Frankfurt Polo Club
The Frankfurter Polo Club e. V. promotes polo in Germany. In Nied, the club has a facility on the Nidda with a polo pitch the size of a tournament, the polo pitch at Georgshof . There is a sand track that runs down the polo pitch, a riding arena and stables for 60 polo ponies.
The Polo Club Hessen and a polo school are also active on the polo pitch at Georgshof .
history
The Frankfurt Polo Club was founded in 1902 on the initiative of Carl von Weinberg and is therefore one of the oldest polo clubs in Germany.
The first tournament site was laid out in the Niederrad district of Frankfurt , on the Waldfried site. Carl von Weinberg also ran a large horse breeding company there. The street Am Poloplatz in Niederrad still bears witness to this today . There is also a riding stable called "Waldfried". In August 1904 the first official polo tournament took place in Niederrad. In 1907 the Frankfurt Polo Club was entered in the association register.
Until shortly before the Second World War, Frankfurt was a center of polo in Germany. Functionaries of the Hitler regime observed this international group, which had information outside their sphere of influence, very skeptically and banned the polo game in Frankfurt. The association was officially deleted from the register of associations on October 9, 1934.
On August 11, 1992, the Frankfurt Polo Club was re-established in Frankfurt-Nied .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 6, 2017 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. Polo Club Hessen
- ↑ http://www.polomatch.de/de/ueber-uns.html Polo Match
- ^ Family von Weinberg Frankfurt: Persecuted, but not forgotten , Mirco Overländer, Frankfurter Neue Presse, November 9, 2013
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 29.9 " N , 8 ° 34 ′ 25.8" E