Burtscheider gymnastics club
| Surname | Burtscheider Turnverein Aachen 1873 eV |
|---|---|
| Club colors | black-and-white |
| Founded | 1873 |
| Place of foundation | Aachen-Burtscheid |
| Venue | Siegelallee 26 sports field, Aachen |
| Association headquarters | Aachen |
| Members | approx. 1400 (as of 2020) |
| Departments | 4th |
| Chairperson | Caroline Noerenberg |
| Homepage | BTV-Aachen.de |
The Burtscheider Turnverein Aachen 1873 eV , BTV Aachen for short , is one of the oldest and largest sports clubs in Aachen . It was founded on September 10, 1873 as a pure gymnastics club and currently consists of four departments. More than 1400 club members practice health, leisure and competitive sports in these. The club is a member of the German Olympic Sports Association , the German Gymnastics Association , the German Football Association and the West German Table Tennis Association .
Burtscheider TV has its headquarters in the sports facility "auf Siegel", which consists of a sports field, a clubhouse with changing and sanitary rooms and a meeting room.
history
Founding years
The Burtscheid gymnastics club was founded on September 10, 1873 by a group of 16 men in Burtscheid . At the beginning of 1876, the Leipzig flag factory was commissioned to produce a flag for the newly founded club, and on June 6 the first club banner was consecrated. While gymnastics had been carried out on self-made equipment in old, crumbling sheds and garages for years, a suitable practice site was established around the turn of the century. In 1909, the newly built gym on Michaelsbergstrasse was inaugurated.
In the years 1888 and 1900, the Aachener Turngau entrusted the Burtscheider Turnverein with the implementation of the Gauturnfest, which became a gymnastics highlight.
The world wars
During the First World War , 75 gymnasts were drafted and training was stopped. After the war the club reunited and gymnastics life continued. In 1919 a women's department was founded, which soon had an impressive participation.
After the prohibition of denominational DJK clubs by the National Socialists in 1934, the DJK department of the Burtscheider Gymnastics Association joined the Burtscheider Gymnastics Club almost completely. In that year the football department was also established.
post war period
The exceptionally bad conditions after the Second World War led to a merger of the Burtscheider gymnastics club with VfL 05 Aachen in 1946. After the resurgence of general sporting events, the two clubs separated after three years in order to continue their individual club life.
In 1949 the foundation stone for the table tennis department was laid. The co-founder of the department, Heinz Kessel, later took over the chairmanship of the association from 1961 to 1969, and in 1974 he was offered honorary membership for his services.
Contemporary history
- In 1981 the association launched the International Borderland Cup in trampoline gymnastics. This event, which was held every two years, has developed into one of the largest trampoline events in Europe in the following years, in which more than 250 competitors from 23 nations took part.
- In 1986, the Federal President's sports badge was presented to the Burtscheider Gymnastics Club during a ceremony at Burg Castle by the Minister of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hans Schwier .
- In 1999 and 2004, the Burtscheider gymnastics club each held a World Cup event in trampoline gymnastics in Aachen. In addition, numerous international matches and German championships were organized.
- In November 2007, in the presence of numerous club members and invited guests, the artificial turf pitch on Siegelallee was inaugurated by the then Mayor Jürgen Linden . Two years later, the changing rooms were expanded.
- For the first time in 2010, the association broke the "sound barrier" of 1000 members.
- In 2015, the Tchoukball team won the German championships.
- In March 2019, the long-time chairman Wilfried Braunsdorf, who in the same year received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon due to his services to the association , handed over the chairmanship to Caroline Noerenberg after 20 years. For the first time in its history, the association is being led by a woman.
Current sports departments
do gymnastics
The gymnastics department is the origin of the club and offers a wide variety of sports activities for young and old, men and women, boys and girls, competitive and amateur athletes. For adult athletes who are not performance-oriented, there is a mixed group for apparatus gymnastics, as well as a gymnastics group and an everyone group. For the younger ones there are two parent-child groups, two general children's gymnastics groups for girls and boys and a general gymnastics group for girls.
In competitive sports, gymnasts are currently active in ( apparatus gymnastics - four-fight). In the league of the Rhenish Gymnastics Association, the Burtscheider women gymnastics in the highest class, the NRW League, in 2019.
The gymnastics department, in cooperation with TSV Viktoria 1898 Mülheim an der Ruhr e. V., the gymnastics community of Neuss and, in several years, other gymnastics clubs will be running a Grand Prix series in which the gymnasts collect performance points in national competitions over several months. Within this series, the Arno Flecken challenge cup is awarded to the gymnast with the highest daily total number of points on all devices together.
Soccer
A total of 20 youth and senior teams are organized in football: 18 teams from F-youth to men, as well as a D-junior team and a women's team as a sports community with SV Rott have competed in their respective leagues of the German Football Association . The offer is supplemented by a leisure team and a Bambini and Bambini kindergarten group for the youngsters.
Table tennis
The table tennis department consists of school, youth and senior teams who regularly compete in the respective leagues of the West German Table Tennis Association .
The sport of Headis has also been offered since 2012 . The greatest tournament success could be celebrated at the Headis World Championship 2016. All five players entered the knockout round and the best player could call the trophy for 3rd place her own.
Trend sports
The trend sports department includes offers in the field of acrobatics , eskrima and basketball . The department organized the German Acrobatics Championships in Aachen in 2019.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Burtscheider TV 1873 eV (ed.): On the history of the Burtscheider Turnverein 1873 eV, commemorative publication on the occasion of the 125th anniversary . Aachen 1998.
- ↑ Helga Raue: Burtscheider TV is German champion in Tchoukball , in: Aachener Zeitung of December 2nd, 2015
- ↑ German Championships Juniors 1 and Master Class 2019 , press release of the German Sports Acrobatics Association. V. of June 26, 2019