Ice hockey in Hamburg
Ice hockey has been successfully played on a national level in Hamburg since the 1930s, but since it was founded in 2002 , the Hamburg Freezers were the first team from the Hanseatic city in over 50 years to take part in the top German ice hockey division. There are currently nine teams in the German ice hockey leagues for men and two for women . Ice hockey is organized in the city-state by the Hamburg Ice and Roller Sports Association .
organization
The organization of ice hockey at the state level is subject to the Hamburg Ice and Roller Sports Association , which is a member of the DEB . The HERV was founded in 1891 from nine clubs and was initially responsible for the practice of speed skating and figure skating , later also for curling and from the 1930s also for ice hockey in Hamburg. Until 2013/14, the association organized the fifth-rate Hanseliga (Landesliga Hamburg until 2008/09) in which teams from the Hanseatic city and other teams from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein compete.
history
Altonaer SV
Altonaer SV from 1893 is one of the oldest ice sports clubs in Germany and has been operating ice hockey in Germany since the early days of the sport. In 1934, the club took part for the first time in the final round of the German championship , which was held in Schierke as part of the winter fighting games of the National Socialist Reichsbund, affiliated to the NSDAP . However, as in the following year, the club missed the championship title. In 1937, the ASV was reported again as a representative of the Hamburg district, but in its preliminary group, which was held from February 2 to 4 in Krefeld, with three defeats only fourth and last place and thus missed the final round. In the title fights in Munich the following year , the team was also eliminated in the preliminary round with three defeats.
After the Second World War , the ASV first played in lower-class leagues and associations, but then took the place of the withdrawn SC Brandenburg in the third-class group league for the 1962/63 season . In this division, which was called Regionalliga from 1965 , the Altonaer SV played until 1972 , but then voluntarily withdrew from the game. In 1973 the ASV took part again in the game operations of the now fourth-rate regional league and in 1976 was North German champion in the regional league with Claus Speth from the Düsseldorfer EG.
After a break between 1978 and 1980, the ASV withdrew again from the league in 1981 . After many years in the national leagues, the ASV joined Hamburger SV as a whole in 2003 , but already registered two senior teams under its name for play in 2005, which are now competing in the fourth-class North Association and the fifth-class Hamburg regional league. The Altonaer SV teams play their home games in the Stellingen ice rink in the district of the same name .
EG Hamburg
The EG Hamburg took part in 1947/48 as one of twelve teams from the western occupation zones in the first German championship after the Second World War, but failed already in the preliminary round. Then the club played in the game operations of the regional associations and finally disbanded.
Harvestehuder THC
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The Harvestehuder tennis and hockey club Hamburg took in 1936 at the Gaumeisterschaft part and was from 1948 to 1953 each master of the Hamburg ice and roller sports federation and managed to be the first Hamburg club in 1950 the rise in the highest German league, which at that time the league represented . There the HTHC took second place in the group north behind the Düsseldorfer EG , but had to relegate from the league due to the reduction in the league from twelve to eight teams.
Gustav Jaenecke , the most popular German ice hockey player of the 1920s and 1930s, was a guest member of the Harvestehuder THC at the time. Harvestehuder THC later took part in lower-class leagues and dissolved its ice hockey department in 1954.
Hamburg ice skating club
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From 1955, the Hamburg ice skating club from 1881 , the oldest ice skating club in Germany, was the best team in the Hanseatic city, with the exception of 1959, when EG Hamburg won the Hamburg championship title. A possible promotion was either waived or the team failed in qualifying.
In 1961, the HSC moved into the newly created third-class group league, in which the club competed until 1968 and last year only missed promotion to the second-class league in the qualifying round . Then they joined the newly founded ice hockey department of Hamburger SV .
Hamburger SV
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In 1968 an independent ice hockey department was founded within Hamburger SV . At that time ice hockey was played in the Hamburg amusement park “Planten und Blomen”, whereby the players had to pay admission for the park and set up the gang themselves. HSV took the place of the Hamburg Regional SC and has already in the first year in the league ascend. There, however, the class could not be held and after only one year in the second division, Hamburger SV was relegated back to the regional division.
With the introduction of the new 2nd Bundesliga in 1973 , the club was classified in the third-class league, in which HSV established itself in the following years. In 1980 the team was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga for the first time, but was not promoted due to financial problems. For the 1981/82 season, the HSV finally moved up to the topped up 2. Bundesliga. After the 1984/85 season , HSV withdrew its team to the regional league, but SC Condor Hamburg could have moved up to the top division, whereas Hamburger SV successfully appealed.
In 1987 HSV was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga again. However, the team was withdrawn in 1987/88 after the preliminary round and resumed playing in the lowest division the following year as SV Hamburg . After the promotion to the regional league, the SVH finally took on the old name Hamburger SV again . In 1990 , the club was able to move up again in the league, but the team was withdrawn again before the 1992/93 season in the regional league and rose there directly back to the regional league.
