Swabian Alb Association
Swabian Alb Association V. (SAV) |
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purpose | u. a. Promotion and maintenance of hiking ; Nature , environmental and landscape protection ; Customs and homeland awareness |
Chair: | Hans-Ulrich Rauchfuß (President), Thomas Keck (Deputy President), Hansjörg Schönherr (Deputy President) |
Manager: | Annette Schramm |
Establishment date: | August 13, 1888 |
Number of members: | 94,000 (December 2019) |
Seat : | Stuttgart |
Website: | Albverein.net |
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The Swabian Alb Association e. V. ( SAV for short ), based in Stuttgart , was founded in Plochingen on August 13, 1888 , making it one of the oldest hiking clubs in Germany. Its area extends far beyond the eponymous mountains, the Swabian Alb , to the north to the Tauber , to the south to Lake Constance , so it includes the former state of Württemberg ; an exception to this is the former Württemberg part of the Black Forest (districts Calw and Freudenstadt ). It is entered in the register of associations at the Stuttgart District Court (VR 2430).
The number of members grew rapidly, from 519 (1889) to around 20,000 (1897), 44,000 (1926), around 60,000 (1955), around 100,000 (1971). With around 94,000 members (as of December 2019), it is now the largest German and European hiking club.
The association is a member of the German Hiking Association and the European Hiking Association . The association has been a recognized nature conservation association since 1994 .
history
On August 13, 1888, at the invitation of Valentin Salzmann, representatives of several beautification associations met in Plochingen with the aim of jointly improving the work of the existing beautification associations on the Albtrauf . At the constituent meeting on November 12, 1888 in Plochingen, Salzmann presented the first draft of the Albverein's statutes, which were finally brought into being a little later. The first committee meeting took place on April 22, 1889 in Plochingen. At the first general meeting of the association on May 5, 1889 in Plochingen, Salzmann was elected chairman, Ernst Camerer secretary and deputy chairman, Gustav Ströhmfeld as computer and Eugen Nägele as secretary.
Eugen Nägele had been deputy chairman since 1890 and after he was elected chairman in 1913, the seat of the association was relocated to Tübingen. In 1925 the association bought a villa-like house at 19 Gartenstrasse and had it converted for its office under the direction of the architect Gustav Stähle. The house was built around an annex on the western side. a. the stairwell is located, as well as the second floor and the roof structure, so that after the renovation, the outside of the building appeared as a "fast new building".
Club structure
The association is divided into 22 " Gaue ". These are responsible for looking after the “local groups” in their area. The association currently has 570 local groups. The main office is in Stuttgart .
aims
The association is not only dedicated to hiking , but above all to regional culture with all its richness. He wants to maintain and preserve what is special and typical that is at home in his homeland from the Taubergrund to Lake Constance, from the edge of the Black Forest to the Ries . This includes the protection of nature and the landscape as well as the care of language, music, dance and song. This results in extensive hiking and event programs as well as many opportunities for recreation, relaxation and socializing.
Another important goal is the training of qualified hiking guides. For this purpose, the Baden-Württemberg Home and Hiking Academy was founded in 2001 . It is a joint project of the Swabian Alb Association together with the Black Forest Association .
offer
With their extensive hiking and event programs, the local groups offer many opportunities for recreation, relaxation and socializing. Being a member of the Swabian Alb Association does not just mean hiking in a group with a trained hiking guide who knows how to tell about the paths, nature and culture, landscape history and buildings. In addition, the numerous hiking meetings, annual general meetings and star hikes offer opportunities for social hiking and celebrations. In addition, the Swabian Alb Association offers training to become expert hiking guides, nature conservationists or youth workers, lessons in folk music, folk dance, flag waving and more.
Observation towers
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The Swabian Alb Association operates a total of 29 observation towers in the Swabian Alb, but also in other areas of Baden-Württemberg such as the Swabian-Franconian Forest and the Stromberg .
