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The gymnastics and games association KEWA Wachenbuchen is a football club from the Hessian city of Maintal not far from Hanau . The abbreviation KEWA stands for "Kesselstadt-Wachenbuchen" and indicates the two predecessor clubs from Kesselstadt and Wachenbuchen , which merged in 1922 to form the SpVgg KEWA. The founding year of FSV Wachenbuchen in 1911 is considered the year of birth of today's club, whose football team had its heyday in the late 1930s and was located in the highest football leagues. Since the post-war period, the blue-whites have played on the district and county level.
history
Today's club goes back to the two football clubs 1. FC 04 Kesselstadt and FSV Wachenbuchen, which merged on September 8, 1922 to become SpVgg KEWA. The FSV was founded in 1911, had participated in tournaments from 1912 and had joined the South German Football Association in 1914. However, the players from Kesselstadt resigned three years after the merger and founded VfR Kesselstadt. In 1933, TV 1887 Wachenbuchen joined the association that has had its current name ever since.
After the merger with the people of Kesselstadt, the game was initially played on the sports field "An der Schutzhütte" in Wilhelmsbad . Today's home, the forest sports field on Hanauer Weg, was inaugurated in 1924. The club developed into a strong force on the East Main in the late 1920s. In the 1928/29 season, the district championship succeeded for the first time and with Schultheiß, the team provided a selection player for the first time. From 1934 they played in the district class and the leap to the top division was made two years later, in the 1935/36 season, when after a 1-1 draw in Wetzlar on May 17, 1936, promotion to the Gauliga Hessen was certain. In the first year, the blue-white impressed when they kicked off the season 1936/37 Kurhessen Marburg and the CSC 03 Kassel each abtrotzten a draw, in the course of the round in home games both the CSC 03 and the later Gaumeister FC Hanau 93 defeated and in the end not only secured the league, but finished fourth. In the club cup on May 23, 1937, KEWA defied the Dresdner SC on the HFC-Platz, which could only with difficulty prevail with 2-0. With that, the club had already reached its zenith. In the Gauliga season that followed in 1937/38 , the "Kewaner" only reached 7th place out of 10 teams and a year later they escaped relegation only because the outbreak of World War II resulted in a league reform. In the 1939/40 season , relegation to the second division could no longer be prevented.
After the end of the war, KEWA Wachenbuchen played in the season 1946/47 in the Landesliga Hessen, Staffel Frankfurt-Ost, for the last time on the second league level. Since then, the first team of the club, in which only football is played, has played at the district and county level.
Former players
- Thomas Berthold grew up in Wachenbuchen and played in the KEWA youth team before joining Eintracht Frankfurt .
Venue
The KEWA Wachenbuchen teams play their home games on the forest sports field originally laid out in 1924 on Hanauer Weg. The facility is located a few hundred meters south of the village in the middle of the forest and includes two natural grass pitches and a clubhouse.
literature
- Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Hesse. Between FC Alsbach, Eintracht Frankfurt and Tuspo Ziegenhain. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-244-0 , p. 301.