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The Lower Saxony Institute of Sport History (NISH)
Hoya is close to the geographical centre of Lower Saxony, half way between Hanover and Bremen. It was here in 1981 that the Lower Saxony Sport Association (LSB), the Lower Saxony Government, the local town of Hoya and the local County of Nienburg, strongly supported by Göttingen University and most other sport historians from the north of Germany founded the Lower Saxony Institute of Sport History (NISH). Eventually, the local partners dropped out of the finance plan but the NISH continues to stay on the banks of the Weser River in its original building. Today, the basic budget of the NISH is essentially supported by the LSB. The NISH has been a model on which other regional sport history organisations have been formed in other states of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The NISH runs the Archives of Sport for the State of Lower Saxony, having created a most comprehensive computer based search aid for the public and club archives in the state as far as the historical sides of sport are concerned; it runs the Lower Saxony Hall of Fame, it has a Library (containing more than 3,000 jubilee books of regional sports clubs), a historical photo collection (20,000 +), it has the most extensive collection of weight lifting, amateur and Professional wrestling in Germany, it stages bi-annual competitions for club jubilee books, for academic works dealing with regional sport history and for historical pictures, it stages seminars to teach club historians to write such jubilee books, it stages bi-annual sport historical seminars (with international participation), it organises sport historical exhibition, it has an academic Yearbook, two series of academic books, occasional published papers, and it sponsors and coordinates research in regional sport history.
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