Holsatia Elmshorn
Holsatia Elmshorn was a sports club from Elmshorn in the Pinneberg district . The first soccer team played for 13 years in the highest amateur league in Hamburg .
history
On September 9, 1907, the FC Holsatia Elmshorn was founded; Its first chairman was Johannes Minet, and the game was played on the premises of the riding and driving school. Another association was established in 1908 under the direction of the secondary school teacher Schulz, the SuS Elmshorn ; both played in the Hamburg-Altona district of the NFV . On April 3, 1910, the Holsaten were able to inaugurate their own sports field "Wilhelmshöhe" in the north of the city.
In 1919 and 1921 there were attempts to merge with the Elmshorn MTV or to become its football department , but the "merger" is said to have failed both times due to the veto of general meetings. In the local press at the beginning of the 1919/20 season, however, there was talk of EMTV's “Holsatia” football division . In later years, mergers of this kind were no longer possible until the early 1930s because of the “clean separation” between gymnastics and sport . Instead, Holsatia and SuS merged to form the SuS Holsatia of 1907 .
In terms of sport, the Holsaten had already dared to challenge the regional top dogs Altona 93 in 1908 , although they were defeated 0:10 on their own pitch. For the 1923/24 season, the club reached first place in the second-class A-class Hamburg Season 1 , which entitled to participate in the relegation round Greater Hamburg . This was successfully designed so that the club played in the top division from 1924/25 . After relegation in 1926, the team was able to return there again in the 1927/28 season. In the meantime she had the common nickname “the brave” in the trade press. After the Second World War , they were promoted to Hamburg's top division in 1947, to which Holsatia belonged until 1950. After the team played with modest success in the Hamburg lower house between 1953 and 1958, the most successful period in the club's history began with the renewed promotion of the association league in 1960.
In 1962, the team was only able to secure relegation in the playoff against the amateurs of Altona 93 . After the runner-up in 1964, she was promoted to the Landesliga Hamburg (former name) a year later , where she immediately finished third. This qualified the Elmshorners for the German amateur championship . Here Holsatia was eliminated in the first round against Rapide Wedding . A year later, the Elmshorns were third again and missed the promotion round to Regionalliga Nord by just one point. At the German Amateur Championship, STV Horst-Emscher was able to prevail against Holsatia in the first round. In 1971 the Elmshorns rose again from the state league.
The return to the Hamburg upper house succeeded in 1974. Three years later, the Elmshorn descended again and in 1983 had to go to the district league. At the same time, the club lost its local leadership role to local rivals lawn sport . It went up for the last time in the mid-1980s. In 1985 Holsatia rose to the state league and two years later to the Hamburg Association. In between, the team reached the final of the Hamburg Cup in 1986 , which was lost 5-0 to FC St. Pauli . The so far last guest appearance in the Hamburg upper house ended with the immediate relegation.
In 1993 the team was relegated from the regional league and continued playing in the regional league. Two years later, the district league promotion followed. After a merger had failed in 2000, Holsatia actually merged with Elmshorn MTV on June 30, 2005. The footballers have since appeared as Holsatia on Elmshorn MTV . In 2011, the team was relegated from the district league and was then passed through to the district class, where it is on the ball with three men's teams (in three parallel seasons) in 2015/16.
literature
- Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 , p. 99.
Individual evidence
- ^ Egon Boesten: Sports history of the city of Elmshorn and 150 years of Elmshorn MTV (contributions to Elmshorn history, Volume 23) , Elmshorn 2010, p. 26.
- ↑ founded in February or March of the same year; At the first foundation festival the following year, the SuS already had 365 members, according to the Elmshorner Nachrichten (EN) on March 16, 1909 on page 2
- ↑ According to the announcement in the EN of April 2, 1910, "Konkordia" was to be played on this occasion , but there was no match report on the following days.
- ↑ Egon Boesten: Sports history of the city of Elmshorn and 150 years of Elmshorner MTV (contributions to Elmshorn history, Volume 23) , Elmshorn 2010, pp. 33 and 36. According to this source, the club name was already SuS Holsatia in 1921 .
- ↑ EN of September 2, 1919
- ↑ The time of the merger is unclear, but the SuS still existed at the beginning of the 1920s and played on the “place at the racetrack”, cf. City of Elmshorn (Ed.), Contributions to Elmshorn History Volume 4, Labor Movement, page 86
- ↑ EN of March 1, 1908, page 2