Edelweiss Alpine Club

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Alpenverein Edelweiss -
branch of the Austrian Alpine Club
Logo of the Austrian Alpine Club
legal form Association
( ZVR : 689913046)
founding 1946 in Vienna
Seat Vienna
Chair Georg Lenz
Members 60,945 (as of December 31, 2019)
Website alpenverein-edelweiss.at

The Alpenverein Edelweiss , with its full name Alpenverein Edelweiss - branch of the Austrian Alpine Club , is a Viennese branch of the Austrian Alpine Club (ÖAV) and is currently the largest section of the Alpine Club and the sports club with the largest number of members in Austria with 60,945 members.

history

In 1946, the Edelweiss Alpine Club was founded as a section of the Austrian Alpine Club.

The section itself did not have its own huts when it was founded in 1946. The first hut was not put into operation until 1954, the Tappenkarseehütte in the Radstädter Tauern . The second hut, the Alois-Günther-Haus on the Stuhleck summit in Styria , which was taken over by the Stuhleck Section , was put into operation in 1964. In 2012, the house was awarded the OeAV environmental seal of approval. The Edelweisshütte has belonged to the association since 1960 . In 1967 the Bohemia Hut (until 1937: Wienerland Hut ) was acquired by the Prague section of the German Alpine Club and in 1969 a main building including a connecting passage to the Bohemia Hut was built. The house, which is now run as a ski hotel and is located in the middle of the Tauern circuit between the Edelweiss and Plattenkar lifts, was named after the chairman at the time, Rudolf Wismeyer. The Wismeyerhaus was awarded the OeAV environmental seal of approval in 2011 and the environmental seal for tourism businesses in 2012 by the Ministry of the Environment. In 1986 the Albert bivouac was added in the Schmalzscharte on the Tauern-Höhenweg in Salzburg.

When the “Viennese Teachers” section was taken up by the Edelweiss Alpine Club after its dissolution in 2009 and continues to exist as a group within the Edelweiss Section, its hut ownership was transferred to the Edelweiss Section. The Adolf-Noßberger-Hütte (Hohe Tauern National Park, Carinthia, 2488  m ), the Hochschoberhütte (Hohe Tauern National Park, East Tyrol, 2322  m ), both awarded the OeAV environmental seal of approval, and the Hinteralmhaus in the Mürzsteg Alps / Styria, which from Run as a self-catering hut in 2013, are now owned by the Edelweiss Alpine Club, which also owns high-mountain huts suitable for families.

Paths and huts

In addition, the Edelweiss Alpine Association looks after around 220 km of road network in its work areas in the Austrian Alps as part of the mandatory road safety requirement.

Paths and signs are maintained for the access to its 8 huts (+ 1 bivouac ) and houses, for which the Edelweiss Alpine Club is responsible.

Other facilities

  • Vienna City Rock, rope climbing course hall in a high school
  • Bouldering hall Edelweiss Center
  • Climbing hall in Klosterneuburg The climbing
  • Edelweiss paddle club

The Alpenverein Edelweiss also runs the travel agency Welt Moving , which markets package tours.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Membership statistics of the Alpine Club 2019, in numbers. (PDF) Alpine Association Austria, accessed on March 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Extract from the association register. Federal Ministry of the Interior , accessed on May 1, 2018 (ZVR No. 689913046).
  3. ^ Alpenverein Edelweiss (ed.): Statutes . 2018 ( alpenverein-edelweiss.at [PDF; 72 kB ; accessed on May 1, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Thomas Most (Red.): Bohemia Hut 1670 m . In: sudeten-huetten.de , April 25, 2018, accessed on May 17, 2018.
  5. ^ Wismeyerhaus.at: Wismeyerhaus
  6. ↑ a b Alpenverein.at: Huts
  7. ^ Alpenverein.de: Albert-Biwak Alpenverein.at: Albert-Biwak
  8. ↑ Alpenverein-Edelweiss.at: Bohemiahütte
  9. ^ Alpenverein.de Hinteralmhaus Alpenverein.at: Hinteralmhaus
  10. ↑ Alpenverein.de: Kampthalerhütte Alpenverein.at: Kampthalerhütte
  11. ^ Alpenverein.de: Wismeyerhaus Alpenverein.at: Wismeyerhaus