ESV Wuppertal West
| Surname | Railway Sports Club Wuppertal West 1926 eV |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1926 |
| Members | approx. 700 (2011) |
| Departments | 11 |
| Chairman | Bernd Margolf |
| Homepage | www.esv-wuppertal-west.de/ |
The Eisenbahner Sportverein Wuppertal West 1926 eV , ESV Wuppertal West for short , is a German sports club from the Bergisch city of Wuppertal . It is one of the larger clubs in the west of Wuppertal.
The club is known nationwide for its fistball team, which last played in the 1st Fistball Bundesliga North in the 2010 season .
Departments
The association has eleven departments:
- Archery , Fistball , Kung Fu / Qigong , gymnastics , Jiu Jitsu , children's gymnastics , horseback riding and riding , skiing , tennis , table tennis , Zumba
Sports facilities
The ESV maintains three sports facilities for fistball, tennis and archery as well as the Distelbeck sports hall.
history
The club was founded on August 27, 1926 as the Reichsbahn gymnastics and sports club by 24 railway workers and in the same year was a founding member of the Verband Eisenbahner Sportvereine (VDES) in Frankfurt am Main . Sports were initially held on the Freudenberg and in the gymnasium of the Aue high school, fistball, soccer and handball were played on a sports field of the Reichsbahn in Barmen . In 1933 the association bought a boathouse in the Düsseldorf district of Hamm . In 1934 the fencing department was founded, and in 1936 the gym in the Distelbeck was inaugurated. In the same year the ESV had 600 members and established an accordion division. In 1939, the Röbe-Platz sports field near Wuppertal's main train station was inaugurated; the number of members had now grown to 1,100.
The gymnasium was destroyed in the bombing raids on Wuppertal in 1942 , Röbe-Platz had to be left to Deutsche Bahn in 1949 due to its own needs , a replacement area was found in Vohwinkel on today's Homannstrasse . The ski department was founded in 1950, the table tennis department in 1951, the swimming department in 1952 and the bowling department in 1953. By 1957 the destroyed gymnasium was rebuilt in house, followed by the construction of the sports home in 1959. In 1963 the judo department was founded. In 1970, the Züschen train station in Winterberg, Upper Sauerland , which had been closed four years earlier, was taken over and used as a ski home until it was closed in 2006.
The shooting department was founded in 1972, the karate department in 1973, the jiu-jitsu department in 2000, the archery department in 2002 and the kung fu department in 2010. On July 25, 2009, the men's field fistball players rise again to the fistball Bundesliga after they had played in this league in the 2007 season. They had not managed to stay up and played in the 2011 season in the 2nd Fistball Bundesliga North .
Individual evidence
- ^ National fistball team visiting Wuppertal , accessed February 2014