With the introduction of the German Ice Hockey League in 1994 and the associated division of leagues, HSV was able to move up to the 2nd Northern League , but in 1997 the team was again withdrawn from the regional associations. Currently, the first team takes part in the fourth-rate Regionalliga Nord , while the second team plays in the fifth-rate Verbandsliga Nord and the third team competes in the sixth-rate Landesliga Nord under the additional name Oldtimers. The women's team, which moved from Altonaer SV to HSV in 2003, and EHC Timmendorfer Strand 06 form the SG HSV / Timmendorf syndicate, which plays in the third-class 1st women's division North. The men's and women's teams play their home games in the Stellingen ice rink.
SC Condor Hamburg
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The ice hockey department of SC Condor Hamburg was founded in 1977 and played in the fourth-class regional league. The greatest success was the qualification for the relegation round to the Oberliga Nord 1978/79 . After the 1983/84 season , the club, which had always remained second behind Hamburger SV, stopped playing ice hockey.
1. EHC Hamburg
The 1. EHC Hamburg was founded in 1984 by disappointed members and fans of Hamburger SV and started with it in 1984/85 in the Regionalliga Nord. In its first year, the EHC rose to the top league together with HSV. After HSV withdrew in 1988, the 1st EHC was Hamburg's strongest force. In the 1988/89 season the 1st EHC was second in the Oberliga Nord and qualified in the relegation round for the 2nd Bundesliga. The 1989/90 season ended the club in 7th place in the group north and received the sporting class, but went bankrupt after the season and finally stopped the game.
Crocodiles Hamburg
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The ice hockey department of the Farmenser Turnverein Hamburg was founded in 1990 as "FTV Crocodiles" and the direct successor of the 1st EHC Hamburg. The players of all EHC teams switched to Farmsener TV, which began playing in the national league in 1990. The number of viewers initially leveled off at an average of just 80 viewers.
In 1996 the entrepreneur Klaus-Peter Jebens became the sole shareholder of the Spielbetriebs-GmbH Crocodiles Hamburg, which was spun off from the parent club FTV . The Farmsen ice rink was renovated so that in 1997 the team was able to meet the requirements for the second-rate first division north . Third in the qualifying round, the Crocodiles qualified for the new Bundesliga , which was the second highest German division under the German Ice Hockey League and as the 2nd Bundesliga from the 1999/00 season .
In the summer of 2000, the Crocodiles, who had reached the play-off quarter-finals of the 1999/00 season, tried to buy the DEL license from the eliminated Starbulls Rosenheim and move up to the DEL. However, the approval of the sale was not given by the DEL shareholders' meeting, whereupon the GmbH was dissolved by the sole shareholder. The club FTV succeeded with a new GmbH to continue the game operations in the Oberliga Nord for one season, after which the game operations had to be finally stopped. The team was then reintegrated into the parent club Farmsener TV, but continued to play under the name Crocodiles Hamburg in the Association League North.
In 2004 the club managed to get promoted to the fourth-class regional league, but due to the additional costs incurred through the longer journeys, the 2005/06 season saw another financial crash and the withdrawal to the association league. In 2008, the Crocodiles were unbeaten association league champions. Nevertheless, for sporting and above all financial reasons, the promotion to the Regionalliga Nord-Ost was avoided, but a new team was founded with the Crocodiles Juniors , which took their place in the Association League, while the first team had to relegate to the Landesliga Hamburg and there when Hamburg Corodiles 1b started . For the 2009/10 season , the club played with the first team again in the Regionalliga Nord, which in 2010 became the third-class Oberliga Nord.
Hamburg Freezers
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In July 2002, the Munich Barons from the German Ice Hockey League moved to Hamburg on the decision of their owner, the Anschutz Entertainment Group , where they played in the newly built Color Line Arena until 2016 . Until the 2016/17 season, the Freezers were the first team since Harvestehuder THC was relegated from the league in 1951 and competed in the top German ice hockey division.
Already in its first season in the Hanseatic city, the franchise reached the play-offs as a preliminary round eight, but failed there in the quarter-finals to the Eisbären Berlin . Reinforced with a large number of former players from the North American professional leagues NHL and AHL as well as the new coach Dave King , the Freezers achieved their best position in the main round in the following year with a third place, in the play-off semi-finals the Hamburgers were eliminated against eventual champions Frankfurt Lions , but celebrated their greatest athletic success. In the following years the team reached the play-offs again and again, directly or indirectly, but failed there in the quarter-finals. On May 25, 2016, the Anschutz Entertainment Group made it clear that it would stop the Hamburg Freezers from playing due to the failure to apply for the 2016/17 season.
