Gymnastics Club Seckbach 1875
| Surname | Gymnastics Club Seckbach 1875 |
|---|---|
| Founded | June 9, 1875 |
| Place of foundation | Seckbach |
| Association headquarters | Am Schießrain 2 60389 Frankfurt am Main |
| Members | 983 (as of January 1, 2016) |
| Departments | 11 |
| Chairman | Dr. med. Friedhelm Dechert |
| Homepage | tv-seckbach.de |
The gymnastics club Seckbach was founded on June 9, 1875 in the independent rural community of Seckbach in the former Electorate of Hesse , which was annexed by Prussia after the Austro-Prussian War , which was lost in 1866 . Seckbach has been a district of Frankfurt am Main since July 1, 1900 . The club became known in particular as the German handball champion , as the organizer of international fistball tournaments and as the annual organizer of the athletic Frankfurt mountain sports festival , the Lohrbergfest . In handball , the club forms a syndicate with Eintracht Frankfurt .
Club name
Regarding the spelling of the club name, Turnverein Seckbach 1875 e. V. the official registered name. Furthermore, the abbreviations Turnverein Seckbach 1875, TV Seckbach 1875, TV Seckbach, TVS 1875 and TVS are in use. In earlier decades it was common to add dots to the abbreviations TV or TVS.
Club crest
In addition to the four Fs, the TVS coat of arms shows what is known as a wolf tang , a cruel hunting device and a heraldic figure from the Middle Ages that was found on boundary stones in the Seckbach district . However, it is not specific to Seckbach as it is used in many family and community coats of arms . The inscription of the club coat of arms consists of the name of the club and the year of foundation. The color, shape, typography and graphics of the coat of arms have been permanently and graphically unprofessionally changed and therefore no longer correspond to the historical original. Today the typography, a surrounding frame and, unlike the original, even the four Fs are made in black, the illegally modified wolf tang in red, all on a white background. The wolf tang used to be green. For this reason, the color was also used as the club color and for team jerseys (green and white), today it is no longer represented in the coat of arms. The same applies to the silver hue, which should actually be used instead of the white background of the coat of arms in order to make the analogy to the Seckbach municipal coat of arms. The 4 F are borrowed from the gymnast's cross , but do not represent any on the club's coat of arms, as this logo is divided or torn by the wolf tang. The club name is not correctly reproduced on the club coat of arms, due to its arrangement on the coat of arms and the reading direction from left to right and from top to bottom, it does not correspond to the official name of the club. The fact that the club's coat of arms circulates in different versions is also very problematic.
The Wolfsangel is on the list of prohibited right-wing extremist signs and symbols and, according to Section 86a of the Criminal Code, in the Federal Republic of Germany, even in modified form, may not be used or shown publicly. Historical community and club coats of arms with the symbol of the wolf angel are not affected by this ban. Modifying edits, on the other hand, that do not correspond to the historical depiction of the community and club coats of arms in question, as well as depictions of the wolf angel detached from the historical context will be prosecuted. The club coat of arms carried by the club is therefore illegal in this sense.
history
1875-1918
The founding members were eleven people; Carl August Schneider was elected the first chairman of the new association. The practice lessons took place every evening under the guidance of the first instructor Sebastian Bender. They met on the self-established gymnasium on Schulstrasse (today Hochstädter Strasse), where there was a horizontal bar , a climbing tree and a ring swing. In 1878 it was decided to found a singing department, which lasted until 1890, but then merged with a Seckbacher choral society.
In 1882, girls and women embroidered an elaborately embroidered club flag dedicated to virgins , which still exists today. In addition to the motto Gut Heil the German Fatherland, which we united as a solid bond and the club's name with the year of foundation, the Turner's cross , a heraldic gammadium , made up of four letters "F" in capital letters, some of which are mirrored horizontally and vertically, can be found on this flag . In the original, this logo is always red on a white background, as it deliberately adopted the Hessian state colors, which are also the colors of the city of Frankfurt am Main. The gymnast's cross picks up on the motto of gymnastics father Friedrich Ludwig Jahn , which became the Turner motto:
" Fresh to work,
pious in the belief in the charitable status and lasting value of creation,
happy with one another,
free and open in all actions."
