RASPO sports park, Mercatorstrasse
The hill.
Old army barracks, bought in 1994 for 500,000 marks. Today a hall, gym hall, studio, office, grass pitch and boccia lane. And all around more than a hundred trees.
Trees for the sports park
Every tree a story.
Since 2007 members have donated trees for the hill, for a birth, a wedding or in memory of someone. There are now more than a hundred. City and university called it exemplary. The youngest is a pear tree, planted by the girls’ under-17 handball team in September 2025.
Summer on the hill
On Thursdays the hill is open.
Spring clean in May, opening on the second Thursday in June. Grill, drinks, tents, covered seating when it rains, plus a jazz brunch. Around forty members lend a hand. In 2025 the hill team was on duty 22 times, Ute and Roland Fleischer came from Donzdorf with handmade Swabian Maultaschen, in 2026 for the third time.
Above the hill flies its own «Summer on the hill» flag, designed by Andrea Stumpe.
Faith on the pitch
Mass under tents.
RASPO belongs to the Catholic DJK sports association, one of few clubs in the diocese that still does. Every summer the club holds a mass in the tents on the hill, in 2025 with more than seventy guests. Some 250 came to the ecumenical service on Whit Monday 2022.
Sport for the sake of people.
Koksche Strasse 39
The RASPO stadium.
Opened in 1929, the most modern ground in Osnabrück at the time. Destroyed in 1944, rebuilt by volunteers after the war. The RASPO clubhouse followed in 1955, the hard pitch became grass in 1965, and in 1967 the city’s first floodlights shone here. Since October 2024 a new scoreboard, put up with help from the Green Walkers.
RASPO weltweit
The scarf has been everywhere.
Members send holiday photos with a RASPO scarf, shirt or logo. So far from Belgium, England, Italy, Latvia, Spain, the USA and all over Germany. From the London Eye to the beach at Riga and Hawaii.
