SV Atlas Delmenhorst (1973)

SV Atlas Delmenhorst
Full name	Sports club Atlas Delmenhorst e. V.
place	Delmenhorst , Lower Saxony
Founded	July 13, 1973
Dissolved	2002 (bankruptcy)
Club colors	Blue yellow
Stadion	Municipal stadium on Düsternortstrasse
Top league	Regionalliga North
successes	DFB Cup round of 16 1981
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The sports club Atlas Delmenhorst e. V. , or SV Atlas Delmenhorst for short , also called SV Atlas or Atlas Delmenhorst , was a sports club from Delmenhorst . It was created in 1973 through the merger of the SSV Delmenhorst with Roland Delmenhorst and the VSK Bungerhof and gained fame mainly through its football department . The first team played nine years in the then third-class Oberliga Nord and later three years in the then third-class Regionalliga Nord . Once the team took part in the DFB Cup and reached the round of 16 there. The club's handball team once took part in the DHB Cup .

In 1999 the club was renamed Delmenhorster SC , which three years later had to file for bankruptcy for financial reasons and was dissolved. From the successor club Eintracht Delmenhorst a new club with the name SV Atlas Delmenhorst arose in April 2012 .

The parent clubs

Club logos of the SSV (left) and Roland Delmenhorst

SSV Delmenhorst

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The SSV Delmenhorst was founded in 1900 by a group of high school students and had bourgeois roots. The team played for two years in the highest Bremen amateur league and 13 years in the highest amateur league in Lower Saxony. In 1951, the SSV took part in the German amateur championship , where the team failed in the quarter-finals at Cronenberger SC . The green and yellow played on the Hinter dem Anker sports field from 1939 . After a dispute with the owner of the place, the Deutsche Linoleum-Werke , the club moved to the municipal stadium on Düsternortstrasse in 1951.

Roland Delmenhorst

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Roland Delmenhorst was founded on February 18, 1912 and was considered an association of the proletariat . The lilac and white were always in connection with the North German wool combing & worsted spinning mill ("North wool"). The sports field on Ahornstrasse was located near the north wool. The team played for one year in the highest Bremen amateur league and eight years in the highest amateur league in Lower Saxony. In addition, FC Roland won the Lower Saxony Cup in 1969 . The club name is based on the Bremen Roland .

VSK Bungerhof

The association for sports and body care Bungerhof was founded on August 11, 1911 and was initially active in gymnastics , fistball and batting . After the First World War there was also a football department for a short time. The club became known for its handball department founded in 1924, which played from 1961 to 1966 in the first-class Oberliga Nord at the time. The greatest success was the runner-up in 1962 in the group south behind VfL Wolfsburg . The game for third place was won 15: 7 against the Flensburg TB . After the merger to form SV Atlas Delmenhorst, the handball players separated from the fusion club in 1988 and re-established the VSK Bungerhof.

fusion

The SSV and Roland Delmenhorst have already negotiated several times about a merger of the two clubs. Sometimes the SSV voted for and Roland against, sometimes the other way around. The SSV members voted for another attempt in 1972, while the Roland members were against. At the same time, the handball club VSK Bungerhof tried to found a football department, but received a rejection from both TuS Hasberge and TV Jahn Delmenhorst . The board of the SSV then began merger negotiations with the TV Jahn Delmenhorst. The construction machinery manufacturer Atlas Weyhausen then suggested a major merger and offered large financial support.

In June 1973 the members of the SSV voted with a large majority for a merger with the VSK Bungerhof, while only two were for a merger with the TV Jahn. In early July 1973, the members of FC Roland also voted for the merger. On July 13, 1973, the SV Atlas Delmenhorst was finally founded. The meeting in the Grafthalle lasted only 35 minutes. Both the club name Atlas and the club colors blue-yellow came from the company Atlas Weyhausen. However, blue-yellow are also the colors of the city of Delmenhorst.

history

Upswing (1973 to 1980)

The manager provided by Atlas, Peter Thies, who was full-time sales manager at Atlas, hired three ex-professionals with Günter Bernard , Heinz-Dieter Hasebrink and Rudi Trumpfheller and sparked a great enthusiasm for football in Delmenhorst. 2,000 spectators attended the opening game against Falke Steinfeld . Before that, SSV and FC Roland only played in front of around 200 guests. After fourth place in the first season, the championship of the Verbandsliga West succeeded a year later with 58: 2 points . Vice-champion BV Cloppenburg was already 13 points behind. The game against Steinfeld saw over 5,000 spectators. In the promotion round to the Lower Saxony state league , 6,000 spectators came against 1. FC Wunstorf . After a 5: 1 win at Lüneburger SK , the Delmenhorsters and their 2,500 spectators were able to secure promotion.

