Mainz gymnastics club from 1817
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| Surname | Mainz gymnastics club from 1817 e. V. |
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| Club colors | Red White |
| Founded | August 1817 |
| Members | 1,600 |
| Chairman | Rudiger Ulrich |
| Homepage | http://www.mtvvon1817.de/ |
The Mainz gymnastics club from 1817 ( MTV von 1817 for short , Mainz 1817 or TV 1817 Mainz ) is a gymnastics and sports club in the Rhineland-Palatinate state capital Mainz . After TSV 1814 Friedland and the Hamburg Gymnastics Association from 1816, it is the third oldest gymnastics club in Germany still in existence.
history
Established as a gymnastics community in Mainz
The establishment of a forerunner of the Mainz gymnastics club in 1817 goes back, according to the club, directly to Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778-1852). In 1811 he built Germany's first gymnastics center on the Hasenheide in Berlin and is considered the founder of the German gymnastics movement ("Turnvater Jahn"). Jahn was stationed in Frankfurt am Main in the course of the wars of liberation against Napoleonic France in 1814 and visited Mainz from there in the same year. In 1815 Jahn passed Mainz a second time on the way to Paris.
Encouraged by Jahn's two visits, a group of young men later met regularly to practice Jahn's gymnastics. From this, the Mainz gymnastics community was formed in August 1817 . This gymnastics club survived even the 1819 as part of the Carlsbad resolutions imposed Turn lock , through which was banned in Germany gymnastics. After the gymnastics lock was finally lifted in 1842, the movement flourished again. In 1848 the association had around 900 members .
Renaming to Mainz gymnastics club from 1817
Since many gymnastics clubs in Germany were committed to liberal-revolutionary ideas before, during and after the revolution of 1848/49 , most of these clubs were banned in 1850. The Mainz gymnastics community apparently only survived the ban because it had a fire department and was therefore tolerated by the authorities of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Nevertheless, the number of club members fell to just 16 by 1857.
In the same year, the club renamed itself to the Mainzer Turnverein von 1817 , gave up all political endeavors and concentrated on gymnastics in the future. After this reorientation, the association recovered and the number of members grew rapidly. In 1860 some of the members resigned and founded the city's second gymnastics club, the Mainzer Turngesellschaft (today's Mainz gymnastics and sports association from 1860 ).
First clubhouse and gym
A fundamental problem of the gymnastics club for a long time was that it did not have its own area or hall, so that the gymnastics courts had to be changed frequently in the summer months and in the cold season they had to rely on foreign accommodation. The gymnasts from Mainz trained in a former monastery and in the fruit hall . However, the latter burned down completely in 1867, and all of the club's gymnastics equipment was destroyed.
It was not until 1886 that the association was able to buy a piece of land from the city in Schießgartenstrasse in downtown Mainz . Finally, from August 12th to 15th, 1888, a gymnastics home and gym was inaugurated with a big festival . These buildings were built by the well-known Mainz architect Philipp Johann Berdellé (1838–1903), and the construction costs amounted to 140,000 gold marks .
In the decades that followed, the Mainz gymnastics club grew steadily from 1817 and various departments for other sports were founded, including cycling (1896) and hiking (1905). On January 1, 1907, a paid gymnastics teacher was hired for the first time because the association could no longer cope with its tasks with volunteer gymnastics attendants. In addition, the club set up its own gymnasium in the moat of the Mainz citadel .
Relocation to Schillstrasse
After the end of the First World War , both the clubhouse and the gym in Schießgartenstraße and the gym in the citadel ditch were confiscated by the French occupation forces . Therefore, the Mainz gymnastics club looked around for a new site in 1817 and in March 1921 acquired a large arable land on Schillstrasse in what is now the Upper Town of Mainz . On May 14, 1922, a gymnastics and sports field with changing rooms and showers was inaugurated there.
From the spring of 1929 the clubhouse and the gym in Schießgartenstraße could be used again by the club. Both buildings were completely destroyed in air raids on Mainz on August 11 and 12, 1942, during World War II.
Merger and new clubhouse
In 1945, immediately after the war, the Mainz gymnastics club from 1817 merged with the Jahn gymnastics club . Over the next few decades, the club continued to grow and new departments were founded - for basketball (1949) and volleyball (1974) , among others . In the 1960s, the sports field on Schillstrasse was completely renovated. For its 150th anniversary in 1967, the Mainz gymnastics club from 1817 had 1,366 members, according to its own information.
In 1973, the club decided to build a permanent clubhouse with a restaurant instead of the temporary barracks on the sports grounds on Schillstrasse after the war . It opened on June 1, 1974. However, the building costs totaling more than one million D-Marks meant that the association said it was heavily in debt. Therefore, in 1980, a large part of the club's property on Schillstrasse was sold to the city of Mainz. The remaining sports grounds were renovated by the city in 1991/92 for around 2.7 million marks.
The club today
The Mainzer gymnastics club in 1817 , today claims to be ten departments and around 1,600 members. Decades after the destruction of the gym in Schießgartenstrasse, the declared goal is to re-build a gymnasium and sports hall on today's sports grounds in Schillstrasse.
Departments
The Mainz gymnastics club from 1817 currently has the following departments:
- badminton
- basketball
- fencing
- Soccer
- Handball
- Modern Sports Karate
- Bowling
- tennis
- Gymnastics athletics gymnastics
- volleyball
The MTV from 1817 had the following departments in the past: