Osnabrück Rowing Club
Surname | Osnabrück Rowing Association V. |
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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/ |
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
- The club eight with Martin Möllmann (Bramsche), Andreas Schütte , Ferdinand Hardinghaus , Thomas Möllenkamp , Axel Wöstmann , Ralf Kollmann , Brunon Derkes , Hans-Günther Tiemann , Stm. Torsten Bremer and trainer Ralf Holtmeyer had won over the Germany Eighth in Mannheim and qualified for the 1980 Summer Olympics in the qualification regatta in Lucerne . Participation in the games was prevented by the Olympic boycott of the West.
- Thomas Möllenkamp (* 1961) took fourth place at the 1984 Summer Olympics with Axel Wöstmann in a double without a helmsman . Later he made the leap to eighth place in Germany, with which he won the Olympic gold medal in Seoul in 1988 . Möllenkamp is now an honorary member of the ORV.
- Along with Thomas Möllenkamp, Axel Wöstmann (* 1961) was the only one from the 1980 eighth who was able to qualify for further participation in the Summer Olympics. With Möllenkamp he finished fourth in the two without a helmsman at the 1984 Los Angeles Games .
- Ralf Holtmeyer (* 1956) joined the ORV as a trainer in 1975 and was instrumental in the success of the time. Since 1986 he has worked in various areas for the German Rowing Association , where he is responsible for nine world championship titles and two Olympic gold medals (1988, 2012) in the eighth. Holtmeyer is now an honorary member of the ORV.
- Stefani Werremeier (* 1968) was initially a substitute woman at the 1988 Summer Olympics . Between 1989 and 1992 she started with Ingeburg Althoff in two without a helmsman and won several medals: bronze at the World Rowing Championships in 1989 , gold in 1990 , silver in 1991 and silver at the Olympic rowing regatta in 1992 . She then moved to the Saarbrücken rowing company Undine , won other World Cup medals in the women's eight and also took part in the 1996 Summer Olympics. Today Werremeier is an honorary member of the ORV.
- Jan Tebrügge (* 1982) rowed in the Germany eight from 2005 to 2007 . In addition to the world title at the rowing world championships in 2006 , he also won a bronze medal at the rowing world championships in 2005 and a silver medal at the rowing world championships in 2007 . Shortly before the 2008 Summer Olympics , he and the entire team were replaced by a new team in a controversial decision. Tebrugge has been an honorary member of the ORV since 2008.
- Lutz Ackermann (* 1983) won silver medals in eighth lightweight at the rowing world championships in 2006 and 2007 .
- Felix Övermann (* 1985) won the lightweight quadruple sculls one bronze medal at the 2008 World Rowing Championships and a silver medal at the 2009 World Rowing Championships .
- Albert Kowert (* 1989) won a gold medal in the lightweight eight as a helmsman and a bronze medal in a two-man with helmsman at the 2010 World Rowing Championships .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Osnabrück Rowing Association: The year 1913: The birth of the Osnabrück Rowing Association from 1913 eV (ORV). Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Osnabrück Rowing Club: Members and membership structure in the ORV. Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Minden Waterways and Shipping Office : Osnabrück branch canal. Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Osnabrück Rowing Association: The year 1920: Rowing is reactivated in Osnabrück. Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Osnabrück Rowing Club: The year 1923: Construction of the second boathouse below the Haster lock. Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Osnabrück Rowing Club: The year 1945: Loss of almost all boats and re-establishment of the old club. Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
- ^ Database of the Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub : German Championship Rowing : Quadruple - women (places 1 - 3). Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
- ^ Osnabrück Rowing Club: The year 1975: Decision to build a new boat house. Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
- ^ Database of the World Rowing Association : Result of the J-WM 1978 in the JM4-. Retrieved October 7, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Osnabrück Rowing Club: The year 1980: The Osnabrück eight qualified for the Olympics. Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
- ↑ State Rowing Association Lower Saxony: State base Osnabrück. Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ 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 .
- ^ German Rowing Association : Eight will be filled again. June 4, 2008, accessed April 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Sebastian Schulte : Statement by the athletes around Dr. Schulte to the new eight cast. June 5, 2008, accessed April 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Roland Baar : Open letter on the situation in the Germany eight. June 8, 2008, accessed April 26, 2013 .
- ^ 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