheine . This club merged in turn on June 27, 1971 with FC Rheine to form VfB Rheine , which merged with SG Eintracht Rheine on July 10, 1994 to form today's FC Eintracht Rheine .
literature
- Hardy Grüne , Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 398.