Austrian Tourist Club

ÖTK

Surname	Austrian Tourist Club
Founded	May 18, 1869
Association headquarters	Vienna
Members	25,000 (as of December 31, 2018)
Chairman	Franz Zehetmayer
ZVR number	407915695
Homepage	oetk.at

The Austrian Tourist Club ( ÖTK ) is the second oldest and third largest alpine club in Austria .

organization

There are around 40 sections (independent branch associations) in eight federal states of Austria and neighboring countries , including a section in Dresden , Germany . In addition, three alpine associations from the Czech Republic and one association from Hungary have joined the ÖTK. The head office is on Bäckerstrasse in Vienna . The ÖTK is a member of the Association of Austrian Alpine Associations (VAVÖ) and participates in the Austrian reciprocal right to huts.

aims

In contrast to the Austrian Alpine Association , which is interested in the development and scientific research of the high Alps, the club campaigned for the tourist development of the area around Vienna (including the Vienna Woods, Pre-Alps, Vienna's local mountains, Wachau, Waldviertel, Burgenland) from the start. a. Gradually, the ÖTK extended its field of activity to other crown lands in what was then the Austrian half of the empire. Today the ÖTK looks after around four dozen refuges in the Alpine region - u. a. also one of the highest huts, surrounded by 30 three-thousand-meter peaks, the Defregger Haus on Großvenediger - and a network of hiking trails , via ferratas and climbing routes of around 20,000 km. The Alpine region represents the largest (still) intact ecological compensation region in Central Europe. The declared aim of the ÖTK is to preserve and secure the mountain world in its original state and to promote recreation and activity in the Alpine region.

Alpine training

Hidden behind the facade of an early baroque town house at Bäckerstraße 16 , near Lugeck, is the largest climbing hall in the center of Vienna. Spread over four floors, the ÖTK climbing hall offers training options for all levels of difficulty with wall heights of up to 15 meters on a 950 m² climbing surface. The oldest mountaineering school in Austria (founded in 1926) is the contact point for mountain guides and rescue workers who are trained in special year-round, weekly or day courses for climbing on rock and ice.

Experiential education

The largest climbing hall in Vienna offers training opportunities for private groups, kindergartens and school classes. Climbing lessons start with children from 4 years. Climbing is an integral part of both physical education and experiential education .

Promotion of popular sport

In addition to alpine training, the ÖTK promotes popular sports with a focus on mountain sports. The offer includes more than 300 courses, guided tours and events in over 20 sports for adults, teenagers and children.

history

Founded in 1869

The foundation goes back to the initiative of Gustav Jäger (1815–1875), publisher of Der Tourist , Austria's first tourist trade journal. Unlike the Austrian Alpine Association , which has existed since 1862, Jäger's interests were primarily aimed at the natural conditions in his closer home, Vienna and Lower Austria.

With the intention of founding an association, Gustav Jäger met regularly with like-minded people from the spring of 1869, including the southern railway official Lambert Märzroth , Paul Grohmann , Adolf Blamauer , and Josef Anton Specht . On May 18, 1869, the ÖTK was constituted in the “zur Schnecke” inn , Vienna I , Petersplatz 6–6A . In the meeting held on August 2, the year the first committee meeting were (a year earlier retired ministry officials) Ritter Gustav von Höfken (1811-1889) as chairman and elected as his deputy, Gustav hunter who in the way of the editorial offices of The Tourist , Vienna I., Salzgries  14, accepted club membership. On November 2, 1869, the first monthly meeting of the association took place. The meetings scheduled for the first Tuesday of the month included social gatherings , which provided space for free presentations and discussions. The place of assembly was the inn "zur golden duck" , Vienna I., Schulerstraße 24, corner of Riemergasse 4.

Already on September 12, 1869, the tourist house at Stuhleck (later: Gustav-Jäger-Schutzhaus ) , which was initiated and built by Gustav Jäger and located at 1,737 m, was officially opened. In October 1869, the association gave the mountain guide Benedict Klotz from Rofenhöfe ( immortalized a few years later in the novel Die Geier-Wally ) 20 guilders as a contribution to the expansion of the shelter on the Hochjochferner .

Development over time

Until 1903, the association "operated" under the Austrian Tourist Club (ÖTC).

In 1910, the ÖTK, including the sections in the neighboring countries, had around 30,000 members. In 1921 the number reached 35,000 in 44 sections before it fell to around 15,000 by the forced resignation of the Jewish members due to the introduced Aryan paragraph , as well as because of the Second World War and subsequently by 1986.

After a long period of planning, the first rooms in the clubhouse in Vienna were converted into a climbing hall in 1995 , after the first successes followed in 1998 the expansion into the covered courtyard, in 2001 the breakthrough over two floors into the high vaults from the 14th century and the ascent to the largest climbing hall in the center of Vienna.

