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Saturday, 24 October 2026

EAST GERMANY: BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt (B) (1985-1988) / BSG Kali Wolmirstedt (B) (1988-1990) / SV Kali Wolmirstedt 1990 (B) (1990-2015) / SV Kali Wolmirstedt 1990 (2015-2016) / OhreKicker Wolmirstedt (2016-)

Stadion Glück-Auf im Sportforum Küchenhorn, Wolmirstedt (OhreKicker Wolmirstedt, formerly B ground of BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt - BSG Kali Wolmirstedt - SV Kali Wolmirstedt 1990 & A ground of SV Kali Wolmirstedt 1990)

East Germany (former GDR / DDR), state: Saxony-Anhalt = Saksen-Anhalt

24 X 2026 / OhreKicker Wolmirstedt - SV Irxleben II 7-0 / Bördeoberliga (= BRD level 10)

Timeline
  • 1913 / Foundation of a first football club in the mining town of Wolmirstedt, to the north of Magdeburg in Prussia. The club takes on the name Sportclub (SC) Eintracht Wolmirstedt, with the first playing field being the Sportplatz hinter dem Feldschlösschen. 
  • 1914 / With Germany declaring war on Russia and France, footballing activities in Wolmirstedt come to a standstill for the duration of World War I.
  • 1919 / SC Eintracht Wolmirstedt is re-established after a lull of five years.
  • 1925 / Spielplatz Küchenhorn is first mentioned in sources relating to SC Eintracht Wolmirstedt. The pitch occupied the site of what is now the secondary pitch at Sportforum Küchenhorn / Stadion Glück-Auf (picture 2 below). Another pre-war location used by the football club was the Spielplatz zur Grube, not far from the future Stadion des Friedens, to the north of the town centre of Wolmirstedt.
  • 1928 / A handball branch is added to SC Eintracht Wolmirstedt, which thus becomes an omnisports club.
  • 1933 / SC Eintracht Wolmirstedt is renamed Germania Wolmirstedt.
  • 1945 / After World War II and several years without footballing activities in Wolmirstedt, Germania Wolmirstedt is re-established under a new name, Fortuna Wolmirstedt. By now, the Spielplatz Küchenhorn – the location also used in pre-war years – is the club’s main ground.
  • 1950 / With the communist regime having been firmly established in what is now the German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR), Fortuna Wolmirstedt is absorbed into a newly founded omnisports club, Betriebssportgemeinschaft (BSG) Einheit Wolmirstedt, with branches for football, handball, table tennis, athletics, canoeing, and gymnastics. Betriebssportgemeinschafte were sports clubs affiliated with state-owned enterprises, industrial combines, public institutions or other organisations. They formed an important part of the GDR’s state-organised sports system, providing opportunities for employees and local communities to participate in organised sports, including football. The state enterprise behind BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt was Kaliwerk Zielitz, a large potash mine and processing plant producing potassium salts primarily used in agricultural fertilizers.
  • 1953 / With the club still playing its home matches at Spielplatz Küchenhorn, the ground is broken for the construction of the projected Stadion des Friedens, a stadium for BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt on a plot of land owned by the local church, adjacent to a graveyard, not far from the pre-war football pitch, Spielplatz zur Grube.
  • 1959 / Inauguration of the Stadion des Friedens on August 9th, 1959, with first team football of BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt moving to this location. The new ground has a maximum capacity of 4,000. The Spielplatz Küchenhorn is retained for lower team football and training sessions.
  • 1971 / At the behest of local authorities, designs are made for a projected Sportforum Küchenhorn, an extension of the Spielplatz Küchenhorn with two additional football pitches as well as facilities for various other sports. The projected new main pitch of the park is to be surrounded by a gravel track as well as being adorned with terraces on either side. However, it would take more than a decade and several redesigns before this plan would come to fruition.
  • 1972 / A merger is concluded between BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt and BSG Aktivist Zielitz, resulting in the foundation of BSG Kali Wolmirstedt. Henceforth, first team football takes place in Stadion des Friedens in Wolmirstedt, with Spielplatz Küchenhorn remaining in use for lower team football and training sessions. It is unclear if the pitches of the former BSG Aktivist Zielitz remained in use in subsequent years.
  • 1981 / BSG Kali Wolmirstedt changes its name, reverting to the pre-merger denomination BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt. 
