Mountaineering villages
| Mountaineering villages | |
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| legal form | Local and community network project |
| founding | 2008 |
| founder | Austrian Alpine Club |
| main emphasis | Alpine Convention |
| method | Networking, information, events |
| Action space | Eastern Alps |
| people | Marion Hetzenauer, Roland Kals and Jan Salcher (ÖAV), Tobias Hipp (DAV), Anna Pichler (AVS), Elena Tovaglieri (CAI), Dušan Prašnikar (PZS) |
| owner |
Austrian Alpine Association (ÖAV) German Alpine Association (DAV) Alpine Association South Tyrol (AVS) Club Alpino Italiano (CAI) Planinska zveza Slovenije (PZS) |
| Members | 30 towns and communities (2020) |
| Website | www.bergsteigerdoerfer.org |
The Mountaineering Villages are a cross-border and cross-cultural initiative that was launched by the Austrian Alpine Association with the support of the Ministry for a liveable Austria under the banner of tourism sustainability . Financial resources are also provided from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (currently EL 2014–2020). Since 2015, the national alpine clubs of the neighboring countries Germany , Italy (especially South Tyrol ) and Slovenia have been gradually involved in the project to implement the Alpine Convention .
concept
After three years of preparatory work, the project was launched in July 2008 at an initial conference in Ginzling . In addition to the conference location, 16 communities and villages committed to promoting alternative and near-natural tourism development. The framework of the initiative is formed by the Alpine Convention , the main objective of which is sustainable development in the entire Alpine region . The title Bergsteigerdorf is also a seal of quality, which is why applicants have to meet a strict catalog of criteria before they can officially bear the name.
The main content and principles of the Bergsteigerdörfer Initiative are:
- Preservation of the local culture and tradition
- Sustainable tourism without technical development measures, a few, high-quality accommodation providers and a focus on high-quality mountain sports
- Typical local development
- Sustainable mountain agriculture and forestry under the aspect of the production and marketing of local and regional products
- Active nature and landscape protection
- Gentle mobility and extensive renunciation of motorized traffic
- Communication and exchange of information with one another
After examination and support from the national associations, an international committee decides on the admission of new members.
The founding member Kals am Großglockner was revoked the status of mountaineering village at the end of 2011 after the municipality decided to push ahead with the construction of a chalet village outside the historic town center in Großdorf after merging ski areas with Matrei .
extension
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Location of the mountaineering villages in Austria, Germany, Italy and Slovenia |
In Austria, with the exception of Vienna and Burgenland, there is at least one mountaineering village in every federal state. Between 2011 and 2013, Mauthen , St. Jodok with the Schmirn and Valsertal , Zell / Sele and the Sellraintal region were added to the 16 remaining founding locations . There are a total of 20 communities and villages participating in the initiative.
Starting in the summer of 2013, Germany started to consider bringing the project to Bavaria. In February 2015, the DAV announced that the project would also come to Germany, more precisely to Bavaria , and in September of the same year was the first German community to award Ramsau near Berchtesgaden the seal of mountaineering village . Two years later, the project was expanded to include the communities of Sachrang and Schleching , also located in Upper Bavaria , and Kreuth followed in 2018 .
The initiative was also taken up by the Alpine Association of South Tyrol and since 2017 Matsch has been the first South Tyrolean mountaineering village. In 2018, Jezersko became the first Slovenian member. With Lungiarü (South Tyrol) and Val di Zoldo ( Veneto ), two new Italian locations were added, the latter having already been cooperating with the mountaineering villages for several years via the EU's INTERREG program. In the summer of 2019, Luče in Slovenia was accepted into the community.
List of mountaineering villages
Former mountaineering villages
| Mountaineering village | Height (m) | region | country | Highest peak | Height (m) | Mountain Group ( AVE ) | year | Reason for leaving |
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| Kals am Großglockner | 1324 | Tyrol |
 Austria
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Grossglockner | 3798 |
Glockner group Granatspitz group Schober group |
2008-2011 | Construction of a chalet complex outside the historic center |
reception
The mountaineering villages, which see themselves as a countermovement to mass tourism , are often perceived that way. With the addition of new members, according to an article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the initiative is developing from a “romantic idea” to an Alpine-wide network. Co-founder Peter Haßlacher, head of the PES department for spatial planning and nature conservation for decades and Austrian chairman of the Alpine Conservation Commission CIPRA , wants to understand the aspect of sustainability not only in an ecological sense, but also against the background of mountaineering as an alpine heritage.
