Walddörfer SV

The Walddörfer SV (full name: Walddörfer Sportverein v. 1924 eV ) is a Hamburg sports club .

The association in the north-east of Hamburg takes its name from the name of the "Hamburg forest villages ". He does leisure, competitive, competitive, health and integration sports. It also offers youth and sports trips as well as cultural and educational offers. With over 8,500 members (as of December 31, 2019), the club is one of the ten largest sports clubs in Hamburg. The members can access over 600 sports offers per week.

sports

Aerobics and body styling	Aikido	badminton	ballet	basketball
Breakdance	Dance	Fistball	fencing	Gym
flamenco	folklore	Football (district league 6)	Health sport	Gymnastics and gymnastics
Handball	Cardiac sports	Indoor cycling	Inline hockey	Inline skating
Integration sport	Judo	Karate - Thu	Bowling	Climb
Gymnastics	Latin dance	athletics	line dance	Lung exercise
Nordic walking	Oriental dance	Pilates	Bounce ball	Qigong
Cycling	Cycling	Rhythmic sports gymnastics	Rock'n'Roll	swim
Swimming school	ski	Sport 50+	Sports badge	Tai chi
To dance	Thai boxing	Table tennis	Triathlon	Gymnastics for children and teenagers.
volleyball	Walking	yoga	Zumba

additional offers

Children's and youth theater	childcare	Arts and Culture	Saunas	English
French	Spanish	Italian	trips	Workshops
Ski u. Sports travel	Celebrations / events	Children's birthday parties	Christmas fairy tale	Shuffling

history

On November 1, 1924, the Volksdorfer sports club was founded as a football club. With the construction of the Walddörfer School , a hall was available from 1928. In the course of this, the Volksdorfer Turngesellschaft was founded, which was later renamed the Volksdorfer Turngemeinschaft. The Allhorn Stadium was completed in 1930 before the Walddörfer School opened. After many clubs were banned for political reasons, the gymnastics community accepted many members from neighboring clubs (including the members of the Berne Workers' Sports Club) in 1933. The judo department was created .

After 1945

In winter 1945, foot , hand and fist ball game. In 1948 the name Walddörfer Sportverein was created. In 1949, 190 members did their " physical exercises " in the association. In October the gymnastics department was established and attracted many new members. Some new gyms made gymnastics possible. The Walddörfer Sportverein was entered in the register of associations on March 28, 1953 . The table tennis department was launched. From 1954 to 1958 the club's first newspaper was published. The gymnastics department had 250 members in 1959. After the gym in Bergstedt went into operation , another 450 new members joined the gymnastics department. In 1960 the handball department was re-launched. The volleyball and athletics departments were established a year later. The first edition of the club magazine "Walddörfer Sportfreund" appeared in 1963. The decision was made to secure the future of the club by building a club house. In 1964, the club was one of the largest sports clubs in Hamburg with 1,100 members and 18 different departments. In June 1965, the swimming department that had existed between 1950 and 1955 was re-established. The dance department was founded in September 1967 and cross-country skiing was offered for the first time in 1968 , later becoming the skiing department. Donations for the construction of an indoor swimming pool in Volksdorf raised over half a million marks by the time it was completed. Fencing and modern pentathlon are offered in the gymnastics department from 1970 to 1972. The athletics department merged with three other clubs in 1971 to form LAV-Hamburg-Nord. On October 2nd, the “Indoor Swimming Pool for the Forest Villages” was inaugurated by the “Vereinigung Hallenbad Walddörfer eV” association founded for this purpose. In 1972 the fencing department was established.