A remarkable achievement in the last few years (2004–2005) was the world's first construction of a new refuge ( Schiestlhaus ) as a passive house in an extreme location on the Hochschwab at 2158  m above sea level. This project was carried out by the architectural office Treberspurg und Partner.

ÖTK hut list

   Branches to the GeoHack page. Various external map services can be called up using the stored coordinates.
   External link to the homepage of the hut at the DAV .
   External link to the page of the hut at the PES , (note: not all huts have this PES link).
   External link to the hut's website at Outdooractive as the web hosting site of the ÖTK.

Former hut highlighted in    red

   Source for the 48 ÖTK huts and a former hut:

image	Location links to the hut	Name alternative name	ÖTK section	height
	|  |  |	Adolf Kögler Hut	Ternitz	1333  m
	|  |  |	Alpenrose hut	Alpine Society Kienthaler	1234  m
Image wanted	|  |  |	Alpkogelhütte	Neunkirchen	1314  m
	|  |  |	Anna shelter	Dölsach	1992  m
	|  |  |	Araburg castle ruins Araburg Stüberl	Triestingtal	783  m
	|  |  |	Bertgenhütte	Maria Alm	1846  m
	|  |  |	Brunnenkogelhaus	Main club	2738  m
	|  |  |	Damboeckhaus	Main club	1810  m
	|  |  |	Defreggerhaus	Main club	2963  m
	|  |  |	Eisenkappler Hut	Eisenkappel	1553  m
	|  |  |	Iron gate shelter	to bathe	834  m
	|  |  |	Fisherman's hut	Neunkirchen	2049  m
	|  |  |	Franz-Eduard-Matras-Haus Matrashaus	Main club	2941  m
Image wanted	|  |  |	Frischmannhütte	Main club	2192  m
	|  |  |	Gauermannhütte	Alpine Society D'Mergwanderer	1150  m
	|  |  |	Graf-Meran-Haus	Main club	1836  m
	|  |  |	Hainfelder Hütte Kirchenberghütte	Hainfeld	922  m
Image wanted	|  |  |	Hauereckhütte	Forest home	1260  m
	|  |  |	Hocheck shelter	Main club	1030  m
	|  |  |	Hochkar shelter	Scheibbs	1491  m
	|  |  |	Hochmölbinghütte	Graz	1687  m
Image wanted	|  |  |	Hochstadelhaus	Oberdrauburg	1780  m
	|  |  |	Kaiserkogelhütte	Eschenau St. Pölten	715  m
	|  |  |	Karl Ludwig House	Main club	1804  m
	|  |  |	Kerschbaumeralm shelter	Lienz	1902  m
	|  |  |	Kienthalerhütte	Alpine Society Kienthaler	1381  m
	|  |  |	Linderhütte	Lienz	2683  m
Image wanted	|  |  |	Mugelschutzhaus	Main club	1626  m
	|  |  |	New lake hut	Höllentaler Holzknecht	1644  m
	|  |  |	Ötscherschutzhaus	Main club	1418  m
Image wanted	|  |  |	Reinischkogelhütte, ski circuit hut	Graz	1030  m
	|  |  |	Reisalpen-Schutzhaus	Main club	1390  m
	|  |  |	Schiestlhaus	Main club	2156  m
	|  |  |	Schöpfl shelter	Vienna Woods	870  m
Image wanted	|  |  |	Speiereckhütte	Main club	2061  m
	|  |  |	Statzerhaus	Main club	2117  m
	|  |  |	Tuxerjochhaus Tuxer Joch House	Main club	2315  m
	|  |  |	Unterberg shelter	Main club	1187  m
	|  |  |	Viktoria-Adelheid-Schutzhütte Brandstetterkogelhütte	Strudengau	532  m
Image wanted	|  |  |	Vindobona house	Main club	1720  m
	|  |  |	Werfener Hut	Main club	1967  m
	|  |  |	Wiener Neustädter Hut	Main club	2212  m
	|  |  |	Wilhelm Eichert Hut	Wiener Neustadt	1053  m
Image wanted	|  |  |	Wildalmkirchl bivouac	Maria Alm	2461  m
	|  |  |	Wolf-Glanvell-Hütte former ÖTK hut	Former "Dresden Section" of the ÖTK	2065  m
	|  |  |	Wolfgang Dirnbacher Hut Dirnbacher Hut	Main club	1477  m
Image wanted	|  |  |	Zettersfeldhütte	Lienz	1815  m
	|  |  |	Zirbitzkogel refuge Zirbitzkogelhütte	Main club	2376  m

ÖTK prospect waiting

   Branches to the GeoHack page. Various external map services can be called up using the stored coordinates.
   External link to the site of the observation point at Outdooractive as the web hosting site of the ÖTK.
Source for the 23 ÖTK lookout points .

