TSV Osnabrück

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TSV Osnabrück
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Basic data
Surname Railway gymnastics and sports club
Osnabrück from 1926 eV
Seat Osnabrück , Lower Saxony
founding 1926
Colours black-and-white
Website tsv-osnabrueck.de
First soccer team
Venue Sports facility on the Klushügel
Places
league 2nd district class Osnabrück-Stadt
2019/20 12th place
TSV clubhouse behind the main train station

The TSV Osnabrück eV . is a multi-discipline sports club with a clubhouse, its own sports facilities and more than 10 departments. In a central city location, the TSV has a variety of options to offer a pleasant and professional atmosphere for more than 1000 members. Many people with a migration background and now also many refugees find their way into the club to actively do sports here.

philosophy

TSV Osnabrück has lived integration since it was founded in 1926: As a railway sports club, many railway workers took part in sports activities, and after World War II, numerous war refugees came to the club. Due to the district, more than 50 percent of the members have a migration background today. In the last few years, the association has taken many refugees into its sports program and new offers have emerged. After a short time, refugees took on functions in the association and are now, for example, department heads and trainers.

Tolerance, acceptance and respect for all people from different countries of origin are very important basic values ​​for TSV Osnabrück, according to which it aligns its work. Club life is characterized by honesty both internally and externally: Successes in integration are celebrated and failures are analyzed in order to initiate positive development.

Sports offer

history

Founding years

Today's TSV Osnabrück was founded in autumn 1926 with 36 members under the name Reichsbahn Turn- und Sportverein Osnabrück (RTSV). From the beginning, non-Reichsbahner were also accepted. The first board elections were in February 1928.

At first there were departments for football , gymnastics and athletics . This was followed by offers for the youth, departments for swimming , tennis , gym wheels and a shooting range .

The inauguration of the gym in the south wing of the main train station took place in March 1928 . A sports facility with space for football and handball, cinder track , fistball field, space for discus and javelin throw, ball and stone throwing, long jump and high jump facility was inaugurated at the Schellenberg Bridge in the summer of 1930. Almost all of the sports facilities were entirely voluntary. In 1930 the club was able to offer the following sports: soccer (with various departments), tennis, small-bore shooting, athletics with gymnastics, gymnastics, folk dance, handball, fistball, netball and swimming.

The focus was always on popular sport . Known, however, from the RTSV Heinz Flotho (national soccer goalkeeper ), Willi Flotho (five times Lower Saxony champion in ring tennis) and Hermann Hammers (multiple Lower Saxony champion 1500-meter run).

30s and wartime

The Reichsbahnsportvereine were not dissolved during the Third Reich . They had to take on at least 40% "non-administrators", and leagues were assigned and tailored differently. The RTSV got more members because the Hitler regime dissolved especially smaller and workers gymnastics clubs and forcibly assigned to other clubs like the RTSV. As a result, the RTSV had more than 700 active members in 1934. The club was able to achieve success at championships in various disciplines. In 1937 canoeing was also started with its own boats and a boathouse on the branch canal . In 1938 the RTSV had 1,000 members, and there were 13 departments before the Second World War. Sports facilities in Osnabrück were destroyed by the war, in 1942 and 1943 the sports business was shaped by the war and then came to a standstill until the end of the war.

post war period

After the war, all clubs were dissolved by the British occupation . Gradually, the establishment of sports clubs was allowed again, but the former RTSV received no approval. Nevertheless, former members restored the destroyed sports facilities under great strain. Only in April 1949 was there a general meeting at which the name "TSV" was unanimously decided. The approval as a club was still missing, but football, handball, tennis, athletics and gymnastics were offered again. In 1950, an application by the TSV for admission to the district sports association OS-Stadt was rejected because it would not be admitted as an official sports club, but the tennis and bowling departments were accepted into the sports association . This also meant that TSV athletes and teams were not allowed to take part in competitions and so many athletes switched to other clubs. The TSV merged with the MTV in 1950 to form syndicates in order to reduce the loss of membership. However, both clubs remained independent. In 1952 the club had 258 members and the departments football, bowling, tennis, table tennis and athletics (gymnastics, netball, gymnastics wheel, fistball and handball). The official sports club TSV Osnabrück (gymnastics and sports club Osnabrück from 1926 eV) only existed from November 28, 1952, and the cooperation of departments with MTV Osnabrück was ended. From 1959 there was also a children's department; the number of members could be increased by 180. In 1961 the association had more than 940 members. The sports facilities were gradually expanded, and the bowling department, for example, was able to achieve sporting success. From 1961 a bowling alley and a gymnastics hall at the Humboldt Bridge were discussed and planned, the laying of the foundation stone was in the same year. The bowling alley was completed in 1962, the gymnastics hall in 1966. In addition, other sports facilities were also expanded and / or renovated. In 1961 the TSV was renamed "Eisenbahner Turn- und Sportverein Osnabrück von 1926 eV", but the abbreviation TSV remained.

In 1964 a women's basketball department was founded, the first team of which played in the women's first basketball league in the 1970s . In 1976, a senior hiking group was formed. A karate group was founded in 1982, a chess department in 1988 and the cycling group a year later. Since 1993 there are health sports offers. In November 2000 the TSV was awarded the title “Best Health Sports Club in the Weser-Ems Sports District”.

From 2000, the TSV focused even more on popular sport . A league operation only takes place in football and basketball. Since 2015, offers have been quickly adapted to demand, so that a very wide, constantly changing offer has developed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Golenia, Werner: Chronicle: railwaymen Gymnastics and Sports Association from 1926 eV Edit .: TSV Osnabrück. June 2004.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 16 '26.4 "  N , 8 ° 3' 38.2"  E