A wild ride: The ups and downs of SV Münsing-Ammerland

Created: 09/22/2022, 19:55

By: Rudi Stallein

Cheering for the anniversary: ​​In line with the 100-year celebration, the Münsinger footballers managed to get promoted to the district league again after 20 years.

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SV Münsing-Ammerland celebrates its 100th anniversary.

In the past, the club had to struggle with a lot - strong opponents, missing players and floods.

Münsing – They wanted to celebrate a lavish festival week, but like so many others, Corona spoiled the anticipation of SV Münsing-Ammerland last year.

The club's 100th anniversary should be duly celebrated in 2021.

"But we pulled the ripcord in autumn 2020, and that was a wise decision," says SV board member Michael Sandherr.

Canceled because of Corona: the festival week should now be made up for - with prominent guests

A year later, the previously announced festival week, including a Bavarian evening, disco night and cabaret artist Luise Kinseher as a highlight in the festival tent on Hartlweg, had to be postponed again;

it is now to be made up for in the coming year.

"It was in the spring when we had to decide not to foresee how Corona would develop.

And with a tent where people sit close together, that was too unsafe for us," says second director Adrian "Adi" Miggisch (69).

Another item on the program - in the open air - could be fixed: A friendly game against the pros from TSV 1860 Munich this Friday.

In the club and on the field: “Lederhosengraf” by Pocci played an important role

From the initial phase of the club, which was founded in 1921 as SV Ammerland and today as SV Münsing-Ammerland is the club with the most members in the community, there are neither written records nor contemporary witnesses.

So the early years are pretty much obscure.

What is certain is that Konrad Alfred Graf von Pocci, great-grandson of Franz von Pocci, was one of the founding members.

The "Lederhosengraf" - he was nicknamed because of his down-to-earth demeanor - later shaped the development of the club for decades as a player, coach, referee, chairman and patron.

This club was initially founded for the sport of fistball, which was very popular at the time and has almost been forgotten today.

Narrowly failed: For the then SV Ammerland in the 1965/66 season, as the autumn winner, promotion was within reach, but was lost due to a few defeats in the final phase.

At the ball back then (from left) Konrad von Pocci, Hans Gebhard, Franz Huber, Xaver Oswald, Karl Huber, Alfred Tilke, Bruno Haberl, Günther Nass, Josef Potz, Walter Seichter, Franz Schwarz, Sebastian Schöffmann and Michael Walser.

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Popular then, almost forgotten today: the club was founded for fistball

Just two years later, however, football was rolling at the Würmgau Championship, which soon became the club's defining division.

And this has remained the case to this day: In addition to two men's football teams, which play in the district league and in the B class, the growing youth department is the club's pride.

These currently include the Bambinis, the G juniors, two F, E and D junior teams each, as well as a C and an A youth.

Other departments include gymnastics, volleyball, curling and winter sports.

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Greatest success of SV Münsing-Ammerland in 20 years: promotion to the district league

Perfectly timed for the anniversary (if you include the obligatory Corona delay), the club celebrated its greatest success in 20 years with the promotion of the footballers to the district league this summer.

At that time, at the end of the 2001/2002 season, Adi Miggisch had already led SV Münsing into the district league, but they withdrew after a one-year interlude.

But that in turn fits well with the history of the sports club, which is characterized by constant ups and downs.

Just one year after the end of the war: the club is revived

During the Second World War, the activities of the association almost came to a standstill.

But just one year after the end of the war, the re-establishment took place with the old members, who also played league games again.

However, under extremely difficult conditions: It is hard to imagine today that people traveled to away games by bike, train and even a rowing boat.

Even the tractor, which was common at the time, has long had its day as a team bus.

Fewer than eleven active people: a low point 35 years after the company was founded

A number of active players who had gotten older soon no longer wanted to take part in the association games, but founded a "private team", comparable to today's old men's teams.

While the private footballers enjoyed friendly duels against well-known opponents such as the seniors of FC Bayern Munich and TSV 1860 Munich in their old age, the continuation of a first team failed due to the "lack of interest on the part of the players", as the chronicler noted.

It was hard times: according to the resolution of the meeting, players who were six months behind on their contributions should be banned from within the club - there were not enough active players left to fill a team.

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of all things.

Precision landing: "We often brought eleven people together"

In the 1960s things gradually picked up again.

"Who was playing football back then?

