Turbine hall

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Basic data
Surname Turbine Halle e. V.
Seat Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt
founding July 15, 1950
Colours blue White
Website turbinehalle.de
First soccer team
Venue Sports facility rocks
Places around 1000 of
which 70 seats
league State League South Saxony-Anhalt
2019/2020 3rd place
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Turbine Hall is a German sports club in Halle district Giebichenstein . With around 1,000 members in the athletics, football, speed skating, table tennis, fistball, aerobics, disabled sports and gymnastics departments, it is one of the largest clubs in the city of Halle .

The club is best known for its football department, whose team as the company sports community (BSG) Turbine Halle won the only championship for Halle in the GDR league in the 1951/52 season. After the involuntary incorporation of the league team in the newly founded Sportclub Chemie Halle-Leuna , Turbine Halle was downgraded to the Halle district league in 1954 . The SC Chemie Halle-Leuna and its successor clubs to today's Halleschen FC have claimed the championship title of the BSG Turbine Halle for their own history, although only the majority of the 1st team, but by no means the entire football department, had transferred.

Club history and sporting development

Historical summary

The pre-war period - FC Wacker 1900 Halle

Wacker Halle team around 1904
Logo from Wacker Halle

Turbine Halle is the legal successor to one of the most successful Halle football clubs in pre-war history. The Hallesche Fußball-Club Wacker 1900 e. V. was founded in 1900. In addition to other clubs such as VfL Halle 1896 , Borussia or Sportfreunde Halle , Wacker played for the Central German championship for years . In 1921 and 1928 he won the title and qualified for the final round of the German championship . In this, Wacker advanced to the semi-finals in 1921. However, 12,000 spectators experienced a 1: 5 defeat in the stadium on Dessauer Strasse against the eventual German champions , 1. FC Nürnberg . 1928 was the last stop in the quarter-finals. 10,000 fans saw a 0: 3 against FC Bayern Munich . Wacker qualified for the final round as the Gauliga champion in mid- 1933/34 for the last time , but as the bottom of the group did not make it through the preliminary round. After 45 years, Wacker's story ended with its dissolution in 1945. However, several years later, several Wacker players wore the BSG Turbine Halle jersey again.

The post-war period - predecessor clubs

After the war, the bourgeois FC Wacker Halle became the sports community (SG) Halle-Glaucha, which was renamed SG Freiimfelde Halle two years later. In 1948 Freiimfelde Halle was in the final of the 1st East Zone Championship . The path to the final previously led through several elimination rounds. After qualifying games against Allstedt and Köthen-Süd, the Halle team faced the Mecklenburg champions SG Wismar Süd in the quarter-finals , who were defeated 3-1. After 5: 2 semi-final victory over the SG Meerane located facility had at the Leipzig Probstheidaer stadium of SG Planitz front of 40,000 spectators with 0: beaten first In April 1949, the Freiimfelde footballers joined the ZSG Union Halle. In the second East Zone Championship in 1949 , the legendary SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt (successor to Dresdner SC) was defeated 2-1 in front of 30,000 spectators in Halle's Kurt-Wabbel Stadium in the quarter-finals . After a 3-0 win over Eintracht Stendal , the Halle team was once again in the final. 50,000 spectators in the Dresden Ostragehege witnessed the first championship success in Halle, when Fortuna Erfurt was defeated 4-1. In the same year the ZSG Union Halle was a founding member of the new GDR league .

The founding of Turbine Halle - GDR championship title

The 1952 championship trophy

The company sports club Turbine was founded on July 15, 1950 by a crowd of 120 fistball and soccer players with the support of the first sponsoring company, Energiekombinat West . From season 1950-51 the team Hallische launched under its new name in the championship . An average of more than 21,000 spectators streamed into the Kurt Wabbel Stadium in the first season , which ended with 6th place. The most successful season in Halle's football history was to follow in 1951/52. Turbine Halle stood out under coach Alfred Schulz , father of the later supervisory board member of Werder Bremen , Hans Schulz , through a technically mature style of play with a strong midfield row. After a sluggish start to the season, Turbine stayed at the top of the table. Again, the Halle started laboriously in the second half. But 19: 1 points in a row ensured that three game days before the end of the season on April 20, 1952, the championship decision in the game at Turbine Erfurt should be made. Thousands of Halle residents accompanied their team, which made it exciting for a long time. After the Erfurt leadership, it was Gerhard Kulitze and Otto Knefler with a double strike in the 76th and 80th minute who secured the championship title. In a major league with 19 teams, Turbine came out on top as the most consistent team. The pillars of the team Herbert Rappsilber , Otto Knefler, Otto Werkmeister , Horst Blüher and Karl Gola had already belonged to the Eastern Zone Master Union Halle from 1949. The earned reward in addition to the championship trophy: a three-week trip to the Baltic Sea and a new suit for each player. The championship title was followed by an inexplicable drop in performance in 1953. With just one point ahead of relegated ASG Vorwärts Leipzig , relegation was prevented only in the last game against Motor Jena . Even in 1953/54 the season was mixed and Turbine finished the game year in eighth place. The crowd of spectators remained unbroken. An average of 24,000 spectators attended the home games of Turbine Halle in the Kurt Wabbel Stadium in 1953/54. It should be Turbine Halle's last league season. Sports policy decisions and the founding of sports clubs as centers of excellence ended the "Turbine in the GDR Oberliga" era.

