Lübeck Yacht Club
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| Full name | Lübeck Yacht Club e. V. | |
| Founded | August 30, 1898 in Lübeck | |
| Association headquarters |
Roeckstrasse 54 Lübeck |
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| Chairperson | Andrea Varner Bottlenose Dolphin | |
| Members | about 1000 | |
| Club facilities | Lübeck, Travemünde | |
| Homepage | www.lyc.de | |
The Lübeck Yacht Club (“LYC” pronounced: Lüz) is a sailing club in Lübeck .
history
The Lübeck Yacht Club was founded on August 30, 1898 with a first general assembly in Lübeck City Hall of 80 members, chaired by the merchant and consul Hermann Wilhelm Fehling . The mayor of Lübeck, Heinrich Klug , was appointed honorary chairman of the new club. It owes its existence to the Travemünder Woche and the sea regattas organized by the North German Regatta Association together with the Kieler Yacht Club on the Bay of Lübeck , where Kaiser Wilhelm II. With SMY Meteor , Empress Auguste with IMY Iduna , but also the Hamburg of the Hamburg Maritime Association and the industrialist Krupp, from 1908 with his Germania , participated. Wilhelm II himself asked the citizens of the Hanseatic city to found the club in 1897, and eighteen people from Lübeck met this request with a resolution they had drafted to the Senate. The social highlight of these early German sea regattas was the annual Kaiserfrühstück in the Ratskeller in Lübeck , a very lavish fork breakfast .
The summer stays of the imperial family in Travemünde caused a significant upswing for the seaside resort and attracted an international audience. At the Kaiserfrühstück in 1898, the three northern German sailing clubs also agreed to meet the new special class (boat class) , which Prince Heinrich of Prussia took on as a special sponsor. The awarding of prizes at the Travemuende Week was reserved for the emperor himself, who lived on board the Hohenzollern together with the empress during the regattas in Travemünde . The Zwölfer Heti , built by Max Oertz in 1912 for the board member of the LYC Hermann Eschenburg , is the last classic yacht from the club's fleet that is still sailing in this glamorous era of sailing. With the First World War, Travemünde's prosperity as an imperial seaside resort and sailing in Germany came to a standstill.
After the First World War, sailing was resumed by the LYC in 1919 with restrictions due to the internal political situation and the port blockades until the peace treaty was concluded at the end of June. The first Travemünde week after the war did not take place until 1920. Inflation and the economic crisis forced special efforts; Nevertheless, the LYC was able to convert and expand its boathouse on the Leuchtenfeld in Travemünde into a clubhouse and also build another boathouse in Lübeck's Roeckstraße on the Wakenitz . From 1926 , the Lübeck cog in the city harbor was used as a trade fair for club life in Lübeck . Like all sports clubs also became the Luebeck Yacht Club in 1934 brought into line and introduced the National Socialist leader principle. The LYC was now under the supervision of the Reich Sports Leader and received his instructions from the Sports District Leader of the Hamburg Sports Area (Gau Nordmark) and the local Ortsgruppenführer. The young members of the LYC were recorded via the Segel-HJ .
The sport of sailing was practiced, albeit with severe restrictions, in the Second World War almost until the end of the war. After the war, the British military government restricted sailing in two ways: on the one hand, only certain bodies of water and coastal areas were released for sporting use, and on the other, numerous dinghies and sailing yachts were confiscated for the benefit of members of the British Army in order to keep them during the occupation to enable sailing. The clubhouse of the LYC on the Wakenitz was released again by the British military government in 1946, so that in 1947 sailing operations could be resumed in an initially modest setting. The LYC celebrated its centenary in 1998 with a modern interpretation of the Imperial Breakfast in the Lübeck Music and Congress Hall with Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia as the guest of honor in his speech, the longstanding protection of the LYC by the House of Hohenzollern in the person of the Emperor and in the Weimar era Republic by Prince Heinrich took up.
The Lübeck Yacht Club has around 1000 members today. In addition to the clubhouse in Lübeck and the associated harbor and jetties, in Travemünde he maintains the listed former seaside resort Mövenstein as a dinghy station and the listed former rescue shed of the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People on the Leuchtenfeld as a regatta center for the Travemünder, which is still the main organizer with other sailing clubs Week. The ice ass regatta , which is held on the Wakenitz in December in ice-free years, is also known nationwide . One of the athletic performers of the LYC is the laser sailor Simon Grotelüschen , who achieved 6th place in the sailing competitions of the 2012 Summer Olympics in Weymouth , England.
The LYC is a founding member of the German Sailing League .
literature
- Yearbook of the Lübeck Yacht Club for 1899. Self-published by the club, Lübeck 1900.
- Paul Wilhelm Adolf Rey: The Kaiser and sailing in Lübeck-Travemünde 1890–1912. The Kaiser and the Empress in Travemünde 1894/1912. Gebr. Borchers, Lübeck 1913.
- Lübeck Yacht Club (Ed.): The Lübeck Yacht Club and 100 eventful years. LYC Marketing, Lübeck 1998.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imprint - LYC ( Memento of the original dated February 29, 2012 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. Retrieved February 23, 2012.
- ↑ Board & Contacts - LYC Accessed July 27, 2015.
- ^ SY Heti
- ↑ Grotelüschen is fourth In: IBN-online.de , December 19, 2011. Accessed on January 12, 2012.
Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '23.9 " N , 10 ° 42' 22.2" E