ESG Frankonia Karlsruhe
| Surname | Eisenbahner Sportgemeinschaft Frankonia Karlsruhe e. V. |
|---|---|
| Club colors | Green-white-red |
| Founded | December 16, 1895 |
| Association headquarters | Durlacher Allee 112, 76137 Karlsruhe |
| Members | 1300 (2006) |
| Departments | 17 departments |
| Homepage | esgfrankonia.de |
The ESG Frankonia Karlsruhe e. V. ( ESG Frankonia ) is one of the largest popular sports clubs in the city of Karlsruhe with 1300 members and currently has 17 departments. The club was created in 1959 from the merger between FC Frankonia Karlsruhe, founded in 1895, and the Reichsbahn-Sportgemeinschaft Karlsruhe, founded in 1927. In ring tennis , the club is 22-time German team champion.
history
FC Frankonia
Frankonia was created on December 16, 1895 by members of the youth workers of the Franconia football group, founded in 1891 . This makes the club the third oldest football club still in existence in Karlsruhe after the Karlsruher FV and the Karlsruher SC . In 1897, the Association of South German Football Associations (VSFV) was joined. A separate athletics department was founded early on, and in 1899 it organized a competition for the first time, which was proclaimed the "National Olympic Games". This is considered to be the first athletics competition in Karlsruhe.
The footballers first played, like other Karlsruhe clubs, on the Körnerwiese (at the location of today's Lessing-Gymnasium ) in Weststadt and then switched to Engländerplatz. In 1901 there was a dispute with FC Phönix, which was also playing there, and it was suspected that the members had “unclean elements (socialists)”. In 1899 the club took part in the South German Championship for the first time. In the 1903/04 season there was a playoff for participation in the South German Championship between Frankonia and Karlsruhe FV. The KFV appealed against the game won 4: 3 due to a formal error and finally won the replay with 1: 3.
In 1909 the club changed the venue after a ten-year lease agreement for a site on Rintheimer Strasse had been concluded with several Rintheim farmers. The inauguration of the sports field was celebrated in 1910 with a game against FC Zurich (0: 5). During the First World War, however, the association had to leave this area to the city for growing vegetables. After the war they played one season at FC Germania Durlach . After that, the city of Frankonia, whose members were mostly workers from the east and south of the city, made part of the measuring site available, on the condition that it had to be available during trade fairs. Since then, the club has had its headquarters on the premises at Durlacher Allee . In the 1920s, Frankonia only played for one year in 1921/22 in the top division of Baden, from which they had to relegate in 1922 due to a redesign of the divisions.
After the National Socialists came to power, the association was not dissolved despite its proximity to the organized workforce. The Frankonia played at this time ( 1932/33 season ) as a climber in the Baden group of the Württemberg / Baden district league, the top division. After the end of the season, the highest German leagues were re- divided into Gauligen . Since only the first six teams from the district league were taken into account for the Gauliga Baden , Frankonia, which was only 7th out of 10 teams, had to relegate back to the second division.
With Kurt Ehrmann a later national player comes from the ranks of Frankonia; He played for the club's youth teams from 1930, but his conscription for military service at the end of 1940 prevented him from playing in the senior team, and after the war he played for the Karlsruhe FV in the major league. In 1949 the championship was won in the A-class and it was promoted to the 2nd amateur league after playoffs against FC Russheim. The footballers could no longer build on earlier successes, in Karlsruhe the FC Phönix, the VfB Mühlburg (which merged in 1952 to the Karlsruher SC) and initially the KFV dominated. In 1958, the city of Karlsruhe canceled the lease for the exhibition grounds and urged Frankonia to merge with other Karlsruhe sports clubs. After failed negotiations, including with the Karlsruher FV, a merger partner was finally found in “ESG Karlsruhe”.
ESG Karlsruhe
On April 29, 1927 it was founded as the Reichsbahn, Turn- und Sportverein Karlsruhe . The club colors were green and white. Between 1927 and 1928, the construction of a boathouse on the southwest basin of the Karlsruhe Rhine port was built. In 1939 the club was renamed the Reichsbahn-Sportgemeinschaft Karlsruhe . In the course of 1940 it came to the formation of a war community with the "FC Frankonia" in order to maintain the game operations. On May 31, 1946 it was re-established as a gymnastics and sports club in Karlsruhe 1927 , and in December 1946 it was renamed the Karlsruhe Railway Sports Association (ESG Karlsruhe). On August 7, 1959, there came the merger with the football club Frankonia Karlsruhe to Railroadman sports community Frankonia Karlsruhe (ESG Frankonia). With 1,300 members, the “railway workers” made up the far greater part of the active population than the 200 members of “FC Frankonia”. From 1952 onwards, after numerous players switched from Karlsruhe TV, a high-performance and competition-oriented ring tennis department was set up. This has developed into the most successful German team to this day.
