VfL Altenbögge
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| Full name | Association for physical exercises 1928 e. V. Altenbögge-Bönen |
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| place | Bönen , North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Founded | May 17, 1928 | ||
| Dissolved | 1984 | ||
| Club colors | Red White | ||
| Stadion | Arena at the Rehbusch | ||
| Top league | Gauliga Westphalia | ||
| successes | Runner-up in the Gauliga Westfalen 1943, 1944 |
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The VfL Altenbögge (officially: Verein für Leibesübungen 1928 eV Altenbögge-Bönen ) was a football and table tennis club from the Altenbögge district of Bönen . It was founded on May 17, 1928 and played for four years in the then first-class Gauliga Westfalen . The club colors were red and white. In 1984 the association merged with Eintracht Bönen and SG Grün-Weiß Bönen to form SpVg Bönen .
Club history
Early years (1928 to 1941)
Some young men from Altenbögge founded VfL on Ascension Day on May 17, 1928, after having attended several football matches in the surrounding cities. The club was closely connected to the Königsborn III / IV colliery , where 90 percent of the players were employed. Even if Altenbögge was strongly proletarian at the time and the SPD and KPD came together to 50 percent in elections, VfL joined the bourgeois DFB instead of the socialist ATSB . Game operations began in the summer of 1928. Within a few years, VfL climbed the league ladder and first reached the district class in 1934 and the second-class district class three years later. Because of their red jerseys and the powerful attacking football, the team soon got the nickname “Red Hussars ”.
In 1940 the Altenbögger reached the promotion round to the Gauliga Westfalen for the first time. Before that, VfL had become champions with 145 goals in 32 games. In the promotion round, however, the team failed due to the poorer goal quotient at DSC Hagen . A year later it worked better. In the first season in the arena at Rehbusch, which was built with the help of the colliery, VfL was again champion of the district class and once again moved into the promotion round. With a 7-0 win over Borussia Rheine on the last day of the match, they were promoted, as the “Red Hussars” now had the better goal quotient over the Rheiners. The works newspaper of the Koenigsborn colliery praised the team, because nowhere better than at VfL would the worker from Altenbögge have the opportunity to relax and loosen up his stressed limbs and his lungs filled with dust and bad air on the green lawn, and thereby again To be able to pursue the daily professional work fresh and hardened of nerves.
Gauliga (1941 to 1945)
In the promotion season of 1941/42 VfL still had to pay hardship and lost 1:11 at FC Schalke 04 or 4:13 against Arminia Bielefeld , the highest-scoring game in the history of Gauliga Westfalen. The SpVgg Röhlinghausen , however, was beaten 11: 1, which was the highest victory of the "Red Hussars" in the Gauliga. The highlight of the season was the guest appearance of FC Schalke 04 in Altenbögge, where the visiting team was received by the local group leader at the train station and accompanied to the club house with music. The 8-0 victory of Schalke in front of 5,000 spectators was a minor matter. In the following season 1942/43 the soaring of the "Red Hussars" continued. At the beginning of the season, the Austrian coach Josef Uridil took over the team. The signing of the former star striker from Rapid Wien was an absolute godsend for the club. His view of football and his modern training methods matched the mentality of the players.
With the exception of the game against Schalke, where over 20,000 spectators in the Hammer Jahnstadion saw a 6-2 victory for the guests, VfL was able to play all home games. Against Borussia Dortmund , the Altenbögger could even win both games. At the end of the season, the Altenbögger were runner-up, but also had to cope with the departure of their coach Uridil. But even without Uridil, VfL was runner-up in 1944 and was able to win a 1: 1 from the series champions from Schalke. In order to be able to continue to participate in gaming operations because of the war losses among the players, the club joined forces with SuS Kaiserau on September 7, 1944 to form the KSG Altenbögge-Kaiserau war gaming community. For the 1944/45 season , the single-track Gauliga became a three-track league. The KSG only played two games before the season had to be canceled.
During the Second World War, the Altenbögger benefited from the vital importance of coal mining, which ensured that the players were considered indispensable . Thus, VfL could always compete with the best line-up, while other clubs had to hope that their players would get leave from the front and otherwise have to play with different teams. The VfL players either did “light work” underground or had a job as an underground employee . In some cases, the club was able to sign foreign players who then got jobs in the colliery for which they did not have the necessary training. The players were also allowed to quit early in order to train. The respective coach of the first team was also employed as a company sports teacher.
