Osnabrück Rowing Club

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Osnabrück RV
Osnabrück Rowing Association.gif
Surname Osnabrück Rowing Association V.
sport rowing
Club colors black, white and gold
Founded April 26, 1913
Place of foundation Osnabrück
Association headquarters Glückaufstrasse 16
49090 Osnabrück
Members 353 (as of January 1, 2013)
Chairman Jens-Peter Zuther (since 2004)
Homepage http://www.orv.de/
Boathouse on Glückaufstrasse

The Osnabrück Rowing Club e. V. (ORV) is a sports club from Osnabrück . It was founded on April 26, 1913 and currently has around 350 members, including several medalists at Summer Olympics and World Rowing Championships . The club premises with boathouse on the Osnabrück canal is located in the Osnabrück district of Eversburg . The ORV is a member of the German Rowing Association (DRV) and the Lower Saxony State Rowing Association (LRVN).

history

From the foundation to the first boathouses

The founding of the association is closely linked to the construction of the Osnabrück branch canal , at the southern end of which the Osnabrück port area was opened up from 1912. On April 26, 1913, 14 men founded the Osnabrück Rowing Club in order to be able to quickly start sports activities when the canal was completed. Rudolf Gosling was elected as the first chairman. A boathouse was planned in the new Osnabrück harbor near Römereschstraße, but it could not be realized due to the First World War . The young association lost many of its 75 members during the war.

After the war, the rudder operation was only in August 1920, initially two new gig - double twos and two new GIG quads are recorded on the now opened branch canal. Soon the first boat shed with a pier and, in 1921, the first boathouse in the port were put into operation. It quickly became apparent, however, that the 1.5-kilometer section in the harbor was too short for competition training . As early as 1922, the association began planning a second boathouse directly below the Haster lock on the southwest side of the canal. The new home water between the Haster and the Hollager Schleuse was, with a length of 5 kilometers, much better suited for rowing. In 1928 the ORV was able to purchase its first eight .

As was customary at the time, women were not admitted as members. In 1925, a "ladies rowing club" was founded in the vicinity of the club, which was incorporated into the club as a department ten years later.

At the time of World War II and reconstruction

On December 16, 1944, the boathouse was badly damaged by aerial bombs , but not destroyed. Towards the end of the war, however, the club lost all of its boat material through vandalism. In response to political pressure, he was supposed to join a lawn sports club after the war, which Franz Gürth, then chairman, successfully avoided. Between 1946 and 1948 the boathouse at the Haster lock was restored with a grant from the city of Osnabrück. Rowing could be started with new boats.

Inge Michaelis won the first German championship title for the ORV in a racing team with rowers from Mülheim and Lübeck in 1959 in a double scull with a helmsman .

Relocation and sporting successes in the 1980s

On December 5, 1960, the club's boathouse was badly damaged by a flood of the nearby Hase . The branch canal and the Haster lock were also badly affected and out of order for months. The boathouse was rebuilt, but from now on the relocation of the club was a matter of a planned expansion of the branch canal. In 1975, through an extraordinary general meeting, the association decided to move to Glückaufstrasse in the Eversburg district , about 1.5 kilometers from the old location on the same section of the canal. The city of Osnabrück supported the club in building its third boathouse at the new water sports center. Since then, the canoe sports clubs Osnabrück Canoe Club from 1926 and watersports club Osnabrück have also been located on the newly created, around 50 meter long side arm at canal kilometer 10.9 . The third boathouse was completed and inaugurated in 1978. Since then, around 1000 rowers from the ORV and numerous school rowers have found space in the new complex. However, the canal expansion was delayed by decades and was only partially carried out from around 2005.

From the 1960s onwards, school rowing became very popular in Osnabrück. The Ratsgymnasium and the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Gymnasium were pioneers , later also the Carolinum Gymnasium and other gymnasiums. The ORV benefited from this through a stronger influx of young members, a good basis for later sporting success at the highest level.