  • 1982 / Eleven years after the first designs, the ground is finally broken for the construction of the projected Sportforum Küchenhorn, the extension of Spielplatz Küchenhorn to the south of the town centre of Wolmirstedt. 
  • 1985 / On May 4th, 1985, after three years of construction works, the Sportforum Küchenhorn is inaugurated, with the eye-catcher of the renovated and extended facility being the main pitch, Stadion Glück-Auf, surrounded by a gravel track and two terraces. In the following years, BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt – and its successors – usually continue to play their first team football at the Stadion des Friedens in the town centre, with the Sportforum Küchenhorn being used for lower team football and training purposes – as well as the activities of virtually all other branches of the club, notably the athletics section.
  • 1988 / BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt reverts to its 1970s name BSG Kali Wolmirstedt.
  • 1990 / With the SED regime in East Germany crumbling following the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the projected unification of Germany, BSG Kali Wolmirstedt sheds itself of its heritage as a Betriebssportgemeinschaft, taking on the new name Sportverein (SV) Kali Wolmirstedt 1990.
  • 2001 / In addition to the gravel track surrounding the main pitch, the Stadion Glück-Auf, at the Sportforum Küchenhorn, a 100-metre tartan track is added to the set-up, with the new facility being laid out in front of the main stand.
  • 2015 / Following the 2014-15 season, SV Kali Wolmirstedt 1990 withdraws from first team football. This coincides with the club abandoning the Stadion des Friedens, which had seen the bulk of first team football since its inauguration in 1959. All activities of the remaining youth academy take place at the Sportforum Küchenhorn and its Stadion Glück-Auf. The lease agreement with the church on the grounds of the Stadion des Friedens is allowed to expire at the end of 2015, with the ground falling into disrepair in the following years. 
  • 2016 / The footballing branch of SV Kali Wolmirstedt 1990 folds, ceasing all activities, while the other branches of the club – notably the athletics section – existing until the present day. Following the demise of the football club, a phoenix version is formed straightaway, which is given the name OhreKicker Wolmirstedt – with the first part of the name being a reference to the Ohre River, which runs through Wolmirstedt. With no first team being formed as yet, the new football club takes its place at the Sportforum Küchenhorn and its Stadion Glück-Auf, becoming groundsharers with the athletes of SV Kali Wolmirstedt 1990.
  • 2022 / After six seasons of only competing with youth teams, OhreKicker Wolmirstedt now enters a first team into the regular football pyramid, which has to start at the bottom of the league pyramid, the 2. Bördekreisklasse, i.e. the thirteenth level in German football.
  • 2023 / Runaway champions in 2. Bördekreisklasse Group 1, 10 points ahead of closest followers SG Bösdorf I - Etingen-Rätzlingen II, OhreKicker Wolmirstedt wins promotion to the 1. Bördekreisklasse, the twelfth tier of German football.
  • 2024 / Champions in the 1. Bördekreisklasse Group 1, 1 point ahead of closest rivals SG Hundisberg-Nordgermersleben-Bebertal, OhreKicker Wolmirstedt manages back-to-back promotions, acceding to the Bördeliga, the eleventh tier of the German football pyramid.
  • 2025 / Runaway champions in the Bördeliga, 12 points ahead of closest followers Empor Wanzleben, OhreKicker Wolmirstedt wins promotion for the third time in a row, acceding to the Bördeoberliga, which is the tenth level of German football. Also in 2025, works get underway to build OhreKicker Wolmirstedt and the athletes of SV Kali Wolmirstedt 1990 a new ground, the projected Stadion an der Samsweger Chaussee, on the westside of the town. 
  • 2027 (projected) / Abandoning the Sportforum Küchenhorn with its Stadion Glück-Auf, which will be allowed to become floodplains of the Ohre River, OhreKicker Wolmirstedt and athletics club SV Kali Wolmirstedt 1990 move into the newly laid-out Stadion an der Samsweger Chaussee, of which the main pitch – surrounded by an athletics track – has a natural ground surface, with a synthetic training pitch alongside it. 
Note – Heartfelt thanks to OhreKicker Wolmirstedt board members Thomas Thiel and Bendix Schulze for their hospitality on matchday and all of their help in drawing up a picture of the history of football in their town.









































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EAST GERMANY: BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt (1959-1972, 1981-1988) / BSG Kali Wolmirstedt (1972-1981, 1988-1990) / SV Kali Wolmirstedt 1990 (1990-2015)

