TB Wuelfrath

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The Turnerbund Wülfrath 1891 eV is a sports club in Wülfrath . The Turnerbund was founded in 1891. With over 1,600 members (2006) it is the largest sports club in the city.

society

The TB Wülfrath consists of the following 10 departments:

The German high jump champion , Olympic participant in Tokyo in 1964 , Wolfgang Schillkowski, emerged from the club. From 1976 to 2003 there was also a volleyball department , from which national player Wolfgang Kuck emerged .

Handball

The handball department of the TB Wülfrath was founded in 1920. Head of department at that time was Heinrich Thiel, who also took over management of the association in 1921. At the beginning of the 1930s the TBW was playing in the top division, the Gauliga. After the war, the first game was played on October 7, 1945 against Bondsfeld-Kidneyhof.

In 1956, the Olympic and world champion Günther Ortmann was brought to the gymnastics association as a coach in field handball. From the 1960s Wülfrath also played indoor handball and took part in the Lower Rhine Championships. These initial successes were followed by a few years in the lowlands of the district, before new successes were to be achieved in the regional league and later in the association and major league, benefiting from the construction of the sports hall in Goethestrasse.

The men's team of TB Wülfrath rose in 1978 as Niederrheinmeister with only two loss points in the then second-class Regionalliga West, where they immediately belonged to the top group. In 1981 the team qualified as the season winner of the Regionalliga West (Season South) for the premier season of the 2nd handball Bundesliga . In 1982 the TBW entered into a syndicate with HSV Ratingen (HSG Wülfrath / Ratingen), which emerged from the handball department of the DJK Ratinger TB, which took over the professional game operation in place of the main clubs involved and at the same time changed its name to HSV Düsseldorf.

With this name, the newly created association - and since then independent of TB Wülfrath and Ratinger TB - moved under the organizational umbrella of TuRU Düsseldorf and formed the HSG TuRU Düsseldorf for the next ten years from 1983 to 1993. Under this name, the team played a total of eight seasons in the 1st Bundesliga , reached the DHB Cup final in 1987 , became German runner-up in 1988 and even won the IHF Cup in 1989 (comparable to the UEFA Cup in football).

After TuRU left the HSG in 1993, HSV Düsseldorf played alone for seven years before entering a syndicate with Allgemeine Rather TV again. The HSG ART / HSV Düsseldorf existed for twelve years. In 2012, HSV Düsseldorf had to file for insolvency as the holder of the Bundesliga license for the gambling community. General Rather TV, unencumbered by this, took over the gaming license and continued gaming as ART Düsseldorf in the 3rd division.

In addition to the men, the Wülfrath women were no less successful and were constantly part of the regional league in the 1980s. By winning the upper league in 2009/10, the women's team qualified for the newly founded 3rd division .

With over 30 teams playing, the youth department of the TB Wülfrath is one of the largest youth departments on the Lower Rhine. In the male junior division, the Wülfrather teams have been at the top of the Niederrhein handball association for years and were able to win three Lower Rhine championship titles and two West German runners-up titles from 2007 to 2009.

The club's outstanding indoor handball players were the world-class player Hans-Günter "Hansi" Schmidt , the ex-national players Jochen Becker and Heinz Ratschen and the Wülfrath self-made and later national player Stephan Schöne (later with HSG TURU Düsseldorf, SG Wallau-Massenheim and HC Wuppertal) .

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