The Taunus Zeitung is calling for the 2025 athlete election in Hochtaunus. We introduce you to the teams nominated in the “Team of the Year” category.
Bad Homburg – Five teams have also been nominated in the “Team of the Year” category this year. We present the teams in short portraits. You can then vote for your athlete of the year here.
BV Friedrichsdorf Badminton
The Friedrichsdorf badminton club, which was founded on June 16, 1977 in the “Zur Linde” restaurant on Hugenottenstrasse, was able to look back on the most successful season in its club history in March 2025.
The first team ended the 2024/25 Hessenliga round with a 6:2 victory over RV Hoch-Weisel – as champions with 30:6 points/95:49 games and seven points ahead of runner-up SG Dieburg/Groß-Zimmern. Player-coaches Volodymyr Koluzaiev, Ivan Medynskiy, captain Thai Nguyen, Markus Krofta, Axel Bätjer, Vitek Kulisek, Oliver Krück, Thorsten Würsig, Yevheni Stolovoi, Anke Hackemesser, Maren Schröder, Sabine Tietjen, Anastasia Prokopovych and Sarah Lock were involved in this success, which meant promotion to the top league.
Several people who have fled Ukraine are on the club’s playing and coaching staff. Only two years earlier, the BVF had won the title in the Verbandsliga West with 16:4 points, thereby securing promotion to the top division of the HBV.
With the confidently won championship in the Hessenliga, the BVF had secured its ticket to the Oberliga Middle for the 2025/26 season. In Germany’s fourth highest league, the Hochtaunus derby took place for the first time on October 26th against long-standing Bundesliga club SG Anspach. The Friedrichsdorfers won 5:3. At the end of the year, the cheeky newcomer also led the rankings in this league.
In addition to the 1st team, the 2nd team (in the Frankfurt regional league with 23:5 points) and 4th team (in Group 1 of the men’s class Frankfurt with 16:0 points) also became champions in 2024/25.
HTG Bad Homburg Rope Skipping
Rope skipping – this is much more than just jumping rope. Rather, it is a competitive and highly complex sport that is carried out solo or in a group in a wide variety of disciplines. These are presented individually and as team competitions. At the 2025 World Championships in the Japanese university and port city of Kawasaki from August 3rd to 10th, the 179-member German team impressively demonstrated its top international class among 2,600 athletes from 35 countries by winning numerous medals and other notable achievements.
Two absolute experts from HTG Bad Homburg, Emma Lenz and Johannes Kowalski, were also able to look forward to precious metal on the global stage. The two power jumpers came second in the “Single Rope Pair Freestyle” class in the “Mixed, 16 to 18” class. Placed only behind the gold medal winners from Hong Kong in the final ranking, the HTG team relegated top-class competitors from Belgium, Austria, South Korea, Sweden, the USA and the Czech Republic to their place in their silver coup.
With maximum synchronicity, Lenz/Kowalski impressively succeeded in entertainingly performing as many combinations of risky jumping elements as possible within a time limit of 45 to 75 seconds. This meant that they had even outshone a super year that, together with Lilliana Perel and Anastasia Ananina, they were already able to crown with the Hesse title and DM gold in other team disciplines. No doubt, the next Rope Skipping World Championships in 2027 in Oslofjord, Norway can come.
TEVC Kronberg Tennis
On the afternoon of June 28, 2025, there was celebration in Viktoriapark: The tennis men’s 30 of the TEVC (tennis and ice skating club) Kronberg had achieved promotion to the 1st Bundesliga for the first time in the club’s 97-year history with a 5:4 win against TC Blau-Weiß Bad Ems.
The “heated thriller” with the two teams tied at the top of the table was only decided in the doubles. The six previous singles had led to a 3-3 score.
