European hiking association
| European Ramblers Association (ERA) |
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|---|---|
| sport | hike |
| Founded | 19th October 1969 |
| president | Boris Mićić |
| societies | 55 hiking clubs |
| Members | 5.0 million (as of 2019) |
| Association headquarters |
Kassel ( Germany ) Prague ( Czech Republic )
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| Official languages) | German , English , French |
| Homepage | ERA-EWV-ferp.com |
The European Ramblers' Association (ERA) ( English European Ramblers Association , ERA ) is an umbrella organization of 55 walking clubs from 30 European countries . Its official seat is Kassel ( Germany ), but the office is in Prague ( Czech Republic ).
It was founded on October 19, 1969 in the Nägelehaus on the Raichberg near Onstmettingen by hiking organizations from Germany, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg and Belgium. Today it has more than five million members. She looks after the European long-distance hiking trails and regularly organizes the European hiking meeting EURORANDO. The European Hiking Association has been cooperating with the European Union of Mountaineering Associations since 2019 .
List of member clubs
(As of September 2013)
Full members
- Alpine Association Long-Distance Hikers of the Austrian Alpine Association (ÖAV)
- Federació Andorrana de Muntanysme (FAM)
- Great route paths
- Les Sentiers de Grande Randonnée
- Bulgarsky Turisticheski Sajus
- Swiss hiking trails (SAW)
- Cyprus Tourism Organization
- Club českých turistů (KČT)
- Eifelverein eV
- Moravian-Silesian Sudeten Mountains Association eV
- Frankenwaldverein eV
- Odenwaldklub eV (since 2005)
- Saarwald Association eV
- Sauerland Mountain Association eV
- Swabian Alb Association eV
- Association of German Mountain and Hiking Clubs eV
- Wiehengebirgsverband Weser-Ems
- Wilhelm Münker Foundation
- Dansk Vandrelaug
- Euskal Mendizale Federazioa
- Federación Andaluza de Montañismo (FAM)
- Federacion Aragonesa de Montañismo
- Federación Española de Deportes de Montaña y Escalada
- Federació d'Entitats Excursionistes de Catalunya (FEEC)
- Federacion Navarra de Deportes de Montana y Escalada
- Federació d'Esports de Muntanya y Escalada, Valenciana
- Eesti Matkaliit
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Fédération française de la randonnée pédestre
- FFRandonnée - Comitée régional de Picardie
- FFRandonnée - Regional Committee in Midi-Pyrénées
- The Ramblers' Association of Malta
- Suomen Latu
- HF Holidays LTD
- Long distance walkers
- Ramblers' Association
- Ramblers Holidays Limited
- Elliniki Omospondia Orivasias - Anarrichisis
- Magyar Természetbarát Szövetség
- Federazione Italiana Escursionismo
- Mountaineering Ireland
- Ministère du Tourisme
- The Norske Turistforening
- Stichting Wandelplatform
- Clube de Actividades de Ar Livre
- Federação de Campismo e Montanhismo de Portugal
- Federacao Portuguesa de Montanhismo e Escalada
- Polskie Towarzystwo Turystyczno-Krajoznawcze
- Svenska Turistföreningen
- Planinarski Savez Srbije
- Slovenských Turistov Club
- Planinska Zveza Slovenije
- SKV - Transylvanian Carpathian Association - Asociatia Carpatină Ardeleană a Turiștilor, Romania (since 2010)
Observation status
- Israel Trails Committee, The Society for the Protection (Israel)
- Federation Royale Marocaine de Ski et Montagne (Morocco)
- Association pour le Dévéloppement et l'Environnement aux Montagnes du Nord (Morocco)
- International Appalachian Trail (USA / Canada)
List of presidents
| 1969-1976 | Georg Fahrbach , Germany |
| 1976-1979 | Paul Schäublin, Switzerland |
| 1979-1985 | Konrad Schubach , Germany |
| 1985-1994 | Robert Wurst, Austria |
| 1994-1997 | Hubert Yseboodt, Belgium |
| 1997-2009 | Jan Havelka, Czech Republic |
| 2009-2017 | Lis Nielsen, Denmark |
| since 2017 | Boris Mićić, Serbia |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ About European Ramblers' Association , accessed September 24, 2013.
- ↑ Hiking trails across national borders. Organizations from five countries found a European hiking association, in Schwäbische Zeitung (Ravensburg edition) of October 20, 1969, p. 6
- ↑ EUMA and ERA signed cooperation agreement. EUMA, October 17, 2019, accessed on March 27, 2020 (English).
- ^ Günter Wilhelm: European hiking association. What happened in the nail shop 50 years ago? In: Odenwaldklub eV (Ed.): OWK intern . No. September 3 , 2019.
- ↑ Ralf Sudrigian: 683 kilometers on the E3 through the West Mountains and the Banat Mountains. In: General German newspaper for Romania. December 17, 2014, accessed June 25, 2020 .