TuRa Bremen
TuRa Bremen is a sports club (multi-discipline club) from the Bremen district of Gröpelingen and with around 3000 members is one of the largest clubs in Bremen. In addition to ball sports (soccer, table tennis and volleyball), gymnastics (children's gymnastics, dance projects and senior sports), racket sports (badminton) and water sports (canoeing), the club has several martial arts departments (taekwondo, judo, karate and boxing). TuRa Bremen also opened up to health sports early on and runs its own health workshop and fitness studio with certified trainers. A minstrel orchestra, known beyond the national borders, rounds off the profile of the club.
history
In 1894 some carpenters and basket makers founded the Gröpelinger Turnverein, which joined the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association. In 1919 the club name was changed to VSK Gröpelingen . Under this name the club became German runner-up in field handball in 1926 . It was not until 1931 that the club received a football department . Two years later, VSK merged with the Gröpelinger Sportvereinigung, which was founded in 1929 by dissatisfied members of the Bremer SV and in 1933 accepted members of the dissolved clubs AGSV Bremen and SV Freiheit Bremen . In 1937 there was a merger with the Gröpelinger TSV to form TuRa Gröpelingen .
Under this name, the footballers rose to the Gauliga in 1940 and immediately relegated. After returning to first class, third place was achieved in 1944.
After the end of the war, the club took on its current name and in 1947 was one of the founding members of the Bremen State League . The team stayed there for three years and returned after relegation in 1952. As runner-up, TuRa qualified for the German Amateur Championship , where they failed in the preliminary group at VfB 03 Bielefeld . The highlight of the round was the game at Hertha Zehlendorf in front of 40,000 spectators in the Berlin Olympic Stadium .
TuRa remained a top team in Bremen for a few years before relegation followed in 1958. Between 1960 and 1965 the team reached the Bremen regional league again and in 1970 crashed into the regional league for the first time. Two rises in a row brought TuRa again in 1981, now called the Association League, the highest Bremen division. There the team came third in 1982 and 1984. The descent in 1997 and 2004 was followed by an immediate rise. Since the last relegation in 2008 TuRa has played in the Landesliga Bremen .
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literature
- Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 , p. 171.