!!!Hockeysport Hockey: The modern version of this game played with a ball and sticks with a curved end originated in England, played by both men and women, came to Austria in 1897; in 1900 the first hockey association in Austria established as a section of the Wiener Athletiksport-Club (WAC) sports club. At first played in the open air, hockey has also been played indoors since 1950; in 1963 the hockey stadium in the Vienna Prater was opened. The Austrian Hockey Association (Oesterreichischer Hockey-Verband, OeHV), founded in 1913, comprises 20 clubs with 3,341 members (1993). !Publications Hockey-Nachrichten, 1951ff. !Literature 50 Jahre Oesterreichischer Hockey-Verband, 1963. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Hockeysport|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]