Düsseldorf rowing club 1880

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Düsseldorf RV 1880
Full name Düsseldorfer Ruderverein
1880 e. V.
abbreviation DRV 1880
Association headquarters Fährstrasse 253 B
40221 Düsseldorf
Founded May 7, 1880 in Düsseldorf
Club colors White Blue Red
Training waters Rhine
Chairman Marianne Imhof-Minnerop
Members around 300
Homepage www.drv1880.de

The Düsseldorf rowing club 1880 is the oldest rowing club in Düsseldorf . The sports club , which cultivates rowing as a popular sport and is particularly successful in touring rowing , has around 170 active members and is organized in the German Rowing Association. His boathouse is located at 737.8 km on the Rhine in the Hamm district of Düsseldorf .

history

The later Düsseldorf wholesaler and factory owner Carl Hugo Erbslöh (1858–1938), well-traveled offspring of the Bergisch entrepreneurial family Erbslöh , had got to know rowing in London on the Thames and in Zurich on Lake Zurich . After trying out a boat on the Rhine , in 1879 he procured the rowing boat "Hecht", a used four-wheeler , from the Kölner Ruder-Klub (from 1877) and started - together with his friends Wilhelm Wallrabe, Anton Richard and Theodor Eichmann - on the city side of the Düsseldorf Rhine knee , then called "Neustädter Bucht", with the sporty rowing.

In the “Uel” , illustration of club life in the “Uel” restaurant on Ratinger Strasse 16 in Düsseldorf , 1880s
View of the security harbor with rowing club 1880 at the art academy, before 1897
Security harbor before the start of the filling work in spring 1897 with the association's houseboat (left)
Düsseldorfer Ruderverein, address book 1910

On May 7, 1880, they founded the Düsseldorf rowing club . They used the “Uel” in Ratinger Straße 16, a restaurant in Düsseldorf's old town that was also frequented by Düsseldorf painters, as a meeting point . On the shores of the “Neustädter Bucht” they built their first boathouse on barrels as pontoons , which they - like the training boat “Möwe” - had acquired from a Wesel rowing club for 1200 marks. The association, which acquired the four-row outrigger boat with a permanent seat called "Blitz" in the spring of 1881, enjoyed great popularity, especially from officers and one-year volunteers from the Düsseldorf garrison, from trainee lawyers and assessors from the higher administrative authorities and from members of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , among them Karl Woermann , the first honorary chairman of the association.

On September 6, 1881, the boathouse was transferred to the security harbor on the bank of the "Schönen Aussicht" opposite the art academy. In 1882 the rowing fleet had grown to eight club boats and six private boats. In 1883, according to plans by the architect Hermann Görres, a new and larger boathouse was built in the security harbor on the banks of the art academy for around 12,000 marks. The building, floating on large pontoons, had a veranda with up to 30 seats and a 21 square meter common room, which was decorated with paintings by Düsseldorf painters, among other things. a. the depiction of a “rowing regatta” by Frederick Vezin and the allegory “Father Rhine surprised by mermaids in a canoe” by Peter von Krafft . In the spring of 1884, the Düsseldorf rowing club joined the Middle Rhine Regatta Association . In order to perfect himself in the technique of rowing, the English trainer Charles Brightwell was hired in 1884 and 1885. These efforts bore fruit: In 1887 the Düsseldorf rowing club, which had grown to 118 members, won all six regattas in which it took part, so that the German Rowing Association stated in its starting list of October 13, 1887 that no other German rowing club had been so successful that year .

A specialty of the rowing club was the high proportion of painters among its members. In addition to Frederick Vezin , who acted as a rowing trainer, the list of members in 1887 identified the following painters:

Other members of the rowing club who later became famous were Erich von Flügge , Theodor von Guérard , Karl Hammacher , Hugo Haniel (1854–1896), Emil Hartwich , Hermann Heydweiler , Eduard Liesegang , Ernst Pfeffer von Salomon (1856–1923), Max Pfeffer von Salomon (1854–1918), Louis Piedboeuf (1874–1956), Albert Poensgen , Carl Rudolf Poensgen , Ernst Roeting , Max von Sandt , Ernst Schiess , Hermann Schmincke , Max Trinkaus and Eugen Wolff .

Before the security harbor was filled in at the end of the 19th century for the construction of the Oberkassel Bridge , the association found a new domicile on the "Golzheimer Insel", on today's Robert-Lehr-Ufer (formerly Hofgartenufer) at the level of the Kunstpalast , south of the Rheinpark Golzheim . When it entered the 20th century, the association had grown to 150 members. A training team was formed that successfully took part in the regattas on the Lahn and Rhine and brought many trophies to Düsseldorf. Ernst Poensgen was chairman in the 1920s . From the end of the 1930s, the association also opened up to accept female members. The Düsseldorf women's rowing club was merged with the Düsseldorf rowing club. After the floating boathouse at Rheinpark Golzheim was destroyed in the last days of the Second World War, the association moved to Düsseldorf- Hamm to a boathouse on solid ground. On January 17, 1961, the club changed its name to Düsseldorfer Ruderverein 1880 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ David John Day: From Barclay to Brickett: Coaching Practices and Coaching Lives in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century England . Dissertation De Montfort University, Leicester 2008, p. 54
  2. ↑ Clubs: Düsseldorfer Ruderverein eV, chairman Ernst Poensgen, Malkastens. 11, Bootshaus am Kunstpalast , in Düsseldorfer address book, 1924, p. 33
  3. ^ Association history , website in the portal drv1880.de , accessed on November 26, 2017
  4. ↑ Official Journal for the Düsseldorf administrative region , Volume 144 (1961), p. 47 ( digitized version )