  alemannia aachen () is a german football club from the western city of aachen, north rhine-westphalia. a long term fixture of the country's second division, alemannia enjoyed a three-year turn in the top flight in the late 1960s and, after a successful 2005â06 campaign, returned to first division play for a single season. the club has since slipped to third division play and in late 2012 entered into bankruptcy. they plan to finish their 2012â13 3. liga schedule before resuming play in the tier iv regionalliga west in 2013â14. alemannia carries the strange nickname "the potato beetles" (kartoffelkÃ¤fer) because of their striped yellow-black jerseys, which make them look like the particular insects. ==history== ===foundation to world war ii=== resident english merchants and industrialists brought in the second half of the 19th century addition to the traditional equestrian sports football into the western rhineland. the club was founded on 16 december 1900 by a group of eighteen high school students. knowing that another team had already taken the name 1. fc aachen the new club was christened fc alemannia using the old latin name for germany. the first world war devastated the club: the pre-war membership of 200 was reduced to just 37 by the conflict. in early 1919 alemannia merged with aachener turnverein 1847 to become tsv 
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