Sport in Central Hesse
Central Hesse is represented by numerous sports clubs and athletes in Germany. The teams and competitors listed here have won numerous national and international titles in recent years.
Soccer
The only club in Central Hesse in the national leagues is FSV Hessen Wetzlar , whose first women's team plays in the 2nd Bundesliga in 2015/16 , and whose second team plays a class lower in the regional league. The Wetzlar juniors even play first class . National player Nia Künzer from Wetzlar became known for her golden goal when she won the 2003 World Cup final.
The men's teams in Central Hessen have not yet been represented in the national leagues. Only Eintracht Wetzlar and VfB Marburg played first class in the Gauliga , the top division in the German Empire. An important title went back a century: in 1911, VfB Marburg won the German championship for academics . Since then there have only been titles in the Hessen Cup : VfB 1900 Gießen won the title three times, Eintracht Wetzlar and RSV Würges each have two and Eintracht Haiger and SSV Dillenburg each have one cup victory.
The TSV Steinbach successful 2015 promotion to the Regionalliga Southwest, Teutonia Watzenborn-Steinberg followed in 2016. A class deeper, in the hessenliga are the TSV Eintracht Stadtallendorf and SpVgg Hadamar three teams represented from central Hesse.
The blind footballers of SSG Blista Marburg celebrated a great success in 2008. In the first season of the blind football Bundesliga , the Marburg first division celebrated the German championship title in this sport and was able to repeat this success in 2012.
basketball
Basketball is the sport in which central Hessian clubs have the greatest successes.
The most successful club from Central Hesse are the wheelchair basketball players from RSV Lahn-Dill from Wetzlar. The team is one of the strongest in the world. Among the thirteen championships and thirteen Cup wins, eleven times the Double Cup and Master, coming seven titles in the European Cup (Champions League), the world championship of club teams in 2010 and the World Championship in 2006. She exhibited her series 2008, six participants for the Paralympics in Beijing, three participants play for the German, two for the Canadian and one for the national team of the USA for medals.
The Gießen 46ers have been playing in the top tier since the Bundesliga basketball league was founded in 1967 - with the exception of two seasons. Under the name MTV Giessen, they won the German men's basketball championship five times between 1965 and 1978 and the trophy three times between 1969 and 1979 . In May 2015, the team that plays in the Gießen-Ost sports hall became champions of the 2nd ProA basketball division . The club's youth teams play in the junior basketball league and the youth basketball league as 46ers juniors . The basketball players of TV 1860 Lich , one year Bundesliga team from 1999, play as Licher BasketBears in the third-class ProB in the 2009/10 season .
Younger than the successes of the Giesseners are the titles of the basketball ladies of BC Pharmaserv Marburg . In 2003 the team won both the championship title and the cup . The BC, which mostly plays its home games in the small sports hall at the Georg-Gaßmann-Stadion , has been playing in the women's basketball league without a break since 1992 .
The women of the Bender Baskets Grünberg play in the second Bundesliga . The clubs from Marburg and Grünberg also provide a team for the female youth basketball league with the Central Hesse team . TSV Grünberg won German championships with its youth teams in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2013.
Handball
The sporting flagship of the region in handball is the men's team of HSG Wetzlar . With an average of over 4,000 spectators per home game, the HSG is by far the most popular sports club in Central Hesse. The vice-cup winner of 1997 and 2001 has played in the handball Bundesliga since 1998 . The greatest success of the HSG still results from the second division: in 1998 the team, then still under the name HSG Dutenhofen / Münchholzhausen, reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup . In addition, the club was five times German youth champion. The club's junior team has always played in the A-Jugend-Bundesliga since it was founded and became German champions in 2017. The HSG has been playing in the Rittal Arena since early 2005 . In 2011, TV Hüttenberg also managed to return to the Bundesliga for one season. After three years in the second division and relegation to the third division in 2015, she was promoted to the second division in 2016 and moved through to the first division in 2017. As a founding member of the Bundesliga, Hüttenberg played first class up until 1985.
The women of TV Lützellinden won numerous titles between 1988 and 2001 : there were a total of seven championship titles , five cup wins and the 1991 European Cup. After the association had to file for bankruptcy in 2003, it was dissolved in 2006. The women's handball team of TV Mainzlar played in the Bundesliga from 1990 to 2005.
