BF Horster-Eck Essen 1959
BF Horster-Eck Essen 1959  |
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| founding | 1959 |
| Club colors | Green white |
| discipline | Collision |
| Board | Dirk Rosteck Frank Zimmer Sabine Koester |
| Venue | BillardSportZentrum Steele-Horst |
| league | Oberliga Niederrhein |
| 2014/15 | 5th place |
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| address | Dahlhauser Strasse 122 45279 Essen ⊙ |
| Homepage | horster-eck.com |
| As of January 29, 2016 | |
The BF Horster-Eck Essen 1959 are a billiards club ( Karambolage ) that was founded in 1959 in the restaurant "Horster Eck" and started in the 2nd district class Essen in the 1959/60 season . Today the club is the record champion with ten championships in the Bundesliga .
history
After the foundation and the 10th place in the 2nd district class, they made it to the 6th place in the next season. After the Horster-Eck restaurant was leased, championship games were suspended for three years. In August 1968 Hans-Dieter Waletzeck and his wife Mechthild took over the restaurant. They made a significant contribution to the development of the club. In the 1973/74 season the club was champions in the district league and rose to the state league. The three-cushion league was achieved at the state level in the 1980/81 season. The club achieved its greatest success up to that point in the 1982/83 season when it was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga, which was held in two groups of 8 teams each. The "BF * 1 Horster Eck" took 4th place in the final table. In the following season, the club won Group 2 and was promoted to the 1st Bundesliga with the following line-up:
- Free role : Ulrich Espenhain, Udo Sievers
- Binding : Uwe van den Berg
- Cadre 47/2 : Dirk Rosteck
- Three cushion : Horst Hamann, Dieter Stax
After just one season, however, they were relegated. In the 1983/84 season, when "Horster Eck" was fifth in Group 1 in the 2nd division, the 15-year-old young talent Martin Horn was used for the first time .
With the club member Fred Daus , who increasingly turned out to be a sponsor of the club, it was possible to strengthen himself decisively in the next season. With Fonsy Grethen a world class player has been committed. The result was the return to the first division. For the 1987/88 season it came to the first German championship through further high-level commitments. The master cast was:
- Free game : Klaus Kreutz (replacement for Martin Horn )
- Cadre 47/2 : Thomas Wildförster (European Champion Cadre 47/1)
- Cadre 71/2 : Fonsy Grethen (multiple world and European champion)
- Binding : Norbert Ohagen (including German master binding)
- Three cushion : Laurent Boulanger (multiple world and European champions) and Christian Rudolph (multiple German and world champions).
In the four following years from 1989 to 1992 "Horster-Eck" was able to defend the title and set various Bundesliga records. Other top players were also committed. For two years, the best all-round player in the world, Frédéric Caudron , the multiple European and German champion Fabian Blondeel from Bochum and the German three-cushion champions Jürgen Kühl and Stefan Galla played for Essen. Despite all the successes, the BF Horster-Eck withdrew from the Bundesliga after the 1993/94 season.
In the 1995/96 season, the Bundesliga was converted to a pure three-cushion league. Horster-Eck was represented again and immediately became master again with the line-up:
- Martin Horn
- Christian Rudolph
- Fonsy Grethen
- Arno Figge
The team won the title four more times (1999, 2000, 2011 and 2012), making them Bundesliga record champions.
For the new 2012/13 season, Fred Daus is no longer sponsoring the club and the club has therefore withdrawn from the 1st Bundesliga. The two top players Torbjörn Blomdahl and Martin Horn switch to Bundesliga promoted Bergisch-Gladbacher BC 1926 , and the Korean and three-time junior world champion Kim Haeng-jik will return to his home country at the end of the season to do his military service there. The club thus loses three of its top players.
By winning several German Cup team championships , the club was qualified several times for the European Cup ( Coupe d'Europe ). In the 1993/94 season, this cup, which was held in Duisburg , was also won. For the season, the Japanese multiple three- cushion world champion Nobuaki Kobayashi was committed. "Horster Eck" was the organizer of the tournament for the next year. The final round was held three times in a row in the Steeler Stadtgarten with great success, and the "BF Horster Eck" won the trophy there twice.
- Remarks
- * 1 BF = pool friends
successes
Only team successes are mentioned here, not individual player successes.
- German Bundesliga champion - (10 times): 1988–1992 , 1996 , 1999–2000 , 2011–2012
- German Cup Team Championship - (11 ×): 1988–1990 , 1992 , 1994 , 1996 , 1999–2001 , 2010–2011
- Coupe d'Europe : Winner 1994, 1996, 1997
Coupe d'Europe 1995
After the Essen team won the Coupe d'Europe in Duisburg in 1994 , they traditionally hosted the tournament the following year. The opponent in the final was the Swedish club " BK Borgen ", which also won the tournament.
Web links
- Association website
- BF Horster-Eck Essen 1959 on the website of the German Billard Union
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oberliga three cushion 2015/16. In: bvnr.billardarea.de. Lower Rhine Billiard Association, accessed on January 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Oberliga three-cushion 2014/15. In: bvnr.billardarea.de. Lower Rhine Billiard Association, accessed on January 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Horster-Eck withdraws from the Bundesliga (PDF) May 31, 2012. Archived from the original on August 12, 2012. Retrieved on August 12, 2012.
- ^ German team title in carom billiards. (PDF) Horster Eck, archived from the original on December 29, 2016 ; Retrieved June 5, 2012 .
- ↑ Table German team championships on Sport-komplett.de.Retrieved on June 30, 2012