Alpine Club Graz
| Austrian Alpine Association - Section Graz St.GV (Alpine Association Graz) |
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| legal form | Association ( ZVR : 384498365) |
| founding | February 1870 in Graz |
| Seat | Graz ( ⊙ ) |
| motto | Paths to the open |
| purpose | Hiking, mountaineering, climbing, ski touring, mountain biking, trendy alpine sports, training |
| Chair | Günter Riegler |
| Managing directors | Board |
| Employees | 5 |
| Members | 20,308 (as of December 31, 2019) |
| Website | alpenverein.at/Graz |
The Alpine Club Graz (full name: Austrian Alpine Club - Graz St.GV Section ) is a section of the Austrian Alpine Club . It was founded in February 1870 and is currently one of the largest sports clubs in Austria with around 20,300 members (as of December 31, 2019) .
history
In February (9th or 19th - the historical records differ here) in 1870, the men Josef Mülleret, Gustav Demelius, Franz Ilwof, Franz Feill, Adalbert Michel, Johannes Frischauf, Arthur von Schmid, Theodor Lubensky, Josef Purgleitner and Cajetan Klar founded (see short biographies) the Graz section of the German Alpine Club and a few weeks later, on March 21, the constituent assembly and the approval of the statutes took place. The Section's first ordinary monthly meeting was held on April 12th. Michel became chairman, Ilwof deputy chairman, Mülleret secretary, Cassier Klar and Purgleitner conservator. Some of them were already founding members of the "Verein der Gebirgsfreunde in Graz", which was founded the year before on June 26, 1869 and later, in 1935, merged with the Graz AV section as the "Styrian Mountain Association".
Alpine Club and the Graz Section today
The Alpenverein Österreich (main association), based in Innsbruck, is the largest alpine association in Austria, it has almost 600,000 members, is a lawyer for the Alps and a legally recognized environmental organization with over 22,000 honorary members, has 232 alpine club huts, and looks after around 26,000 km of alpine club trails and over 200 climbing facilities.
The Graz Section as its own association has its headquarters in Graz and is the owner of seven huts (Arthur-von-Schmid-Haus, Grazer Hütte, Kaponig-Biwak, Kapunerhütte, Rotgüldenseehütte, Sticklerhütte and Stubenberghaus). The leisure activities include high-altitude tours, climbing, via ferrata, ski tours, bike tours, hiking, snowshoeing, paddling, gymnastics, training, lectures and other activities. Activities for young people and families take up a large part. The alpine library in Graz provides around 2,000 books, 1,500 guides and around 1,000 maps as information about hikes, mountain, ski and snowshoe tours. The stock covers not only the Alps, but all of the world's major mountains. The lending library has existed since 1920 and, after several stops in 1994, found its current home in Graz's Schörgelgasse. The ÖAV regional association, two meeting rooms and the climbing center of the Graz section are also located there.
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary in 2020, the exhibition “STADT sucht BERG” for the Austrian Alpine Club, Graz Section, was planned to start on March 12th in the Graz Museum . As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic , the museum was closed in March 2020. The exhibition will be reopened on July 1, 2020 after the ban on entering museums has been lifted and will be extended until January 17, 2021. In autumn 2020 it is planned to hold a finissage instead of a vernissage in the Graz Museum .
Huts
The Graz Section owns seven PES huts :
- Arthur-von-Schmid-Haus : managed hut
- Grazer Hütte : managed hut
- Kaponig bivouac : only bivouac / emergency accommodation
- Kapunerhütte : self-catering hut
- Rotgüldenseehütte : managed hut
- Sticklerhütte : managed hut
- Stubenberghaus : managed hut
Former hut
- Mörsbachhütte : Hut sold to private in 2018
Prospect waiting
The Graz section owns two observation towers :
- Stephanien-Warte (651 m) on the plate
- Rudolfs-Warte (659 m) on the Buchkogel
Known members
- Johannes Frischauf (1837–1924), Austrian mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geodesist and alpinist
- Eduard Richter (1847–1905), Austrian geographer , historian, glacier researcher and alpinist
Web links
- Homepage of the Graz section
- Alpenverein Graz in the historical alpine archive of the alpine associations in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alpenverein.at: The largest Alpine Club sections (PDF)
- ↑ CITY is looking for MOUNTAIN. 150 years of the Graz Alpine Club. GrazMuseum, accessed on March 29, 2020 .
- ↑ huts. Section Graz, accessed on March 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Mörsbachhütte. (No longer available online.) In: alpenverein.de. German Alpine Club, archived from the original on September 21, 2019 ; accessed on April 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Lookout waiting . Section Graz, accessed on March 29, 2020 .