In short: fresh, pious, happy, free .
This Turner Cross is visually very often strongly based on the Iron Cross donated by the Prussian King in 1813 or the even older Balkenkreuz or Paw Cross of the Teutonic Order and the German and Prussian Armed Forces, but also on the Christian cross and therefore reminds of it. In gymnastics there are references to fraternities and the revolution of 1848/49 . Clearly military references can be recognized, for example, by details on the TVS club flag as well as on the cover of the TVS anniversary celebration of 1925.
The motto Gut Heil dem Deutschen Vaterlande refers directly to the previous establishment of the German Empire on January 18, 1871. German national motivation as well as physical training and the sporting community spirit for military use have always been the driving force behind the founding of gymnastics clubs. Apparatus gymnastics in particular has remained . It was not until the social movement around the turn of the century that the gymnastics clubs gradually transformed into the sports clubs of today's character, which have come closer to social networking, the principle of athletic performance and popular sports . Initially, however, the gymnasts were hostile to modern sport and internationalization, and felt the development to be un-German and foreign. Today, gymnastics is taken for granted as an integral part of sport. Nevertheless, gymnastics in Germany is one of the origins of today's sport.
In 1900 the TVS celebrated its 25th anniversary and published a commemorative publication. That same summer, the rural community Seckbach was at Frankfurt am Main incorporated . In 1903 the gymnastics club Seckbach was entered in the register of associations of the Frankfurt district court. On January 1, 1905, the TVS joined the Turngau Frankfurt as the tenth club .
On June 12, 1908, the TVS took part in the dress rehearsal of the parade of Frankfurt gymnasts in the run-up to the 11th German Gymnastics Festival on July 18th, organized by the German Gymnastics Association (DT) .
In 1910 women conquered the club - the first female gymnastics team became active. Up until this point in time, women in the male domain of gymnastics had little more than a decorative function. On special occasions, the ladies only appeared in public as so-called maid of honor dressed in white with a wreath of flowers in their hair, but otherwise mainly worked in the background, for example embroidering pennants and flags, winding laurel wreaths for competition winners and washing the sportswear. In 1914 the First World War (1914-1918) began, many of the active came to the front, the gymnastics was stopped. After the end of the war in 1918, the association mourned 17 fallen members.
1919-1933
The first general assembly after the war took place on January 5, 1919. In 1920 the club acquired a dance hall in the street Am Schießrain, which gave the club a strong boost, as it was now far less dependent on the weather and on gatherings in inns. The handball department was founded in 1921, a reminiscence of the handball sport that only emerged in its present form in 1917 . From 1922 onwards, gymnastics in the German Reich was clearly separated from the rest of the sport, but in the same year the first German workers' gymnastics and sports festival with 100,000 participants took place in Leipzig at the Völkerschlachtdenkmal . For the first time in the club's history, after 47 years, the chairmanship changed to Konrad Henrich.
On June 15, 1924, the gymnastics club Seckbach 1875 won the German handball championship of the German gymnastics association (DT) in Leipzig ; back then it was still field handball .
From 1925 institutes for physical education were set up at German universities, and student sports and sports teacher training gained in profile. The TV Seckbach celebrated its 50th anniversary this year and organized, among other things, a large parade through the district. On the solemn occasion, the board thanked "all those who use their strength to cultivate German popular consciousness and train them to become a new, capable gender". Based on Goethe's triad "Dem Wahren, Schönen, Guten" (from Johann Wolfgang Goethe's epilogue to Friedrich Schiller's bell, at the same time inscription on the roof frieze of the Alte Oper Frankfurt ), the board of directors called for the conclusion of its remarks:
" Anyone who enjoys what is good, true, and beautiful should not be absent from gymnastics ."
In 1930, the association's board of directors took part in the inauguration of the memorial erected for the Seckbach fallen on the Lohrberg . The names of the fallen TVS members can also be found on fifteen metal plaques.
In 1932, the fistball department was founded, in which the ladies romped first. Fistball is one of the gymnastics games that are assigned to the sport of gymnastics .