In 2007, Central Hesse was the scene of the handball world championship when the games of the preliminary round group A were played in the Wetzlar Rittal Arena.
hockey
In hockey (field and hall) Central Hesse was represented most worthily by the gentlemen of Limburger HC . The men's team played in the field Bundesliga between 1974 and 1998 and won the championship title in 1984. The team is currently playing in the regional league. In the hall, the team played in the second division until the 2007/08 season, but the most successful period was a few years ago: in 1985, 1990 and 1991 they became German champions and in 1992 European Cup winners.
American football
In July 2010, Wetzlar, together with Frankfurt and Wiesbaden, hosted the American Football European Championship , in which the best national teams in Europe fight for the continental championship.
Central Hesse's figureheads in American football are the Marburg Mercenaries , which were only founded in 1991 . Within just eleven years, the Marburg team, who play their home games in the Georg Gaßmann Stadium , rose from the lowest to the highest division and are currently among the best teams there. In 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008 the Mercenaries won the southern season of the German Football League . In 2006 they were runner-up in the end after they lost the final of the German Bowl . The Marburg team celebrated their greatest successes on an international level: in 2005 they won the EFAF Cup , in 2007 they only lost in the final of the European Football League .
Paintball
In 2013 the Destination Wetzlar team was promoted to the 1st Paintball Bundesliga . In February 2015 the team disbanded and the remaining players joined the Cologne Predators .
Table tennis
The most important representative of Central Hesse in table tennis for years was TTV Gönnern , who played in the table tennis Bundesliga from 1996 . Although the club from the west of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district never became German champions, they won the Champions League in 2005 and 2006 with players like Timo Boll and Jörg Rosskopf . In 1997 and 2002 the DTTB Cup was brought to Central Hesse. In 2009 the financially troubled club sold its first division license to the TG Hanau .
Gym wheel
The Marburg club TSV 1898 Marburg-Ockershausen is the most successful German club in wheel gymnastics. In addition to numerous German championships in both individual and team competitions, the club was able to book 14 world championship titles in the adult and youth sector. Victoria Hennighausen won two youth world championship titles at the 2007 World Cup in Salzburg, Laura Stullich two years earlier in Bütgenbach, Belgium, all four achievable youth titles in the disciplines of all-around, straight-line gymnastics, spiral gymnastics and jumping and also contributed to Germany becoming the most successful nation in the championships. Friederike Schindler won eight world championship titles in the previous years. In 2002 the TSV won the German team championship.
volleyball
Two clubs in Central Hesse play in the 2nd Bundesliga volleyball . In 2007, the women's team of TV 05 Wetter achieved their first promotion to the second highest division. After the descent in 2008, the direct resurgence followed in 2009. In 2010, TV Waldgirmes , which plays its home games in Wetzlar, was promoted to the men's second division .
In the past, USC Giessen played successfully in the volleyball league for years. In 1982, 1983 and 1984 they won the German championship title, last year even in a double pack with the cup victory. Since then, however, the Giessen gentlemen have disappeared into insignificance. The multiple South German champions TV Wetzlar also played in the volleyball Bundesliga for many years, most recently in the first women's team in the 1998/99 season. TV Biedenkopf , whose men's team served in the second division between 1986 and 2003, is also no longer high-class .
do gymnastics
The region’s most famous gymnast is not a club, but an individual athlete from Wetzlar: Fabian Hambüchen . The Olympic champion and world champion on the horizontal bar as well as multiple European champion is one of the best gymnasts in the world. Hambüchen won Olympic gold in Rio in 2016, silver in London in 2012 and returned from Beijing in 2008 with a bronze medal. In 2007 he was voted Sportsman of the Year in Germany . He belongs to the TSG Niedergirmes performance center in Wetzlar, from which the German champion and Olympian Gaby Weller emerged. The KTV Wetzlar belonged to the Bundesliga for many years.
