{"id":47603,"date":"2023-08-31T21:51:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T19:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2023\/08\/31\/rus-summer-festival-inclusive-water-sports-center-steinmuehle-opens\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:37:11","slug":"rus-summer-festival-inclusive-water-sports-center-steinmuehle-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2023\/08\/31\/rus-summer-festival-inclusive-water-sports-center-steinmuehle-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"RuS Summer Festival: Inclusive Water Sports Center Steinm\u00fchle Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hessian Television conducted interviews <\/strong>and filmed our inclusive eight<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shortly before the start of summer break, we marked our partnership between Steinm\u00fchle and the German Institute for the Blind (blista) with the official opening of the inclusive Steinm\u00fchle Water Sports Center: At our club\u2019s summer festival, a team of visually impaired and sighted athletes rowed in the \u201cBlind Date\u201d eight to the applause of all visitors, while a team from Hessischer Rundfunk broadcast the event live on the \u201cHessenschau\u201d program.<\/p>\n

Hessenschaureporter Robert H\u00fcbner and his team arrived at the boathouse early this Monday, before the start of summer break, to get everything ready: Interviews with Olympic eight-man champion Filip Adamski, para-rower Moritz Hagen, and Martin \u201cStromi\u201d Strohmenger, the successful coach and rowing instructor at Steinm\u00fchle. blista and Steinm\u00fchle have been working together on inclusive initiatives for a long time, and now this collaboration is visible to the outside world as well. Across from the Steinm\u00fchle boathouse, a sign on the dock points to the inclusive water sports center. People with other physical disabilities are also welcome there, as long as their condition allows them to row. <\/p>\n

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Active Inclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the summer festival, para-rower Moritz Hagen impressively demonstrated how visual impairment and rowing can go hand in hand. \u201cIt\u2019s really about body control,\u201d he told the reporter, adding that he was happy to be actively integrated as an athlete with a disability. <\/p>\n

Moritz Hagen has been training intensively for about a year alongside Bj\u00f6rn Eckert, another visually impaired rower. Both are highly ambitious. <\/p>\n

Several prominent figures from the rowing world attended the event at the Steinm\u00fchlen Boathouse, where RuS Chairman Aron St\u00fcrmer and outgoing principal Bernd Holly led the program. In addition to Olympic champion Adamski, the event was also attended by the former world champion in the double sculls, Stephan Kr\u00fcger, Steinm\u00fchle\u2019s current rising star Marc Weber, and Lucas Sch\u00e4fer\u2014a native of Gisselberg, 2016 Olympian, and holder of the 6,000-meter ergometer world record, which was set at Steinm\u00fchle\u2014were also in attendance. Steinm\u00fchle students Maxim Dyck, Maurits Juhre, and Lennart Holly were also in attendance. The athletes now row in the Bundesliga. We were also delighted that public figures attended our event, including First District Deputy Maria Zachow and Cappeler Mayor Peter Hesse. <\/p>\n

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Significant investments<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We see ourselves as part of the city\u2019s community,” explained Egon Vaupel, chairman of the Steinm\u00fchle School Association, in his speech, referring equally to Steinm\u00fchle, rowing at Steinm\u00fchle, and the founding of the inclusive water sports center. Vaupel described Claus Duncker, the former CEO of blista and current treasurer of RuS Steinm\u00fchle, as \u201cone of the driving forces behind this sustainable partnership.\u201d The Steinm\u00fchle School Association alone has invested half a million euros in the project to date. The project, including its infrastructure and personnel resources, can currently be used equally by both institutions. Steinm\u00fchle maintains a cooperative relationship with blista and its new CEO, Patrick Temmesfeld. <\/p>\n

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Michael Neirich coordinates<\/strong><\/p>\n

When it comes to rowing, Steinm\u00fchle is looking to the future with optimism. The boarding school and the school have provided the team with more top rowers, as well as some who have (re)discovered rowing. Steinm\u00fchle physical education teacher Michael Neirich has taken on the role of coordinating the rowing program. <\/p>\n

In light of these structures, RuS President Aron St\u00fcrmer, Vice President and Steinm\u00fchle School Principal Bj\u00f6rn Gemmer, and School Director Dirk Konnertz look back on the summer festival with satisfaction and are optimistic about the future of rowing at Steinm\u00fchle. The sport is and will remain an important part of the school and boarding school. <\/p>\n

Link to the Hessenschau report:<\/p>\n

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