Wandsbeker men's gymnastics club from 1872
| Surname | Wandsbeker men's gymnastics club from 1872 |
|---|---|
| Club colors | blue White Red |
| Founded | September 12, 1872 |
| Place of foundation | Wandsbek |
| resolution | April 25, 2014 |
| Members | ≈ 700 (1997) |
| Departments | 5 (1997) |
The Wandsbek men's gymnastics club from 1872 , often referred to as Wandsbek 72 , was a sports club that was founded in 1872 in the then independent town of Wandsbek as a spin-off of the Wandsbeker gymnastics association from 1861 and was merged with the Wandsbek TSV Concordia in 2014 . It had been based in the Tonndorf district since the 1950s . He achieved his greatest sporting successes in handball : The first women's team played in the 2nd Bundesliga North from 1993 to 1998 .
history
In January 1861, the still existing Wandsbeker Gymnastics Federation from 1861 , the first gymnastics club in Holstein spots Wandsbeck (then spelled) was founded. Only eleven years later, when Wandsbeck had become a town, the club split up and nine WTB members founded the Wandsbeker Men's Gymnastics Club on September 12, 1872 . As the name suggests, initially only men over the age of 18 were allowed to become members of the new association. However, this restriction was abandoned after a few years, so that women, young people and children were also included in the 19th century. At first, gymnastics took place in dance halls and in the open air. When a municipal gymnasium was built on the Lärmberg in 1874 , the street no longer exists today, the two Wandsbeker associations, the WTB and the MTV, were also able to use it in return for monetary compensation. The hall was used by Wandsbek 72 until it was destroyed in July 1943, while WTB 61 has had its own gym in Kneesestrasse since 1895. In 1881 the Wandsbeck gymnastics club split off from the men's gymnastics club . This later belonged to the workers' sports movement as FTSV Wandsbek and was the nucleus of TuS Wandsbek 81 , which became TSV Wandsbek-Jenfeld through several mergers in 2000 .
Just five years after the club was founded, a marching band was founded, which existed until 1939 and which provided musical accompaniment to participation in gymnastics festivals, hikes and social events of the club. In addition to gymnastics and gymnastics as the main sports, fistball and punchball were also practiced early on. In 1922 a handball department was established; Wandsbek 72 was one of the first clubs in the Hamburg area to offer this relatively new sport. Back then, field handball was mainly played on the Friedrichshöh sports field in Walddörferstraße, where TSV Wandsetal now plays its soccer games.
During the Second World War , club life practically came to a standstill, especially after the devastating bombing raids in July 1943, which also destroyed the gym on the Lärmberg. Many of the male members had died in the war or were captured. Other men, women and children had died in the bombing raids, and the survivors were often evacuated into the surrounding area as Butenhamburgers . Since many of the bombed-out members found their home in the new settlements in Tonndorf after the war , the club also orientated itself with its sports facilities in this fast-growing district (when Wandsbek was incorporated into Hamburg in 1937, Tonndorf had fewer than 3,000 inhabitants, it was already 1950 13,000) and from then on used the school gym on Sonnenweg and, from 1956, the gym and sports field on Küperkoppel. In addition to the traditional gymnastics department and the handball department, which came up again quickly after the war, a table tennis department was founded in 1960, but initially fell asleep again in 1968. In 1970 it was re-established. From 1995 Wandsbek 72 formed a syndicate with the SSV Grün-Weiß Kiebitz under the name TTSG KieWa 72 , which achieved great successes especially for young talent and won several Hamburg team championship titles in the youth and school class. Also in 1970 a skat department was launched, but it did not last and could not be re-established until 1985. The youngest department, a Taekwondo department, was established in 1996. After the number of members decreased - the table tennis department broke up e.g. B. At the beginning of the 21st century, when most members with the SSV Grün-Weiß Kiebitz had joined the Bramfelder SV - the Wandsbeker men's gymnastics club from 1872 joined the Wandsbeker TSV Concordia on April 25, 2014 , which was a merger the previous year of the SC Concordia Hamburg with the TSV Wandsbek-Jenfeld was created. Thus the split of the association from 1881 was reversed after more than 130 years.
do gymnastics
The traditional sport of the club was - as the name suggests - gymnastics. Up until the Second World War , exercises were also carried out for the gymnastics festivals on the district, Gau and Reich level , where the apparatus gymnastics competitions took place but also show gymnastics were held. But there were z. B. also performed annual stage gymnastics in the Wandsbeker city theater and masked ball gymnastics . In addition, there was the basic gymnastics training for children and young people by trainers or gym instructors.
Even after the war, youth work was one of the focal points of gymnastics. But Wandsbek 72 was also successful in the performance area and achieved many medals at Hamburg level, especially in the field of female youth.
Handball
Founded back in the Weimar period , the handball department was the most successful division of the club. At first field handball was played. At the end of the 1960s, the first men's team was promoted to the first division, at that time the top division in Hamburg, on the large field. From the 1960s, the action increasingly shifted to the hall. There, too, the men and women of the club mostly played in the top division of Hamburg, now called the Oberliga. In 1977 the first women's team was promoted to the third-class regional league for the first time . Until the early 1980s, the team shuttled between the regional league and the upper league, before ten uninterrupted years in the regional league followed from 1982 to 1992. The team won the Hamburg Cup competition for the first time in the 1991/92 season and was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1993 , where they stayed until 1998. Best place was a fifth place in the premiere season 1993/94 .
literature
- 125 years of »Wandsbek 72«. Chronicle of a sports club , Hamburg 1997.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 150 years of Wandsbeker Turnerbund from 1861 JP - Chronicle and Festschrift, Hamburg 2011, page 8.