Stadion des Friendens, Wolmirstedt (formerly BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt / BSG Kali Wolmirstedt / SV Kali Wolmirstedt 1990)

East Germany (former GDR / DDR), state: Saxony-Anhalt = Saksen-Anhalt

October 2026 / no match visited

Timeline
  • 1913 / Foundation of a first football club in the mining town of Wolmirstedt, to the north of Magdeburg in Prussia. The club takes on the name Sportclub (SC) Eintracht Wolmirstedt, with the first playing field being the Sportplatz hinter dem Feldschlösschen. 
  • 1914 / With Germany declaring war on Russia and France, footballing activities in Wolmirstedt come to a standstill for the duration of World War I.
  • 1919 / SC Eintracht Wolmirstedt is re-established after a lull of five years.
  • 1925 / Spielplatz Küchenhorn is first mentioned in sources relating to SC Eintracht Wolmirstedt. The pitch occupied the site of what is now the secondary pitch at Sportforum Küchenhorn / Stadion Glück-Auf. Another pre-war location used by the football club was the Spielplatz zur Grube, not far from the future Stadion des Friedens, to the north of the town centre of Wolmirstedt.
  • 1928 / A handball branch is added to SC Eintracht Wolmirstedt, which thus becomes an omnisports club.
  • 1933 / SC Eintracht Wolmirstedt is renamed Germania Wolmirstedt.
  • 1945 / After World War II and several years without footballing activities in Wolmirstedt, Germania Wolmirstedt is re-established under a new name, Fortuna Wolmirstedt. By now, the Spielplatz Küchenhorn – the location also used in pre-war years – is the club’s main ground.
  • 1950 / With the communist regime having been firmly established in what is now the German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR), Fortuna Wolmirstedt is absorbed into a newly founded omnisports club, Betriebssportgemeinschaft (BSG) Einheit Wolmirstedt, with branches for football, handball, table tennis, athletics, canoeing, and gymnastics. Betriebssportgemeinschafte were sports clubs affiliated with state-owned enterprises, industrial combines, public institutions or other organisations. They formed an important part of the GDR’s state-organised sports system, providing opportunities for employees and local communities to participate in organised sports, including football. The state enterprise behind BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt was Kaliwerk Zielitz, a large potash mine and processing plant producing potassium salts primarily used in agricultural fertilizers.
  • 1951 / In the first documented reference to BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt, we find the club competing in Bezirksklasse Magdeburg, the fourth tier of the East German football pyramid (and the fifth tier from 1955 onwards, which saw a reorganisation of the East German football pyramid).
  • 1953 / With the club still playing its home matches at Spielplatz Küchenhorn, the ground is broken for the construction of the projected Stadion des Friedens, a stadium for BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt on a plot of land owned by the local church, adjacent to a graveyard, not far from the pre-war football pitch, Spielplatz zur Grube.
  • 1956 / In the best season of the club so far, BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt finishes as runner-up in Bezirksklasse Magdeburg Group 1, 6 points behind champions BSG Motor Barleben.
  • ± 1958 / Sometime between 1957 and 1961, BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt must have won promotion from Bezirksklasse Magdeburg to Bezirksliga Magdeburg, the fourth tier of the East German football pyramid.
  • 1959 / Inauguration of the Stadion des Friedens on August 9th, 1959, with first team football of BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt moving to this location. The new ground has a maximum capacity of 4,000. Spielplatz Küchenhorn is retained for lower team football and training sessions.
  • 1962 / Finishing in eighth place in Bezirksliga Magdeburg Staffel 2, BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt descends into Bezirksklasse, along with BSG Traktor Irxleben, BSG Stahl Tangerhütte, BSG Traktor Haldersleben, and bottom club ASG Vorwärts Salzwedel.
  • 1963 / Clinching the title in Bezirksklasse Magdeburg without suffering a single defeat all season, BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt manages a return to Bezirksliga Magdeburg after one year only. Due to a reform of the East German football pyramid, which sees the elimination of the II. DDR-Liga as the third tier of the country’s league system, taking place that same year, the club from Wolmirstedt finds itself in the third division of East German football for the first time.
