SG Neukölln Berlin
The swimming community Neukölln e. V. Berlin is one of the largest and most successful German teams in swimming with headquarters in Berlin . The SG Neukölln is the largest swimming club in Berlin. It looks back on 110 years of tradition and, with around 4,700 members (as of March 2019), is still an attraction for young and old in the Berlin district of Neukölln . The club area is called Sportbad Britz. It is located in the Kleiberweg.
Around 600 children and young people are organized in the swimming and water polo departments . With a men's team in the 1st Bundesliga swimming , the club is one of the most important teams in German swimming. In the last six years five German championship titles have been achieved (men 2001 and 2004, women 2001, 2002 and 2003). In the last season (2007/08) the men finished second, the women third.
Nicole Warnatzsch is the head coach. The training will be held in the Olympic base in Berlin , in the Sportbad Britz (Berlin).
history
The history of the swimming community Neukölln eV Berlin begins in 1898, namely with the establishment of the “Schwimm-Union Rixdorf” on June 10th, 1898. In addition to the club that was later renamed to “Schwimm-Union Neukölln 1898 eV”, there are two other Neukölln swimming clubs - the “Freie Schwimmer Neukölln eV” (founded on June 12th, 1904) and the “Schwimm-Club Neukölln eV” (founded on August 1st, 1949) - a fixture on the history of SG Neukölln. When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the FSN was banned by the National Socialists - like all workers' sports clubs - due to its social democratic attitude. In 1945 the victorious Allied powers banned the SUN like all other sports clubs and associations, as they were members of the National Socialist badger sports association NSRL.
Most of Neukölln's swimming athletes who had survived this terrible world war initially trained together in a loose association, the so-called Neukölln swimming group. After the war, the possibilities and infrastructure for swimming had to be created, which was a difficult undertaking. With increasing stabilization, start-ups were allowed by the Americans from 1949. Many members of the Fichte, SSC and FSN clubs, which were banned by the Nazis from 1933 to 1945, as well as former members of the SUN, which was banned from 1945, were among the first members of the Neukölln Swimming Club. It was not until 1950 that the swimming union was approved again. The free swimmers were re-established under the old name, which was valid until 1933, and continued the tradition of workers' associations that were banned during the Nazi era from 1950.
Many Berlin water sports clubs had their domicile on the banks of the canals of our city. When the Federal Health Office decided in 1956 to prohibit any swimming in the Berlin canals for epidemic hygiene reasons, more than a quarter of all Berlin swimming club members were without a sporting domicile. Together with the company association of the Rudower Eternit-Werke, they celebrated the opening of the Britz sports pool on June 13, 1959. The clubs, as tenants of the site, had a nice “home” again with a sports pool (50 × 16⅔m) and a teaching pool (14x8m). The club life could grow again in the wooden club house built on the same site. In 1969, under the name "Startgemeinschaft Neukölln Wasserratten 1969", the associations "Free Swimmers", "Swimming Club" and "Swim Union" and the "Berliner Wasserratten" formed a starting community on October 21, 1969. All clubs were equal within the starting community. All activities, both in sporting and non-sporting areas, were carried out together. Since the competition regulations of the German Swimming Association in the water polo division do not have any starting communities, the teams had to start under a club name. Nevertheless, there was a concentration of forces here too. The women's teams played exclusively for the SUN, while the men's teams played for the SCN and the youth teams for the FSN. In 1986 the Berlin water rats left the SG. The starting community was the sporting forerunner to the merger of the three clubs in 1997. On October 7, 1972, the club house, the changing rooms and all the accommodations were destroyed by flames. Almost all documents, photos and certificates were destroyed with the fire. A “new” cup made up of three melted cups is a reminder of this in the casino to this day. After some makeshift arrangements by barracks, the laying of the foundation stone for the current clubhouse and administration building was celebrated on October 9, 1976. It was inaugurated on June 11, 1977.
After the average lifespan of an outdoor pool had been exceeded by far at the beginning of the 1990s, the end of the pool was becoming apparent after 35 years of operation. The repairs required in ever shorter periods of time could no longer be financed. The swimming pools were closed at the end of September 1994. The planning of a new sports pool began in January 1993. With the symbolic laying of the foundation stone on September 18, 1994, the construction of the new pool began. The groundbreaking ceremony took place in September 1995. A record time of only seven to eight months was planned for the construction phase. Unfortunately, due to a long period of frost, there was a delay of around three months, so that the new pool could be opened on June 18, 1996. The new sports pool Britz includes a sports pool (50 × 25m, 2m deep), a teaching pool (20 × 12m; 0.60m - 1.40 deep) and a baby pool (7m diameter). A new machine house was built for the technical systems, and rebuilt and modernized sanitary facilities were created. The users of the facilities are primarily the club members. In addition, the facility is used for school swimming lessons, by day-care centers, for service swimming (e.g. police and fire brigade), company sports groups and health sports. Due to the association on February 13, 1997 as of January 1, 1997 between the “Swimming Union Neukölln 1898 eV”, the “Freie Schwimmer Neukölln eV” (founded in 1904) and the “Swimming Club Neukölln” (founded in 1949) for the “Swimming Community Neukölln eV Berlin ”was not a new association in the true sense of the word. It was only brought together under one roof, which had existed for decades. With around 4,700 members at the moment, SG Neukölln is the largest swimming club and the fifth largest sports club in Berlin.
successes
Swimming Union Neukölln 1898 - multiple German champions and European Cup participant in women's water polo
Swimming Club Neukölln - played in the men's water polo league
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ SG Neukölln Berlin
- ^ SG Neukölln eV Berlin | Swimming, water polo, popular, leisure and health sports. Retrieved May 12, 2017 .