1933-1945
The gymnastics and sports clubs were seamlessly integrated into the organization of the National Socialist power system as part of the formerly monarchist German gymnastics association. The völkisch-national self-image of the gymnasts helped in this, in stark contrast to the politically more left-wing Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Federation (ATB) and denominational organizations, which were banned in 1933 and 1935.
After January 30, 1933 , Jewish members were kicked out of gymnastics clubs all over Germany . Up to this point, only three to four percent of the Jewish population were organized in Jewish associations. After they were thrown out, the number of members of the Jewish associations increased significantly. In the run-up to the 1936 Olympic Games , the Nazi rulers allowed some of the Jewish athletes to participate actively, provided they were well known or had the required level of performance. It was primarily about the impression made in front of the international public. One wanted to cover up the discrimination and persecution against Jews .
In 1934 the German Reich Committee for Physical Exercise (DRAfL) was established, to which the gymnastics and sports associations were subordinated as specialist offices. In 1938 the DRAfL was renamed the National Socialist Reich Association for Physical Exercise (NSRL). After the introduction of the Reichsflaggengesetz of September 15, 1935 (RGBl. I p. 1145), all German gymnastics clubs adopted the swastika used by the National Socialists as the only symbol, which banned the use of the old club flags with gymnasts' cross .
For children and young people, the National Socialists offered more and more alternatives to the previously largely individually and freely designed leisure time: for the 10 to 13-year-old boys and girls in the German Jungvolk (DJ) or Jungmädelbund (JM), from 14 years in the Hitler Youth (HJ) or in the Association of German Girls (BDM). In particular, sports activities for children and young people have been pushed back in the clubs. Physical training was clearly given priority over intellectual education among the Nazis, especially among the boys intended for military service. After the introduction of compulsory military service in 1935, membership in the Hitler Youth became compulsory from December 1, 1936. From March 25, 1939, ten-year-olds could also be forced by the police to become active members of the young people against the will of their parents. For most children and adolescents, however, this state-organized leisure time was attractive, as it was linked to the leisure activities offered by the denominational youth associations, the Bündische Jugend and the sports clubs. The opposition was correspondingly low; Those who excluded themselves from the so apostrophized national community were marginalized and exposed to hostility.
The Third Reich and the Second World War resulted in dwindling membership figures in the TVS, and the war also resulted in many victims. During the war, the association could not be maintained.
As of September 21, 1942, the confiscated club gym at Am Schießrain 2 was misused. Forced laborers (in Nazi diction: foreign workers) who had to work for the Lurgi Apparatebauesellschaft were housed here . The accommodation of 47 Russians and 7 Poles can be considered certain, other sources also mention the French. At least one slave laborer employed by Lurgi was murdered in the Nazi killing center in Hadamar . In 1943/44 the gym was destroyed during the air raids on Frankfurt am Main . The TVS does not point to this past of the club's own hall to this day.
After the end of the war in 1945, all German sports clubs were banned by the victorious powers , they were considered instruments of National Socialist ideology . However, re-foundations and new foundations were possible on request and were controlled accordingly, the statutes of the associations revised if necessary.
1945-1975
From 1945 to 1950, regular sporting activities and regular club life were not possible. This contrasted with the living conditions in the immediate post-war period, the destruction and the many war dead. In 1948 the German Sports Committee (DS) was founded in the eastern zone , the western Trizone was not yet ready. In 1950, after the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Sports Association (DSB) (today the German Olympic Sports Association ) was founded.
From 1947 onwards, the club's gymnasium at Am Schießrain was rebuilt under the most difficult of conditions and was inaugurated on June 27, 1949, shortly after the Federal Republic of Germany was founded. Club life was reactivated in the TVS with handball , gymnastics and gymnastics . The new chairman was Adolf Zorbach, followed in 1950 by Jean Zeiß. Mayor Walter Kolb donated an ingot for apparatus gymnastics on the 50th anniversary of the association. A commemorative publication was published, the table tennis department and the carnival department Die Meckerer were created. From 1950 onwards, the gymnasium was also used by the students of the Zentgrafenschule for physical education for almost a decade and a half due to the lack of a dedicated hall . The club gym at Am Schießrain 2, along with the property and parking lot, is still owned by the TVS today, and is used for sports, as an office, for internal and public events, not least by the carnivalists Die Meckerer .
