Club Raffelberg

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The Club Raffelberg e. V. is a traditional Duisburg hockey and tennis club with around 900 members.

history

Association symbol CR

The club was founded on December 3, 1889 as the Duisburg Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on the Curtius site on Düsseldorfer Straße. Since 1914 he found himself with eight tennis courts and a clubhouse on Lotharstrasse in the Duisburg district of Neudorf in the immediate vicinity of Duisburg University. After the Second World War , the number of places increased to 13 (as well as two places in one hall) for tennis and two places (plus hall) for hockey by 1965, mainly supported by Helmut Horten . Club Raffelberg became German men's field hockey champions in 1951 and 1953 . The German tennis legend Gottfried von Cramm also played at Club Raffelberg for several years after the Second World War.

Since 1995 (after the long lease contract expired) the club has been located in the Sportpark Duisburg . The previously used site in Duisburg-Neudorf has now been developed with research institutes and buildings from the University of Duisburg-Essen. The club moved to the new site in 1996. International hockey matches have been held on the modern facility.

Club Raffelberg today

The clubhouse and the tennis facility
Raffelberger youth team celebrates German championship

Today the club has around 900 members. In recent years the club has distinguished itself through its successful youth work in hockey and tennis. Overall, the Raffelberg hockey teams won over 15 German championship titles in the youth field. This makes the club one of the most successful youth clubs in Germany. A number of Raffelberg youth players played or still play in the German national team, such as Pia Maertens, Tina Bachmann or Maike Stöckel . Today's youth coach Susanne Wollschläger played as a goalkeeper in the national team for years and was part of the German Olympic team in Barcelona (silver medal).

The club is a performance center in North Rhine-Westphalia for tennis and hockey. The current facility in the Duisburg Sports Park includes 9 tennis courts, a boules pitch, a tennis hall, a hockey hall and two artificial hockey turf pitches.

The club has registered 17 youth teams (as of 2012) in hockey, making it one of the largest youth hockey clubs in the region. In 2012, the club with girls A was German indoor champion and German runner-up with female youth B. In 2014 and 2020, girls A repeated their success. The women play in the 2nd Bundesliga on the field and in the 1st Bundesliga in the hall, the men in the CR play in the hall and on the field in the Regionalliga (as of 2020).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the German Championships