TV Veltheim
The TV Veltheim is a gymnastics club from Winterthur - Veltheim . The club has a girls 'and boys' team, a men's and women's team, an active team and a handball team that used to play in the National League B.
history
TV Veltheim was founded on July 14, 1877 by 31 founding members in the then still independent municipality of Veltheim, the first president was Johannes Ott. After the STV Winterthur and the gymnastics clubs from Wülflingen and Töss, Veltheim was the fourth gymnastics club that was founded in what is now the city of Winterthur. Not long after it was founded, the club received a singing section that existed until 1939. In the first 20 years of the association, the association slowly built up and during this time it had between 30 and 40 members. In 1895 the men's team was founded. At the turn of the century, the association had over 100 members, and in 1927 the association even had a record 750 members, 66 of whom were active. The club's own magazine, which still exists today, had its first issue in January 1927. In 1933 a women's team was set up and, in the same year, the founding of a now defunct fistball team is estimated. In 1947 the handball team, which was also successful in sports, was added, but has not been active in sports since 2009.
The club also produced several successful athletes: In the 1910s, artistic gymnast Otto Ineichen won several festivals, for example he won the Federal Gymnastics Festival in Basel in 1912 and became Swiss champion at the Swiss individual competitions in Zurich in 1919. Ineichen stayed with the men's team for decades as a gymnast. In the 1920s, August Güttinger, a representative of TV Veltheim, was also extremely successful internationally, winning a gold medal on parallel bars and two bronze medals in tugging and team all-around at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris . Four years later he was part of the Swiss gymnastics team, which won the gold medal in the team all-around competition at the Olympics in Amsterdam . Willy Angst, who was active from 1934 to 1945, was also able to fight for several festive victories. In the 1950s, the gymnastics swinger , later two-time wrestling king (1961 and 1964) Karl Meli , began his career at TV Veltheim and won several celebrations with him. Meli, who is still one of the most successful Swiss wrestlers to this day, remained an active member of the club even after his wrestling career was over.
Handball section
The handball team was founded on February 18, 1947 in the Platte restaurant in Veltheim and started in the 3rd division with 19 players. One year you could already play in the fourth class 2nd division. In 1952 a second team was registered for the first time, in 1953 an indoor handball team was registered for the first time, which could start in the 2nd division and promotion in the first season. In 1955 the club announced a second team in the hall and at the same time the first team rose to the first division. In 1956, the TVV rose to the national league B in indoor handball, while in the summer season on the field for one season the 2nd league passed, but managed to rise again afterwards.
In the hall, the club was able to hold in the second-highest division for five seasons from 1956/57 to 1960/61 until it played again in the first division from 1961. The first team stayed there for 6 more seasons and then said goodbye to the second division. Apart from two brief guest appearances in the 1976/77 and 1981/82 seasons, they didn't get into the third-highest Swiss league, and the club regularly switched between the 2nd and 3rd league.
In field handball, the team could no longer hold the division in 1960 and had to start in the 2nd division from 1962. There they made it into the first division in the 1966 season, where they were able to take part in the promotion games as group winners in 1967. After Veltheim suffered a sensitive defeat there against Rorschach with 6:23, they waived a possible promotion to National League B at the Green Table . In the following season, the team could no longer hold the league. After that, the 1st field team shuttled between the 1st and 2nd league until it was dissolved.
From 1982 to 1985 the section was able to record over 70 active handball players, whereby in 1984/85 with 3 registered junior teams each on the field and in the hall, the high point of its own youth development was reached. In 1988 the TVV reported teams on the field for the last time, and the club's interest in field handball was too low. On May 5, 1992, HC Rieter was integrated into the handball section in order to create a larger player base. In the following year, the section was able to record a club record with 82 active players.
In the 2000s, the handball team had to struggle more and more with player losses. Handball has always been popular in Winterthur and with Pfadi Winterthur and Yellow Winterthur there are two professional clubs with their own junior departments. When there were seven active players in 2007, they were forced to form a community of players with HC Athletic 57. At the end of 2008, the decision was finally made that the community of players would transfer to Yellow Winterthur and that the last junior team would also move from Veltheim to Yellow. Since then, TV Veltheim has not provided handball teams in the current championship, even if the squad still exists.
Literature and Sources
- 100 years of the Veltheim gymnastics club . 1877 to 1977. Winterthur 1977.
- Bruno Bachmann: Gymnastics Club Veltheim . 100 years of the men's squad 1895-1995: 75 years of cantonal gymnastics veterans 1920-1995. Winterthur-Veltheim 1995.
- Bruno Bachmann, Peter Schaub and Bruno Lüber (eds.): Jubilee newspaper . 50 years handball team of the Turnverein Veltheim 1947-1997. Winterthur 1997.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Hager: Information from the handball team for the coming season: what's going on with Yellow . In: Handballriege TV Veltheim (ed.): Domino . No. 2/2009 , April 2009, p. 10 ( tvveltheim.ch [PDF; 4.1 MB ; accessed on January 5, 2017]).