After the Frankfurt Gymnastics Festival in 1948, August 5, 1950, on the initiative of Mayor Kolb, marked the birth of a new major event, the Frankfurt Mountaineering Festival . Kolb commissioned the gymnastics club Seckbach in 1875, which coordinated with the Frankfurt Sports Office. The first Lohrbergfest took place in 1951 on Frankfurt's 185-meter-high local mountain, the Lohrberg . Club member Karl Zscherneck became the coordinator of the Lohrberg Festival. The name Lohrbergfest is based directly on the Feldbergfest , which has been taking place since 1844, and was the first ever German mountaineering festival .
On May 31, 1953, on the occasion of the 3rd Lohrberg Festival, Mayor Kolb and Karl Zscherneck inaugurated the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn monument in honor of the gymnastics father on the large competition area in Lohrpark. In 1956 and 1958, Seckbach girls won the Lohrbergfest for the first time.
In 1960 Karl Zscherneck was elected first chairman of the association. In 1961 the first edition of the association's announcements appeared , a hectographed periodical that has kept the members informed about the association's activities ever since. From 1964 the newly built single-field gym of the Zentgrafenschule could also be used by the TVS. In 1965 Karl Schäfer became chairman of the association, Karl Zscherneck continued to organize the Lohrbergfest.
In 1971 the handball department celebrated its 50th anniversary and issued its own commemorative publication on the occasion. It still expresses pride in the German championship (DT) won in 1924. In 1974 the volleyball department was founded.
For the 100th anniversary in 1975 there were eight departments in the club (fistball, gymnastics, handball, carnival, athletics, table tennis, gymnastics, volleyball). Various highlights such as an international fistball tournament were created for the festive occasion, a commemorative publication was published and a commemorative plaque was stamped. The back of the plaque shows the Wolfsangel mirror-inverted and illegally modified ( § 86a StGB ), the front the Seckbach town hall with a surrounding, gold-colored, stylized laurel wreath . Traditionally there was a big move of the departments through the district, for the first time through the new building area at Atzelberg. The 25th anniversary of the Lohrberg Festival also took place in 1975, but no separate commemorative publication was created.
1975-2000
The international fistball tournament organized by the TVS on the Seckbach-Süd district sports facility in Hochstädter Straße has repeatedly brought teams from Germany and neighboring countries to the district since 1975. Fistball tournaments have also been held at the Lohrbergfest for years.
In 1977, in the presence of Lord Mayor Walter Wallmann , the association was actively involved in the supporting program for the grand opening of the newly built Friedrich-Ebert-Schule at Huthpark in Arolser Straße and offered various demonstrations in its three-field sports hall. The school moved from its old building on Bornheimer Hang to Seckbach. From then on, the new large sports hall was an asset for the district and the club, but in the first few years it was mainly available to the major Frankfurt clubs, much to the annoyance of the local clubs. During this time, around 200 girls and 60 boys were active in gymnastics at the TVS, a challenge for trainers and the limited space and training time available.
From 1977 onwards, the regular club notifications were no longer hectographed, but were created using small offset printing for the first time, so that photos could be printed. The format was reduced from A4 to A5 in 1978.
The association's archive was viewed and restructured, and numerous exhibits from older members and local residents were added, including a planned exhibition for the 1100th anniversary of Seckbach's first documentary mention in 1980.
In 1978 Dr. Heinz Bende Chairman. In the same year, the trampoline group under Roland Bolliger was brought into being, which partly consisted of members of the boys' performance group of the gymnastics department, but also attracted new members to the TVS. In addition to training, the 9 to 19 year old boys in this group offer fun performances at various events. A first youth trip in autumn took girls and boys from the gymnastics and athletics departments to a youth hostel in the Hohe Rhön . A hiking group was formed under Manfred Seeger and organized first hikes in the vicinity. In 1979 the first Seckbacher Junge won the Lohrbergfest, and in 1980 he won again.
In the autumn of 1979, a two-storey extension of the gymnasium was built in a three-month period to provide more space for equipment. In 1980 the hall itself was expanded and new sanitary and changing rooms were created. At the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, the association experienced a noticeable upswing, in particular through the growth of new members from the newly developed residential areas of the district.
