Freiburger Turnerschaft von 1844
The Freiburger Turnerschaft von 1844 e.V., FT 1844 Freiburg for short, is a sport club from Freiburg im Breisgau and is the largest sport club in south Baden with 6,500 members. The club is part of the , and is one of the founding members of the . The club offers leisure sports, popular sports, and competitive sports. The club owns two private locations with sports facilities on about 50,000 m², as well as 18 off-site sports halls. About 1000 hours of sports are logged each week, about half of that under the guidance of trained personnel. Additionally, the club offers five social-pedagogical facilities as well as a sports elementary school for children.
The club also supports individual competitive athletes, such as the extreme athlete Brigid Wefelnberg and the beach volleyball player , both of whom represent the club.
In 1844, the gymnastics club was founded by a medical student named . The club was banned in 1848 for being a danger to the state, because a group of armed gymnasts and the founder, Georg von Langsdorff, were part of the Freischar involved in the Storming of Freiburg. After a 12-year forced break, the club was allowed to open again in 1860. In 1895, the club was the first club in southern Germany to found a women's section. In 1905, the club inaugurated a new sports compound on the property of the old fairgrounds, located next to the Schwarzwaldstraße. Dr. Ludwig Aschoff, chairman of the club, saw the Freiburger urnerschaft von 1844 e.V. grow in 1919, when the three gymnastics clubs in Freiburg merged. On 21 July 1931, the new club grounds, now the FT-Sportpark, was initiated. In 1945, the club was disbanded because of Directive Nr. 23 of the Allied Control Council. The grounds of the club were taken over by the French. The replacement came in the form of the VfL Freiburg, which was a placeholder organisation. In 1949, the FT 1844 was able to form again under its old name. After that, the club was able to expand successfully. For example, the FT 1844 built the third club swimming pool in Germany, came up with the idea of the first German sports kindergarten, and, in 1978, the club introduced socially differentiated family rates as part of the idea of "vacation in the sports park".
On its 150-year anniversary, the club had 22 sports departments, about 100 leisure sports groups, about 300 course offerings, and logged more than 1000 sport hours per week. In 2001, the Freiburg district of Rieselfeld founded the new FT-sports kindergarten, which, by 2007, led to the first sports elementary school in Germany. The largest sporting event the club has organised so far took place in Freiburg with the 54th Artistic roller skating world championship 2009, which featured about 1000 athletes representing 20 nations.
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