Post-war period (1945 to 1984)
After the end of the Second World War, the merger with SV Bönen to Red-White Bönen took place in July 1945 . However, the merger did not last long and in February 1946 Rot-Weiß Bönen split up again into VfL Altenbögge and SG Grün-Weiß Bönen . In the meantime, representatives of the 18 clubs that played in the Gauliga Westfalen between 1939 and 1944 gathered in the Altenbögger club bar at Haus Timmering in order to establish the Landesliga Westfalen as a temporary measure . Even in the opening season 1945/46 it was enough to place three, but the "Red Hussars" missed the qualification for the newly created Oberliga West a year later . The team was now outdated, not least because two complete VfL youth teams did not survive the war. A player from STV Horst-Emscher mocked after a one-sided encounter that this was not Altenbögge, but "old bucks". In addition, the club lacked sponsors to form a powerful team. The II. Division , introduced in 1949, was also missed.
In 1950 VfL was relegated from the regional league and was only fourth class. The press has already spoken of the “dying star Altenbögge”. Two years later, a league reform made a comeback in the national league, where the team initially ranked in midfield. In the 1954/55 season , the "Red Hussars" were runner-up behind the Dortmund SC 95 , with VfL having a spectacular 7: 5 away win in Dortmund. A year later , VfL was again runner-up and qualified for the newly created Association League Westphalia , where the Altenbögger finished sixth despite a 1:10 defeat at SpVgg Erkenschwick . In 1959 , the team around the brothers Günther and Otto Luttrop was runner-up, two points behind SpVg Beckum . Once again, the club was able to play in front of an average of 2,000 spectators. A final highlight in the club's history was a game in the West German Cup against Westfalia Herne . In front of 12,000 spectators in the Hammer Jahn Stadium, the guests won 5-3 after extra time .
But VfL Altenbögge could not build on their old successes in the following years and rose in 1962 together with TSG Rheda and ESV Münster in the regional league. Five years later, the club went down to the district class. In the 1970/71, 1976/77 and 1978/79 seasons, the "Red Hussars" gave brief guest appearances in the regional league. While in 1977 at the end of the season only one point was missing from the first non-relegated Borussia Lippstadt , the Altenbögger had no chance in the other two seasons. In 1980, VfL had to go into the district league A after two relegations in a row.
Successor club SpVg Bönen
| SpVg Bönen | |
| Surname | SpVg Bönen |
| Venue | Sports facility on the Rehbusch |
| Places | 5,000 |
| Head coach | Hendrik Dördelmann |
| league | District league A1 Unna-Hamm |
| 2019/20 | 6th place |
| Website | spvgboenen.de |
In 1984 there was a merger with SG Grün-Weiß Bönen and the Eintracht Bönen association founded in 1980 . The SpVg Bönen took over the place of the VfL Altenbögge in the district league A and promptly managed the promotion to the district league. In 1991 the team was promoted to the national league, where the team, after years of relegation battle, was runner-up in 1998, two points behind the Hövelhofer SV . In the following round of promotion to the Association League, the SpVg had bad luck. On the last day of play, the Böneners were overtaken by Teutonia Waltrop and SV Hohenlimburg . Four years later, SpVg Bönen finished third before the team was relegated from the state league in 2007. Three years later it went down to the district league A, before being promoted again in 2014. Since the direct relegation, SpVg Bönen has played in the district league A.
Stadion
The home ground of VfL Altenbögge was the arena at Rehbusch. The stadium was opened in 1940 and was built with the help of the Königsborn III / IV colliery. Initially, the stadium had 5,000 seats, 1,500 of which were seats. The stadium was later expanded to 8,000 seats.
Table tennis
Arthur Borgs founded the table tennis department on August 11, 1945 . After several promotions, the men's team reached the Oberliga West in 1949 , the highest German division at the time. In the line-up of Schäfer I, Schmidt, Friesen, Hamdorf, Muth and Schäfer II, the team had an average age of 19 years, making it the youngest team in the Oberliga West.
Personalities
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 , p. 238.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Hartmut Hering: In the land of a thousand derbies . Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-7307-0209-3 , p. 163 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Hardy Green, Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 22.
- ↑ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling : The fame, the dream and the money - The story of Borussia Dortmund . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-480-4 , p. 67 .
- ^ German Sports Club for Soccer Statistics : Soccer in West Germany 1952-1958 . Hövelhof 2012, p. 111 .
- ↑ SpVgg Bönen. Tables Archive.info, accessed on May 10, 2019 .
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1949/15 page 10