The Kölner Rudergesellschaft 1891 (abbr. ''Kölner RG 1891'' or just KRG, transl. ''Cologne Rowing Association'' or often ''Koelner RG 1891'' in English media) is a

rowing Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically ...

club from the

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city of

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

Overview

It is the second oldest rowing organisation in the Cologne Bay Area and has won 14 medals in the German rowing championships. The club was founded in 1891 by craftsmen from the former

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. In 1898 the club joined the German Rowing Association, and in 1913 it was one of the founding members of the Cologne Regatta Association. It was the first German rowing organisation to allow full membership for non-academic athletes. Overall, the club experienced its most successful racing years in the economic boom of the

Golden Twenties The Golden Twenties ( also known as the Happy Twenties (german: Glückliche Zwanziger Jahre), was a five-year time period within the decade of the 1920s in Germany. The era began in 1924 after the end of the hyperinflation following on World ...

celebrating German championships in 1926 and 1927 in various boat categories. Again in 1954, the club reached the first place at the German championships in a

coxed four A coxed four, also known as a 4+, is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for four persons who propel the boat with sweep oars and is steered by a coxswain. The crew consists of four rowers, each having one ...

boat. The women's squad of the club celebrated its greatest successes in 1961. In 1992, the club was honored by the German federal president Richard von Weizsäcker for its special services to the care and development of rowing in Germany. Since 1998, the club especially promotes youth development for competitive rowing. Besides, the club is very active in recreational rowing and

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. For its training, the club uses the river

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and the artificial Otto Maigler Lake in the suburbs of Cologne. The current boathouse of the club was built in 1931 in the district of

Rodenkirchen Rodenkirchen () is a southern borough (''Stadtbezirk'') of Cologne (Köln) in Germany. It has about 110,000 inhabitants and covers an area of . The borough includes the quarters Bayenthal, Godorf, Hahnwald, Immendorf, Marienburg, Meschenich, Rad ...

and contains a fitness gymnasium, a

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court, and a sports hall which can be used for different indoor team sports like

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. Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the club canceled all its activities in the first half of 2020 for some months, but returned to training sessions in autumn and will take part at the remotely organized

Head of the Charles Regatta The Head of the Charles Regatta, also known as HOCR, is a rowing (sport), rowing head race held on the penultimate complete weekend of October (i.e., on the Friday that falls between the 16th and the 22nd of the month, and on the Saturday an ...

.Steve Lopez:
Club profile at the Regatta Central Project
', 2020 (retrieved 21 September 2020)

References

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