In 2015, Bavarian TV dedicated an episode of the documentary series Under Our Heaven to the mountaineering villages, in which the communities of Lesachtal , Obertilliach and Ramsau near Berchtesgaden were in focus. In addition to initial assessments, expectations were also shown that are often associated with the appointment as a mountaineering village. While some family businesses in the Lesach Valley benefited from the initiative with increasing numbers of overnight stays, awareness would at least have been raised in the Tyrolean Gail Valley. In Ramsau, in addition to sending a signal to the surrounding communities, they also expected - regardless of economic interest - a more critical approach to construction projects, better support for smallholders and generally greater opportunities for funding. Even mud and Jezersko hoping for a long term better known more overnight guests without being crowded there.
In Ramsau, as in Kartitsch, the title Bergsteigerdorf contributed to identification within the community, but two years after the award, the majority of the guests did not know what to do with the term. A tourism marketing strategy apart from a certain clientele is therefore not feasible. Critics see the initiative as a "collecting basin for those left behind". In addition, the strict environmental requirements could even inhibit possible tourism development. In Kals in East Tyrol, for example, where construction projects led to an exclusion from the community, the financial interests of the community were no longer seen as compatible with the catalog of criteria. Fundamental problems of structurally weak rural areas such as emigration could not be solved by the mountaineering villages anyway.
In the 2010/11 academic year, the Transport System Planning department of the Vienna University of Technology , in cooperation with the PES, offered a project that was supposed to help develop innovative mobility concepts for selected mountaineering villages.
literature
- Ideas - deeds - facts, No. 1: Start conference mountaineering villages in the mountaineering village of Ginzling, from 10-11. July 2008 , Austrian Alpine Association as part of the project “Alpine Convention in concrete terms: Via Alpina and mountaineering villages”, Spatial Planning-Nature Conservation Department, Innsbruck 2008, 36 p. PDF download .
- Josef Essel, Peter Haßlacher & Regina Hatheier-Stampfl: Mountaineering Villages - Small and fine mountaineering villages to enjoy and linger. Austrian Alpine Association , Innsbruck 2013, 160 p. Austria-Forum Bergsteigerdörfer
- various authors: volumes on individual mountaineering villages, Austrian Alpine Association , Innsbruck 2010–2014. Austria-Forum mountaineering villages .
- Mark Zahel: Bergsteigerdörfer (illustrated book), Tyrolia Verlag , Innsbruck / Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-7022-3595-6 , 240 pp.
Web links
- Official website of the mountaineering villages
- Mountaineering villages at the PES
- Mountaineering villages at the DAV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ideas - Deeds - Facts, No. 1: Start conference mountaineering villages in the mountaineering village of Ginzling, from 10-11. July 2008 , Austrian Alpine Association as part of the project “Specific Alpine Convention: Via Alpina and Mountaineering Villages”, Spatial Planning-Nature Conservation Department, Innsbruck 2008, p. 4. PDF download ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der Archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 7, 2018.
- ↑ Mountaineering Villages. Austrian Alpine Club , accessed on July 29, 2015 .
- ↑ Mountaineering villages soon in Bavaria? German Alpine Club , accessed on July 29, 2015 .
- ^ Principles of the mountaineering villages. Austrian Alpine Club , accessed on July 29, 2015 .
- ↑ Mountaineering villages of the Alpine Club celebrate their 10th anniversary. Austrian Alpine Club , May 14, 2018, accessed on November 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Christina Schwann: Small and fine mountaineering villages of the OeAV - a successful implementation of the goals of the Alpine Convention. In: Yearbook of the Association for the Protection of the Mountains , 79th year (2014), pp. 165–178.
- ↑ Naturschutzreferentenseminar 2014. Austrian Alpine Association , July 6, 2014, accessed on November 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Stephanie Geiger: Learning from Austria: Bavaria wants to choose "mountaineering villages". Welt am Sonntag , August 18, 2013, accessed on February 19, 2019 .
- ↑ The “Bergsteigerdörfer” project comes to Bavaria. (No longer available online.) German Alpine Club , archived from the original on May 12, 2015 ; Retrieved July 29, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d Dominik Prantl: Small, fine - but still poor? Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 14, 2017, accessed on November 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Three new mountaineering villages. Dolomiti UNESCO , April 27, 2018, accessed November 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Mountaineering villages a success. Tiroler Tageszeitung , April 5, 2014, accessed on November 14, 2018 .
- ↑ New mountaineering villages: Gschnitztal and Luce. German Alpine Club, January 15, 2019, accessed on January 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Bergsteigerdörfer - a gentle, successful concept. ORF , May 16, 2018, accessed on November 14, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Brigitte Kornberger (director): Alps away from the hustle and bustle - alternative mountaineering village. In: ARD Mediathek . Bayerischer Rundfunk , January 11, 2015, accessed on November 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Andreas Kanatschnig: The new box seats in the Alps. Kleine Zeitung , August 13, 2017, accessed on November 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Announcement P3 mountaineering villages. Vienna University of Technology , October 2010, accessed on November 14, 2018 .
