TuS Fortuna Saarburg
| TuS Fortuna Saarburg | |||
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| Surname | Gymnastics and Sports Club Fortuna 1884 Saarburg e. V. |
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| Seat | Saarburg , Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
| founding | 1884 | ||
| Colours | wine red / white | ||
| President | nn | ||
| Board | nn | ||
| Website | www.tus-fortuna-saarburg.de | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Soccer: Michael Sachse Handball: Dirk Moske |
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| Venue | Kammerforst Stadium | ||
| Places | 1,500 | ||
| league | Football: District League B Trier / Saar Handball: Verbandsliga West |
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The gymnastics and sports club Fortuna 1884 Saarburg , in short: TuS Fortuna Saarburg is a sports club in Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate .
The departments include handball and soccer . The club also offers gymnastics , athletics , gymnastics and aerobics , volleyball and badminton . With approx. 1300 members, the association is one of the largest associations in the region.
history
In June 1884, gymnasts founded the Saarburg gymnastics club . The first gymnastics lessons took place on self-made equipment in the Kaiserhalle (today Rassier book printing company). Ups and downs shaped the development of the club. The 26th foundation festival with the flag consecration on June 14, 1910 was an expression of its heyday. In the 1920s there were considerable successes in gymnastics, athletics, swimming and handball.
The merger of the gymnastics club Saarburg with the sports club Fortuna Saarburg in 1958 ushered in a new heyday of sport in Saarburg. The first course for a football club was set in 1913. The sports club was only founded in 1920 . Difficult times had to be survived through a re-establishment of the game association in 1930 until the re-establishment of the sports club Fortuna Saarburg in 1945. The period from 1945 onwards was marked by considerable success for footballers. The path led to the highest amateur class.
With the merger of the Gymnastics Club Saarburg with the sports club Fortuna Saarburg on August 5, 1958 to form today's club Turn- und Sportverein Fortuna 1884 Saarburg e. V. began a new era. The division of the association into independent departments led to a further development and intensification of the association's work.
Milestones:
- 1884 Foundation of the Saarburg gymnastics club
- 1920 Founding of the Saarburg Sports Club. 1920
- 1930 Construction of the club's own gym
- 1930 Founding of the game association 1930
- 1945 re-establishment of SV Fortuna Saarburg
- 1958 The gymnastics club Saarburg merges with the sports club Fortuna Saarburg to form the gymnastics and sports club Fortuna 1884 Saarburg e. V.
- 1973 Founding of the volleyball department and the gymnastics group
- 1974 division into independent departments
- 1975 Foundation of the handball department
- 1985 Foundation of the heart sports group
- 1989 Founding of the "Lauftreff" (athletics department)
- 1991 Foundation of the badminton department
- 2009 Foundation of the vaulting department
- 2011 Completion of the new Kammerforst stadium
Soccer
Football came into play in Saarburg after the First World War . The founding of a football club had been planned as early as 1913, but this project did not materialize when the First World War broke out. Immediately after the end of the war, the plan was resumed and in 1920 the Saarburg sports club was founded . First they played in the Hagen near the former slaughterhouse, and later on the square in Heckingstrasse . For a long time, the sports club lacked the financial foundation. The game operation caused high expenses, but the public interest remained very weak for a long time. The viewer income was not enough to cover the running costs. This fact led to an interruption of the club's activities and to the re-establishment of the players' association in 1930 , which was renamed into the sports club Fortuna in a merger . During the Second World War , sports activities were largely inactive.
After the occupation ban for gymnastics and sports was lifted, the club was rebuilt in 1945. It was re-established in the “Zur Linde” inn and called itself SV Fortuna Saarburg . The first chairman was Rudolf Rassier, who became an honorary member of the association in 1950. First they played on the Bonwiese in the Beurig district, later on the sports field in the Kammerforst. In 1947 the sports field on Heckingstrasse was available again, which had been provided with a concrete ceiling during the war because it was used as a vehicle and material store. In the 1st season they played in the probation class of the Saarland. After this one-year guest appearance, the team came into the district class.