- Augstberg tower near Trochtelfingen-Steinhilben
- Citizen tower in Neuenstein
- Teck Castle near Owen
- Burgberg tower near Frankenhardt-Oberspeltach
- Eselsburg tower near Vaihingen-Ensingen
- Gansnestturm near Fridingen on the Danube
- Hagbergturm near Gschwend
- Heroldstatt Tower at Heroldstatt
- Hohe Warte near St. Johann
- Hursch Tower near Römerstein-Zainingen
- Jubilee tower in Plochingen
- Juxkopfturm at Spiegelberg-Jux
- Katharinenlinden tower near Esslingen am Neckar
- Core tower near Fellbach
- Lembergturm near Gosheim
- Lichteler Landturm near Creglingen
- Lupfenturm near Talheim
- Raichbergturm near Albstadt-Onstmettingen
- Römerstein tower near Römerstein-Donnstetten
- Roßbergturm near Reutlingen-Gönningen
- Schönberg Tower near Pfullingen
- Schwarzer Grat Tower near Isny in the Allgäu
- Steinknickleturm near Wüstenrot-Neuhütten
- Sternberg tower near Gomadingen
- Uhlberg tower near Filderstadt-Plattenhardt
- Three observation towers in the Münsingen manor district
- Volkmarsberg tower near Oberkochen
- Waldgreutturm near Römerstein-Zainingen
- Two oak tower near Pliezhausen
Migrant homes
The Swabian Alb Association operates a total of 21 hiking homes with overnight accommodation in the Swabian Alb , but also in other areas of Baden-Württemberg . Most of them are run voluntarily by local groups on weekends and public holidays. (Abbreviation: Ehr.) Other migrant homes are leased to a tenant . (Abbreviation: verp.)
Neckarland and Hohenlohe plain
- Weinsberg, honest. (216 m)
- Sulzdorf, honest. (382 m)
Keuperberge - Stromberg-Heuchelberg , Swabian-Franconian Forest
- Füllmenbacher Hof , honestly. (305 m)
- Juxkopfhütte , honest . (533 m)
- Eschelhof , honest. (492 m)
Eastern and central Swabian Alb to the Echaz - Große Lauter line
- Franz-Keller-Haus , honestly. (781 m)
- Wasserberghaus , packed (700 m)
- Teck Castle , pack. (775 m)
- Eninger Weide , pack. (751 m)
Central and southwestern Alb, west of the Echaz-Große Lauter line
- Roßberghaus , packed (869 m)
- Sternberg , honest. (844 m)
- Nägelehaus , packed (956 m)
- Fuchsfarm youth center , hon. (920 m)
- House of Folk Art (570 m)
- Lochenhütte , honest . (963 m)
- Nusplinger Hut , honest. (890 m)
On / near the southern edge of the Swabian Alb and south of the Danube
- Pfannentalhaus , packed (440 m)
- Weidacher Hut , honest. (632 m)
- Farrenstall, honest. (685 m)
- Derneck Castle , honest. (655 m)
- Wanderheim Friedberg , Ehr. (614 m)
- Rauher Stein , packed (786 m)
Hiking trails
The Swabian Alb Association maintains a network of hiking trails with a total length of over 20,000 kilometers. In addition to numerous local hiking trails, there are also ten main hiking trails that can take days or weeks to complete:
- Main hiking trail 1, the Swabian Alb North Rim Trail , Donauwörth - Tuttlingen , length 365 km
- Main hiking trail 2, the Swabian Alb Southern Edge Trail , Donauwörth – Tuttlingen, length 256 km
- Main hiking trail 3, the Main-Neckar-Rhein-Weg , Wertheim - Lörrach , length 540 km (support between Villingen-Schwenningen and Lörrach by the Black Forest Association )
- Main hiking trail 4, the Main-Danube-Bodensee-Weg , Würzburg - Friedrichshafen , length 420 km
- Main hiking trail 5, the Black Forest-Swabian-Alb-Allgäu-Weg , Pforzheim - Black Ridge , length 320 km
- Main hiking trail 6, the Limes hiking trail , Miltenberg - Wilburgstetten , length 245 km
- Main hiking trail 7, the Swabian-Alb-Oberschwaben-Weg , Lorch –Friedrichshafen, length 240 km
- Main hiking trail 8, the Frankenweg , Pforzheim– Rothenburg ob der Tauber , length 220 km
- Main hiking trail 9, the Heuberg-Allgäu-Weg , Spaichingen –Schwarzer Grat, length 185 km
- Main hiking trail 10, the Stromberg-Schwäbischer Wald-Weg , Pforzheim – Lorch, length 170 km
In addition, the Swabian Alb Association maintains the following long-distance hiking trails:
- Georg-Fahrbach-Weg , Criesbach - Stuttgart-Uhlbach , length 130 km
- Württemberg wine trail , Aub - Esslingen am Neckar , length 470 km
Alb club song
At official events and celebrations of the association which is Albverein song "Now put this sign on his hat, her Albverein comrades" sung. The text comes from founding member Eugen Nägele and was presented in June 1890 in the "Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein". The song is sung to the melody of the Frankenlied by Valentin Eduard Becker .
