SpVgg Hochheide
The SpVgg Hochheide (officially: Sportvereinigung Hochheide 1899/1919 eV ) was a sports club from today's Duisburg district of Homberg . The soccer team played for 15 years in the highest amateur league in the Lower Rhine region .
history
The club was founded in 1919 as SV Hochheide . Three years later, parts of the SC Union Homberg joined the club, which from 1923 was called the Sportvereinigung Homberg-Hochheide and later simply Sportvereinigung Hochheide . In 1945 the sports association merged with the Hochheide gymnastics club, founded in 1889, to form SG Hochheide , which was renamed the Hochheide sports association the following year . In July 1969, SpVg Hochheide merged with Homberger SV to form VfB Homberg .
After the end of the Second World War , the Hochheidern succeeded in being promoted to the Lower Rhine regional league in 1948 , which at the time was the highest amateur league in the region. Initially, the team fought for years against relegation before a sporting high-altitude flight began in the mid-1950s. In 1954, the Hochheider runners-up in Group 2 behind TuS Duisburg 48/99 . Two years later he qualified for the newly created Association League Niederrhein .
Right in the debut season, the SpVgg was the Lower Rhine runner-up behind VfL Benrath . This was followed by a few years in the top group of the association league, before a sporty decline began in 1960. Finally, the Hochheider were relegated to the state league in 1963. There the team did not get beyond mediocrity, so that in 1969 it merged with local rivals Homberger SV. With Herbert Büssers the club produced a Bundesliga player, while with Erich Neumann a former league player ended his career in Hochheide.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hardy Green , Christian Karn: The big book of the German football clubs . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89784-362-2 , p. 236.