SV Großpostwitz-Kirschau
The SV Großpostwitz-Kirschau eV is a sports club, which has its seat in the south-east Saxon community Großpostwitz . He uses both the Sportforum Kirschau with lawn and floodlights and space for 3000 spectators as well as the Spreetalstadion in Großpostwitz. Soccer, chess and gymnastics are practiced as sports. The participating towns of Großpostwitz and Kirschau are about five kilometers apart and have 3000 and 2400 inhabitants respectively.
Club history
The sports club Großpostwitz-Kirschau was founded on April 14, 2003 through the merger of the previous sports clubs SG Ontex Großpostwitz and VfR Kirschau. These two clubs had their predecessors in the GDR era with the company sports associations Progress Großpostwitz and Progress Kirschau. Their carrier companies were the linen factory in Großpostwitz and the gear factory in Kirschau. Both company sports associations had other sports sections in addition to football. The most successful were the Kirschauer archers, who fought for several GDR championship titles in archery between 1959 and 1966. In 1990, both company sports associations lost the support of their sponsoring companies due to the economic changes that had been triggered by the political changes in 1989. In Großpostwitz, members of the BSG founded the sports community Großpostwitz, in Kirschau the BSG Progress changed into the Kirschau sports club. Both clubs essentially continued the previous sports fields of their predecessors. SG Großpostwitz later took over the name of its main sponsor Ontex, who had taken over the former linen factory. In 2000, the football department left SV Kirschau and formed its own club with VfR Kirschau. However, this only existed for three years until it merged with SG Ontex Großpostwitz in 2003 to form SV Großpostwitz-Kirschau.
Development of the sport of football
At the time of the company sports associations, Großpostwitz only played a subordinate role in football, the linen factory's football team never got above the regional level. In the last season of GDR football in Saxony 1989/90, the BSG progress Großpostwitz finished in the 2nd district class. The first soccer team of BSG Progress Kirschau rose in 1971 to the third-class Dresden district league , but was initially only able to hold onto there for two years. 1977 succeeded in returning to the third class, and the transmission workers succeeded in keeping the class until the end of the GDR football. In the 1978/79 and 1979/80 seasons, the best result was achieved with 5th place each.
In 1985, BSG Progress Kirschau won the Dresden District Football Cup with a 2-1 victory over district league competitor BSG Chemie Radebeul . The Kirschauer had thus qualified for the GDR-wide FDGB soccer cup competition 1985/86. Opponent in the first round of the cup was second division activist Black Pump . With a 1: 2 home defeat, Kirschau retired after his first appearance.
In the DFB game operations from 1990 onwards, the development of the clubs from Großpostwitz and Kirschau was inversely related to the GDR era. SV Kirschau began in the district league of the Dresden Football Association, but was relegated to the district class in 1992. The club experienced its low point in 2000 when it was relegated from the Bautzen district league. VfR Kirschau succeeded in asserting itself again in the Bautzen district league between 2001 and 2003, but then rose again to the then 9th league, 1st district Bautzen.
The SG Großpostwitz rose in 1998 to the Dresden district class. In 2001 she was even a season winner, but for economic reasons did not move up to the district league. SG Ontex Großpostwitz finished their last season 2003/04 in 12th place in the district class.
The new sports club Großpostwitz-Kirschau took over the place of the SG Ontex in the district class Dresden in 2004/05 and reached place 9. A year later the merger was already bearing fruit, the SV became a relay winner and this time exercised its right of promotion. After a year-long relapse into the 2008/09 district class, SV Großpostwitz-Kirschau has been back in the Dresden district league, the 7th division, since 2009.