Palatinate Gymnastics Federation

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Memorial plaque in the garden of Villa Denis in Frankenstein-Diemerstein

The Palatinate Gymnastics Federation (PTB) is one of 22 regional gymnastics associations in Germany. It is a trade association for leisure, health and professional sports. There are two other regional gymnastics associations in Rhineland-Palatinate . The PTB forms the working group (ARGE) Rhineland-Palatinate with the Middle Rhine Gymnastics Association (Koblenz) and the Rheinhessischer Turnerbund (Mainz). The PTB is a member of the Sportbund Pfalz e. V. and in the German Gymnastics Federation (DTB). The association office is located in the Turnerjugendheim Annweiler , the leisure and educational facility of the Palatinate Gymnastics Association.

structure

The Palatinate Turnerbund, which is divided into four Turngaue (Turngau Rhein-Limburg, Turngau Speyer, Turngau Sickingen, West Palatinate-Turngau) has a total of 403 member clubs with a total of 98,703 members (as of January 1, 2013). Walter Benz has been president of the Palatinate Gymnastics Federation since 2004. Managing Director since 2007 Holger Abel.

history

From the spirit of the freedom movement in the years 1846–1849, the first gymnasts' clubs were founded in the Palatinate. Their old flags in those years, in the colors black, red and gold, the colors of the unity movement, were among them. The founding of the gymnastics clubs Frankenthal , Kaiserslautern , Kirchheimbolanden , Maikammer , Neustadt , Speyer and Zweibrücken go back to the year 1846/47 . The government of the Palatinate had already rejected their request to found clubs on December 19, 1846, and in 1849 banned all existing gymnastics clubs. From 1860 onwards, new gymnastics clubs were created in the Palatinate, which at first were hardly networked with one another. Nevertheless, at that time the idea of ​​forming a union already existed.

When the foundation for a federation of German gymnasts was laid after the first German Gymnastics and Youth Festival in Coburg from June 16 to 18, 1860 , according to the first entry in the existing log book, the representatives from Neustadt met on July 22, 1860 in Neustadt , Deidesheim , Dürkheim , Lambrecht and Maikammer for a meeting to discuss a possible merger. The association in Neustadt should manage the business and represent the associations externally. Every foreign association had to send a member to negotiate. In the suburb meeting on November 4, 1860, it was decided that all future suburbs should be chaired by the spokesman for the association concerned. At the same meeting, the statutes were discussed and approved.

At the meeting on February 17, 1861, the representative from Deidesheim, gymnastics brother Huber, suggested that every club should adapt its statutes to its local circumstances; however, they could not be in contradiction to the statutes of the Palatinate Gymnastics Federation to be founded. At the same time, Huber applied to draft separate statutes for the federal government to be founded. Huber was commissioned to draw up these statutes. They should be called "General Principles of Gymnastics".

Although the name “Palatinate Gymnastics Association” was used, the decisive meeting did not take place until April 21, 1861 in the Villa Denis in Diemerstein . On this day the gymnastics clubs from the Palatinate came together to found the Palatinate Gymnastics Association. The representatives from Mußbach , Lambrecht, Deidesheim, Dürkheim, Kaiserslautern and Neustadt were present. Before the actual general assembly in the Diemerstein Castle, a “preliminary assembly” took place in the morning in Frankenstein . The chairman was Wilde from Neustadt as speaker. The secretary Hüll from Neustadt was appointed secretary. In this assembly, the agenda for the following general assembly was set up.

Two alternatives were the focus of a long and lively discussion:

  • Should an independent Palatinate gymnastics association be founded

or

  • Should the connection to the Middle Rhine Gymnastics Association be sought.

Gym brother Braun, Kaiserslautern, requested a vote on both options. Proposal one, founding a Palatinate gymnastics federation, was accepted by all clubs. For the second option, three associations opted for a conditional connection and three associations for an unconditional connection, whereby, as the chronicle reports, Dürkheim's vote was not recognized because the two members of parliament did not agree. The Palatinate Gymnastics Federation was thus founded on April 21, 1861 in the Diemerstein Castle.

Palatinate regional gymnastics festivals

  • 18.-20. July 1952 in Landau (4000 participants)
  • 20.-22. July 1956 in Ludwigshafen (2000 participants)
  • 17.-23. July 1961 in Pirmasens (2000 participants)
  • 16.-18. July 1965 in Kaiserslautern (2500 participants)
  • 28-30 May 1971 in Annweiler am Trifels (2500 participants)
  • 9-11 July 1976 in Zweibrücken (6000 participants)
  • 12-14 June 1981 in Lu.-Oggersheim (8000 participants)
  • 2nd to 5th June 1988 in Dahn
  • 15-18 June 1995 in Ludwigshafen
  • 9-12 May 2008 in Pirmasens

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