SC Chemnitz 1892
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| Surname | Chemnitz Swimming Club from 1892 |
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| Club colors | blue White |
| Founded | 1892 |
| Place of foundation | Chemnitz |
| Association headquarters | Reichenhainer Strasse 154 09125 Chemnitz |
| Members | about 1200 |
| Departments | 3 |
| Homepage | schwimmclub-chemnitz.de |
The Swimming Club Chemnitz von 1892 eV is an association founded in Chemnitz in 1892 for swimming , water polo and triathlon . With around 1200 members, it is one of the largest swimming clubs in Saxony .
Departments
The SC Chemnitz 1892 has the three departments swimming, water polo and triathlon (since 2008) and around 1200 members in these three sports.
With one team each in the first division swimming for men and women, SC Chemnitz was once one of the most important teams in German swimming. The men reached fourth place in the 2005/06 season and eighth place for women. Both teams have now been relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga. The most famous swimmer of the club is the multiple European champion Stev Theloke . SC Chemnitz is also very successful in disabled sports. Above all, Maria Götze should be mentioned here, who is multiple world champion and gold medalist at the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta .
In water polo, women have been represented in the German Water Polo League since 2001 and have also won several German championship titles among youngsters since 2012. The club's men's team is a regular in the 2nd East Water Polo League, which was launched in 2006 .
history
The club was founded on the night of August 31st to September 1st, 1892 by twelve men who had previously swam regularly together in the city pool at the castle pond. The new association was called the Chemnitz Swimming Club and was the first swimming club on the territory of the Kingdom of Saxony . The primary goal in the early years was to enable a large mass of the population to learn to swim in order to save people from drowning and so that they can help other people in need. Under the leadership of the club, the Saxon Swimmer Association was founded in 1895, a forerunner of the Saxon Swimmer Association . All of the Saxon swimming clubs that had existed up to that point were organized in this association.
In 1908 the club changed its name to "Swimming Club Chemnitz von 1892". By 1900 the association had around 450 members. The first public competitions for women took place in 1910 at SC Chemnitz in 1892. In 1911, the club's management urged the introduction of mandatory school swimming lessons in Chemnitz. This was initially carried out by teachers in the summer. From 1914 military swimming lessons for the royal Saxon infantry regiment "Crown Prince" were carried out at SC Chemnitz. During the First World War , the club was able to continue operating, and the 25th anniversary in 1917 was also celebrated. By then, around 1,800 people had learned to swim for free at SC Chemnitz in 1892.
In 1921, the swimming club was able to expand a former brick pond in the Chemnitz-Borna district into its own outdoor pool. Before that, the association's activities took place in the Crusius-Bad or in the Hedwigbad (indoor swimming pool). The newly built pool became known as the “Borna clay pit” and, in addition to simple swimming facilities, also had a diving platform. In the 1920s, the number of people joining the association was so great that at times no new members could be accepted. SC Chemnitz regularly organized large swimming festivals with international participation. In addition to swimming and water polo, other groups had come together in the meantime, for example there were unofficial athletics and football sections.
From 1930 the association had to move to the summer pool in Chemnitz-Grüna to train because the lease for the Borna clay pit was not extended and there were repeated problems with the water quality there. However, there were also problems in Grüna that made the association switch to the first domiciles again. In 1935, SC Chemnitz was able to move to an outdoor swimming pool in Chemnitz-Erfenschlag in 1892 , which offered significantly better conditions. In the same year, the new Chemnitz indoor pool was opened, which ensured swimming in winter too. The Stadtbad had, among other things, a 50-meter and a 25-meter pool.
During the Nazi era , the association was brought into line in the Reichsbund for physical exercises , and from then on the association's work served pre-military training. Nevertheless, the 50th anniversary of the club was celebrated during the Second World War in 1942 . After the surrender of Germany, the association could not be re-established by order of the occupying power. In the GDR , the BSG Motor Schönau was particularly successful in Chemnitz, which has since been renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt. The performance center of the Karl-Marx-Stadt sports club , to which Motor Schönau also belonged, was able to achieve 11 Olympic gold medals and 21 world championship titles.
After German reunification , Motor Schönau was renamed "Sachsenhydraulik". From then on, representatives of this association promoted the re-establishment of SC Chemnitz from 1892, which came about on May 25, 1992. When it was founded, the swimming club had around 400 members; in November 1992 there were already 600. On January 1, 1993, around 400 swimmers from the Chemnitz Sports Club (successor to SC Karl-Marx-Stadt) joined the Chemnitz Swimming Club from 1892. The club became the leading swimming club in the Chemnitz area again.