Publishing house of the Swabian Alb Association
The Schwäbischer Albverein publishing house has been publishing publications on the Swabian Alb and its neighboring regions since 1893, as well as hiking guides and maps, as well as literature on history, geology, flora and fauna, nature conservation, folk art, songs and dialect. In addition to individual titles, the publisher is currently publishing the series Natur - Heimat - Wandern, which has been published since 1977, as well as hiking maps of the Swabian Alb Association since 2003 at a scale of 1: 35,000 and since 2017 at a scale of 1: 25,000. In addition, the association is also involved in cooperation titles with other publishers, including hiking and leisure maps of the State Office for Geoinformation and Rural Development Baden-Württemberg and the Swabian home calendar . The publishing house of the Swabian Alb Association is a member of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels and the Baden-Württemberg State Association of the Börsenverein.
Leaves of the Swabian Alb Association
The newspapers of the Swabian Alb Association have been providing information about activities in the association since their first issue on May 12, 1889 and represent a forum for local and regional history. Members of the Alb Association receive the magazine free of charge; However, it can also be subscribed to by non-members. The sheets of the Swabian Alb Association appear quarterly with a circulation of 70,000 copies. All editions from 1889 to the present day are available free of charge in a digital archive.
Swabian Alb club youth
The Swabian Alb Club Youth belongs to the German Wanderjugend and is the youth organization of the Swabian Alb Club. It was founded in 1926 and has over 13,000 members and around 150 local children and youth groups.
Like the main association, the Albvereinsjugend is divided into districts and local groups. The highest body is the youth representative assembly, which meets three times a year. A full-time office in Stuttgart looks after the activities of the members in the club area.
The Albvereinsjugend offers open youth work, advanced training and free time at the club level and in the local groups.
Four guiding principles shape the self-image of the Albverein youth: On the move together, nature & environmental protection, social and democratic action, between tradition and modernity.
The central magazine Level published four times a year. The association's own youth center Fuchsfarm is located on the Raichberg near Albstadt-Onstmettingen on the Swabian Alb, where camps for young people have been organized regularly since 1965. In 2006 the Swabian Alb Club Youth presented the board game Quer durch BaWü with various excursion and hiking destinations from the club area.