Political decisions - relegation to district football

On September 1, 1954, the Sports Club Chemie Halle-Leuna was founded, which was intended as the center of excellence for the district town . The soccer section of the BSG Turbine should switch to the new club with their league team. In 34 meetings, the players declared that they did not want to leave the BSG. The prospects of continuing to play league football ultimately led to the majority of players joining SC Chemie Halle-Leuna. On the first day of the match the team started under the name Turbine Halle. Already on the 2nd match day they played under the new name SC Chemie Halle-Leuna. There were also problems in convincing the kickers to join the youth club, which was the only way to become champions of the GDR. The persuasion should be worth it. The club's B youth became champions of their age group in 1955.

The political unrest in connection with the popular uprising of 1953 and the better sporting prospects meant that the first players went to Germany as early as 1953. First coach Alfred Schulz left Halle and went to Werder Bremen . He was followed by Erich Haase , Günter Heise , Horst Ebert and Otto Knefler until 1955 . Heinz Schleif went to Leverkusen and later Herbert Rappsilber also left the city of Saale for FSV Frankfurt.

The BSG Turbine Halle was integrated with its former 2nd team in October 1954 while the game was already running as an additional 13th team in the Halle district league . In the 1960s and 1970s, the team played at times at the top and sometimes attracted four-digit visitor numbers. In 1964, the football section of the former GDR second division HSG Wissenschaft Halle was dissolved and incorporated into the football section of the BSG Turbine Halle. As a result, Turbine, which crashed into the district class for the first time in 1963, was still able to compete in the district league again in 1964/65. After a few years on average, there followed seven years from 1981, in which Turbine earned the title of “elevator team”. A descent was followed by a return ascent. In 1986, however, it was finally relegated to the district class, the 4th league in GDR football operations. After German reunification, the former sponsoring company withdrew, there was no financial support and the company sports community had to be converted into a civil association.

The club today

Turbine hall 2008/09

Since 1993/94 Turbine Halle played in the city league of Halle. In the mid-1990s, there was even a risk of falling into the district class. Turbine was later established in the city league and played for a few years for promotion. By winning the city league championship in the 2008/09 season, he was promoted to the state class of Saxony-Anhalt.

In addition to the 1st team, a 2nd and 3rd team are active in the city league and 1st city class. In the last few years, the junior department has been expanded again. With 11 youth teams, Turbine Halle has the third largest youth area of ​​all soccer clubs in the city of Halle behind Hallescher FC and VfL Halle 1896 . In 2006 Turbine Halle hosted the Central Germany E-CUP , in which 32 regional E-Junior teams replayed the 2006 World Cup .

The venue - the "rock"

"Felsen" sports facility

Before the “forced relegation” to the district league , Turbine Halle played its home games in the Kurt Wabbel Stadium , which is now the home of Halleschen FC . Since then, the association has been based on the so-called "rock" in the Giebichenstein district of Halle . Named after the Heinrich-Heine-Felsen, which extends high above the Saale, the sports area is probably one of the most beautiful sports facilities in the city of Halle . Built in the 1930s, the former stadium offered space for around 12,000 visitors. In 1999 the old standing crossbars were torn down and greened. At the same time, a modern athletics facility was built that is suitable for national competitions. The sports facility also includes an artificial turf field with floodlights and several small playing fields.

National player

Turbine Halle provided a total of three GDR national players between 1952 and 1953. Günter Imhof was in the line-up in the first international match of a GDR national team on September 21, 1952 in Warsaw against Poland (1: 2) . In the 1: 3 against Romania in Bucharest , two players, Günter Imhof and Hans Speth , wore the Turbine colors. Erich Haase was then the last Turbine player in a national team. In the end it was 0-0 in Dresden on June 14, 1953 against Bulgaria .

literature

  • Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
  • Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .
  • Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
  • Klaus Querengässer: Football in the GDR 1945–1989. Part 1: The League (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 12). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1994, ISBN 3-928562-45-2 .
  • Klaus Querengässer: Football in the GDR 1945–1989. Part 3: The championship (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 21). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1995, ISBN 3-928562-83-5 .
  • Libero, No. 2, August / September 1988, IFFHS.
  • Birthday indicator - 50 years of Turbine Halle. 2000.

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