In the 1950/51 season she rose to the state league, at that time the highest amateur class, which was located directly under the first-class Oberliga Südwest . The introduction of the II. Division as a new substructure for the Oberliga resulted in a league reform in the 1951/52 season, which resulted in the dissolution of the national leagues. The promotion was thus obsolete and Fortuna played for three years in the second amateur class before being promoted to the amateur league Rhineland-West, the third highest division at the time, in 1956.
The newcomer held up well there and finished the first season with a fourth place in the table. This was followed by a fifth and a sixth place, before the Saarburgers slipped over ninth place in 1959/60 to the bottom of the table and at the end of their seven-year third division finished in tenth place three times in a row. With the introduction of the Bundesliga and the associated reallocation of all classes, membership in the first amateur class was lost. TuS Fortuna played from then on in the Trier district league.
In 1971 the Saarburgers had to take the bitter path to the A-Class. The reasons were the departure or termination of the active season of some players. In the following years, the team occupied a place in midfield, the hoped for promotion to the district league was not achieved. By using the sports field as a fairground and festival area, the site, which was once one of the best sports facilities in the Trier administrative district, became increasingly unsuitable for major sporting events. Only the construction of the sports center in the Leukbachtal with a tennis court and grass field promised better conditions for the sporting area. Teams like Eintracht Trier and 1. FC Saarbrücken could be won for friendly games. In 1986 the time had finally come again. The promotion to the district class was done. But after just one year, the team had to return to the difficult gear of the A-Class. In the following years TuS Fortuna played more or less successfully in the top district class, before the football department's interim sporting low point was reached in 1994 when it was relegated to the B-class. Two years in a row, they barely missed the rise. Players and coaches left the club and so inexperienced young players from the junior division could not prevent relegation from the B-Class in 1997.
For the 2006/07 season Michael Lofy was brought to Saarburg as the new coach, from whom the club separated again during the winter break of the season. In January 2007, Horst Wagner took over the fortunes of Fortuna as the new trainer and was supposed to continue the successful work of his predecessors and set the course for a successful future. During his tenure in office they managed a good midfield position in the first two years and set ambitious goals again in the 2008/09 season and wanted to finally catch up with the top teams in the A-League. After many quarrels in the team and in the environment, the team crashed after a messed up start in the course of the first half of the season down to the last place in the table and had to hibernate there too. Already written off by many, after the second half of the second half of the remaining players and coach Horst Wagner a team grew back together, which freed itself from the table basement in only nine games of the second half. On the last game day of the season, a 3-0 home win against SG Rascheid / Geisfeld managed to keep the league, which was tight but deserved due to the strong second half of the season, and thus prevented the fall into the B-League. In the end, in the year of its 125th anniversary, Fortuna still had reason to celebrate and, together with the other departments, celebrated a big foundation festival in the Saarburg-Beurig school center in August 2009.
For the 2009/10 season, TuS Fortuna Saarburg entered into a syndicate with TuS Serrig under the name of SG Saarburg / Serrig due to the declining number of players and to secure gaming operations and started together with the neighbors with three senior teams. The coach of the newly established SG is Stephan Hartstein, who comes from FC Könen . In the 2010/11 season, the first team of the syndicate as bottom of the table could not prevent relegation to the ninth class district league B. In the 2011/12 season, the team, which was supplemented by many A youth players, only just missed direct promotion and at the end of the season, one point behind, "only" took third place in the district league B (Trier / Saar). However, the path of one's own youth will continue undeterred and the return to the A-League will continue to be firmly in sight over the next few years.
Handball
The first men's team in the 2011/2012 season was the top-class team of TuS Fortuna Saarburg. She played in the sixth class association league, Season West. After the team had to relegate to the association league as penultimate of the Rhineland League in the 2010/11 season, the first year in the association league was at the end of a good third place, which, however, narrowly missed promotion.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Chronicle of Saarburger football , website of TuS Fortuna Saarburg (March 25, 2008) ( Memento from February 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 , p. 504.
- ^ Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz / Saar 2007/08 , www.bundesligainfo.de (March 25, 2008)