Lechia 06 Mysłowice

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Lechia 06 Mysłowice is a Polish sports club from Mysłowice (German: Myslowitz ), which was founded in 1906 as a German sports club under the name SC Borussia 06 Myslowitz (short: Borussia Myslowitz ). In the course of the first decades of its existence there were several name changes: in 1919 the club was renamed the Club for Lawn Games 1906 Myslowitz ("VfR 1906"), in 1922 after the annexation of East Upper Silesia to Poland in Klub Sportowy 06 Mysłowice ("KS 06"), After the annexation of the area by the Germans in 1939, the German name VfR was used again and finally after the Second World War the name was changed to Lechia 06 Mysłowice .

Club history

On May 22, 1906, “Borussia” was founded as a football club in Myslowitz. The sport of football had come to the city on the Dreikaisereck via Katowice ; Especially Prussia Katowice had contributed to the popularization of soccer in Myslowitz and in the early days also took on a kind of “sponsorship” for the new club. The 23 founding members decided to compete in black and white and immediately got in touch with the other clubs in Upper Silesia , with whom they founded the Upper Silesia District in the Southeast German Football Association . In 1923 a boxing division was added.

After East Upper Silesia, and with it Myslowitz - now as Myslowice - became Polish territory, the “VfR 06” was renamed “Klub Sportowy 06” (“KS 06”) in 1925 “taking into account the constraints of the political situation”. In the following years there was a slow but steady influx of Polish members, which ultimately led to the majority in the club changing in favor of the Poles, which of course also had an impact on the club's management. At the beginning of the 1930s, the polonization of "KS 06" was completed, the Germans - as far as they were still in the club - could no longer influence the events within the club. The outward sign of the completion of this development was that the city of Myslowice expanded the sports grounds of the “06er” in 1934 at some expense, which it would hardly have done for a German club.

The development at the beginning of the Second World War ran parallel to that of the local rival SC Myslowitz 09: both clubs practically ceased to exist because the Polish club leaders had fled after the invasion of the German Wehrmacht. The members - as far as they professed to be German - joined the MTV 1861 Myslowitz, which was renamed "TuS 1861 Myslowitz" and founded a football department. After the end of the war, the "KS 06" - like the "09er" - was re-established under Polish direction and still exists today as Lechia 06 Mysłowice.

Soccer

As a venue, the Borussia had prepared a former cornfield in the Slupna district on a hill on the embankment of the railway leading to Krakow , that is, they had leveled the area a little and sown grass and thus had the first club-owned lawn in all of Upper Silesia. In terms of football, however, they clearly lagged behind the Katowice clubs.

That changed in the 1911/12 season when a connection - probably a kind of syndicate - with Diana Kattowitz entered into. The "combination", which also included four Borussia players, became Upper Silesian champions in 1912. Details can be found under the heading SC Diana Kattowitz . After the end of the First World War , the Katowice-Myslowitz "football marriage" broke up again; Borussia, which since 1919 was called the Club for Lawn Games 1906 Myslowitz ("VfR 1906"), became an independent club again. Since the "war economy" had turned the lawn sports field back into a cornfield, a new space was created on the sandy meadows of the Przemsa river to the left of the promenade to the (former) Dreikaisereck.

Well-known athletes

  • Jerzy Wocka - boxer, member of the Polish national team
  • Zygfryd Wende - boxer, member of the Polish national team
  • Barbara Przygoda-Eustachewicz - gymnast, member of the Polish national team, Olympic participant in 1964
  • Jan Rudnow - Polish national football player
  • Henryk Mikunda - Polish national soccer player (1939 against Belgium)
  • Zygmunt Koziol - Polish middle heavyweight champion

literature

  • Traditional community of Myslowitzer Heimatvereine: Myslowitz - city on the former corner of the Three Emperor Empire . Without place and year.