In 1981 the dance sport department was set up, which is mainly dedicated to ballroom dancing. In the same year, ski gymnastics was also included in the club's offer. In 1982 a ball game group was formed, which until today consciously trains and plays outside of the competition.
The TVS hosted the “Frankfurt Olympia for Everyone” for the Frankfurt districts of Bornheim , Riederwald and Seckbach, as well as the AOK's trim-trot project .
During the German Gymnastics Festival in 1983 in Frankfurt am Main, the Seckbach 1875 gymnastics club was responsible for looking after 400 participants. The club gym at Am Schießrain 2 was once again expanded and rebuilt.
In 1986 Klaus Bieringer took over the chairmanship. In 1988, a cultural group was founded that draws attention to itself with art exhibitions, musically accompanied morning pints, slide evenings, readings and its own publications and receives support from the City of Frankfurt's Cultural Office. In 1990, a commemorative publication was published on the unusual occasion of the 115th anniversary.
The memorial in Lohrpark, which the city administration converted into a memorial for those who died in the World Wars , also commemorates former members of the TVS. You will be commemorated on the day of liberation on May 8th (1945) and on the occasion of Eternity Sunday and Death Sunday.
From 1975 to the turn of the millennium, the association experienced a significant upswing with an increase of more than 500 members.
2000 until today
For the 125th anniversary in 2000, the Seckbach gymnastics club offered 13 sports for all ages and both genders, as well as the opportunity to get involved in carnival activities. The anniversary publication goes by the unusual name of the anniversary edition. The table tennis and carnival departments celebrated their 50th anniversaries in the same year.
The year 2000 was also the 50th anniversary of the Frankfurt mountain sports festival, the Lohrbergfest, organized by the association . However, an anniversary festival was not published, so there was no major media response. In the same year a group was formed that dedicated itself to the trend sport Nordic Walking .
The number of members has been steadily declining since 2002. Very late, only in the last quarter of 2004, the association went online and gradually put its offers and information on the Internet. Despite a relaunch of the website in 2009, there is still a lack of adequate content, daily news and up-to-date opportunities for members to actively participate in the web content through surveys, comments and uploaded articles, photos and video clips.
In 2008, the single-field gym of the Zentgrafenschule , built in 1964, was demolished. During the construction phase of the new hall, the club struggled with training bottlenecks until summer 2010. Initiatives to build a multifunctional hall because of the lack of spacious public meeting rooms in Seckbach on the south side of the district sports area Hochstädter Straße for many decades have so far failed.
For the International German Gymnastics Festival 2009, which took place from May 30th to June 5th in Frankfurt am Main, the gymnastics club Seckbach looked after around 600 participants in the sports hall of the Friedrich-Ebert-Schule around the clock . Children and young people from the TVS took an active part in the big closing gala of the IDTF in the Commerzbank-Arena (Waldstadion).
In 2010 there were five anniversaries to be celebrated: in particular the 60th anniversary of the Lohrberg Festival and the 60th anniversary of the table tennis and carnival department. The club's own gym has been the club's property since 1920, which is 90 years. In 2010, the 50th year of the advertising-financed periodical "Vereins-Mitteilungen" appeared, which used to appear every two months, but is now only published quarterly. For some time now, it has been offered digitally for downloading as a PDF on the TV Seckbach website, but not in earlier volumes. The legally stipulated imprint (§ 6 HPresseG) has been missing from the "Verein-Mitteilungen" of the TVS for several years, the legal obligations according to § 7 and § 9 HPresseG are also not fulfilled.
After the inauguration of the completely new single-field gym of the Zentgrafenschule as the first single-field school gym in Frankfurt in the energy-efficient passive house standard, several groups and teams of the club have been able to train comfortably since summer 2010. However, the existing floor hooks for uneven bars in the old hall were not taken into account in the new building, so that there is now a related restriction of the gymnastics operations of the successful performance team and this gymnastics device can no longer be used.