  • 1965 / After two years at Bezirksliga level, BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt drops back into Bezirksklasse Magdeburg.
  • 1967 / Runaway champions in Bezirksklasse Magdeburg Group 2, 13 points ahead of closest followers 1. FC Magdeburg II, BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt qualifies for the championship play-offs, in which the club finishes bottom in a group of four, behind BSG Einheit Wernigerode, BSG Lokomotive Haldersleben, and TuS Fortschritt Magdeburg-Neustadt, with the two first-mentioned clubs grabbing the promotion tickets. 
  • 1971 / At the behest of local authorities, designs are made for a projected Sportforum Küchenhorn, an extension of the Spielplatz Küchenhorn with two additional football pitches as well as facilities for various other sports. The projected new main pitch of the park is to be surrounded by a gravel track as well as being adorned with terraces on either side. However, it would take more than a decade and several redesigns before this plan would come to fruition.
  • 1972 / Finishing in second-last place in Bezirksklasse Magdeburg Group 5, BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt descends to 1. Kreisklasse, the fifth tier of the East German football pyramid, alongside bottom club BSG Traktor Grieben. Following the 1971-72 season, a merger is concluded between BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt and BSG Aktivist Zielitz, resulting in the foundation of BSG Kali Wolmirstedt. Henceforth, first team football takes place in Stadion des Friedens in Wolmirstedt, with Spielplatz Küchenhorn remaining in use for lower team football and training sessions. It is unclear if the pitches of the former BSG Aktivist Zielitz remained in use in subsequent years.
  • 1974 / Gaining promotion from 1. Kreisklasse, BSG Kali Wolmirstedt accedes to Bezirksklasse Magdeburg after an absence of two years. Moreover, the club also wins the Magdeburg Regional Cup (FDBG-Pokal Region Magdeburg) 
  • 1975 / In its first season back at the fourth tier of East German football, BSG Kali Wolmirstedt manages a runner-up finish in Bezirksklasse Magdeburg Group 5, 4 points behind champions BSG Post Magdeburg. Furthermore, the club clinches its second Magdeburg Regional Cup in a row.
  • 1977 / Champions in Bezirksklasse Magdeburg Group 5, with an equal number of points as runner-up BSG Motor Barleben, but with a superior goal difference (+49 vs. +44), BSG Kali Wolmirstedt goes on to qualify for the championship play-offs. In a group of five, the club finishes as runner-up behind BSG Einheit Wernigerode, sufficient for promotion to Bezirksliga at the expense of the three other participants, BSG Traktor Kloster Neuendorf, BSG Traktor Förderstedt, and BSG Traktor Möringen.
  • 1981 / Finishing in second-last place in Bezirksliga Magdeburg, BSG Kali Wolmirstedt drops back into the Bezirksklasse level after four seasons, alongside bottom club BSG Stahl Ilsenburg. That same year, BSG Kali Wolmirstedt changes its name, reverting to the pre-merger denomination BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt. 
  • 1982 / Eleven years after the first designs, the ground is finally broken for the construction of the projected Sportforum Küchenhorn, the extension of Spielplatz Küchenhorn to the south of the town centre of Wolmirstedt. 
  • 1983 / BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt finishes as runner-up in Bezirksklasse Magdeburg Group 5, 3 points behind champions BSG Turbine Magdeburg.
  • 1985 / Champions in Bezirksklasse Magdeburg Group 5, 3 points ahead of closest rivals BSG Medizin Haldersleben, BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt qualifies for the championship play-offs, in which the club clinches the top position and sole promotion ticket to Bezirksliga, the third tier of the East German football pyramid, ahead of the four other participants, BSG Empor Klein Wanzleben, ASG Vorwärts Havelberg, BSG Aktivist Salzwedel, and SG Darlingerode. Also in 1985, on May 4th, after three years of construction works, the Sportforum Küchenhorn is inaugurated, with the eye-catcher of the renovated and extended facility being the main pitch, Stadion Glück-Auf, surrounded by a gravel track and two terraces. In the following years, BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt – and its successors – usually continue to play their first team football at Stadion des Friedens in the town centre, with the Sportforum Küchenhorn being used for lower team football and training purposes – as well as the activities of virtually all other branches of the club, notably the athletics section.
  • 1986 / Finishing in second-last place in Bezirksliga Magdeburg, BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt drops back into Bezirksklasse after one year only, alongside bottom club BSG Einheit Burg.
