South Tyrolean mountain gymnastics festival

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South Tyrolean mountain gymnastics festival
Gymnast's cross
sports Gymnastics
Athletics
Swimming
Gymnastics
Attendees international
meeting September
Duration several days
place Brixen , South Tyrol ( Italy )
District community Eisack Valley
province Bolzano
founding October 14, 1961
organizer SSV Brixen
management Walter Kompatscher
Website ssv-brixen.info

The South Tyrolean Mountain Gymnastics Festival in Brixen , South Tyrol , Italy was a traditional, two-day, international mountain sports festival . Gymnasts , track and field athletes , swimmers and gymnasts of all ages, children, young people and adults (including seniors) took part in the South Tyrolean Mountain Gymnastics Festival . The last event of this kind was held in 2010.

The South Tyrolean mountain gymnastics festival has been organized by SSV Brixen since 1961. The organization and the competition office were headed by founder Walter Kompatscher.

history

Prelude

View of Brixen in the Eisack Valley

The history of the foundation of the South Tyrolean mountain gymnastics festival was overshadowed by political events. During the night of fire from June 11 to 12, 1961, members of the so-called Liberation Committee demonstratively blown up power poles in South Tyrol and cut off the power supply to the chemical industry in Northern Italy and the Bolzano industrial zone. During this time, the planning for the mountain gymnastics festival had long been underway and the invitations had been sent out. However, it was uncertain whether the participants were allowed to enter South Tyrol due to the explosives.

1961 to 1985

The South Tyrolean mountain gymnastics festival goes back to an idea by Walter Kompatscher, who had agreed with the then president of SSV Brixen, Otto Seebacher, co-founders such as Peter Rottensteiner, the then North Tyrolean regional gymnastics warden Luis Lindner and gymnasts from Bozen. The SSV Brixen was only in its fourth year of existence, when the event was held for the first time on October 14, 1961 as the Brixen mountain gymnastics festival , initially with 180 participants from North, South and East Tyrol. A mountain meadow at the Flötscherhof in Natz near Brixen seemed particularly suitable as a competition area . The purely Tyrolean event quickly turned into more, as participants from Bavaria , Vorarlberg and Carinthia joined in the following years . Publications in the magazine Deutsches Turnen by the then editor-in-chief Hermann Präder quickly made the event public in the German-speaking area. There were already 684 participants at the 15th South Tyrolean Mountain Gymnastics Festival, and 845 participants at the 25th anniversary. At this anniversary, the gymnasts of SSV Brixen apparently worked particularly hard, because they had three winners.

1986 to 2010

Graphic: Number of participating athletes per year
Graphic: Number of participating clubs per year
Table: Participation frequency - clubs that have participated 25 times or more

In the time of Italian fascism (ital. Fascismo ) from 1922, the South Tyrolean gymnastics clubs were forcibly dissolved, banned and expropriated. The South Tyroleans did not give up their sport, but looked for alternatives to their lost gyms. They therefore met on remote mountain meadows to do gymnastics, play gymnastics games such as fistball and sing local and gymnastics songs. For the gymnasium, which was expropriated in 1923, and the gymnasium, which was also lost, there was financial compensation decades later. In addition, the municipality of Brixen committed itself to building a hall for the gymnastics department of SSV Brixen with this amount. Training and courses take place there to this day. 30th anniversary of the South Tyrolean mountain Gymnastics Festival in 1990 on the occasion of were topping-out ceremony , the documents handed over to the new construction.

After thirty-nine years of the mountain gymnastics festival, a turning point came in 1999. Due to a generation change in the ownership structure, the mountain meadow at the Flötscherhof was to be rededicated; since then it has no longer been used for the competitions of the South Tyrolean mountain gymnastics festival. An orchard was created on the premises of the Flötscherhof and a children's hotel with an outdoor swimming pool was built.

From 2000, for the 40th anniversary, the event had to move to the Brixen sports zone, the sports center south. The advantages there are obvious, there are sports facilities of modern design, the facility is framed by high mountains. However, the disadvantages also became apparent: the unique flair of the former natural area of ​​the mountain meadow near the Flötscherhof was now missing. The organizers see this as the reason for the fact that the number of participating clubs and active participants fell significantly overall in the following years. The decline in participants cannot be explained solely by the change from the mountain meadow to the Brixen sports zone, especially since the downward trend has been observed since the second half of the 1980s. If you look at the statistics of the other mountain gymnastics festivals in the German-speaking area, in most cases the same negative trend is noticeable for this period. In addition, at the South Tyrolean Mountain Gymnastics Festival, the number of participants per event for the period from 2001 to 2009 roughly corresponds to those for the years 1969 to 1971, about which the organizers never expressed any negative comments. The same applies to the number of participating clubs. The number of clubs participating in each event between 2001 and 2009 corresponds to that for the period between 1970 and 1976. In this context, the very constant participation of many clubs is interesting, with 42 of them extending over 25 to 48 years each.