After the leap in class, other ex-professionals such as Günter Selke , Hans-Heinrich Radbruch, Edgar Nobs and Schmidt came to Delmenhorst, while ex-national player Erich Hänel took over as coach. With an average of 4,000 spectators, the team also caused a sensation in Lower Saxony's upper house and became a national crowd-puller. During the winter break, trainer Hänel was replaced by Günter Bernard because, in the opinion of the management board, Hänel was acting too inconsistently. After a 4-2 win in the play-off against the tied amateurs from Hannover 96 , Atlas secured the championship. In the promotion round to the then third-class Oberliga Nord , the Delmenhorster prevailed against VfR Neumünster , Altona 93 and TuS Lingen and were promoted. 11,000 spectators came to the stadium against Neumünster and set the attendance record that is still valid today.

In the Oberliga Nord, the upswing stalled. In the promotion season 1976/77 the team reached sixth place under the new coach Helmut Mrosla and an average of 5,079 spectators. The Delmenhorsters qualified for the German amateur championship , where the team failed in the first round at ATS Kulmbach 1861 . A year later , Atlas had to fight long to stay in the league. In the fall of 1977, Max Konopka took over as coach and reached 15th place with his team. In the following season 1978/79 , Atlas fought against relegation and was fourteenth. In 1979 Bernd Oles took over as coach and brought Uwe Erkenbrecher and five British players to Delme . The newly formed team established itself in the top group of the Oberliga Nord. On December 2, 1979, 15,470 spectators saw the game between VfB Oldenburg and SV Atlas Delmenhorst, which was a league record until 1987. 4,000 Atlas fans who traveled with them saw a 1: 1. A 1: 2 defeat by the amateurs of Werder Bremen on the last matchday in Bremen's Weserstadion caused the Atlas team to slip to fourth place.

Stagnation (1980 to 1994)

In the 1980/81 season, the Delmenhorster qualified for the first and only time for the DFB Cup . Via the stations Blau-Weiß Wesselburen , Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and Kickers Offenbach , Atlas reached the second round, where the team lost 6-1 at Borussia Mönchengladbach . In contrast, the team in the Oberliga Nord slipped more and more into the middle of the table, as the club lost numerous top performers. Although the club again signed well-known players like Herbert Meyer from Borussia Dortmund , but they could not replace their predecessors in terms of sport. Despite a false start with 1:13 points, Atlas reached eighth place in the 1981/82 season . Meanwhile, the number of viewers fell to around 1,400.

The following 1982/83 season was chaotic. Initially, manager Peter Theis resigned on July 24, 1982, and main sponsor Atlas cut financial support. Coach Hannes Hein was dismissed for failure and replaced by Bata Tijanic . The team did not get out of the table cellar and the new manager Rainer Ohmert signed three players from Scotland , who did not strengthen the team , according to a newspaper advertisement . At the end of the season, Atlas was relegated to the bottom of the league table and at the home game against SV Arminia Hannover , only 132 spectators paid admission. As champions of the Lower Saxony Association League , Atlas moved into the promotion round to the Oberliga Nord in 1984 and only needed a draw before the last game at Altona 93 to seal the direct promotion. However, Altona won 2-0 and Delmenhorst stayed in fourth class.

