Turbine Halle
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Turbine Halle is a sports club based in the quarter of Giebichenstein in the city of Halle in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt. With about 1,000 members in departments for track and field, association football, speedskating, table tennis, fistball, aerobics, sports for the handicapped and gymnastics it belongs to the biggest clubs of the city.
Full name | Turbine Halle e.V. | ||
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Founded | 15 July 1950 | ||
Ground | Sportanlage Felsen | ||
Capacity | 1,000 (about 70 seated) | ||
League | Landesklasse Sachsen-Anhalt 4 (VIII) | ||
2015–16 | 9th | ||
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The club sees itself being in continuation of the history of the Hallescher Fussball-Club Wacker 1900, founded in 1900. In its current form the club was founded on 15 July 1950 as BSG Turbine Halle, BSG being the abbreviation for Betriebssportgemeinschaft, meaning "company sports community," which was an organisational form of sports clubs in East Germany.
The club since has experienced numerous fusions and name changes. SC Chemie Halle-Leuna had been former as a local center of excellence on 18 September 1954. Large parts of the football departement of BSG Turbine Halle, including the first team and its place in the DDR-Oberliga, was delegated to sports club SC Chemie Halle-Leuna in November 1954. The football department was later separated from the sports club and re-organized as today's football club Hallescher FC. This club also maintains a claim to the footballing history of Turbine until 1954.
The most noteworthy successes of Wacker and Turbine have been the Central German Championships of 1921, 1928 and 1934 and East German championships in 1949 and 1952.