The first men's handball team from Eintracht Frankfurt forms a syndicate with the Seckbach gymnastics club in the regional league . The joint training takes place in Seckbach. In volleyball, the club has been playing in the district league in partnership with TG Römerstadt since the 2010/11 season. In table tennis, teams of the club play in the district and district league as well as in the 2nd district class.
In the first and second quarter of 2011, new sports offerings will be introduced: the martial arts-based fitness program Tae Bo for children and acrobatics for children and young people. In 2012 Horst Delp took over the chairmanship of the association. In 2016 he handed over the management of the association to Dr. Friedhelm Dechert.
statistics
Development of the membership
The number of members increased continuously up to the Second World War. The First World War did not seem to have had any significant impact. Before, during and after the Second World War, however, there was a noticeable decline in membership. From 1950 the number of members rose sharply and undiminished. Its peak on January 1, 2002 was 1,350 members. Since then, however, the number of members has declined sharply for the first time since the Second World War, while directly neighboring clubs such as the Turngemeinde Bornheim 1860, the SG Enkheim or the TV Bergen-Enkheim recorded in the same period, in some cases very significant increases due to contemporary concepts and offers, the TG Bornheim With over 20,000 members, it even advanced to become the club with the largest number of members in Hesse by expanding its sports offer from 20 to 184. A large number of former TVS members can be found in these neighboring associations. By 2015 - within eleven years - TV Seckbach lost 29.5 percent of its members, with a significantly accelerated trend. This corresponds to the number of 398 members who have turned their backs on the association. At the same time, the population of Seckbach developed a slight upward trend over the last half decade, a circumstance that the TVS was unable to take advantage of due to a lack of suitable campaigns. The membership of TV Seckbach has thus decreased to the level of the early 1980s or by almost three decades.
Membership records were celebrated for the 25th, 50th, 100th and 125th anniversaries at the TVS, with only the 75th anniversary in 1950 reaching a temporary low. The proportion of children and young people compared to the adult members is also subject to fluctuations in the history of the association. In the beginning only younger and older men were active in the club, later boys were added, only then women, and much later also girls. The proportion of children and young people in the club reached its peak in the late 1970s and early 1980s. As of January 1, 2016, the group of over 41-year-olds with a huge share of more than 45% compared to relevant neighboring associations stands for a significant aging of the members, which corresponds to both the social development and that of the district. For a number of years now, young people have obviously not been addressed by the Seckbach TV program, and the 15-26 age group is extremely underrepresented in the club with a share of around 12%. However, this corresponds to the situation in the district, as can be seen from the annual population statistics. In contrast, children up to the age of 14 are represented among the members with a share of around 31%. Several exercise / training groups have now shrunk to small groups with a particularly small number of people, which sometimes hardly justify the offer of exercise / training or indoor hours and the use of paid instructors / trainers.
Association chairperson
On average, each of the association chairmen worked for the TVS on an honorary basis for 15.55 years, in 140 years (1875 to 2015) there were only nine people who held this office. This can be attributed in particular to the association's co-founder Carl August Schneider, who held the chair for almost half a century without interruption and thus set the bar very high for all who followed. However, Carl August Schneider had the advantage of having been elected to this post as an active gymnast at a very young age, while his successors were only found worthy to exercise this function at a set age. However, the length of the term of office in no way stands for competence and quality, but rather for a lack of willingness on the part of third parties to volunteer and, in some cases, for an excessive retention of the office holders, as can also be observed in politics.
If one compares the years of office of the individual gentlemen with the historically verifiable facts, a tendency becomes clear which shows that “new brooms” sweep well, especially at the beginning of their term of office, while the initial vigor seems to wear off later, the “cleaning effect” mostly decreases significantly. Very often after a new chairman took office, there were groundbreaking new developments that had a lasting positive influence on the history of the club and the sporting and cultural district offerings.
The establishment of the club gymnasium on Schulstrasse (today: Hochstädter Strasse) from 1875 and the founding of the singing department in 1878 under Carl August Schneider, winning the German handball championships in 1924 under Konrad Henrich, and the rebuilding of the club's own hall speak for this observed tendency 1947 to 1949 under Adolf Zorbach, the founding of the table tennis and carnival department in 1950 and the first event of the Lohrberg Festival in 1951 under the aegis of Jean Zeiß, the foundation of the "Verein-Mitteilungen", which has been published regularly since then, in 1961 under Karl Zscherneck, the introduction of EDP and the expanding and modernizing renovation of the club's own hall under Dr. Heinz Bende.
