Cologne rowing club from 1877

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Cologne rowing club from 1877
Logo of the Cologne rowing club from 1877
Full name Cologne rowing club from 1877 e. V.
abbreviation KRV
Association headquarters Barbarastr. 47–49
50996 Cologne
Founded June 1877 in Cologne
Club colors red , white
Training waters Rhine , Fühlinger See
Chairman Max Zünkler
Members approx. 650
Homepage www.krv77.de
KRV boathouse in the Rodenkirchen district of Cologne.

The Cologne rowing club from 1877 is the oldest rowing club in the metropolis of Cologne and one of the largest in terms of members in Germany . As a member of the German Rowing Association , he does not only do popular sports, but also competitive sports in all age groups. The boathouse of the rowing club is not far from the banks of the Rhine in the southern Cologne district of Rodenkirchen , but training takes place on the regatta course in the northern Cologne district of Fühlingen .

history

The rowing club emerged from a society of Rhine swimmers founded in 1874 in the Deutz district of Cologne . The members Wilhelm Priester, Franz Odendall and Felix Werres had found pleasure in rowing from 1876 thanks to a two-seater with a helmsman's seat acquired from Priester and finally broke away from the Rhine swimmers the following year.

In Cologne's old town , the rowing club's first boathouse was built on the now no longer existing Rheininsel Werthchen , which was erected shortly afterwards below the Bayenturm . In 1902 the KRV moved permanently to the Rodenkirchen district of Cologne , where it still maintains its boathouse and office to this day.

The rowing club has been actively involved in regattas since it was founded. The first self-organized international regatta also took place in 1893. Ten years earlier, members of the KRV had co-founded the German Rowing Association in Gürzenich, Cologne . A little later, on the initiative of the KRV, the supra-regional Cologne regatta association was established , in which rowers from all over the Cologne Bay are organized to this day . In 1909 they organized their own local regatta with the so-called city eight, which is held every year in the run-up to the Cologne Lights to this day .

A figure eight formed together with the Cologne rowing society in 1891 missed the podium at the German championship in 1928 . This was held at the same time as qualification for the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam .

As the first rowing club in Cologne, the KRV opened up to female members in 1929, who formed their own women's team, but were only fully entitled to vote within the association's bodies from 1965. From 1945 the KRV helped the friends SRV Kreuzgasse Köln from 1911 with equipment and rowing boats for a few years after its own boathouse was destroyed in World War II.

At the Olympic Summer Games in 1952 in Helsinki , Toni Reinartz, Michel Reinartz, Roland Freihoff, Heinz Zünkler, Peter Betz, Stephan Reinartz, Hans Betz , Toni Siebenhaar and the helmsman Hermann Zander started a team of rowers from the KRV. She took fifth place.

To this day, the focus of the KRV has been on competitive sports. A professional team of trainers and a wide range of equipment ensure regular participation in national and international competitions. The KRV currently has around 400 active rowers who cover around 173,000 kilometers of training every year and regularly win medals at German youth championships. The weekly training of the rowing club takes place on the regatta course in the Cologne district of Fühlingen . Every year, the KRV also organizes the Ergo Cup in cooperation with ASV Cologne during the winter months .

Successes (selection)

Only the first places in official German and international championship races as well as vice world championship titles are listed , in each case without junior competitions.

Web links

Commons : Kölner Ruderverein von 1877  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.ksta.de/koeln/koelner-lichter-die-traditionelle-ruderregatta-startet-am-abend-30982270
  2. ↑ https://www.rundschau-online.de/region/koeln/veedelscheck/veedels-check-die-schattenseiten-der-rodenkirchener-riviera-30068248
  3. ↑ https://www.rudern.de/news/2016/krv-ergo-cup-am-1012-in-koeln
  4. ↑ https://www.rrk-online.de/rudern/chronrudern/deumeiru/dm-alle.htm