First clubhouse

In 1974 the association with 2,430 members was looking for its own location. The office was still in the "Räucherkate" in Volksdorf. The 50th anniversary was celebrated in the Spiekerhus and a large festival tent. Walddörfer SV implemented an association's own performance promotion fund and was a co-founder of ARGE Hamburg Nord, now ARGE Wandsbek. The club bought a building shed from EDKA and dismantled the Jahnring pavilion in 1975 in order to rebuild it later as a club house. On January 22nd, 1976, rhythmic gymnastics was included in the sports program of Walddörfer SV. The athletes organized an exchange with Israel. Jazz gymnastics was also included in the program. On April 16, 1977 the foundation stone for today's sports center "Walddörfer Sportforum" was laid on a leased property. The yoga offer was born. 15 years after the decision of a general meeting and the drive of the 1st chairman Ernst Boye, the club house at Halenreie 34 with catering, bowling alleys, business premises, showers and a ballroom was inaugurated on May 27, 1978. Rooms on the ground floor were rented to the Volksdorfer Schützenverein. The total area of ​​the building was over 1,500 m². Almost 5,000 hours of voluntary work were done for building the club house alone. The footballers drove to the USA in 1979. The cardiac sports department was founded in 1980 .

1980-1994

The youth committee began working with the Erlenbusch children's home in 1981 and adopted the first youth regulations. Over 4,800 young people attended events organized by the youth committee. On January 1, 1982, the first dedicated IT system was introduced for member administration. Walddörfer SV organized a protest march from Hamburg athletes against the restrictions on the use of the Tegelsbarg sports facility, which the press and television reported. Youth ski trips were very successful every year. The “play hall” at Ahrensburger Weg 28 was built. In 1983 Walddörfer SV was the 16th largest club among 600 in Hamburg. The youth committee dealt with Wulfsdorf and organizes aid to Poland. The table tennis department started integrating disabled people. The aerobics wave had also reached Walddörfer SV. In 1984 there were a total of 3,390 members. The basketball ladies made it into the regional league. In 1987, Hall 1 was expanded and walled, and a new Hall 2 was added, which increased the usable area at the club's headquarters by 160 m². The inauguration was on August 16, 1988. The leased property "Halenreie 34" in Volksdorf was bought by the city with a contract dated August 18, 1988 and in 1989 an additional hall with 280 m² "Vörn Barkholt 22" was rented and on September 17 inaugurated. In 1994 there were 4,200 women and men, girls and boys aged 6 months and over.

German gymnastics festival

The club looked after around 1,200 guests at the German Gymnastics Festival in Hamburg. A revised statute was approved. In 1996 the first DSV ski school was founded in Hamburg by the ski department of Walddörfer SV. The general meeting on April 5, 1998 decided to include “cultural tasks” and “to promote education and upbringing” as further charitable purposes in addition to promoting sport in the statutes. Walddörfer SV initiated a referendum (submitted on December 3, 1997) to secure the Halenreie 32 property for sport. On May 28, 1999, the head of the local office, Angelika Sterra, received 7,669 votes (far more than the required number) for the referendum. The neighboring property Halenreie 32 was bought by the association in 2001 after tough negotiations with the city of Hamburg. The “Walddörfer Sportfreund” appeared for the first time in A4 and in color. A large extension (1,320 m²) with two gymnastics rooms, a reception hall and a health and fitness studio was opened in 2002 on the Halenreie 32 site. The old building and the new building have since been called the "Walddörfer Sportforum". The renting of the hall “Vörn Barkholt 22”, however, was terminated. The meeting point for all athletes in the Walddörfer an der Halenreie is open 360 days a year, 84 hours a week. Members and volunteers always have an open office from now on. In 2004 the association had 5,530 members.

Assembly of delegates and association council

In 2005, the association introduced the assembly of delegates in addition to the general assembly. The “extended board” became the association council. In 2008 the club was ranked 9th among the largest Hamburg clubs and 1st in the north-east of Hamburg. The club employs over 260 people, from exercise assistants to trainers, service staff and studio managers to managing directors. Walddörfer SV is a member of the "TopSportVereine Metropolregion Hamburg eV" association. The statutes were changed in 2009: The delegates' assembly elects a presidium, which appoints the executive committee according to § 26 BGB . (As of December 31, 2019) over 8500 members train in over 50 different sports today. The association celebrated its 85th anniversary with a large children's party.

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Walddörfer Sportfreund Nr.1 ​​2019. Retrieved on January 19, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Hamburg's sport continues to grow. Hamburger Sportbund, February 11, 2020, accessed on April 14, 2020 . Walddoerfer-SV.de: Membership Walddörfer SV 
   
3. ↑ Kicker.de: Club information Walddörfer SV