SSV Barmen was a German association football club from

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in the city of

Wuppertal Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and to ...

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History

The origins of ''SSV'' go back to the 1906 founding of ''Sport Club Germania Rott''. That club merged with ''Fußball Club Olympia Barmen'' to form ''Barmer Spielverein 06'' which joined ''Sportverein 07 Carnap'' on 27 August 1920 to become ''Sport- und Spielvereinigung Barmen''. The club was renamed ''Sportgemeinde Blau-Gelb Wuppertal'' in 1929 before again taking up the name ''SSVg Barmen'' in 1939. During World War II, ''SSV'' played alongside '' Sportfreunde Schwarz-Weiß Wuppertal'' and ''TuRA Wuppertal'' as the wartime club ''Kriegsspielgemeinschaft Wuppertal-Barmen'' from 1943 to 1945. ''SSV'' played a single season in the postwar Bezirksliga Berg-Mark (II) in 1946–47. The team also played two seasons in the Amateurliga Niederrhein (II) in 1947–48 and 1951–52. The Barmen side disappeared into the newly formed ''Allgemeiner Sport-Verein Wuppertal'' on 11 June 1970.

Stadium

From 1920 to 1945, ''SSV'' played in Schützenstaße, before moving to Am Gelben Sprung – which also served as the home ground for the newly formed ''ASV'' in its inaugural 1970–71 season.

References

Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
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