image Location waiting links state Lookout point  |  Lower Austria Araburg observation tower  |  Burgenland Buchkogelwarte  |  Lower Austria Dachberg observation point  |  Lower Austria Donauwarte  |  Styria Archduke Johann Lookout (Formerly: E. Franz Carl-Warte)  |  Lower Austria Ferdinandswarte  |  Lower Austria Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Warte - |  Lower Austria Gfiederwarte - |  Upper Austria Gobelwarte - |  Lower Austria Gruberwarte - |  Vienna Habsburgwarte - |  Carinthia Hannwarte - |  Lower Austria Anniversary prospect - |  Vienna Jubilee waiting - |  Lower Austria Kamptalwarte - |  Lower Austria Matraswarte - |  Lower Austria Meyringer waiting - |  Styria Raxkircherl - |  Lower Austria Sina wait - |  Lower Austria Starhembergwarte - |  Lower Austria Temple Mount Observatory - |  Lower Austria Urlingerwarte  |  Lower Austria Weiglwarte

literature

• (Emerich) Klotzberg:  Gustav Jäger memorial service. In:  Oesterreichische tourist newspaper / Austrian tourist newspaper / Österreichische Turisten-Zeitung / Austrian tourist newspaper , year 1900, no. 10, May 16, 1900 (20th year), pp. 109–114. (Online at ANNO ). .
• Rudl Klose: One Hundred Years of the Austrian Tourist Club 1869–1969. Festschrift on the occasion of the centenary . Austrian Tourist Club, Vienna 1969.
• Otto W. Steiner (Red.): Austrian Tourist Club. 100 years of the Austrian Tourist Club, 1869–1969. Vienna 1969.

Web links

Commons : Austrian Tourist Club  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Anniversary celebration of the Baden section of the Austrian tourist club. In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 87/1903 (XXIV. Volume), October 31, 1903, p. 3 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
• B (enedict) Just:  Local news. Some memories from the founding of the Baden section of the Austrian Tourist Club. In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 64/1914 (XXXV. Volume), August 12, 1914, p. 3. (Online at ANNO ). .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} ÖTK.at: 150 years of ÖTK
2. ↑ OeTK.at: ÖTK - Austrian Tourist Club
3. ^ Jäger, Gustav. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 55.
4. ↑ ZDB -ID 552359-x .
5. ↑ ^{a b} The Austrian Tourist Club in Vienna. In:  Die Neue Zeitung , No. 270/1919 (XII. Volume), October 2, 1919, p. 3 below (and title page). (Online at ANNO ).
6. ^ Association news. (...) Austrian tourist club in Vienna. In:  Local-Anzeiger der "Presse" , supplement to No. 221/1869 (XXII. Year), August 11, 1869, p. 3 (unpaginated), top left. (Online at ANNO ). ;
   Daily news. (...) The Austrian Tourist Club in Vienna (...). In:  Neues Fremd -Blatt , Abendblatt, No. 215/1869 (5th year), August 5, 1869, p. 2 (unpaginated), bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). .
7. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Association news. In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 251/1869, November 2, 1869, p. 1003, top left. (Online at ANNO ). .
8. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Tourist house on the Stuhleck. In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 213/1869, September 16, 1869, p. 888, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). .
9. ↑ G (ustav) J (ager):  The Austrian tourist club in Vienna has the guide (...). In:  Supplement to No. 47 of Figaro , No. 47/1869 (XIIIth year), October 9, 1869, p. 1 (unpaginated) middle. (Online at ANNO ). .
10. ↑ See Austrian tourist newspaper
11. ↑ Rainer Amstädter: From the founding of the alpine associations to the anti-Semitism of the interwar period. In: ÖTK Magazin 3/12. Austrian Tourist Club, 1912, p. 10 , accessed on April 8, 2014 (available at issuu.com). 
12. ↑ ÖTK.at: ÖTK shelters Outdooractive.com: ÖTK shelters
13. ↑ ÖTK.at: ÖTK Aussichtswarten Outdooractive.com: ÖTK Aussichtswarten

Remarks

1. ↑ The constitution may have already taken place in April 1869. - See: Association and People's Assemblies. (...) New club. In:  Morgen-Post , No. 115/1869 (XIXth year), April 26, 1869, p. 4 (unpaginated), top left. (Online at ANNO ). .
2. ↑ About ten minutes' walk below the Stuhleckhaus, which was built by the Semmering Alpine Club and burned down in 1892 . - Karl Baedeker: South Bavaria, Tyrol and Salzburg. Upper and Lower Austria, Styria, Carinthia and Carniola. Guide for travelers . 25th edition. Baedeker's travel guides. Baedeker, Leipzig 1892, OBV , p. 384.

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