Soon even fuller? At table tennis tournaments of 1865 Dachau, it can get crowded in the Augustenfeld sports hall. In the future, the new sports stars will also train there. © TSV 1865 Dachau/Archiv
The city of Dachau and TSV 1865 Dachau are arguing about the new table tennis stars. There is simply no room for them in Dachau.
Dachau – The top players of the Schwabhausen table tennis department had hoped for better training opportunities and more sports promotion when they moved to TSV Dachau 1865 six months ago. Now it turns out that these expectations are likely to be disappointed. In Dachau, there is simply no room for the new sports stars.
In mid-December, a bombshell exploded in the Dachau sports world: "Because of the limited infrastructural possibilities", Helmut Pfeil, head of the table tennis department of TSV Schwabhausen, which is peppered with top athletes, and 1865 President Wolfgang Moll had announced in a joint press release that the teams would move away from Schwabhausen to TSV Dachau 1865. At the time, Moll spoke of "a great honour for TSV". He and Pfeil speak of a "forward-looking course". The question of how exactly the change will be carried out, where exactly the 72 new Dachau members should train, had not been answered in the declaration. Pfeil, after all, had remarked in one sentence: "We need the city of Dachau for support."
But there will be no such thing – at least not in the way that Moll may have promised the Schwabhausers in the opinion of some city councillors. Moll had made "the second step before the first" with the admission of the Schwabhauser in Dachau," said Anke Drexler (SPD) on Wednesday in the main and finance committee. Florian Schiller (CSU) emphasized that the change was neither coordinated with the city, nor its support "in dry cloths". Moll's approach is therefore "strange". And Lord Mayor Florian Hartmann emphasized: Moll's calculation "does not add up"!
The fact that the committee had to deal with the process at all was due to a request by Moll or his TSV. In it, the club asked the city for permission to have the merged table tennis department trained in the municipal school sports hall Augustenfeld and to rebuild it so that it meets the requirements of the first table tennis league. These requirements include, among other things, the installation of "professional window shading" and the installation of a kitchenette – both of which would be co-financed by the TSV.
However, the sticking point of the letter, which stirred the minds of the city councillors and the city administration, was the demand that the Augustenfeld triple hall be available "almost exclusively" on weekdays for the training of the new TSV table tennis players. On Saturdays and Sundays, the table tennis sport of the TSV is also to be treated "as a priority".
The committee unanimously rejected Moll's request. "This body must not become a sports court that has to decide who is allowed to do sports when and where," said SPD man Dennis Behrendt. And even Günter Dietz (CSU), who as a sports consultant is actually a great promoter of top-class sports in the city, remarked: "We have very little hall capacity in Dachau. I understand that TSV needs more now. But the ASV also has its right."
The problem is that TSV, the city's second-largest club in terms of members, has been negotiating unsuccessfully with the larger ASV Dachau since November about the division of training times in the Augustenfeld sports hall. According to Moll, the ASV is not cooperative, which is why he has now had to turn to the city for support.
ASV chairman Andreas Wilhelm presents the matter differently: The TSV was simply not able to offer an adequate replacement for the Augustenfelder Halle: "I will only give up our indoor times in Augustenfeld if we can then train in another, equivalent environment." The fact that Moll had turned to the city behind his back, despite ongoing talks, therefore "surprised" him, as Wilhelm explains.
In any case, the city council agreed that the two clubs should first come to an agreement before they could even talk about possible hall conversion measures in a next step. Moll announced that he wanted to "accept" the ASV's decision.
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However, the fact that the change of the 72 Schwabhausers is likely to have a significant financial impact on the city was shown by the city administration's calculation. For travel expenses, top-class sports and trainer subsidies alone, the administration expects annual costs of 23,000 euros. In the future, the city calculates a further 60,100 euros per year for building management. Sports consultant Dietz said almost resignedly: The new members "are here now, we can't get rid of them. So they are also entitled to funding."
However, it was important for Mayor Hartmann to emphasize in the direction of his Schwabhausen counterpart Wolfgang Hörl: "We didn't fight for this table tennis department! We already have enough top-class sport in Dachau."
Incidentally, the latter will also be offered by ASV Dachau with its volleyball Bundesliga team from autumn. However, ASV chairman Wilhelm emphasizes in the direction of his colleague Moll that "I would not have come up with the idea of asking TSV for indoor courts" for their training.
