Starkenburgia Heppenheim
| FC Starkenburgia 1900 eV Heppenheim (Starkenburgia) |
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| purpose | Football club |
| President: | Klaus Martin |
| Establishment date: | 1900 |
| Number of members: | about 450 |
| Seat : | Heppenheim, Hesse |
| Website: | fcstarkenburgia.de |
The FC Starkenburgia Heppenheim is a football club from Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse in Hesse . He had his most successful period between 1978 and 1986, when he played in the Oberliga Hessen for seven years .
The Union
The number of members of the club is around 600, which is made up of around 350 active members (i.e. players). The club's home sports field is called the "sports field at the Zentgericht" or popularly known as the gallows. This was converted into a modern artificial turf pitch in 2008. The club colors are black and white and the coat of arms adorns the Starkenburg from the 19th century. The 1st team currently plays (as of 2016) in the Bergstraße regional league. After a year break, the 1b team is playing the second season in the district league D1.
The club's youth section is one of the most successful and largest in the region. The A-Juniors, B-Juniors, C-Juniors and D-Juniors play in the Darmstadt group league.
history
The club, which operates with its full name as FC Starkenburgia 1900 eV Heppenheim , was founded in 1900 by 33 students from a secondary school. He is one of the oldest football clubs in Hesse and "the football pioneer of Bergstrasse", as Greens writes.
In the pioneering years of the club, its footballers played on what was then the city meadows south of Lorscher Strasse. Exactly a quarter of a century after it was founded, the club began to become “professional”: In 1925 it was entered in the club register for the first time under the name of the football club “Starkenburgia” eV based in Heppenheim adB and in the same year it acquired its first club-owned site with the unattractive name "Am Galgen ", which for financial reasons has to be given to the city a year later. After all, the club is still allowed to use the sports field that it built itself and in 1966 it succeeds in taking ownership of the sports field for 99 years by means of a heritable building right . On June 3, 1967, the Starkenburg Stadium was inaugurated with a game against SV Waldhof Mannheim , which ended in a respectable 2-3 defeat. Four years later, a floodlight system is even installed.
The most successful era in the club's history began in 1975 with the promotion to the group league south, the second highest amateur class in Hesse. With the championship of 1978 the promotion to the Oberliga Hessen is connected, to which the Starkenburgia belongs six years in a row until 1984. A single-digit place in the table (eighth place), however, only succeeded in the first season 1978/79 . Then the team is in a permanent relegation battle, which reached its low point in the 1983/84 season with the last place in the table and the associated relegation to the Landesliga Süd. Although the promotion succeeds straight away, the team is relegated immediately and is passed through from the regional league to the regional league in 1986/87. Since then, the team has been in the lower leagues. She currently plays in the regional league (Bergstrasse group).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Hardy Greens : Legendary Football Clubs. Hesse. Between FC Alsbach, Eintracht Frankfurt and Tuspo Ziegenhain. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-244-0 , p. 200.
- ↑ As explained on the club's official website, records from that time show that Starkenburgia as a football club was sometimes spelled with a "k" and sometimes with a "c".