At the German women's championships, Irmtraud Josche is the record winner with 22 titles between 1957 and 1985 and the men's Christian Herzog with 25 titles between 1988 and 2013. ESG Frankonia is the record winner at the German team championship with 22 titles between 1971 and 2003. With Christian Herzog, the club provided a participant in the 2006 World Ring Tennis Championships , he finished third in the single and double rankings and became world champion with the German team.
The tennis department founded on September 17, 1953 starts under the name TC Grün-Weiß Karlsruhe . In October 2000 the Karlsruhe billiard club was joined in 1935 .
Club area
The ESG club grounds are located on Durlacher Allee in the east of Karlsruhe , not far from the former marshalling yard and the Karlsruhe-Durlach motorway junction ( BAB 5 ). In addition to two soccer fields and the athletics facilities, there is also the clubhouse and the club's office. The club's own bowling alley is located in the club's restaurant.
The tennis department's facilities in Karlsruhe's Südstadt district include eight courts, a single-field hall and a clubhouse of its own (the tennis home was completed in 1966, the new tennis hall opened in 1967). The stand system and the air pressure hall for the sport shooters are located between Bulach and Weiherfeld (completion and inauguration of the new shooting hall with 10 systems in 2004).
From 1930 to 1932 extensive construction work took place on the new sports facility on Durlacher Allee: construction and inauguration of the sports field with a large sports festival (1932) and expansion of the athletics facility with running track, throwing and jumping facilities. Also at the external sports facilities in the basement of the main train station: construction of the bowling alley (training facility until 1997) and construction of the shooting range (training facility until 1997).
Between 1948 and 1958: Takeover and expansion of a barrack as a changing room, club room and apartment (1948 to 1951), installation of four ring tennis fields (1950), installation of two more ring tennis fields (1953), construction of today's changing and shower rooms (1955 to 1958 ), Construction and inauguration of two tennis courts on Stuttgarter Strasse (1954).
Between 1959 and 1963: planning, construction, topping-out ceremony (January 17, 1961) and inauguration (March 1, 1962) of the new clubhouse, completion of four new ring tennis fields (1960), commissioning of the sprinkler system (1961), construction of two boccia lanes (1962), completion of the concrete playing field and the fistball fields (1962), completion of the second soccer field (1963), commissioning of the floodlights on the main playing field (1963) etc.
Between 1983 and 1985 construction and official inauguration of a new 4-lane bowling facility. 1992 renovation of the athletics facilities. ESG does not have its own sports hall. Indoor sports and winter training are practiced in different halls of Karlsruhe schools.
Departments
The ESG has the following 17 departments:
successes
- 1927 Hans Köhler from FC Frankonia won the Baden championship in the 10,000 meter run.
- 1928 The ESG fistball team won the south and south-west championships.
- 1965 Promotion of the fistball team to the Bundesliga.
- 2008 Promotion of the women's fistball team to the Bundesliga South.
- 106-time title holder at the German championships in ring tennis (singles / doubles / mixed, as of 2018).
German team champion in ring tennis: 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003.
Homes
The association still owns two rest homes in the Black Forest. These are the Schneckenhäusle on Lake Titisee and the Schindler House in Brandmatt . It is rented to anyone who is interested, membership of a club is not necessary.
literature
- Ernst Otto Bräunche, Stadtarchiv Karlsruhe (ed.): Sport in Karlsruhe - from the beginning until today . Info-Verlag, Karlsruhe 2006, ISBN 3-88190-440-9 , pp. 198-201.
- ESG Frankonia Karlsruhe eV (Ed.): 100 years ESG Frankonia. 1895-1995. Club history in words and pictures . Festschrift, Karlsruhe 1995.
Individual evidence
- ↑ As of 2006, according to Bräunche: Sport in Karlsruhe , p. 201.
- ↑ karlsruhe.de ( Memento from November 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Bräunche: Sport in Karlsruhe , S. 199th
- ↑ Bräunche: Sport in Karlsruhe , p.15
- ↑ 35 years of the Karlsruher Fußballclub Frankonia e. V .: 1895-1930. Festschrift, 1930.
- ↑ Bräunche: Sport in Karlsruhe , S. 200th
- ^ Karlsruhe sports archive
- ↑ Bräunche: Sport in Karlsruhe , S. 79th
- ↑ Bräunche: Sport in Karlsruhe , p 201
- ↑ tc-gruen-weiss-ka.de ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ esg-schuetzen.de
- ↑ faustballartikel.de
- ↑ title holder DM ring tennis