Nevertheless, the initiators, organizers and the association's board have left no stone unturned in locating a competition area in the area comparable to the former mountain meadow of the Flötscherhof in Natz, which could be used for the South Tyrolean mountain gymnastics festival. The search for an alternative has been fruitless to this day.

As early as 1980, Hans Kahl introduced electronic data processing for the statistics of the South Tyrolean Mountain Gymnastics Festival, a milestone that has considerably simplified and systematized the recording and analysis of large amounts of data.

The 50th and last mountain gymnastics festival took place on September 25 and 26, 2010, and a commemorative publication was created for this occasion.

terrain

While the competitions were held on a mown mountain meadow from 1961 up to and including 1989, the picture has changed since then: the competitions took place on the well-tended lawns of the sports center south, the Brixen sports zone, and their plastic running tracks, and in the Aquarena swimming pool 25-meter pool suitable for competitions, the electoral competition in gymnastics in the sports hall. The respective sanitary facilities could be used accordingly.

Competition program

sports

During the South Tyrolean mountain gymnastics festival, competitions in gymnastics and athletics , gymnastics and swimming were held. An election competition for all-rounders ( three-way fight ), which has been offered since 2006, enabled participation in either two or three sports .

Sports disciplines

Top performance

The oldest active participant in the South Tyrolean mountain gymnastics festival was 82, the oldest active gymnast 93 years old.

Award ceremonies

The winners of the competitions were honored immediately after the end, the overall winners in gymnastics each received a trophy. Participants who achieved a certain number of points per sport or discipline (athletics, apparatus gymnastics, election competition) were considered the winners. Winner plaques were presented to them as well as to all participants over 60 who complete the competition.

organization

Volunteering

Of decisive importance for the South Tyrolean mountain gymnastics festival, which is always held on two consecutive days (Saturday / Sunday), were volunteers. For example, the competition areas had to be prepared in a suitable manner, competition statistics had to be kept and evaluated, food and beverages had to be procured, transported and, in some cases, prepared, medical care and extensive press and public relations work as well as contact to the many clubs involved had to be guaranteed.

Infrastructure

The organizer offers food or snacks and drinks. The overnight stay must be organized by the participants themselves, the organizer offers addresses of suitable accommodation (youth hostel and camping site) or the region's tourism associations for guest houses and hotels.

Supporting program

Inner courtyard of the Prince-Bishop's Hofburg in Brixen

In the first years of the mountain gymnastics festival on the mountain meadow at Flötscherhof in Natz, there was a common prayer in the court chapel before the start of the competitions. However, the small band could not accommodate the steadily increasing number of participants. The organizers therefore dropped the prayer after a few years, although an open-air prayer would have been conceivable.

In previous years, the participants who had traveled and who had come from the region met for a community evening on the eve of the competitions, with lots of music, entertainment, food and drink. Most of the younger participants now prefer to spend the evening in Bressanone and explore the city.

As part of the supporting program of the South Tyrolean mountain gymnastics festival, a show gymnastics was organized on Sundays, which was designed by both winners of the gymnastics competitions and gymnasts of the SSV Brixen. A marching band was usually also part of the game.

Individual evidence

  1. Winner list Südtiroler Bergturnfest 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: ssv-brixen.info@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ssv-brixen.info  
  2. Chronicle SSV Brixen ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: ssv-brixen.info @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ssv-brixen.info
  3. Webcam Brixen / Eisacktal ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: ras.bz.it @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ras.bz.it
  4. Festschrift 50 Years of the South Tyrolean Mountain Turn Festival 2010 ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on oetb.at (PDF file, 1.6 megabytes; 1.7 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oetb.at
  5. The 50th and last South Tyrolean mountain gymnastics festival 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: ssv-brixen.info@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ssv-brixen.info  
  6. Aquarena swimming pool, Bressanone at: aquarena.com
  7. Announcement 2010 ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.9 MB). oetb.at @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oetb.at

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Coordinates: 46 ° 42 ′ 20.1 ″  N , 11 ° 39 ′ 12.5 ″  E