A few Münsingers and Ammerlanders, we often brought eleven people together," reports Xaver Oswald (84), who played the third most games for Münsing with 520 games and took fourth place in the all-time top scorer list with 129 goals - behind Günther Nass (264) , Adolf Plotek (203) and Josef Leis (195).

"We weren't that many people, but it was fun."

The pillars of the club for almost two decades: (in light jerseys, from left) Josef "Joschi" Potz, Xaver Oswald and Günther Nass had together around 1700 appearances in the first team of the Münsinger footballers and scored 500 goals.

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Playing field with secondary users: "We were glad that we could play at all."

At that time the game was played on a meadow in Ammerland.

"There were steeds on it, and football was played on Sunday," Oswald recalls.

He adds with a smile: "The pitch wasn't straight, but we were glad that we were able to play at all.

Nobody complained.” The circumstances changed in 1967 under the then chairman Karl Huber.

The club got a new sports field with floodlights and a changing room on Ammerlander Straße.

Two years later, the long-awaited promotion of the first team to the B-class succeeded.

Consistent performance in the "Roaring '70s"

This was held permanently in the "Golden Seventies".

Xaver Oswald moved to the official level, where he – with a short break – also shaped an era as the first board member until 1990.

Just like on the pitch, he also showed himself to be an assertive strategist off the green turf.

In 1982 the clubhouse, which was built in-house, was inaugurated.

In terms of sport, the 1980s were characterized by constant changes between footballers between B and C class.

In return, the club, which has been called SV Münsing-Ammerland since 1985, has sporting growth.

Thanks to the municipal gymnasium that had opened a few years earlier, it was possible to offer indoor sports: volleyball and children's gymnastics were added as divisions.

Temporary use for water sports: storm in 1970 flooded the playing field

However, the space conditions in the “Gruam”, as the soccer field on Ammerlander Straße was popularly known, became increasingly difficult.

After a storm in 1979, the completely flooded course was unplayable for almost a year.

As a result, in 1981 the municipality applied for a new sports field.

However, another 20 years passed before this happened.

In 1991, the community acquired a site, and after another ten years, Mayor Franz Ertl and the first board member, Sebastian Schöfmann (the successor to Xaver Oswald), broke ground for the new sports and clubhouse on Hartlweg, which has been the home of SV Münsing-Ammerland since 2002 .

Apparently, that also boosted their athletic performance.

In the summer of the same year, the team under coach Adi Miggisch celebrated promotion to the district league for the first time.

SV Münsing-Ammerland would have had “no future”: finally a new sports field

"The club would have had no future in the 'Gruam'," says Josef Leis (71), who vividly remembers the inauguration of the facility on Hartlweg, when a "monster storm" swept over Münsing.

"It completely dismantled the marquee," says Leis.

"But the new place was the milestone par-for-the club.

The number of youth teams has doubled within five or six years.

That's a real success story.

Compared to our time back then, the club has experienced an incredible upswing,” says the former board member, who took over the management of the club in 2006 as the successor to Sebastian Schöfmann.

Short-term water sports on offer: A flood in 1979 made it impossible to play football in the "Gruam" for almost an entire season.

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Generation change and a breath of fresh air in the club

At the beginning of 2020, the Münsing-Ammerland sports club had 1008 members.

Then the pandemic came and the number shrank to around 930.

Two years earlier, at the 2018 annual meeting, Michael Sandherr was elected to succeed Josef Leis, who had resigned.

"At the board level, we have completed a generation change, something is happening there," says Sandherr, whose major concern is to improve the club's infrastructure.

The construction of a double gymnasium has been discussed for a long time.

"Something has to happen.

We have to be able to offer more in indoor sports,” says Sandherr.

Project very questionable: Will SV Münsing-Ammerland also be able to play in winter?

And if possible, the footballers should be able to train and play more independently of the weather, especially in winter, by means of an artificial turf pitch.

"The project was launched in May 2019 and the structural requirements have already been met," explains the board.

But the additional construction measures "it's getting quite expensive, also because prices are currently exploding," says Sandherr.

Which means: The project is currently very questionable.

Big event: duel against the Munich Lions

On the other hand, there is no question that they will not let the celebrations in Münsing take them away.

You can do that wonderfully at a football game in front of a big crowd - that's what SV Münsing-Ammerland is expecting on Friday, September 23, when TSV 1860 Munich is a guest at the sports facility on Hartlweg.

Info

: The game between SV Münsing-Ammerland and TSV 1860 Munich will kick off on Friday, September 23 at 6 p.m.

Admission to the sports grounds on Hartlweg is from 4 p.m.