Current teams
Men's
| class | league | societies |
|---|---|---|
| I. |
 DEL
|
- |
| II |
 2nd Bundesliga
|
- |
| III |
 Oberliga
|
Crocodiles Hamburg |
| IV |
 Regionalliga North
|
 Hamburger SV
|
| V |
Association League North |
 Altonaer SV Crocodiles Hamburg 1b Hamburger SV 1b
|
| VI |
National League North |
Hamburg Sailors Altonaer SV 1b Molot Hamburg Crocodiles Hamburg 1c Hamburger SV 1c Oldtimers
|
Women
| class | league | societies |
|---|---|---|
| I. |
Bundesliga
|
no |
| II | 2nd League North | no |
| III |
1st women's league north / east |
SG Hamburger SV / Timmendorf Crocodiles Hamburg ASV Penguins Hamburg |
Ice rinks
Stellingen ice rink
After the Hamburg teams had to play their games on an ice rink in the Planten un Blomen amusement park , construction of an ice hockey rink began in 1969 within the 1961 bicycle stadium in Hamburg-Stellingen , which was finally completed in 1970. In 1995, the previous open-air ice rink, including the 250-meter-long cycling track, was roofed with a 7,000-square-meter tent roof. In the period from 1978 to the completion of the roof in Stellingen, Hamburger SV moved to the ice rink in Farmsen. Today the men's and women's teams play again on the ice rink on Hagenbeckstrasse. For ice hockey games, there is space for 1,500 spectators in the stadium.
Ice rink ramparts
The ice rink in the Hamburger Wallanlagen , part of the park of Planten un Blomen am Holstenwall , became the successor to an ice rink that had existed at various locations since the end of the 19th century as part of the redesign of the park for the International Horticultural Exhibition (IGA 1973) (on the Heiligengeistfeld , later in the park itself). Today's INDOO ice arena in Planten un Blomen is still one of the largest open-air artificial ice rinks in the world with an area of 4300 square meters, but is no longer used for ice hockey games (roller skating rink in summer).
Farmsen ice rink
The ice rink in Hamburg-Farmsen (also Eisland ) was opened in 1978 and today has a capacity of 2,300 seats. Today the stadium is the home ground of the Crocodiles Hamburg .
Barclaycard Arena
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The Barclaycard Arena (Color Line Arena until April 2010, O 2 World Hamburg from 2010 to 2015 ) opened on November 8, 2002 and was the home of the Hamburg Freezers until 2016. It is located in the Bahrenfeld district in the immediate vicinity of the Volksparkstadion .
The hall is 150 meters long, 110 meters wide and 33 meters high. The maximum capacity is 16,000 visitors, at sporting events only 12,947 due to the lack of indoor spaces. The construction costs amounted to around 83 million euros . The construction of the stadium was financed by the Finnish entrepreneur Harry Harkimo and the city of Hamburg, who sold the property to Harkimo for a symbolic price of one mark and, as a preparatory measure, improvements to the infrastructure for 12 million marks (around 6.1 million euros) executed. In October 2007 the hall was sold to the Anschutz Entertainment Group , the owner of Hamburg Freezers, for an estimated 75 million euros .
Volksbank Arena
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In December 2006, as part of the Hamburg Sportpark master plan , the plans for the construction of a new ice and ball sports arena in the Altonaer Volkspark , which had been required for a long time, were presented, which was completed in 2008 and given the name Volksbank Arena .
In addition to the handball players of HSV Hamburg , the arena was mainly used by the Hamburg Freezers and currently by the Hamburg Sailors for training purposes and test matches. Today the hall is also available for public ice skating.
Web links
Associations
- Official website of the Hamburg Ice and Roller Sports Association
- Official website of the Lower Saxony Ice Sports Association
societies
- Official website of the ice hockey department of Altonaer SV
- Official website of the Hamburg Freezers
- Official website of the ice hockey department of Hamburger SV
- Official website of FTV Hamburg Crocodiles
- Official website of the HTHC Hamburg
- Official website for Molot EC Hamburg
Stages
- Official website of the Barclaycard Arena (ex Color Line Arena and O2 World Hamburg)
- Official website of the ice rink / Eisland Farmsen
- Official website of the INDOO Eisarena Planten un Blomen (ice rink "Große Wallanlagen")
- Official website of the Volksbank Arena
- Private homepage for ice rink Stellingen
Individual evidence
- ↑ herv.de, history ( Memento of the original dated 6 September 2005 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed June 21, 2009
- ↑ hockeyweb.de, Landesliga Hamburg , last accessed on June 21, 2009
- ^ Müller, Stephan: German ice hockey championships . Norderstedt: Books on Demand. 2000. ISBN 3-8311-0997-4 . P. 17.
- ^ Müller: German ice hockey championships . Pp. 21-23.
- ↑ http://www.rodi-db.de/player.php?id=30820
- ^ Müller: German ice hockey championships . P. 29.
- ↑ a b http://www.hthc.de , Milestones ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Müller: German ice hockey championships . P. 39.
- ↑ Manfred Schäffer, Lutz Wagner: How the puck hunt came to Hamburg. November 12, 2002, accessed on August 6, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Crocodiles rise. (No longer available online.) In: testbeta.hockeyweb.de. August 25, 2010, archived from the original on October 25, 2017 ; accessed on May 23, 2017 . 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.
- ↑ Hamburg Cycling Association - Stellingen Cycling Track
- ↑ hockeyarenas.net, Eisstadion Stellingen , last accessed on June 21, 2009
- ↑ hockeyarenas.net, Eissporthalle Farmsen , last accessed on June 21, 2009
- ^ Hamburger Abendblatt Online, Hamburger Color-Line-Arena sold to Anschutz Entertainment Group , last accessed on June 21, 2009
