TSV Hanau

The 1860 Hanau is a gymnastics and sports club from the city of Hanau in the Rhine -Main Region in Hesse. Nationally known was mainly in the Lamboy District / pond garden club rooted primarily through its successful, before the Second World War, football department.

Club History

In 1840, the group was created Association of Cigarrenarbeiter that is specified by the 1860 Hanau as his legitimate predecessor. Due to a denunciation 1851 20 members in the restaurant to White Dove were ( still exists today! ) Arrested and tried by a military court in Kassel. After her innocence had been established, the members were able to return to Hanau. With this arrest, the club treasury was confiscated with fl 1048.91 that has disappeared today. Due to lack of funds the Cigarrenarbeiterverein had to be resolved. The association flag of Hanau tobacco club in 1860 then the club flag of the newly established Turnverein of Cigarrenarbeiter Hanau.

The foundation of the 1860 Hanau took place on November 9, 1860 under the name of the Turnverein Cigarrenarbeiter Hanau. In 1878 it was renamed the Turnverein Hanau and in 1881 the elimination of some of the members who made ​​themselves independent in 1881 as a gymnastics company Hanau. In 1905, when gymnastics club Hanau was a football department.

On 20 August 1922, the separately existing clubs found each other again and merged under the name Gymnastics and Sports Association Hanau. But two years later, it came in the wake of the so-called " clean separation " to a new division, the footballers were now starting in 1924 as an independent association under the name of sport in 1860 at Hanau. This association, in turn, merged after only four years, on 25 February 1928 with the football club Viktoria 1894 to Spielvereinigung 1860/94 Hanau. Was acquired in the merger of the sports field at the free- Court Street in Hanau, which was inaugurated in 1904 and was one of the oldest playing fields in Germany. In 1934, the footballers of Spielvereinigung 1860/94 closed again on the turn 1860 Hanau.

History of the football department

Hanau was an early stronghold of football in Germany, who gradually found his followers from the 1890s in the cities of the Empire. 1894, a year after the founding of the local pioneer team FC Hanau 93 was the FC Viktoria in 1894, one of the predecessors of today's associations 1860, lifted out of the baptism.

Although the team of FC Viktoria usually stood in the shadow of the highly successful '93, they always moved on Broken par with the best clubs in the region and played until the First World War, and then to 1923 and most recently in 1926/27 in each top division of the Association of South German Football clubs ( VSFV ). The greatest sporting success of Victoria was winning the Northern District Championship 1909/10 and the related collection in the final round of the "Süddeutsche " where you however Karlsruhe behind the later German masters FV, FC Bayern Munich and VfR precursor Mannheimer FG 1896 just finished last.

When Turnverein Hanau a football department was created in the meantime in 1905, which, however, only in 1912 the VSFV joined and sporty only appreciably came into existence after 1924, the separation of the gymnasts had been completed and it took now called Sport 1860.

The motivation for consummated on February 25, 1928 merger of Victoria and 94 sports in 1860 came primarily from the fact that the Victorians were relegated in 1927 from the highest class in which the " athletes " had risen at the same time. By joining forces now wanted to assert itself permanently in the top-level football, but at the end of the 1928/29 season and the merged team dismounted.

The merged team played from 1939 to 1941 in the Gauliga Hesse South and 1941 /42 in the Gauliga Hessen- Nord, before they, too, suffered the descent.

After the war, the team's 1945/46, started in the second-class division, but got off after only two seasons and disappeared gradually deeper and deeper into the lower leagues. In the season 2011/12 is the football team of TSV Hanau 1860 - this is the club since March 23, 1957 - located in the district league Hanau.

So the last great media attention and was not sporting performance, but the fact that the club's Rudi Voeller - sports complex was inaugurated on 30 August 2002 in the presence of which emerged from the junior section of the club talent Rudi Völler. Already in 1990, Rudi Völler had been incidentally made ​​an honorary member, his father Kurt Voller four years later.