rowing
Central Hesse is also known nationwide in the field of rowing. Several world championship and Olympic participants come from Wetzlar, notably the world and Olympic champions from 1968 Jörg Siebert and 1972 Johann Färber , Mareike Adams (2010 World Cup gold) as well as Siegfried Fricke , Udo Brecht and Lukas Müller (2012 Olympic champion), all from RG Wetzlar 1880, by far the most successful rowing club in Central Hesse. Furthermore, Jonathan Koch from Giessen, from the Giessen Rowing Society, won gold at the 2010 World Rowing Championships in New Zealand. Other participants in major tournaments also come from Giessen and its rowing clubs. Ruth Kaps , Paul Dienstbach and Paul Schneider rowed for Giessen with success at championships . In Limburg an der Lahn there is a central training base of the Hessian Rowing Association and the German Rowing Association . Giessen is currently in the 2nd rowing division , after being relegated from the 1st division in 2014. The International Whitsun Regatta has been held in Gießen every year on the Whitsun weekend since 1882 . It is one of the oldest and with up to 2000 participants one of the largest rowing regattas in Germany. The regatta is carried out by the Giessen Regatta Club, an amalgamation of the three Giessen rowing clubs ( Giessen Rowing Society 1877 , Giessen Rowing Club Hassia 1906 and Water Sports Club Hellas 1920 ). Other rowing clubs in Central Hesse are the Steinmühle Marburg, the Marburg rowing club, the Weilburg rowing club and the Limburg club for water sports.
To dance
The Schwarz-Rot-Club Wetzlar was founded in November 1950 by 16 members. With Ursula Breuer, Karl Breuer , Ellen Jonas and Volker Schmidt , the most successful club from Central Hesse had four world champions in its ranks, alongside many European and German champions. Today the club with its over 800 members (status: 2010) is one of the ten largest dance sport clubs in Germany. After several moves, the association is now at home in the Wetzlar- Nauborn community center .
In 1975 the club organized the first pure Hessian youth tournament, in the 1970s Hessian and German championships, international team fights and a Central European championship. The offer ranges from dance for children and young people, through guard dance, popular sports to tournament dance groups. The coaches Pia David and Stefan Ossenkop were replaced by Ellen Jonas and Volker Schmidt in 2010 .
In addition to "dance teas" and balls, the club regularly organizes events such as world championships (2005 and 2010), European and German championships in Wetzlar. Johanna-Elisabeth and Adrian Klisan won silver at the Standard World Championships for Professionals on November 18, 2013 in Bonn .
The oldest dance school in Germany is based in Gießen. The beginnings can be traced back to the year 1787 and to the place of origin Biedenkopf . The Rot-Weiß-Club Gießen , which celebrates successes at various German championships in the standard, is also directly related to Bäulke . 1955–1957 won the title in the main group S, 1958–1961 in each case in the seniors. At the European Championships in 1957, 2nd place was achieved, the club came third in 1952, 1954 and 1956. The current standard formation dances in the 1st Bundesliga. The Latin American dancers were also able to celebrate numerous successes.
TSG Blau-Gold Gießen is the leading club in Hesse in modern dance forms and can boast several Hessian champions as well as winners of international "battles" in hip-hop. In breakdancing, TSG has to show dancers who are already German, European and runner-up world champions. The three-time world champions Franco Formica and Oksana Nikiforova , who also won the German Open Championships five times in a row in the main group S Latin, also have their roots at TSG and are now dancing for the TC Nova Giessen.
Motorsport
Klaus Enders , a former German motorcycle racer from Wetzlar, was able to become a sidecar world champion six times as a driver between 1967 and 1974 , together with co-driver Ralf Engelhardt in a BMW .
Stefan Bellof from Gießen drove in Formula 1 in 1984 and 1985. He achieved his greatest successes as a sports car racing driver. In the 1984 season he was world endurance champion, German racing champion and European driver champion. Bellof was the first German racing driver to win a world championship title on the automobile circuit. He was considered one of the most talented racing drivers in Germany until he had a fatal accident in Belgium in 1985.
Archery
The BSC Laufdorf (municipality of Schöffengrund near Wetzlar ) represents Central Hesse with the recurve bow in the 1st Bundesliga North . In 2006 the team was able to win the championship for the only time so far. In summer 2015, Petra Köhn from SV Gießen won the bronze medal in her class at the German championship.
Schützengaue 4 and 5 of the Hessian Schützenbund roughly represent the region of Central Hesse, in this area there are around 20 sports clubs that offer archery.
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/Destination.Wetzlar/posts/880447848645399
- ^ TTV Gönnern transfers first division license to TG 1837 Hanau. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 30, 2016 ; accessed on June 30, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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- ^ Final Bundesliga sheet 2006. Accessed on June 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Petra Köhn wins bronze. Retrieved June 12, 2016 .
- ^ Archery clubs in Hesse. Retrieved June 12, 2016 .