Personalities
Chairmen and Presidents:
- Valentin Salzmann , founding member and chairman from 1888 to 1890
- Ernst Camerer , chairman from 1890 to 1913
- Eugen Nägele , founding member and chairman from 1913 to 1933
- Rudolf Höllwarth , chairman from 1933 to 1939
- Georg Fahrbach , chairman / president from 1939 to 1945 and from 1949 to 1973
- Peter Goessler , chairman from 1945 to 1949
- Helmut Schönnamsgruber , President from 1973 to 1991
- Peter Stoll , President from 1991 to 2001
- Hans-Ulrich Rauchfuß , President since 2001
Other personalities:
- Ernst Waldemar Bauer , author at the publishing house of the Swabian Alb Association
- Hans Binder , author in the publishing house of the Swabian Alb Association
- Angelika Bischoff-Luithlen , author at the publishing house of the Swabian Alb Association
- Albert Deibele , author in the publishing house of the Swabian Alb Association
- Theodor Engel , editor of the magazine Blätter of the Swabian Alb Association
- Eugen Gaus , district chairman
- Robert Gradmann , author in the publishing house of the Swabian Alb Association
- Ernst Kapff , author in the papers of the Swabian Alb Association
- Thomas Keck , Vice President and Chairman of the Lichtensteinau
- Franz Keller , chairman of the Northeast District
- Konrad Albert Koch , author in the journals of the Swabian Alb Association
- Richard Lohrmann , chairman of the Danube Bussen Gau
- Hans Mattern , honorary member of the Swabian Alb Association
- Wilhelm Mattes , district chairman and honorary member of the Swabian Alb Association
- Theo Müller , editor of the magazine Blätter of the Swabian Alb Association
- Dieter Planck , author in the publishing house of the Swabian Alb Association
- Andreas Raab , chairman of the Burgberg-Tauber-Gaus
- Oswald Rathfelder , Vice President and Honorary Member of the Swabian Alb Association
- Paul Sauer , author at the publishing house of the Swabian Alb Association
- Heinz-Eugen Schramm , author at the publishing house of the Swabian Alb Association
- Hans Schwenkel , honorary member of the Swabian Alb Association
- Wilfried Setzler , author at the publishing house of the Swabian Alb Association
- Uta Süße-Krause , author at the publishing house of the Swabian Alb Association
- Ernst Wall , author at the publishing house of the Swabian Alb Association
- Paul Wanner , author at the publishing house of the Swabian Alb Association
- Hans Widmann , author in the publishing house of the Swabian Alb Association
- Reinhard Wolf , Vice President and Honorary Member of the Swabian Alb Association
- Walter Ziegler , author at the publishing house of the Swabian Alb Association
- Walter Zimmermann , author in the publishing house of the Swabian Alb Association
Awards
The main association, together with the Black Forest Association, was awarded the Medal of Merit by the Baden-Württemberg Tourism Association on September 20, 2017 as a "pioneer in sustainable tourism".
The following local groups of the Swabian Alb Association received the Eichendorff badge since 1989 :
- 1989 Pfullingen local group
- 1992 Local group Kohlberg-Kappishäuser
- 1993 local group Böhringen
- 1994 Frickenhausen local group
- 1994 Winterlingen local group
- 1995 local group Eningen
- 1996 Local group Hüttlingen
- 1997 Großbottwar local group
- 1997 Isny local group
- 1997 Rottenburg local group
- 1998 local group Nellingen
- 1999 Copperzell branch
- 1999 Munich branch
- 1999 Oberkochen local group
- 1999 Sontheim local group
- 1999 Untergröningen local group
- 2000 Bad Waldsee local group
- 2000 Bonlanden local group
- 2000 Essingen local group
- 2000 Kornwestheim local group
- 2000 Local group Plattenhardt
- 2000 Tamm local group
- 2001 local group Eberhardzell
- 2001 local group Ensingen
- 2001 Local group Gerabronn
- 2001 Gundelfingen local group
- 2002 local group Binsdorf
- 2002 local group Bönnigheim
- 2002 local group Deilingen-Delkhofen
- 2002 local group Eybach
- 2002 Local group Kirchentellinsfurt
- 2002 Möhringen branch
- 2002 Mühlacker local group
- 2002 Local group Wäschenbeuren
- 2003 Abtsgmünd local group
- 2004 Local group Heslach
- 2005 Ulm / Neu-Ulm local group
- 2006 Inzigkofen local group
- 2006 local group Öhringen
- 2006 local group Scharnhausen
- 2007 local group Remshalden
- 2007 Wilhelmsdorf local group
- 2008 Schwaigern local group
- 2011 Kolbingen local group
- 2013 Weilersteusslingen local group
- 2018 Local group Vaihingen / Enz
See also
Individual evidence
Geographical information according to official topographic maps 1: 25,000 and 1: 50,000.
- ^ Statutes of the Schwäbischer Albverein eV in the version of January 25, 2014 , Schwäbischer Albverein: § 2: "Purpose of the association".