After the team missed the promotion round in fourth place in 1985, Atlas again secured the championship of the Association League Lower Saxony in 1986. In the promotion round, the team prevailed and rose again to the Oberliga Nord. Just two years later it went back to the Association League Lower Saxony . They finished last with 8:60 points and lost their home game against VfL Wolfsburg with 2:10. It was only with great effort that further relegation could be prevented in the Lower Saxony Association League. The next few years were also marked by the relegation battle. In 1992, the team missed the association league championship with a 1-1 draw against TuS Esens after Atlas led 1-0 for a long time. In the promotion round, the Delmenhorster initially failed at SV Lurup . With the promotion of VfL Wolfsburg to the 2nd Bundesliga , another place in the Oberliga Nord became free, so that a playoff against the second of the other promotion group VfL 93 Hamburg was scheduled. In the neutral Buchholz (Aller) the Hamburg team prevailed 1-0.

Two years later, Atlas was again runner-up in the Lower Saxony Association League behind SV Wilhelmshaven . Thanks to a league reform, the Delmenhorsters had the chance of promotion to the re-established Regionalliga Nord . In the promotion round, the team failed as third behind SC Concordia Hamburg and FC Bremerhaven and continued to play in the now fourth-class Oberliga Niedersachsen / Bremen .

The last years (1994 to 2002)

With a 1-0 win against TuS Lingen in 1995 , Atlas secured the runner-up behind BV Cloppenburg , which qualified for promotion to the then third-class Regionalliga Nord . Coach Hartmut Konschal then moved to Rotenburger SV and was replaced by Karl-Heinz Geils . In the 1995/96 season Hakan Cengiz, who was the top scorer in the Regionalliga Nord with 21 goals, contributed significantly to staying up. In the following season too, the class could only just be preserved under the returning coach Konschal.

After all service providers left the club, relegation took place in the 1997/98 season . At the same time sponsor Weyhausen got into financial difficulties. After the company was sold to a Munich investment company, the latter turned the money off of the association. The team initially slipped into the table cellar before coach Konschal was replaced by Klaus Geveshausen. Under him, the team remained in ten games without defeat. Nevertheless, his contract should not be extended, whereupon another sporting decline began. As a consequence, the club management announced on May 11, 1999 the withdrawal of the team from the league at the end of the season.

President Ohmert then pushed through the renaming of the association to Blau-Gelb Delmenhorst , which had to be reversed because it did not receive a two-thirds majority of the members. Finally, on October 7, 1999, the SV Atlas became the Delmenhorster Sportclub . This played two years in the midfield of the Lower Saxony League West before he was relegated from this in the 2001/02 season. The low point of the season was a 9-0 defeat in their own stadium against SV Holthausen / Biene . Away the Delmenhorsters lost 8-0 to the amateurs from Hannover 96 and VfL Germania Leer . In between, coach Dirk Lellek's team reached the final of the Weser-Ems District Cup in 2000, which Viktoria Georgsmarienhütte lost 3-1. This was followed by insolvency and the association was removed from the register of associations in 2002.

Start-up

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A group around the entrepreneur Werner Birnstiel then founded the Eintracht Delmenhorst association to support the junior teams at Delmenhorster SC. However, Eintracht did not see itself as a successor club to SV Atlas Delmenhorst. At the beginning of the 2010s, some actors from Eintracht Delmenhorst toyed with the idea of ​​re-establishing the Atlas association. On April 4, 2012, the SV Atlas was re-established in the Jan Harpstedt restaurant and took over the outsourced football ball department of Eintracht. After four promotions in five years, the new club reached the Lower Saxony Oberliga in summer 2017 .

successes

• Promotion to the Regionalliga Nord: 1995
• Lower Saxony champions : 1976, 1984, 1986
• District cup winner Oldenburg: 1975, 1976.

environment

Stadion

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The football department played its home games in the municipal stadium on Düsternortstrasse . The stadium has a capacity for around 12,000 spectators, including 900 seats. The sports park was built during the Second World War and was reopened in 1951 after being destroyed during the war. In the mid-1990s, the stadium was used as a backdrop in an episode of the ARD series Not from Bad Parents . Nowadays, several Delmenhorst clubs, including the new club SV Atlas Delmenhorst, use the sports grounds.

More teams

The second men's team played from 1979 to 1983 in the Weser-Ems Mitte district league. In the relegation season 1982/83 the team had 14: 172 goals and 2:58 points. Three years later it went down to the district league, before being promoted back to the district class in 1989. In 1997 the Atlas Reserve rose again to the District League, where the team fell apart in the summer of 1999. After only two games, including a 0:27 defeat at TSR Olympia Wilhelmshaven , the team was withdrawn and disbanded. The A-youth of SV Atlas became Lower Saxony champion in 1975 and qualified for the German championship . There the Delmenhorsters failed in the first round at Hamburger SV. The first and second leg were lost 2: 3 and 2: 5.

