Turngemeinde 1846 Worms
The Turngemeinde 1846 Worms e. V. (TGW) is a gymnastics and sports club founded on June 1, 1845 , whose statutes were officially approved on December 26, 1846. Already in the early phase of gymnastics by Friedrich Ludwig Jahn , young men had been active in Worms from 1813 under the high school teacher, pedagogue for the deaf and dumb and gymnastics teacher Georg Jakob Roller (1774-1857) . Today the TGW is the largest association in Worms and one of the largest in Rheinhessen with around 3000 members .
history
After the gymnastics ban of 1819, the city council decided in 1843 to provide a playground and gymnasium outside the city. In 1848 the gymnasts joined the Worms vigilante and took part in the Palatinate-Baden uprising in 1849 . In 1850, the Grand Ducal Hessian government in Darmstadt banned all political associations, including gymnasts. In 1854 the Worms volunteer fire brigade was formed from members of the Turner fire fighting team. In 1862 the TGW joined the Middle Rhine Gymnastics Association with 168 members. On August 10, 1862, the new gymnasium built by the city in Augustinerstrasse was inaugurated. In 1869 the TGW organized the Middle Rhine Gymnastics Festival, in which 1,500 gymnasts from 70 clubs took part.
In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, 36 gymnasts from TGW joined the medical corps . In 1886 the TGW again organized a Central Rhine District Gymnastics Festival. After receiving corporate rights in 1887, the city of Worms gave the association a building site for its own gym. The foundation stone was laid on April 23, 1893, and in the same year the inauguration of the club's own Jahnturnhalle took place on November 18 and 19. 1906 was Jahndenkmal on the Jahnplatz built in Jahnturnhalle.
During the First World War , the hall served as a hospital and then as accommodation for returning soldiers. A memorial plaque in the hall commemorated 38 members of the association who died in the war for more than 50 years. At the end of 1932, the donation money from the building block fund was used for the construction of the sports field known as Jahnwiese. In 1936 the Jahnturnhalle served the infantry as quarters and in 1939 it was occupied again by soldiers. A bomb attack on February 21, 1945 destroyed the hall down to the basement.
In February 1952, the Jahnturnhalle was inaugurated again and used as a ballroom for 1000 guests. This was financially only possible through generous donations and an "incredible self-help". The expansion of 1973/74 cost half a million marks, half of which was subsidized.
After the sale of the Jahnturnhalle, the New Jahnturnhalle was inaugurated on April 20, 2012 on the Jahnwiese opposite.
sports
The current and extensive gymnastics and sports offer of the main club is divided into the following departments and groups:
- badminton
- ballet
- baseball
- basketball
- Boxing
- Ice sports , inline skating
- fencing
- Cardiac sports
- Hockey e. V.
- athletics
- Self defense
- To dance
- Table tennis
- do gymnastics
- volleyball
- hike
organization structure
The registered association is run by the executive board and the department heads. Due to their size and special features, the departments have their own board. The former hockey department is now a subsidiary of the TGW. The highest decision-making body is the annual delegates' meeting, to which each department sends voting members according to their number of members. The office is located in the Neue Jahnturnhalle, Philosophenstraße 12, 67547 Worms.
Sports facilities
The practice operations are coordinated by the main club and distributed among the club's own and municipal practice rooms and facilities:
- club's own new Jahnturnhalle and Jahnwiese
- about ten different urban sports facilities
- Boxing gym, Nikolaus-Doerr-Halle, Mainzer Straße 51
Known members
- Herbert W. Hofmann , German sports official, honorary chairman of the TGW, honorary president of the Rheinhessen sports association
- Nikolaus Doerr, longtime club chairman, honored with Nikolaus-Doerr-Halle in Mainzer Straße
- Helmut Ranze , national boxing coach, European and international boxing sports official AIBA
- Karl-Werner Schwöbel, gymnast, member of the national team
- Evi Schwöbel-Winzinger, artistic gymnast, member of the national team
- Anne Cibis (née Möllinger), track and field athlete, participant in the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Helmut Gertel , boxer, multiple German runner-up, participant in the 1984 Olympic Summer Games
- Stefan Gertel , boxer, multiple German champion, participant in the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Wolfgang Gruber , boxer, multiple German runner-up, participant in the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Heinrich Keimig , national handball player
- Stefan Frey , badminton player
literature
- Braun Harald: History of the Turngemeinde Worms e. V. From 1845/46 to 1995/96 , Alzey 1995, ISBN 3-87854-109-0 .
- Jahnruf: quarterly club magazine.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wormser Zeitung: June 11, 1846.
- ↑ http://www.online-ofb.de/famreport.php?ofb=friedberg&ID=I33256
- ↑ https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Roller,_Georg_Jakob
- ^ Negotiations of the second chamber of the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1834, Volume 1, Appendix No. 145, No. 11
- ↑ http://nibelungen-kurier.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Turngemeindenetz.jpg
- ↑ Our successes ( Memento from July 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
