Across the Lüneburg Heath
Across the Luneburg Heath is a one-day races in road cycling through the Lüneburg Heath , the international "one of Germany's oldest long-distance journeys" is considered. The route leads from Hanover via Walsrode to Visselhövede with a length of more than 140 kilometers. Today's organizer of the cycling race, which was formerly also known as " across the way ", and today's cycling tour is the 1909 Concordia Hanover cycling club .
history
Since the empire
The race - already at the time of the German Empire under the title "Across the Lüneburg Heath" - was held for the first time in 1912. In the early years, the organizer was the Radfahrer-Verein Pfeil association from 1909 . The start and finish were at Gasthof Heine in the Hanover district of Vahrenwald . The route led via Langenhagen , Mellendorf , Essel and Walsrode to Visselhövede, and - after a break of 20 minutes - back from there.
During the Weimar Republic , the DRU repeatedly opened the road racing season towards the end of March with the long-distance drive "Across the Lüneburg Heath", as the Wiener Sport-Tagblatt , published in Austria , repeatedly reported in the course of the 1920s: a few months before the peak of German hyperinflation , 90 participants started in March 1923. After a mass fall of 20 riders right after the start, in which the winner of the previous year "Bücher (Hanover)" was involved, "F. Kramer (Hanover) ”at the top with seven men with a new record time of 4:40 in front of Rosenbusch, Neumann, Hartmann, Eicke, Seitz, Kempinski, Merkt, Axel Fricke and Breinle.
On March 29, 1924, the daily newspaper Neues Wiener Tagblatt referred to its only special article on the subject of cycling , the race across the Lüneburg Heath . Under this title, the Wiener Sport-Tagblatt reported on the same day about the “surprise victory of Fricke (Hanover)” in front of Kloß from Berlin and the two runners-up from Saarbrücken . The victory was Alex Fricke win with a time of 5:14:21.
In 1926 the Berliner Rudolf Wolke won ahead of his brother Bruno Wolke and the Mannheimer “K. Schuler ”in 5:03:58.
At the end of March 1927, the Sport-Tagblatt reported under the heading Vom Internationale Rennsport about the race organized by the DRU with 150 participants, including the Union champion Hermann Buse . With a driving time of 4:19, Nickel from Berlin won ahead of his Berlin colleague Buse. The three next-placed drivers Büttner, Wolf and Kloß also came from Berlin.
The opening of the German road racing season was the headline of the Wiener Sport-Tagblatt 1929, and reported on the victory of the Hanoverian "Kurt Schumacher" in a time of 5:07 before his brother Walter and the next-placed Bober (declared the next price loss for unauthorized support) ( Hanover), Panse (Bremen) and Pappenberg (Hanover).
post war period
From the end of July 1987, the 1909 Concordia Hanover cycling club organized the race across the Lüneburg Heath for the first time as a bike tour.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b o. V .: Cycling / From international racing. In: Sportblatt am Mittag / Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , April 3, 1926, p. 8 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ a b Walter Euhus : The Cycling in Hanover , in Karin Brockmann, Stefan Mann brothers , Walter Euhus, Thomas Schwark : Hannover rides a bike: History - Sport - everyday. Exhibition by the Hanover Historical Museum, Hanover 1999; Kuhle, Braunschweig 1999, ISBN 978-3-923696-90-1 , pp. 71-93; here: p. 74
- ↑ a b o. V .: From international racing. In: Sportblatt am Mittag / Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , March 29, 1927, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ a b o. V .: 1909 - 2009. 100 years of the Concordia cycling club from 1909 Hannover eV , anniversary publication, Hannover, 1909, passim ; as a PDF document for download on the linden-entdecke.de page
- ^ A b o. V .: Races in Germany. In: Sportblatt am Mittag / Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , March 28, 1923, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ a b o. V .: Across the Lüneburg Heath / surprise victory by Fricke (Hanover). In: Sportblatt am Mittag / Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , March 29, 1924, p. 10 (online at ANNO ).
- ^ A b o. V .: Opening of the German road racing season. In: Sportblatt am Mittag / Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , March 20, 1929, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).
- ^ O. V .: (Our "Sport-Tagblatt"). In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic organ / Neues Wiener Abendblatt. Evening edition of the (") Neue Wiener Tagblatt (") / Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Evening edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt / Wiener Mittagsausgabe with Sportblatt / 6 o'clock evening paper / Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Neue Freie Presse - Neues Wiener Journal / Neues Wiener Tagblatt , March 29, 1924, p. 9 (online at ANNO ).