SV Kurhessen Kassel

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Coat of arms of the SV Kurhessen Kassel

The SV Kurhessen Kassel was a football club from the north Hessian city of Kassel . Under the name Cassel FV 95 or Casseler FV before the First World War nationally successful and among other participants in the final round of the German Cup in 1903/04 , of 1919 as presented SV Kurhessen An incoming club in the 1920s, the strongest team in the North Hessian Room. After the Second World War , the former SV Kurhessen merged with the SG Kassel Süd club , from which KSV Hessen Kassel was formed a short time later .

history

The pioneering days: Casseler FV (1893 to 1918)

Coat of arms of the Casseler FV

The roots of SV Kurhessen go back to the year 1893. At that time, the second football club in Kassel (after the Casseler FC ) was established east of the Fulda at the medieval hospital “Siechenhof” with FC Hassia . Another club called FC Union was later founded. In 1895, the FC Union and part of the FC Hassia team merged to form the Casseler FV 95 in the restaurant Zur Insel Helgoland , which was then located in the Bettenhäusener "forest". On September 29, 1895, CFV 95 played its first game against an outside team, and suffered a bitter 9-1 defeat against 1. Hanauer FC 93 .

In the first few years of its existence, there was no regular game operation due to the lack of national football associations, which changed when the Casseler FV 95 joined the German Football Association in 1903. At that time, the still young sport in Kassel experienced a similar boom as the local industry. With a 2: 2, the CFV 95 landed a respectable success against the newly crowned first German champions VfB Leipzig in a friendly match in 1903 and the following year they were the first champions of the Casseler Ballspielvereine association to take part in the final round of the 1903/04 German football championship participate, but failed here in the first round at Duisburg SpV . Until the First World War, the club, which from 1904 after the merger with the Casseler FV in 1897 was only called Casseler FV for short , remained the footballing flagship of the city. In 1907 and 1910 , the team from the southern part of the city reached the final round of the West German soccer championship, but had no chance there. With Gustav Hensel , the Casseler FV provided a player for the German national team in their first official international match on April 5, 1908; However, it stayed with this one mission. In the same year, they moved from the forest outside the city to the edge of the Fuldaaue , where the new facility was inaugurated with a game against Hannover 96 (4: 3).

Expansion and successes as SV Kurhessen (1919 to 1932)

After the end of the First World War, the Casseler FV merged in 1919 with the heavy athletics club Verein für Körperkultur (VfK) to form SV Kurhessen from 1893 . Under the chairmanship of Carl Tölcke, the resulting large association, which was anchored in the affluent bourgeoisie, expanded its facility on the Auerand in 1922 to 66,000 square meters. The representative sports area, which was completed in the following year, was called Kurhessen-Sportplatz or Kurhessensportanlage . It was one of the largest in West Germany and offered space for up to 16,000 spectators. The entire facility included three playing fields - the main field, the so-called "A-place", had a covered grandstand, which was still a rarity at the time, and a cinder track - a cycling track with elevated curves and tennis courts. The growth of the association was also expressed in the fact that SV Kurhessen had a proud membership of 2162 in 1925.

In terms of sport, however, the local competition grew stronger in the post-war years, and in 1921 BC “Sport” placed itself in front of SV Kurhessen for the first time in the championship round . And despite a strong assault row, from which national player "Heini" Weber stood out, it was difficult to maintain the local leadership role against the "athletes". In the following years, the CSC 03 , the Hermannia , who grew up in the vicinity of the Henschel-Werke , and the suburb SV 06 Rothenditmold, other strong teams grew up. Nevertheless, SV Kurhessen was mostly able to assert itself as number one in the local Sportgau, but just as regularly reached its limits nationally, because the West German competition turned out to be too strong for North Hesse. In 1925, for example, there was only one win (3-1 against Sportfreunde Siegen ) in five games in the West German finals . Even the costly involvement of the Hungarian professional trainer Fritz Molnar did not have the desired effect and ended again after only six months. SV Kurhessen reached the sporting zenith of this phase after the 1926/27 season. After eliminating Spielverein 06 in the final of the district championship in the third game , the team played in the West German championship after a 2-1 win over Fortuna Düsseldorf , a 2-2 win against FC Schalke 04 and another 2-1 win On February 24, 1927, a play-off for third place over the Cologne CfR , which would have qualified for participation in the German championship finals - and lost to Düsseldorf Fortuna 2: 3.

After the renewed - and, as it turned out, last - qualification for the West German finals in 1928, in which SV Kurhessen could not build on the previous year's success, it gradually became quiet about the von der Fuldaaue club in the fight for the local leadership role now the CSC 03 , the BC “Sport” and the Spielverein 06 set the tone, at the same time the clubs from Fulda, Hersfeld and Göttingen caught up. Although SV Kurhessen was by far the largest sports club in the city with 1,500 members, not least because of the modern sports facility, it was only played a minor role in regional football from the beginning of the 1930s.

Average in the Gauliga (1933 to 1944)

After national player "Heini" Weber had to end his career in 1932 due to knee problems, it was just enough for the Kurhessen in 1933 to qualify for the newly introduced top division, the Gauliga Hessen . It was more difficult than good to get by there. At the end of the 1934/35 season, for example, relegation could only be finally secured on the last game day with a 1-0 win at VfB Friedberg . The following year, following the round of 1935/36 , SV Kurhessen had to go into the second division for the first time in its club's history. Two years later, the team returned to the Gauliga, but could not build on earlier successes afterwards, although with Rolf Zimmer at least a candidate for the national team stood between the posts.

After all, another highlight was set in the war years with the runner-up in the Gauliga Kurhessen in 1941/42 , which was to remain the last in the history of SV Kurhessen . Due to the war-related circumstances one made in the round in 1943/44 with the CSC 03 is a war game community , then the game operation came to a complete standstill.

After the Second World War

After the Second World War, the SV Kurhessen, like all other clubs, was formally dissolved by the Allies. In the city of Kassel only four district associations were initially approved, under whose roof the members of the pre-war associations came together. Thus, with the SG Kassel Süd, a large association was created, which the former Kurhessen members also joined. This was renamed VfL Kassel in 1946 . In 1947, the company finally merged with the successor to VfL TuRa , Kasseler SV , to form KSV Hessen Kassel .

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