From 1975, under the coach Ralf Holtmeyer , the Osnabrück Rowing Club's most successful period in sport developed. In the year the boathouse opened, an ORV team with Hans-Günther Tiemann , Brunon Derkes , Johannes Hafer and Axel Wöstmann won the junior world championship in the four-man without helmsman . Two years later, the ORV was able to provide a strong men's eighth who beat Germany eighth twice and qualified for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow at the International Red Sea Regatta in Lucerne . In addition to Tiemann, Derkes and Wöstmann, the team included Thomas Möllenkamp , Ferdinand Hardinghaus , Ralf Kollmann , Andreas Schütte , Martin Möllmann from nearby Bramsche and helmsman Torsten Bremer . The Olympic boycott of the West prevented the start of the ORV eight in Moscow.

In the following period, some of the prevented Olympic rowers started at other rowing world championships , but they did not win medals immediately. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Axel Wöstmann and Thomas Möllenkamp took fourth place in a pair without a helmsman . Möllenkamp was able to row in Germany eighth from 1987, with which he won the gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Between 1992 and 2004 he was also the first chairman of the Osnabrück rowing club. Stefani Werremeier was the first and so far only woman to compete in the World Rowing Championships and the Olympic rowing regatta between 1989 and 1992 . Despite the men's previous successes, their 1990 World Cup title was the club's first. In 1992 she won silver in a pair without a helmsman at the Barcelona Games .

today

The Osnabrück rowing club now has various departments for popular sports, competitive sports, children and young people, masters, touring rowing and training for beginners. There is still an intensive cooperation with the rowers of the Osnabrück schools. The state rowing association of Lower Saxony promotes and coordinates the training work at the ORV with a state base.

Most recently, rowers from the ORV training group won a number of medals at the World Rowing Championships. Outstanding was the world championship title of eight in Germany with Jan Tebrügge in 2006. Lutz Ackermann , Felix Övermann and Albert Kowert won other medals . In addition, the ORV men regularly start successfully in the German championship rowing , in the rowing Bundesliga and at the Head of the River Race in London.

The ORV club magazine has been called "skulls" since 1964, based on the skull sports equipment of the same name . The ORV is also known among rowers for its annual “Power Challenge” pull-up contest .

Sporting successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Osnabrück Rowing Association: The year 1913: The birth of the Osnabrück Rowing Association from 1913 eV (ORV). Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Osnabrück Rowing Club: Members and membership structure in the ORV. Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
  3. ↑ a b Minden Waterways and Shipping Office : Osnabrück branch canal. Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Osnabrück Rowing Association: The year 1920: Rowing is reactivated in Osnabrück. Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Osnabrück Rowing Club: The year 1923: Construction of the second boathouse below the Haster lock. Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Osnabrück Rowing Club: The year 1945: Loss of almost all boats and re-establishment of the old club. Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
  7. ^ Database of the Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub : German Championship Rowing : Quadruple - women (places 1 - 3). Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
  8. ^ Osnabrück Rowing Club: The year 1975: Decision to build a new boat house. Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
  9. ^ Database of the World Rowing Association : Result of the J-WM 1978 in the JM4-. Retrieved October 7, 2014 .
  10. ↑ a b Osnabrück Rowing Club: The year 1980: The Osnabrück eight qualified for the Olympics. Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
  11. ↑ State Rowing Association Lower Saxony: State base Osnabrück. Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
  12. ↑ a b Database of the Rüsselsheim Rowing Club: Wilfried Hoffmann: Olympic rowing regattas since 1896: German medal successes - gold, silver and bronze. Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
  13. ↑ a b c d e database of the Rüsselsheim Rowing Club: Wilfried Hoffmann: Rowing World Championships since 1962: German medal successes - gold, silver and bronze. Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
  14. ^ German Rowing Association : Eight will be filled again. June 4, 2008, accessed April 26, 2013 .
  15. ↑ Sebastian Schulte : Statement by the athletes around Dr. Schulte to the new eight cast. June 5, 2008, accessed April 26, 2013 .
  16. ↑ Roland Baar : Open letter on the situation in the Germany eight. June 8, 2008, accessed April 26, 2013 .
  17. ^ German Rowing Association: DRV board of directors for the occupation of the eight. June 9, 2008, accessed April 26, 2013 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 35.6 ″  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 0.9 ″  E