Fans

In the 1970s, the SV Atlas Delmenhorst was a nationally admired spectator magnet. The historical SV Atlas achieved the highest average attendance in the league season 1976/77 , when an average of 5,079 spectators followed the club's games. The record visit was set up during the promotion round to the Oberliga Nord in 1976, when 11,000 spectators saw the game against VfR Neumünster. The Delmenhorsters were also happy to travel to away games. In 1979, 4,000 Atlas fans traveled to Oldenburg to play . With no success, the number of viewers fell rapidly during the 1980s. From the late 1980s, hooligans and skinheads appeared in the stadium in Delmenhorst for the first time . There were personal overlaps with the hooligans from Werder Bremen, who organized themselves in Standard 88 in 1990 .

Personalities

player

Goran Barjaktarević Günter Bernard Dimitrios Daras Uwe Erkenbrecher Mirosław Giruć

Willi Götz Michael Hansen Heinz-Dieter Hasebrink Manfred Hellmann Musa Karli

Jens Knop Karlheinz Meininger Herbert Meyer Edgar Nobs Matthias Ruländer

Sören Seidel Günter Selke Dieter Tippelt

Trainer

Horst Blankenburg Karl-Heinz Geils Erich Hänel

Max Konopka Hartmut Konschal Dirk Lellek

Helmut Mrosla Bernd Oles Bata Tijanic

Handball

The handball department of SV Atlas Delmenhorst was brought in by VSK Bungerhof. In 1977 the team rose to the then third-class Oberliga North Sea. Two years later the descent followed, which was followed by the resurgence in 1982. Immediately after the promotion, Atlas was runner-up behind TSG Burg Gretesch . In 1985 the Delmenhorsters were runner-up again, this time behind TSV Bremervörde . At the end of the following season 1985/86, the team rose from the league. The Delmenhorsters had their only participation in the DHB Cup in the 1982/83 season . After a bye in the first round, Atlas failed in round two at TSV Birkenau with 20:27. In 1988 the handball department moved to the newly founded VSK Bungerhof. Four years later, this formed the HSG Delmenhorst syndicate with TV Deichhorst .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 , pp. 203-206.
2. ^ Sven Webers: Feldhandball Oberliga Nord 1962. Bundesligainfo.de, accessed on July 15, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} About us. VSK Bungerhof, accessed on July 11, 2016 . 
4. ^ ^{A b c d} Klaus Erdmann: The SV Atlas Delmenhorst was founded 45 years ago. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , accessed on July 15, 2018 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Hardy Grüne, Hansjürgen Jablonski, Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling , Matthias Thoma and Frank Willig: Tighten the screws . In: Zeitspiel, No. 10, pages 84–91
6. ↑ DSFS : Football in Northern Germany 1974-2004 . Lehrte 2005, p. 65 .
7. ↑ DSFS, pp. 176, 193
8. ^ DSFS: Football in the Weser-Ems District 1979-2006 . Taught 2018, p. 415 .
9. ↑ Klaus Erdmann: The once glorious SV Atlas returns to the football stage. Delmenhorster Kreisblatt , archived from the original on June 22, 2012 ; Retrieved April 5, 2012 . 
10. ↑ DSFS, pp. 215, 216
11. ↑ DSFS (2018), pages 49, 101, 155, 277, 307
12. ↑ Gerd Heuser, Robert Hohensee, Ulrich Matheja: Kicker Fußball-Almanach 2009 . Copress Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7679-0908-3 , pp. 588 .
13. ^ Sven Webers: Oberliga North Sea 1982/83. Bundesligainfo.de, accessed on July 15, 2016 . 
14. ^ Sven Webers: Oberliga Nordsee 1984/85. Bundesligainfo.de, accessed on July 15, 2016 . 
15. ^ Sven Webers: DHB Cup men 1982/83. Bundesligainfo.de, accessed on July 15, 2016 . 

Web links

• Official website of today's club SV Atlas Delmenhorst