turnverein

Parade of Turners at opening Berlin stadium (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 1 older comment, and then…
• Criz Stoddard said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Flickr Commons, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• Richard Norton said:

  The anticipated 1916 Summer Olympics, which were to be officially known as the Games of the VI Olympiad, were to have been held in Berlin, Germany. At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, organization continued as no one anticipated that the war would continue for several years. Eventually, though, the Games were canceled. Alexandria and Budapest had bid unsuccessfully for the 1916 Games. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916_Summer_Olympics Work on the stadium began in 1912. The opening ceremony was on June 8, 1913. I will add the new information from the New York Times to Wikipedia.

• Arden said:

  Richard Arthur Norton: Thank you for your information about this stadium and its relationship to the canceled 1916 Summer Olympics. We will update the description when we reload the database.

• BobMeade said:

  Could somebody please tell me what a "turner" is?

• The Library of Congress said:

  The German word "Turner" means gymnast. The name of the Mission Turn Hall in San Francisco, built in 1910 near the time of this photo, is another example of how the German word was borrowed into English. Hope you'll enjoy some photos of that athletic club, as documented in the Historic American Buildings Survey collection, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ca1800