SV Blau-Weiss Wiehre Freiburg is a German sports club located in the Wiehre district in the south of

Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000 (as o ...

, Baden-Württemberg. The club was formed in 1994 out of the merger of SpVgg Wiehre 04 and Blau-Weiss Freiburg. In addition to fielding an

association football club A football team is a group of players selected to play together in the various team sports known as football. Such teams could be selected to play in a match against an opposing team, to represent a football club, group, state or nation, an all-s ...

the sports club has departments for table tennis, bowling, and hiking.

History

The earliest origins of today's club go back to the founding of predecessor sides ''FC Germania Freiburg'' and ''FC Viktora Freiburg'' in 1904. These two clubs united in 1919 to create ''SpVgg Freiburg'', who spent three seasons in the tier-one ''

Bezirksliga Baden The Bezirksliga ( en, County League) is commonly a medium set of amateur divisions set at steps 7, 8 or 9 in the German football league system. Structure Depending on the structural organisation within each of the 21 state football association ...

'' and in 1933 ''FV Wiehre'' joined the combined side which became ''SpVgg Wiehre 04''. The club archived to play for one season in the ''

Gauliga Baden The Gauliga Baden was the highest football league in the German state of Baden from 1933 to 1945. Shortly after the formation of the league, the Nazis reorganised the administrative regions in Germany, and the ''Gau Baden'' replaced the state ''Ba ...

'' in 1943–44, before the league was dissolved. In the aftermath of World War II Allied occupation authorities ordered the dissolution of all organizations, including sports and football clubs. ''Wiehre'' was re-established as ''ASV Freiburg'' and played under that name until 1964 when they resumed the use of the name ''SpVgg Wiehre 04''. The other thread in the history of the modern club begins with the founding of ''Blau-Weiss Freiburg'' in 1911 as the football department of ''Athletik SV Freiburg-Haslach''. The football team went through a succession of name changes playing as ''SV Freiburg-Haslach'' (1918), ''Haslacher SV'' (1922), and ''FC Kickers Haslach'' (1928) before finally merging with ''FC Phönix Freiburg'' in 1930 to form ''Freiburger Kickers''. ''Blau-Weiss'' was also dissolved after the war and re-formed in 1946 as ''Blau-Weiss Freiburg''. The club plays in the Kreisliga Freiburg and currently has a facility sharing arrangement with ''

Freiburger FC Freiburger FC () is a German association football club based in Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg. Freiburger FC were one of the founding clubs of the DFB (German Football Association) in 1900. History Founded in 1897, for many decades FFC were the ...

''. In 2011, the side was relegated from the Kreisliga A to the tier ten Kreisliga B, in a season that saw the team lose 26 of its 30-season games.Kreisliga Freiburg A3 table 2010-11
Fussball.de, accessed: 23 September 2011 The club recovered, winning promotion back to the Kreisliga A in 2013 but being relegated again in 2016.

References

External links

Official team pageDas deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables (in German) {{DEFAULTSORT:Freiburg, Wiehre Football clubs in Germany Football clubs in Baden-Württemberg Association football clubs established in 1911 1911 establishments in Germany Sport in Freiburg im Breisgau