Greatest successes
The greatest sporting success of the club was celebrated on June 15, 1924. On this day the gymnastics club Seckbach won the German handball championship of the Deutsche Turnerschaft (DT) in Leipzig in 1875 ; back then it was still field handball .
The most successful member of the club by far is Manfred Emmel , who joined the club in 1954 at the age of nine and later worked for the club as a table tennis coach for young people for seven years.
With regard to the events organized by the association, the annual Lohrbergfest, the Frankfurt mountain sports festival, which took place for the 65th time in 2015, clearly stands out. Over the course of six and a half decades, tens of thousands of young athletes and spectators have been drawn to Lohrpark on Frankfurt's local mountain, the Lohrberg .
Sporting, social and cultural offers
| children | Teenagers | Adults |
|---|---|---|
| ballet | Guard dance | Active up to 100 |
| Parent and child gymnastics | Handball | Aqua fitness |
| Guard dance | Ju-Jutsu | Ball games (not performance-oriented) |
| Apparatus gymnastics | Fitness training | Abs, legs and buttocks gymnastics |
| Handball | athletics | Parent and child gymnastics |
| Kindergarten gymnastics | Performance gymnastics | Soccer ( indoor soccer ) |
| Children's gymnastics | Lohrbergfest - Volunteering | Ballroom dancing |
| athletics | Musical dance | Health sports for seniors |
| Performance gymnastics | Ski gymnastics | Handball |
| Modern dance | Step aerobics | Cardiac sports |
| Musical dance | Table tennis | Jazz dance |
| Ski gymnastics | do gymnastics | Fitness training |
| Table tennis | volleyball | Culture |
| do gymnastics | hike | Latin dance moves |
| yoga | athletics | |
| Lohrbergfest volunteering | ||
| Back exercises | ||
| Senior gymnastics | ||
| Ski gymnastics | ||
| Step aerobics | ||
| Chair gymnastics for seniors | ||
| Dance sport | ||
| Table tennis | ||
| volleyball | ||
| hike | ||
| Water gymnastics | ||
| Spinal exercises | ||
| yoga |
Sports facilities, meeting points and event locations
The available indoor hours in the district are not sufficient, so that facilities in neighboring districts are also used:
- Club gymnasium Am Schießrain 2, Frankfurt-Seckbach
- Single-field gym of the Zentgrafenschule , entrance Wichernstrasse, Frankfurt-Seckbach
- Three-field sports hall of the Friedrich-Ebert-Schule , Arolser Strasse 11, Frankfurt-Seckbach
- District sports facility Seckbach Süd, Hochstädter Strasse 22 a, Frankfurt-Seckbach
- Single-field gym of the Pestalozzi School, Vatterstraße 1, Frankfurt-Seckbach
- Hufeland-Haus swimming pool, Wilhelmshöher Strasse 34, Frankfurt-Seckbach
- Seckbacher Rathaus , Hofhausstrasse 2, Frankfurt-Seckbach
- Lohrpark playground on the Lohrberg , Frankfurt-Seckbach
- Single-field gym at the Linnéschule, Linnéstraße 18–20, Frankfurt-Bornheim
- Single-field gym at the Helmholtz School , Habsburgerallee 57–59, Frankfurt-Ostend
- Meeting center Riederwald, Am Erlenbruch 26, Frankfurt-Riederwald
Club's own hall / event hall
The gym at Am Schießrain 2 celebrated its 95th anniversary in 2015, it was acquired in 1920 and, as far as possible, by the members themselves, from a dance hall to a gym and event hall with a parking lot, equipment extension, stage, bar, kitchen, Sanitary, changing and storage rooms as well as conference room remodeled. In the first 75 years or so of the club's history, it met demand, but after that it became increasingly tight. Due to the dimensions that can be described as unfortunate from today's perspective and the layout of the property, every conceivable expansion and modernization was from the outset subject to the premise of unachievable competition dimensions. The area surrounding the property in the historically grown town center of Seckbach is characterized by a narrow, fragmented and often totally built-up structure. The association's board of directors kept rolling over plans drawn up by architects, including in the run-up to the 100th anniversary. Most of the time, however, the calculated financial outlay was in no good relation to the maximum achievable result.
