Gymnastics club Kronach
| Surname | Turnschaft Kronach 1861 e. V. |
|---|---|
| Club colors | blue White |
| Founded | February 19, 1861 |
| Association headquarters | Bavaria |
| Members | about 1,300 |
| Departments | 22nd |
| Chairman | Jörg Schnappauf |
| Homepage | www.turnerschaft-kronach.de |
The gymnastics club Kronach 1861 e. V. is a sports club that was founded on February 19, 1861. With around 1300 members, it is the largest gymnastics and sports club in Kronach . Numerous departments, such as aerobics , aikido , badminton , baseball , basketball , Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu , fitness children, gymnastics , gymnastics , judo , karate , athletics , Nordic walking , back training , swimming , table tennis and volleyball function under the name of the gymnastics club.
history
On February 19, 1861, an article was published in the Kronacher newspaper Fränkischer Wald, calling for the formation of a gymnastics club. This association should serve the most comprehensive training of the body as well as the spiritual and moral training of the participants. The Kronach gymnastics club should consist of real members, gymnasts and pupils. The real members were men over 18 who wanted to do gymnastics. Those men who were innocent and over 25 years old should be counted among gymnasts. Their task was to use their influence in particular to raise the intrinsic value of the association. The pupils were young people between the ages of 10 and 18. Word of emancipation had not yet got around, so women could not become members either.
Founding meeting
The founding meeting took place on March 16, 1861 at Sigmund Pfaff. Today the restaurant "Kaiserhof" can be found there. On the very first day of its existence, the association had 60 members. District judge Krapp was elected as the first board member. At the same time, it was decided to train “capable gymnasts as soon as possible” for a fire brigade still to be established.
Gymnasium
Gymnastics took place on the municipal courtyard meadow, better known today as Schützenplatz. In winter, the summer house in the Cammerersgarten was used, which can still be seen today opposite the Evangelical Christ Church in Kronach. Since this gym was only a makeshift, today's fire station was set up and used as a gym from 1863 to 1880. In 1880 it was converted into a fire station, which had become necessary for the fire brigade, so that it had to be moved to the ground floor of the old Kronach town hall.
Volunteer Fire Brigade Department
The volunteer fire brigade Kronach was formed from members of the association on October 26, 1862 at a meeting in the town hall . In January 1870, however, the fire brigade disbanded again due to a lack of sufficient teams, so that the gymnastics club had to take care of fire fighting in the city of Kronach again. This voluntary gymnast fire brigade in Kronach existed as a department of the association until it finally became an independent volunteer fire brigade in 1878 .
Volunteer Medical Corps department
In October 1888, a voluntary medical column was founded as a new department. After initial teething problems, it became an independent association in January 1891.
Football department
In order to meet the latest time requirements, a football was purchased in 1900. This was very well received in the club, so that in 1909 a separate team decided and in April 1910 the Kochsche Wiese was leased as a playground. On April 11, 1912, the FC Kronach 08 football club joined the club . In the inflation year of 1922 , however, he had to start his own business again because the club was no longer able to pay the lease for the playground in the amount of RM 150,000.00.
gym
The gym in the old town hall had to be closed for hygienic reasons by a government decision of February 5, 1903. Various measures were used to try to get the money for a possible new building. After several attempts, such as running an own beer hall at the Schützenfest, did not bring the desired financial success, in 1904 the company moved into the converted former monastery brewery.
A final solution to the problem came in 1906, 45 years after the club was founded, when a lady applied to be allowed to do gymnastics in the hall. This led to the decision to form a women's team and to accept the participating women as "extraordinary members". As a result, it was decided in 1926 to build their own gym. In April 1928, the general assembly decided, in accordance with the proposal of the board of directors, to buy the Wassermann factory, then a shoe factory, and to convert it into its own gym. This required courage and enterprising spirit, if you consider that an amount of approx. 134,000.00 RM was necessary, but the cash register only contained 2,400.00 Reichsmarks. Nevertheless, as early as 1930 the members were informed that the association no longer had any unsecured debts.
In 1927 a memorial stone was erected in Jahnsallee in honor of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn .
In wartime
The wars in 1866 , 1870/71 and 1914/18 had repeatedly caused setbacks for the club. At the end of the Second World War , however, the lowest point was reached. The gymnasium and the outbuildings were confiscated by the occupying forces; Refugees and homeless people camped in the hall. All combustible materials, such as doors, window frames, etc., were partly burned on open fires in the hall. All the furniture, the gymnastics equipment, the card files, everything was destroyed - what remained was a heap of rubble. However, the Kronachers were not discouraged and despite all the political and financial problems they got the club back on the road to success without forgetting the social concerns. The small hall was made available to 50 war invalids as a work space; the hall was used for children's meals. The net proceeds of a ball held on November 16, 1947 could be given to the city of Kronach as a donation. The spring festival was reintroduced.
Departments
There was a steep upswing in the sporting sector. Various departments could be re-established or revived. Further members were won not only through social, but mainly through sporting activities. As a result, the association became the largest number of members in the Kronach district . With such a wide range of different sports on offer, it goes without saying that particularly noteworthy successes were not lacking.
basketball
Basketball has been a guarantee of high quality for decades. The first men's team won the South German championship in 1974, won the Bayern Cup in 1979 and made it into the second division in 1981 . Since then, the young people in particular, who won the Bavarian Cup in 1996, have been a talking point. Even today one can shine with renewed successes. An example of this is certainly the women's team, which rose again to the league, but could not keep relegation.
Table tennis
The table tennis girls began to soar in the 1980s. They were also Bavarian Cup winners and then rose as a women's team to the Bayern League , until then the study tore the team apart.
athletics
The athletics department can also reflect some achievements.
- Norbert Weiser (* 1939)
- Bavarian triple jump champion: 1959 (In 1961, 1963–1966 and again in 1969, but starting for TSV 1860 Munich and 1. FC Bamberg.)
- German triple jump champion
- Dieter Eber
- represented in the German best list in 5000 m lap walking
- Helga Müller
- German runner-up in the Frisian fight = 75 m run
- Sling ball,
- 100 m breaststroke and fencing
swim
- Eva-Maria Parzer
- multiple Bavarian and German champion in swimming
- Martin Pietz
- German champion in his age group at the all-around swimming championships
- Walter Lemke
- German AK runner-up in the backstroke
gym
The Kronach gymnastics club has two halls of its own, which are also used by schools. In addition, external halls such as the Lucas-Cranach school gymnasium of the primary school that gives it its name, the school center or the halls of the Kaspar-Zeuss-Gymnasium and the vocational school are used for club activities.
Turnerheim
- The new gymnastics home with table tennis hall
The old and forever new problem of the gym, temporarily resolved by the courage of the board of directors at the time, came to the fore again over time. On March 20, 1981, the board of directors was asked to find a contemporary solution to this problem. After reconsidering and discarding various options, it was agreed to start building a new one. The new building stood in December 1989 and has been blending harmoniously into its surroundings ever since. For general physical fitness training, a gymnasium measuring 15 × 27 meters and a table tennis hall 14 × 15 meters were built. A restaurant with an adjoining room has also had a place on the premises since then. The given budget was not exceeded.