TSV Röthenbach

The TSV Röthenbach , in detail TSV 1927 Röthenbach bei Sankt Wolfgang eV , is a sports club from Röthenbach bei Sankt Wolfgang , a district of the Middle Franconian Wendelstein . He became known nationwide through the table tennis department , whose women's team has played in the second and first division since 1991 .

TSV means gymnastics and sports club . The club operates the fields of soccer, archery, Shaolin, gymnastics, rehab and preventive sports, volleyball, bowling, ice stock, tennis and table tennis.

Club history

In 1927, the Röthenbach gymnastics and sports club near Sankt Wolfgang was founded, initially as a pure football club. In the course of the seizure of power , the association had to disband in 1933. The re-establishment took place on March 6, 1954. In 1961 the table tennis department was added to the footballers. In January 1962 the club was renamed TSV 1927 Röthenbach near Sankt Wolfgang . The gymnastics department has existed since 1967, and in 1969 the association was listed as a "registered association" in the association register. In 1979 the departments volleyball, tennis, bowling and athletics were added.

Table tennis

The table tennis department was founded in 1961 on the initiative of Lydia and Franz David sen. founded and started with a men's team. Later women were added, the first women's team reached the Oberliga Süd after several promotions . Here they were champions in 1977 and 1978, but could not prevail in the promotion games to the Bundesliga. In 1991 he was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga. Here the team came in twice in second place and once in third place before it became champions in the 1994/95 season in the line-up of An Hae Sook , Andrea Stich, Andrea Hillgärtner, Sabine Fischer and Andrea Schiel and was promoted to the 1st Bundesliga. Although they strengthened themselves with the European champion Marie Svensson from Sweden and Sandra Peter from FC Langweid , the team could not prevent relegation at the end of the season as bottom of the table. Two years later, the rise succeeded (Adriana Nastase, An Hae Sook, Svenja Weikert, Jessica Weikert, Andrea Schiel). In the three following years you came in 8th, 7th and 9th and had to relegate in 2001.

In May 2001 the table tennis department was spun off into the TTC "Femont" Röthenbach , named after a sponsor. In 2002 the women's team returned to the upper house (Adriana Nastase, Svenja Weikert, Jessica Weikert, Sandra Stroezel, Heike Oberrauch, Melanie Windisch). A year later, the club withdrew the team to the 2nd Bundesliga for financial reasons. It is represented here to this day (2012). In the European ETTU Cup they finished second in 2000 and 2002.

Since 2007, the team has been performing under TTC Optolyth Optik Wendelstein , the name of a local company , after which the club was renamed TTC Wendelstein .

literature

Claus Wagner: Röthenbach's ladies now favorite - On the way to first class , DTS magazine , 1993/1 p. 38
Manfred Schilling: Having a permanent voice , DTS magazine , 1995/8 p. 28
AP: Season preview - duel for the top , DTS magazine , 2001/8 p. 35
mast: TTC Femont Röthenbach - Unknown Future , DTS magazine , 2003/4 p. 32