STV Horst-Emscher
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| Full name | Game and Gymnastics Association Horst-Emscher e. V. |
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| place | Gelsenkirchen - Horst | ||
| Founded | 1892 | ||
| Dissolved | 2007 | ||
| Club colors | Black-blue | ||
| Stadion | Fürstenberg Stadium | ||
| Top league | Oberliga West | ||
| successes | German amateur champion 1967 | ||
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The STV Horst-Emscher (officially: Spiel- und Turnvereinigung Horst-Emscher e.V. ) was a football club from the Horst district of Gelsenkirchen . The first team played for eight years in what was then the first-class Oberliga West and reached the final round of the German championship in the 1949/50 season. In 1967 the “Emscherhusaren” became German amateur champions .
On November 17, 2007, the association had to be dissolved for financial reasons. The club's venue has been the Fürstenberg Stadium since 1928 , which offers space for around 22,800 spectators. The STV Horst-Emscher is not to be confused with the SV Horst-Emscher 08 .
history
Structural development
The roots of the club go back to 1892, when the Horst gymnastics club was founded in 1892 . This club set up a football department in 1906, which merged in June 1920 with the football department of the Horst gymnastics community, founded in 1912, to form STV Horst-Emscher. On June 15, 1973 the STV merged with the city rival Eintracht Gelsenkirchen to form STV Eintracht Gelsenkirchen-Horst . As early as May 1978 this club took on the name STV Horst-Emscher again. In February 1999 the football department was spun off under the name STV Horst-Emscher Husaren . This association was then dissolved on November 17, 2007.
From the foundation to the Second World War (1906 to 1945)
The founders of the football department in the Horst gymnastics club were buddies from the Nordstern colliery . The first venue was right near the mine. The first great period of the STV began in the mid-1920s. In 1926, the team finished the championship in the 2nd district class Emscherkreis tied with FC Schalke 04 . The due playoff won the Schalke in the neutral Buer with 4: 2 and rose to the first class.
Two years later, the Horster also rose to the first-class Ruhr district class at the time , after the team defeated BC Sportfreunde Dortmund 4-2 in the playoff. A year later, the STV qualified for the newly created regional league Ruhr with a playoff victory over SC Gelsenkirchen 07 . Two years followed, when the Emscher Hussars took last place and only remained first class by increasing the league. The 1930/31 season was a strange one , when the STV could only achieve three victories. Two of them were won against Schalke 04.
In 1933, the Horster missed the newly created Gauliga Westfalen and thus had to go into second class. Three years later, the team even went down to the third division. With the outbreak of the Second World War , the club went up again. In 1942 the team reached the promotion round, where the "Emscher Hussars" were able to prevail against Prussia Munster and Teutonia Lippstadt without losing points . Despite a 5-2 win over Borussia Dortmund , the STV only made it to the penultimate place. The curious highlight of the season was a 6-8 defeat at Arminia Marten .
Post-war period (1945 to 1954)
After the end of the war, the STV was divided into the two-pronged Landesliga Westfalen . After a fifth place in the opening season , the "Emscherhusaren" were runner-up in their season behind Schalke 04 a year later. This qualified the team for the newly created Oberliga West, where the Horster came third behind Borussia Dortmund and Sportfreunde Katernberg in the opening season occupied. The team around goal scorer Alfred Kelbassa now took part in the British Zone Championship , where in the quarterfinals they were eliminated after a 3-1 defeat at FC St. Pauli . For the following season 1948/49 the STV was able to strengthen itself with the Schalke Bernhard Klodt and again reached third place.
On December 18, 1949, the Horsters defeated Schalke 2: 1, which was commented on in the press with the words "Teacher run over by hussars". The "Emscherhusaren", for whom the former national player Heinz Flotho now guarded the goal, secured the autumn championship in the 1949/50 season . In the second half of the season, the team fell back to fourth place and qualified for the final round of the German championship. There, the STV met in the second round in Worms Wormatia stadium to SpVgg Fürth . After 29 minutes the Horster were already leading 2-0 with goals from Klodt and Heinz Zielinski , before the Fürth team turned the game around in the second half and won 3-2.
Then there was a change. Four top performers switched to Borussia Dortmund. The supporters of the Emscher Hussars then stabbed Dortmund's chairman Heinz Dolle on the car tires. This bloodletting made it only tenth in the 1950/51 season . There followed two years of relegation battle before the STV had to relegate to the second division in 1954.
Amateur champion (1954 to 1973)
After three unsuccessful attempts, the promotion to the Oberliga West was not successful until 1958. But the team turned out to be unsuitable for the league and had to be relegated as the bottom of the table. The low point of the season was an 8-0 defeat at VfL Bochum . The STV played with average success for a few more years in the 2nd Division West and qualified in 1963 for the newly created Regionalliga West as a substructure for the Bundesliga .
Relegation succeeded in the 1963/64 season only under dramatic circumstances. Up to the 89th minute, SpVgg Herten leads 1-0 at VfB Bottrop . The latter converted a penalty shortly before the final whistle . Horst-Emscher kept the class because their goal quotient was 0.05 better than that of the Herten team. With Kurt Sahm , a former STV striker then took over the coaching office and tried in vain to sign center forward Udo Lattek from VfL Osnabrück . The transfer failed because of Lattek's salary expectations.