- ↑ a b c Welcome to the Swabian Alb Association
- ↑ Every second person keeps fit with hiking , “Stuttgarter Nachrichten”, accessed on April 14, 2013.
- ↑ Founding of the Schw. Albvereins , Ensingen.Albverein
- ↑ History ( Memento from August 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ History , Albverein-Oberkochen.de.
- ↑ Memory of the association's founder, Salzmann . In: "Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein", issue 1/2014, issue 6/2008, p. 31.
- ^ Antje Nagel [= Zacharias]: Along the Neckar . In: Udo Rauch (ed); Between the Ammer and the Neckar. The changing cityscape of Tübingen , City of Tübingen, Cultural Office: Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-910090-11-7 . P. 112.
- ↑ a b Schwäbischer Albverein: observation towers and hiking homes .
- ^ Albvereinslied , Schwaben-Kultur, accessed on January 24, 2013.
- ↑ Georg Fahrbach : "In the Albverein 50 years ago". In: "Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein", January 1, 1941, p. 6.
- ↑ ISSN 1438-373X
- ↑ Pioneer of sustainable tourism. Award for the Black Forest Association and the Swabian Alb Association , press release of the Baden-Württemberg Tourism Association from September 21, 2017.
- ↑ Eichendorff badge
- ^ Albverein Kohlberg-Kappis: History of the Kolberg local group ( Memento from October 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Ortsgruppe Böhringen , Roemerstein.de.
- ↑ Frickenhausen local group .
- ↑ Local group Winterlingen .
- ^ Local group Eningen .
- ↑ Local group Hüttlingen .
- ↑ Großbottwar local group .
- ^ Annual General Meeting in Isny im Allgäu from June 6th to 8th, 1997 . In: “Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein”, issue 5/1997, p. 137.
- ^ Local group Rottenburg .
- ↑ Local group Nellingen .
- ↑ a b c d e Awarding of the Eichendorff badge . In: "Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein", issue 2/2000, p. 24.
- ↑ a b c d e f Received the Eichendorff badge . In: "Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein", issue 2/2001, p. 26.
- ↑ a b c d honors . In: "Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein", issue 2/2002, p. 26.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Eichendorff badge 2002 . In: "Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein", issue 2/2003, p. 33.
- ↑ Ortsgruppe Abtgmünd
- ↑ Eichendorff badge 2003 . In: "Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein", issue 2/2004, p. 31.
- ^ Local group Heslach ( Memento from August 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Ulm local group .
- ↑ Eichendorff badge 2005 . In: "Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein", issue 1/2006, p. 30.
- ↑ a b c Awarded the Eichendorff badge in 2006 . In: "Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein", issue 6/2006, p. 18.
- ^ Horst Gromer: OG Scharnhausen . In: "Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein", issue 6/2006, p. 27.
- ↑ a b Awarded the Eichendorff badge in 2007 . In: “Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein”, issue 1/2008, p. 29f.
- ↑ Schwaigern local group .
- ↑ Schwäbischer Albverein eV local group Kolbingen. In: Albverein Kolbingen. Retrieved December 2, 2016 . .
- ↑ Local group Wallerstein receives Eichendorff badge .
- ↑ Allmendingen .
- ↑ Hiking Association ( Memento from October 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Eichendorff badge . In: "Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein", issue 1/2014, p. 55.
- ^ Eichendorff badge for the local group Vaihingen .
literature
- 125 Years of the Schwäbischer Albverein , Verlag des Schwäbischer Albverein, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-920801-70-4 .
- Egon Schraitle: The founding and beginnings of the Swabian Alb Association , Verlag des Schwäbischer Albverein, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 978-3-920801-30-8 .
Web links
- On the history of the Swabian Alb Association
- Website of the main association with links to the local groups
- Web presence of the Swabian Alb Club Youth
- "Leaves of the Swabian Alb Association" ; digitized editions on schwaben-kultur.de since 1889
- Literature from and about the Swabian Alb Association in the bibliographic database WorldCat