The "ice hackers" of TSV Peißenberg no longer exist.
But that does not mean that ice hockey is no longer played in the market town.
The department has given itself a new nickname that has to do with the local history.
Peißenberg - The "ice hackers" of TSV Peißenberg are history - at least as far as the name is concerned.
As part of the realignment of the department (we reported) a new name and logo were installed.
All teams - from the seniors down to the youngest - now have the nickname "Miners".
The English word means "miner" in German.
With this, "the TSV would like to restore the connection to the mining tradition", said press spokesman Andreas Schugg.
Last autumn, the department began to establish the new logo and the name "Miners" in the junior area.
With this, those responsible wanted to show externally that there is a fresh breeze in the division.
Due to the generation change in the board of directors (the elections are still pending due to the corona pandemic) "you now jump on this car even in the senior sector," said Schugg.
This is why the men's team in the Bavarian League will also operate under the name of "Miners" in the future.
"After the junior division began last September, it was only the logical step to follow suit in the senior division," said Stefan Rießenberger.
The TSV President is currently also the head of the ice hockey department until the new board is elected.
With the new logo and the new name, the division wants to "bring tradition and modernity under one roof", Rießenberger is quoted in a press release.
The logo consists of several components, each of which has a meaning:
stick and puck:
they should reflect the relationship to ice hockey.
Lettering "TSV Peißenberg":
Without the main club there would be no ice hockey department.
Lettering "Miners":
the new nickname.
Mountains:
symbolize home in the Pfaffenwinkel.
Pickaxe:
tool used by miners.
There has been a "Miners" sports team in the county before
After the division was founded in 1956, the ice hockey players from the market town went to their games for decades without a nickname, namely simply as "TSV Peißenberg".
This was also the case in the 1991/1992 season, when the Peißenberger played in the 2nd Bundesliga.
Opponents at that time were, among others, the Augsburg EV, the SC Riessersee, the EHC Nuremberg and the SV Ravensburg.
From 1994 to 1996 the Peißenberg team played in the 1st League South (at that time the second highest class under the newly founded DEL).
From 1999 on, the Peißenberg senior team traded as "Hornets";
the team was outsourced as a GmbH.
After the end of the "Hornets", TSV Peißenberg started in the district league in 2002 and was nicknamed "Ice Hacker".
So now the renaming to "Miners".
The motto is: “My home.
My Team.
Our passion. "
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Has had its day: the old “ice hackers” logo.
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One day there was a sports team in the Weilheim-Schongau district called “Miners”, namely the American footballers of the “Penzberg Miners”.
They took part in the Bavarian league operation for several seasons in the 1990s.
From 1994 to 1996, the Penzberger competed in the state league, the 1997 season they completed in the Oberliga Bayern / Württemberg.
In 1998 the team played in the Regionalliga Süd - this was the third highest division at the time.
Opponents at that time included the "Ansbach Grizzlies", who are co-founders of the German Football Bundesliga and who won three German championship titles (1981, 1982, 1985) at their wedding.