Station Nr. 3 ist das erste deutsche Sportarchiv im Goetzhaus an der Lützner Str. 11.
Deutschlands erste Dachorganisation des Sports, die Deutsche Turnerschaft, hatte von 1860 bis 1915 ihren Sitz in Leipzig-Lindenau. Seit ihrer Gründung führte der Arzt Ferdinand Goetz (1826–1915) ehrenamtlich die Geschäfte der damals weltgrößten Sportorganisation; von 1895 bis 1915 war er Vorsitzender für mehr als eine Million Mitglieder. Im heutigen Goetzhaus wohnte er mit seiner Familie und betrieb eine Arztpraxis. 1867 richtete Goetz mit dem Archiv der deutschen Turnvereine Deutschlands erstes Sportarchiv ein. Als Archivar baute er es aus und sorgte für einen regen Leihverkehr per Post. 1880 legte er das erste Bestandsverzeichnis für 1755 Titel vor. Bis 1914 wuchs das Archiv auf 11.839 Bände. Der 1945 gerettete Teilbestand ist heute an der Deutschen Sporthochschule Köln öffentlich nutzbar. Goetz Tochter Fanny leitete im H aus die Leipziger Ortsgruppe des Vereins für Verbesserung der Frauenkleidung. Hier wurde das aus Leibchen, Hose, Rock und Bluse bestehende „Leipziger Schul- und Turnkleid“ entwickelt und 1904 offiziell in Leipzigs Schulen eingeführt. Anlässlich des 100. Geburtstages von Goetz wurde das Denkmal im Garten mit der vom Leipziger Bildhauer Carl Seffner geschaffenen Porträtbüste aufgestellt.
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Here stands a very old building. It dates from a time when Lindenau was still a farming village and a suburb of Leipzig. It was built in 1823 as a residential house in the Biedermeier style.
In 1855, the Leipzig physician Dr. Ferdinand Goetz, who was 29 years old at the time, moved into this house. He lived here with his family and opened a medical practice. Ferdinand Goetz was a very good physician and worked a lot as a doctor.
He was popular and helped many people. Often he did not charge any money for it. At that time it was normal for the doctor to come to his patients’ homes. It is said about Ferdinand Goetz that he looked into the cooking pots of his patients.
He wanted to see what people were eating and sometimes it helped him discover the cause of their illnesses. That’s why he was also called the “Töppchendoktor” (pot-doctor). As a child, Ferdinand Goetz loved gymnastics, swimming and fencing. Goetz was also one of the people who founded the sports organisation Deutsche Turnerschaft in 1868.
He exercised important functions there for almost 50 years. He also succeeded in bringing the 3rd German Gymnastics Festival to Leipzig in 1863. He gave the keynote speech there. Even at the age of 87, Goetz was still active and committed. He co-chaired the German Gymnastics Festival in Leipzig in 1913.
Goetz set up an archive and library in his house in 1867. There he collected all the important documents and books about gymnastics. It was the first sports archive in Germany. He was committed to ensuring that popular gymnasts were remembered by the people
And he had memorials to the “gymnastics father” Friedrich Ludwig Jahn built in Freyburg an der Unstrut in 1894. He revered the German Emperor and supported his policies. His motto in life was: “Heart and hand to the fatherland” He was against the working class doing gymnastics and founding their own clubs.
He also criticised the modern sports of the time, such as cycling, rowing, athletics and football. For him, there was only one sport: gymnastics. In 1896, the first Olympic Games of modern times took place in Athens. Goetz forbade the German athletes to take part there; they were not to travel abroad for competitions.
The German gymnasts greatly admired Ferdinand Goetz. He was for them, just like Friedrich Ludwig Jahn – a second “gymnastics father”. The City of Leipzig also honoured him and named a small street in the Lindenau district after him in 1896: “Goetzstraße”. Ferdinand Goetz was very old when he died in 1915.
For his 100th birthday, a celebration was held in 1926 and a large bust was erected in the garden of the old residence. The Goetzhaus was renovated in 2000. Two years later, it opened its doors again for the German Gymnastics Festival – as a small museum about Dr Ferdinand Goetz.
Today the museum no longer exists and the house houses a restaurant.