Frankenthal shooting club
The Schützengesellschaft Frankenthal e. V. 1582 is a shooting club with more than 400 years of tradition in the town of Frankenthal ( Rhineland-Palatinate ) in the Upper Palatinate, dedicated to the various disciplines of sport shooting in the German Shooting Federation (DSB) and the Federation of German Sport Shooting (BDS). The shooting society has about 270 members.
history
At the end of the 16th century, the up-and-coming community of Frankenthal, which then had around 3,000 inhabitants, belonged to the Electoral Palatinate . After Count Palatine Johann Casimir granted the town town charter in 1577 , he decreed in 1582 in his "Modified Regulations" for the young town:
"So we give them (the citizens) as a society freedom and perks, we also want them to continue to shoot all Feyr and Sunday and other times with crossbows and puffs to the target."
It is not known that Frankenthal riflemen came together afterwards, but an organization must have taken place very soon, the result of which also reached the outside world; because ten years later, the Frankenthalers were invited to the nearby Free Imperial City of Worms to "Freyschießen". Because obviously not only at the shooting range "uff the Nachtweid" was practiced, but there were also dangers and accidents at uncontrolled pursuit of leisure activities, the city imposed before the end of the 16th century half a guilder fine for the uncontrolled shooting "auff Sparrows, staves or other birds or with or without a bley ” .
The city wall erected in 1600 and the Thirty Years' War that broke out in 1618 , however, directed the interest of the Frankenthal riflemen to the defense of the city, whose inhabitants were predominantly Protestant like the ruling house of the Electoral Palatinate. Three times it was also possible to defend the fortifications against attacking troops by deploying the riflemen: the Spaniards under General Córdoba had to withdraw without success in 1621 , the Imperialists under Commander-in-Chief Tilly in 1622 and the French in 1644 .
After the end of the Palatinate War of Succession (1697), the Frankenthaler Schützen returned to the recreational value of their part-time occupation. The rifle masters Johann Melchior Bayer and Johann Reinhard Frank tried to revive the archery from 1700 onwards. Firing was initially carried out at two locations , namely at the "Windtmühl" in the west of the city, where the KBA factory premises were later built , and behind the "neue Gass" , the current Schaffnereiplatz in the southeast of the city center. In 1716, the riflemen pushed through the construction of a new shooting house. There was a festival shooting in 1756 on the occasion of the 135th anniversary of the defense of Frankenthal against the Spaniards in 1621. In 1772, Elector Carl Theodor renewed the guarantees and privileges that his predecessors had granted the Frankenthal riflemen.
The aftermath of the French Revolution , the rule of Napoléon Bonaparte and from 1816 the transfer of power in the Palatinate to the Kingdom of Bavaria meant that the Frankenthal shooting club showed little activity for decades, but at least a new shooting house was built in the east of the city in 1832. It was on today's Schützenweg, the shooting ranges ran along the Frankenthal Canal to the street Am Kugelfang .
The second half of the 19th century was shaped by the malt manufacturer Johann Back , who was chief rifleman for 42 years until his death in 1901. With the interest from his legacy of 4,000 marks, a silver cup was financed every year, which was expelled among the club members. Today the foundation sum no longer exists, but the baking cup is still shot every year, even though it only looks silver.
A highlight in the history of the association was a week-long rifle festival, which was celebrated in the summer of 1907 for the 325th anniversary of the shooting society under the patronage of Prince and later King Ludwig of Bavaria . Kaiser Wilhelm II had donated an honorary award for this event and sent Prince Ludwig from Bavaria to gunmen who traditionally had to "boll" at the festival. The establishment of a club's own salute and firecrackers department was then started, but failed in 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War .
After around a hundred years, the area on Schützenweg was abandoned and a new shooting range with a shooting range was built between 1931 and 1933 in Mahlastrasse , which was placed under monument protection at the end of the 20th century . In 1980 a completely closed system was redesigned, which was last rebuilt and modernized in 1995.
On September 23, 2007, the Frankenthal shooting club celebrated its 425th anniversary.
In 2015 it was decided to set up a firecracker department for Ludwig von Bayern and Alexander Wieser was elected commander. The department, which is a member of the Böllerschützenverband of the Palatinate Sport Schützenbund, had twelve members in 2018. It has hand, stock and stand-up fires as well as a 35 mm model front-loading cannon and a historic 50 mm field cannon.
The ground-level Schützenhaus including the restaurant burned down completely on the night of July 10th to 11th, 2019; only the underground facilities remained largely intact. The police put the fire damage at one million euros, the fire brigade assumed a total loss and closed the ruin due to the risk of collapse.