The Kronbergers then set up their doubles so cleverly that both Dominik Suc/Lubomir Majsajdr (6:1, 6:1 against Dennis Gilberg/Philipp Schehadat) and Alexander Merino/Domagoi Anic (6:4, 6:2 against Matthew Short/Christof Brenner) achieved comfortable two-set victories. The defeat of Tomislav Jotovski/Brendon Millington-Herrmann against Michal Przysiezny/Andreas Klapthor (6:4, 3:6, 8:10) only had statistical significance.
“Our spectators gave us great support in this final for promotion to the Bundesliga – just like in the previous games,” said Kronberg’s player Martin Simon. In addition to Suc, Majsajdr, Merino, Anic, Jotovski and Millington-Herrman, Timon Reichelt, Andreas Weber, Janosch Apelt and Gernot Hagemann were also involved in the TEVC championship. As captain, Simon keeps in touch with most of the players.
After TC Bad Homburg and TV Ober-Eschbach, which even became German champions in 2024, the Kronberg team is the third team from Hochtaunus to be allowed to serve in the men’s tennis Bundesliga 30. The Bundesliga premiere is on May 16th at Karlsruhe ETV.
TSG Oberursel Basketball
“Oberliga, Oberliga, hey, hey,” was how it boomed through the Adam Danz sports hall in Weiterstadt in southern Hesse at the beginning of March 2025. A fairy tale had just come true for the basketball players at TSG Oberursel. With a hard-fought 61:56 victory at SG Weiterstadt II, the “tall guys” from Hochtaunus secured the early championship in the South Regional League. 35 years of absence from the league were now a thing of the past for the TSGO basket hunters.
Right in the middle of the Orschel celebrations: successful coach Amrun Terzic (50). As is usual in promotion cases, the 50-year-old Bosnian was wet with a strong shower of beer. “It’s crazy what the team and coach have achieved,” department head Michael Benner (44) blurted out, accompanied by an incredulous shake of his head. “Started from the bottom of the district league – an incredible breakthrough over the last four years,” added Benner.
He had been courting the services of “Amci” Terzic for a long time. “Then I agreed just for fun,” recalls promotion coach Terzic. His “just-for-fun commitment” has long since grown into a huge project. “For as long as I can remember,” beams Benner, “basketball has never been as attractive, as popular and as successful as it is here in Oberursel.” Still a district league team in 2021, the TSGO basket hunters are “back” again. A Feldbergschule packed with 250 spectators at home games and, as a newcomer to the league, third place at the turn of the year – the words said at the moment of promotion by Claudia Dobrisch, organizer of the support association, succinctly summarize the “TSGO phenomenon”: “Basketball is in our house.”
TTC OE Bad Homburg table tennis
Ober-Erlenbach has long since developed into a small “Gallic village” in the German table tennis scene. The professional team from Taunus is now also known internationally under the name TTC OE Clarity Telefonie-Systeme Bad Homburg.
Not least because of the successes in the DTTB Cup: After 3-2 victories at TTC Lampertheim and TSV Bad Königshofen, the team of legendary coach Helmut Hampl reached the “Final Four” finals in Neu-Ulm for the first time in the club’s history on January 4, 2025. There was a 1:3 defeat in the semi-final against the eventual cup winners Liebherr Ochsenhausen. However, this had finally whetted the appetite in the Taunus.
In the ’25/26 cup competition, the TTC OE continued these triumphs with a newly formed squad – only Csaba András and Benno Oehme remained – and reached the Final Four again with victories at 1. FC Saarbrücken-TT II (3:1) and against record champions Borussia Düsseldorf (3:2) – a small sensation. In Neu-Ulm on January 4, 2026, in front of 5,200 spectators, a 2-3 win against TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell once again ended in the semi-finals, but the record in the cup will always have a special place in the chronicle of the club founded in 1987, not least because of the coup against Düsseldorf.
In what is now its fourth first league season, the TTC OE achieved its best result so far after the preliminary round with 8:14 points. With the Japanese Jo Yokotani (23), the Hungarian Csaba András (23), the Croatian Ivor Ban (22), the Spaniard Juan Perez (23) and Benno Oehme (25), the team has by far the youngest team in the TTBL.
