VfL Hanover

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Former club grounds of VfL at Georgengarten

The Verein für Leibesübungen (VfL) from 1848 eV was a sports club in Hanover. It was the oldest sports club in Hanover in Lower Saxony and with around 2,400 members (as of 2009) it was also the third largest in the city. In 2013 he merged with the Eintracht Hannover club to form VfL Eintracht Hannover .

history

Plaques with the names of honorary members; including Carl Loges
Football training of the club

The original “Men's Gymnastics Club Hanover of 1848” (MTV) was founded by members of the medium-sized professions in the Ballhof , including Ernst Victor Schmorl and Alfred von Seefeld as well as students from the secondary vocational school . With the support of the city of Hanover, the first sports field was laid out in the Seelhorst in 1848/49 . The MTV campaigned for the promotion of gymnastics lessons initially in high schools and also formed a fire fighting group as a "rescue team".

In 1851 the association already had around 560 members. The Turn-Klubb in Hanover emerged from their ranks in 1858 . From 1860 the newly built municipal gym in Maschstrasse was first used. There the MTV then presented show gymnastics and organized gymnastics festivals every year. The association appeared as a separate group on national commemoration days.

By 1862 the initially medium-sized composition of the association had changed; now the craftsmen outnumbered with 84%. By 1870, however, the number of members of the all-male gymnastics club gradually shrank to around 200.

It was only between 1908 and 1914 that the MTV transformed into a general sports club through the establishment of ball games and athletics divisions. During the same period, Carl Bernhard Loges began his sporting career in MTV.

In November 1913, an area of ​​20,000 m² was leased right next to the Georgengarten to create a playground and sports field for the new sports. After women's suffrage was introduced in Germany for the first time with the Weimar Republic , the changed sporting orientation of the formerly pure men's gymnastics club found expression in the name that is used today.

Since the 1970s, additional tennis courts and a bowling alley have been built, and other sports such as table tennis, bounce ball, dance and badminton have been added.

In the 1980s women played volleyball in the Bundesliga .

In 2006, the women who play in the Lower Saxony League today like the men won the title of the German Senior Championship in bounce ball .

In 2013 the company merged with the “ Sportverein Eintracht von 1898 eV Hannover ” to become “VfL Eintracht Hannover von 1848” with an entry in the register of associations at the Hanover District Court on August 7, 2013 . The VfL sports facilities and clubhouse in the north of the city were given up; the center of the new club were the facilities and the club grounds of Eintracht in the southern part of the city.

Departments

literature

  • Anniversary publication 150 years of the association for physical exercises , undated (1998)
  • Karl-Heinz Grotjahn (MA): Association for physical exercises ('VfL) v. 1848 eV In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 640.
  • Lothar Wieser, Hubert Dwertmann, Arnd Krüger , Hans Langenfeld , Joachim Schlüchtermann, Ludwig Schulte-Huxel (Red.): Sport in Hanover. From the city's foundation to today , ed. from the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History , Hoya eV, ed. from NISH with scientific advisory board by Arnd Krüger and Hans Langenfeld, 1st edition, Hoya: Niedersächsisches Inst. für Sportgeschichte, 1991, ISBN 3-923478-56-9

Web links

Commons : Association for physical exercises from 1848 Hanover  - collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ^ Karl-Heinz Grotjahn MA: Turn-Klubb zu Hannover (TKH). In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 631
  2. ↑ It is still unclear which building it was in 1860: According to the monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , Monuments in Lower Saxony / City of Hanover, Part 1 ... , p. 116, the gym of the Gymnastics Club in Hanover in 1864/65 in Maschstrasse built.
  3. ↑ Dirk Böttcher : Loges, Carl (Karl) Bernhard. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 415

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 45.5 "  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 43.9"  E