The diversification of the leisure and sports offer, which is increasingly demanded by the current trends, requires an enormous number of hours of practice for the different groups according to age, gender and, in some cases, performance level. The board of directors therefore often has to align the majority of its work with the organizational requirements of a comprehensive sporting, societal, cultural and social offer. The club can only offer such a complex range of leisure activities today thanks to the range of exercise times in other school gyms, on sports fields and green areas, as well as through cooperation in the training and competition operations of individual teams. The permanent maintenance of the hall and the property for the benefit of all users is primarily thanks to committed people like Rudi Kampa (†) and Heinz Mattke (†), who should be mentioned as examples because of their decades of commitment.
Sports operations
Since its acquisition, the hall has primarily served the club's sports operations. In the first decades it existed next to the gymnasium on Schulstrasse (today: Hochstädter Strasse) and was therefore used for apparatus gymnastics, especially in adverse weather conditions and in the cold season. The handball players also trained and played outdoors from the early 1920s, as field handball was practiced at the time. The hall came into focus for the first time after its war-related reconstruction from 1950, when the table tennis players and the carnivalists founded their departments. Both were just as dependent on the club hall as the children of the Zentgrafenschule , which until 1964 did not have their own gym for school sports. The construction of the school gym not only relieved the club hall, but was also the starting signal for the year-round operation of newly created departments such as fistball and volleyball from the 1960s and 1970s. Above all against the background that the club hall cannot offer competitive conditions for most sports. The demolition and construction of the gymnasium of the Zentgrafenschule in 2009/10, which is now available again in a modern, environmentally friendly and barrier-free environment , showed how dependent the exercise offer of many clubs is on external influences . However, the ground sleeves required for gymnastics equipment were not taken into account, so that the club's competitive sports training offer is limited despite gymnastics successes at the Hessen championships. The old club hall is too cramped for a lot anyway.
Events
The multifunctional club hall can now only be traditionally and colloquially referred to as a gymnasium, as it is only used for gymnastics to a fraction today. In addition to internal events such as group, department and club meetings (e.g. the annual general meeting for the discharge and election of the board), the traditional handball evening , Advent, Santa Claus and Christmas celebrations, in the crazy season the meetings of the carnivalists Die Meckerer , whose herring dinner on Ash Wednesday , art exhibitions, readings, projector presentations, speeches and lectures, election events, film screenings, skat and chess tournaments, computer and internet courses and much more take place. A stage with adjoining rooms, lighting and sound technology and catering options are available for this purpose.
Office
The annex or anteroom of the club hall serves as a weekly point of contact for interested parties and members to clarify information and issues relating to their membership in the club's office. This can be reached in person, by telephone, by post and by e-mail.
Eco check
Thanks to qualified energy-saving measures, the annual gas consumption in the club gym at Am Schießrain could be reduced by almost two thirds. The City of Frankfurt, the State of Hesse and the State Sports Association of Hesse received grants for a new heating system. Despite a 40 percent increase in the gas price, this means a noticeable financial relief for the association pa. Insulation material on the outer facade and new hall lighting should enable further savings. In total, up to 75 percent of the costs for these measures were reimbursed.
Lohrberg Festival
Main article: Lohrbergfest
Since 1951, on the initiative of Karl Zscherneck, the Seckbach gymnastics club has been organizing the Frankfurt mountain sports festival for the Turngau Frankfurt under the then mayor of Frankfurt, Walter Kolb, in consultation with the Frankfurt am Main sports department . The popular sports oriented Lohrbergfest offers purely athletic competitions for children and young people from Frankfurt and Bad Vilbel sports clubs. It takes place annually in May on the large playground of the Lohrpark on the Lohrberg , in bad weather there is always an alternative date in September. Today the organizer is Kurt Sämann. Compared to the previous number of participants, however, these have fallen by more than 60 percent for years.
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