The “Emscherhusaren” were penultimate in 1965 and were relegated to sport. There was a 1:10 home defeat against Borussia Mönchengladbach . The rescue took place at the Green Table . The Bundesliga club Hertha BSC had their license withdrawn and the Schalke team, who had been relegated to the sport, stayed in the Bundesliga. Due to Schalke's non-relegation, the STV remained regional league. But the relegation was only postponed because the team relegated to the Association League a year later .
In the Bundesliga season 2, the "Emscherhusaren" under coach Heinz Flotho were runner-up behind Lüner SV and qualified for the German amateur championship after playoffs against SpVgg Herten . The Horster qualified for the final via the stations Holsatia Elmshorn , ESV Ingolstadt-Ringsee and SpVgg Neu-Isenburg . In the neutral Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion in Herford , the STV won 2-0 against the amateurs of Hannover 96 .
In 1972 there was a chance to return to the regional league. With three points ahead of TSV Marl-Hüls , the "Emscherhusaren" were champions of the association league season 1. In the finals of the Westphalia Championship, Horst faced Sportfreunde Siegen , who were able to prevail on penalties . In the subsequent round of promotion to the regional league, the STV failed because of the victors and 1. FC Styrum .
STV Eintracht Gelsenkirchen-Horst (1973 to 1978)
During the 1972/73 season, coach Friedel Elting moved from STV to local rivals and regional league club Eintracht Gelsenkirchen. Because of the imminent introduction of the 2nd Bundesliga, Elting campaigned for a merger between STV Horst-Emscher and Eintracht. " Dog and cat should get along in order to become a second force in the Schalke city," says Elting. Against all reservations, the merger took place on June 15, 1973. The team was now wearing blue, red and black jerseys and settled in the Fürstenberg Stadium.
The thrown together team, which was already weakened by the sale of some top performers from Eintracht, only reached third from last place in the 1973/74 regional league season and was relegated to the Association League . The goal of the 2nd Bundesliga was missed by far. In addition, the merger association was viewed by many as an artificial product that was not accepted by either the Horsters or the Eintracht supporters. As a result, more and more former Eintrachtler turned away from the merger association.
In the association league, the STV Eintracht no longer got beyond mediocrity. The highlights were eighth place in 1975 and ninth place two years later. In 1978, the fusion club also missed the newly created Oberliga Westfalen as twelfth in the table and thus slipped down into fourth division. Since hardly any former Eintracht members were still active in the club, the STV Eintracht Gelsenkirchen-Horst became STV Horst-Emscher again in May 1978.
Last high and low (1978 to 2007)
Under the old name, the "Emscher Hussars" played from 1978 in the fourth-class association league. In 1980, with three points ahead of the amateurs of SG Wattenscheid 09, they were promoted to the league. After the team was able to keep the class in 1981 , a year later, with 102 goals conceded, they were relegated to the bottom of the table. Low points were a 1: 8 home defeat against VfB Rheine and a 2: 8 at FC Gütersloh .
There followed many years in the midfield of the association league. In 1985, the team was third from bottom and met in a playoff to relegation in the neutral Lüdenscheid to VfL Klafeld-Geisweid . Here the STV was able to prevail with 3: 2 and remained fourth class. In 1988 the STV qualified for the DFB Cup and met the second division club SG Union Solingen in the first round . After a 0-0 after extra time it came to the replay, which Solingen clearly won 5-1. Due to financial difficulties, in the following years it was only enough for a relegation battle before the "Emscher Hussars" were relegated to the state league in 1994 .
Since the regional league was reintroduced at the same time , the STV slipped from fourth to sixth division. In 1996 he was promoted again and again reached fifth place in the 1996/97 season. Two years later the club was financially at an end and was in debt with 250,000 marks . The STV was saved by a loophole in the statutes. The football department became independent as STV Horst-Emscher Husaren , while the debts remained with the parent club, which went into bankruptcy . The new club started out debt free.
In 2005 the "Emscherhusaren" were relegated from the association league. It was the first of three relegations in a row that made the club arrive in the district league A in 2007. There the team was still without a win after 13 games and owed 250,000 euros . The Knappschaft then initiated bankruptcy proceedings. On November 17, 2007, the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reported that the club had ceased gaming operations and was dissolved due to considerable arrears in payments. Attempts were made to found a successor club with the STV Horst . However, this was refused admission to the Football and Athletics Association Westphalia .
successes
- German amateur champion : 1967
Personalities
player
(In brackets: time at Horst-Emscher, number of league games / goals)
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Individual evidence
- ^ Hardy Green , Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 240.
- ↑ a b c d Ralf Piorr (Hrsg.): The pot is round - The lexicon of Revier football: The clubs . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-356-9 , p. 142-145 .
- ^ German Sports Club for Football Statistics : Football in West Germany 1902/03 - 1932/33 . Berlin 2009.
- ↑ Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 , p. 232.
- ↑ a b c d Michael Koch: When the hussars ran over the teacher. The West , accessed December 12, 2013 .
- ↑ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: The fame, the dream and the money - The story of Borussia Dortmund . Verlag die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-480-4 , p. 76 .