German skittles and bowling association

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Deutscher Kegler- und Bowlingbund e. V.
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Founded June 1885
Place of foundation Dresden
president Uwe Oldenburg
societies 1,539
Members 74,910
Association headquarters Berlin
Homepage www.kegelnundbowling.de

The German Kegler- und Bowlingbund e. V. ( DKB ) is the leading association for skittles and bowling in Germany. The DKB is a member of the German Olympic Sports Confederation and the Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs .

tasks

The purpose and task of the DKB is:

  • to promote skittles and bowling as top-level and competitive sport as well as popular and recreational sport as planned
  • To represent the German skittles and bowling sport in the state and society as well as to national and international sports organizations in coordination with the discipline associations
  • to support all efforts to establish and maintain sport-friendly skittle and bowling alleys and to issue the necessary technical regulations
  • to organize German championships and other sporting activities.
  • To train and educate sporty managers and teachers
  • youth work according to the principles of the DKB-youth order in the sense of the German Sportjugend and German Sports Federation to promote

history

100 years DKB: Postage stamp from 1985

In November 1884, several bowling clubs joined forces in Krefeld and founded the bowling association of the Rhine and Ruhr. In that year the German bowling and skating newspaper appeared. After the first local association was established in Berlin , the Central Association of German Bowling Clubs was founded at the bowling congress in Dresden in June 1885 . From 1886 national festivals were held regularly on the asphalt and plank railways recognized at the time. In December 1889 the Central Association of German Bowlers was renamed the German Bowling Federation (DKB) . The first German championships and the first three-lane comparison match with the USA on plank, asphalt and bowling alleys took place in 1891. The scissors lane was only approved by the German bowling association in 1921, the bowling lane was approved as a further type of lane in 1929.

After the dissolution in World War II , the German bowling association was re-established in Bielefeld in 1950 . The first world championships on scissor tracks took place in Essen in 1955 . The first fully automatic cone setting machines were also put into operation in Germany. The 23rd and so far last national festival of the DKB was held in Berlin in 1965 on scissor, plank, bowling and asphalt lanes. There were 48 bowling alleys available for 5018 registered starts.

The first bowling alleys with a plastic tread were installed in the early 1970s. At the 1974 World Cup, the first asphalt Euro-tracks were presented (without boards, with a false throw channel). In 1985 the DKB celebrated its 100th anniversary, in December 1990 the new federal states were admitted to the DKB.

Railway types

The following types of railways have been approved by the DKB:

  • The Classicbahn, which is mainly located in southern and southeastern Germany (Baden, Bavaria, Saxony, Thuringia, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, southern Baden and Württemberg), consists of a 19.50 m long and 1.50 m (with lateral limitation due to false throw channels) wide ball tread made of asphalt or plastic.
  • The screed run, which is used mainly in northern Germany (Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein), consists of a 23.50 m long and 0.35 m wide grooved ball tread made of wood or plastic, with the track having an overall gradient of 10 cm.
  • The Scherenbahn, whose catchment area is in western Germany (Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland), consists of an 18 m long, also grooved running surface, with a width of 0.35 m to 9.50 m Extended to 1.25 m like scissors. This running surface is also made of wood or plastic.
  • The bowling alley, spread throughout Germany, consists of an 18.28 to 18.30 m long and 1.041 to 1.065 m wide running surface made of parquet.

Disciplinary Associations

A discipline association has been formed for each type of track approved in the DKB - screed, bowling, classic and scissors. This has the legal status of a section.

Disciplinary Association Abbreviation Track type Members
German bowling association Classic DKBC Classic 56%
German Bohle Bowling Association DBKV Bohle 24%
German scissors-bowling association DSKB scissors 12%
German Bowling Union DBU bowling 9%

Members

Traditionally, the game disciplines are regionally different. In five federal states, in addition to the dominant track, another one is relatively heavily used: Saxony-Anhalt (Bohle in 2nd place), Lower Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse (Schere) and Brandenburg (Classic). The following table, which can be sorted, breaks down the DKB members in absolute numbers and relative proportions according to regional associations and types of railway.

serial no. Regional association Bohle Classic scissors bowling total Screed (%) Classic (%) Scissors (%) Bowling (%)
1 Schleswig-Holstein 8127 663 8790 92 8th
2 Hamburg 3650 922 4572 80 20th
3 Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 2811 275 3086 91 9
4th Bremen 2728 364 3092 88 12
5 Lower Saxony 13051 104 2732 1482 17369 75 1 16 9
6th Berlin 3701 314 16 1760 5791 64 5 0 30th
7th Brandenburg 3895 1772 346 6013 65 29 6th
8th Saxony-Anhalt 1936 5579 213 7728 25th 72 3
9 Saxony 131 13596 128 13855 1 98 1
10 Thuringia 9895 196 10091 98 2
11 Bavaria 32725 2638 35363 93 7th
12 to bathe 7900 1141 9041 87 13
13 South Baden 4363 21st 4384 100 0
14th Württemberg 6934 1538 8472 82 18th
15th Rhineland-Palatinate 4473 3004 412 7889 57 38 5
16 Hesse 54 7316 2712 1718 11800 0 62 23 15th
17th North Rhine-Westphalia 49 9741 1815 11605 0 84 16
18th Saarland 2005 20th 2025 99 1
DKB total 40133 94971 20210 15652 170966 23 56 12 9

Bureau

DKB - Presidium
president Uwe Oldenburg
Vice President Administration Dany Rosengard-Beck
Vice President Finance Holger Zurek
Vice President Youth Ulrike Klaus
Section Presidents
DKBC President Franz Schumacher
DBKV President Jürgen Ketelhake
DSKB President Carsten Schinke
DBU President Dieter Rechenberg

literature

  • Horst A. Haas: Bowling according to new rules. (= Humboldt-Taschenbuch. 243). Humboldt-Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-581-66243-4 .
  • Georg Bocsai: Primer for bowling friends. Sports and leisure skittles, bowling (= Falken-Bücherei. 191). Falken, Niederhausen / Ts. 1993, ISBN 3-8068-0191-6 .
  • Gerhard Gromann: Fit with skittles (= Falken-Bücherei. 2301). Falken, Niederhausen / Ts. 1988, ISBN 3-8068-2301-4 .
  • Deutscher Keglerbund (Ed.): 50 years of the Deutscher Keglerbund e. V. The history and the golden book of the German bowling association e. V. Published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary on June 7, 1935. Deutscher Keglerbund, Wernigerode am Harz 1935.
  • Deutscher Keglerbund (Ed.): Commemorative publication for the 100th anniversary of the German Keglerbund. 1885-1985. German Bowling Association, Berlin 1985.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 2018 inventory (PDF; 606 kB) German Olympic Sports Confederation, accessed on March 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Download center of the DKB: DKB statutes
  3. ↑ DKB Chronicle ( Memento from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Sportkeglerverband Brandenburg e. V. Types of Railway ( Memento from September 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Sports bowling association Brandenburg , 2009.