Technical Equipment
requirements
The Frankenthal rifle house on Mahlastrasse was initially far outside the city, about a kilometer south of the Speyer gate ; the arterial road is the extension of the inner-city Speyerer Straße. In the meantime, the facility has been overtaken by the settlement and is surrounded all around by residential developments. Nevertheless, there are no noise emissions, as the shooting ranges are mostly underground.
Shooting ranges
Almost all disciplines can be played on the shooting lanes of different lengths according to the sports regulations of the DSB and the BDS:
- The easiest way to build is the 10-meter shooting range for air rifles, which is located on the ground floor in the southern part of the old rifle house. Here electronic targets with computer evaluation or "light guns" are shot. All other facilities are underground.
- The 50-meter hall has eight lanes and is equipped with a pulling system for retrieving and deploying the targets . Two stands are equipped with computer evaluation. In addition to the standard 50 m disciplines, six lanes are particularly suitable for western shooting in both associations. The entire stand can also be converted for summer biathlon .
- The two 25-meter handgun stands with five lanes each, mainly for the Olympic disciplines sports pistols, sports revolvers and rapid-fire pistols, but also large-bore pistols / revolvers and shotguns are directly adjacent . A time control system for duel shooting and a drop target system are available here.
- The 100-meter gun stand with two lanes takes up the entire depth of the club's premises. It extends from the property boundary in the west on Mahlastrasse under the rifle house through to the eastern boundary on the pilgrim path.
Sporting successes
The Schützengesellschaft Frankenthal is currently represented in almost all disciplines up to the Rhineland-Palatinate state level. In the past, the shooting society provided two Olympic participants, other members became German champions or belonged to the national team. The following were particularly successful:
- Rolf König, member of the German national team until 1939, participant in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin
- Edith Ewald b. Vogel, 1965 German champion with the sport pistol
- Norbert Hofmann, 1982 at the age of 19, bronze medalist in skeet at the World Championships in Caracas , sixth at the Olympic Games in 1984 in Los Angeles , 1985 German Champion
- Stephanie Lang, 1987 participant in the European championships in small caliber three-position combat, until 1989 member of the junior national team
- Falk Maron, 2008 five-time German champion in the handgun disciplines of the BDS
- Frank Ziehl, 2013 2nd place at the European Heckler & Koch Trophy, 2016 German runner-up with the BDS self-loading rifle, 2017 German champion with the BDS self-loading rifle
Cup competition
On the initiative of sports director Peter Michl, a cup competition has been held every year in mid-November since 2016, the Johann Casimir Cup , which was named after the former Count Palatine Johann Kasimir . The call for tenders takes place Europe-wide and is free of associations. During the event, a team of four will shoot the disciplines 2.5x of the DSB and ZG50 of the BDS. The worst individual result in each case is deleted and the total number of rings is added.
Several individual competitions are held every year as part of the team cup.
| year | team | Results |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | SG Frankenthal | 1953 of 2200 rings |
| 2017 | SG Frankenthal | 1502 of 1650 rings |
| 2018 | SG Frankenthal | 1504 of 1650 rings |
| 2019 | SG Frankenthal | 1515 of 1650 rings |
literature
- Alois Ecker: Topic on Saturday: Frankenthaler Schützen celebrate their 425th birthday . In: Die Rheinpfalz , local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung . Ludwigshafen September 22, 2007.
- Sibylle Schwertner: An almost never-ending story . In: Frankenthal local . 28th year, no. 5 . Frankenthal October 2007.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Walther Morlock: "... so We give you freedom and privileges" . In: Frankenthal then and now . Volume 3, 1982, pp. 69-73 .
- ↑ a b c d Sibylle Schwertner: An almost never-ending story . In: Frankenthal local . October 2007, p. 4th f .
- ↑ Gunnery. http://www.pssb.org , accessed December 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Jörg Schmihing: Protect house burned . In: The Rhine Palatinate . Local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung. No. 159 . Ludwigshafen July 12, 2019.
- ^ Result list of the German championship long distance. (PDF; 160 kB) (No longer available online.) Bund Deutscher Sportschützen, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 29, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ^ Result list German championship speed. (PDF; 112 kB) (No longer available online.) Bund Deutscher Sportschützen, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 29, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Result list HK Trophy 2013 overall winner. (PDF; 111 kB) (No longer available online.) Heckler and Koch, 2013, archived from the original ; accessed on January 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Result list German championship long gun 100 meter skill. (PDF; 18 kB) Bund Deutscher Sportschützen, 2017, accessed on September 18, 2017 .