  • 1987 / Runaway champions in Bezirksklasse Magdeburg Group 5, 13 points ahead of closest followers BSG Traktor Groß Santersleben, BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt qualifies for the championship play-offs, with five teams vying for three promotion tickets. Finishing top of the group, BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt manages an immediate return to Bezirksliga, along with BSG Motor Schönebeck II and SG Darlingerode, at the expense of BSG Traktor Bismark and ASG Vorwärts Havelberg. Also in 1987, BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt wins the Magdeburg Regional Cup for the third time.
  • 1988 / BSG Einheit Wolmirstedt reverts to its 1970s name BSG Kali Wolmirstedt.
  • 1990 / In spite of finishing bottom of the table in Bezirksliga Magdeburg, BSG Kali Wolmirstedt is spared relegation due to a reorganisation of the league pyramid. Also in 1990, with the SED regime in East Germany crumbling following the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the projected unification of Germany, BSG Kali Wolmirstedt sheds itself of its heritage as a Betriebssportgemeinschaft, taking on the new name Sportverein (SV) Kali Wolmirstedt 1990.
  • 1991 / Having competed in the Bezirksliga Magdeburg, the third tier of the East German football pyramid, in the last season of football under the auspices of the GDR Football Association, SV Kali Wolmirstedt 1990 is placed in the newly created Bezirksoberliga, the fifth level of the football pyramid of the now united Germany. Unfortunately, source material about the club’s performance in the 1990s and early 2000s is sparse, with no information being available about promotions and relegations.
  • 1996 / SV Kali Wolmirstedt 1990 wins the District Cup, the so-called Ohrekreis-Pokal, for the first time.
  • 1997 / SV Kali Wolmirstedt 1990 wins the Ohrekreis-Pokal for the second year in a row.
  • 2004 / With no information about the club’s performance in the past decade being available, we now find SV Kali Wolmirstedt 1990 in the Landesklasse Saxony-Anhalt, the eighth tier of the German football pyramid, with the club easing to the title in Group 2 of this tier, 15 points ahead of closest followers FC Zukunft Magdeburg. As such, the club wins promotion to the Landesliga Saxony-Anhalt, i.e. the seventh division in German football – becoming the eighth level from 2008 onwards. The club must have held out at Landesliga level until at least 2008, with relegation to Landesklasse following sometime between 2008 and 2013.
  • 2013 / SV Kali Wolmirstedt wins the Börde District Cup (Kreispokal Börde), seeing off SG Germania 1921 Wulferstedt in the final (1-0). 
  • 2014 / Finishing in third-last place in Landesklasse Saxony-Anhalt, SV Kali Wolmirstedt 1990 suffers relegation to the Bördeoberliga, i.e. the ninth tier of German football, along with Roter Stern Sudenburg and bottom club SV Traktor Tucheim.
  • 2015 / Finishing bottom of the table in the Bördeoberliga, SV Kali Wolmirstedt 1990 suffers back-to-back relegations, descending into the Bördeliga, the tenth level of the German football pyramid. However, following the 2014-15 season, SV Kali Wolmirstedt withdraws from first team football. This coincides with the club abandoning the Stadion des Friedens, which had seen the bulk of first team football since its inauguration in 1959. The activities of the remaining youth academy all take place at the Sportforum Küchenhorn and its Stadion Glück-Auf. The lease agreement with the church on the grounds of the Stadion des Friedens is allowed to expire at the end of 2015, with the ground falling into disrepair in the following years. 
  • 2016 / The footballing branch of SV Kali Wolmirstedt 1990 folds, ceasing all activities, while the other branches of the club – notably the athletics section – existing until the present day. Following the demise of the football club, a phoenix version is formed straightaway, which is given the name OhreKicker Wolmirstedt – with the first part of the name being a reference to the Ohre River, which runs through Wolmirstedt. With no first team being formed as yet, the new football club takes its place at the Sportforum Küchenhorn and its Stadion Glück-Auf, becoming groundsharers with the athletes of SV Kali Wolmirstedt 1990.
  • 2025 / A plan is drawn up to turn the old Stadion des Friedens into a public playing field, the projected Spielplatz am Stadion des Friedens, but it remains to be seen when this plan will come to fruition. 
Note – Heartfelt thanks to OhreKicker Wolmirstedt board members Thomas Thiel and Bendix Schulze for their hospitality on matchday and all of their help in drawing up a picture of the history of football in their town.








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