Holiday center at Lake Wolfgang

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The main holiday resort building from the lake

Ferienhort am Wolfgangsee is a non-profit, independent, socially committed association that has been offering holiday camps for young people since 1888. As Ferienhort the association's own property in is Sankt Gilgen / Ried im Salzkammergut , Austria referred to the holiday activities are carried out since 1911th The association is based in Vienna and has around 850 full members (as of 2011).

Goals and principles

The association has set itself the goal of promoting the skills and talents of young people within the framework of the holiday campaigns and accompanying them in their development into self-determined and self-confident people. You should learn to enjoy dealing with other people with mutual respect and acceptance of differences and achieve a peaceful and constructive life in community with others.

These goals are to be achieved through the following pedagogical principles:

  • Holistic and creative image of man
  • Promotion of individuality and personal responsibility
  • Diversity of the offer and the people
  • Experience orientation

The principle of charitable status and social commitment is implemented by enabling children from financially weaker families to participate in the holiday camps through support from the “Walter Rothensteiner Social Fund” operated by the holiday center and public authorities. In addition, the association is run as a non-profit organization with volunteer officials and employees.

meaning

Except for the years 1915 to 1918 and 1938 to 1945, holiday activities have been held continuously since the association was founded. While only a few dozen students could be accommodated in the early years, the number of participants rose to over a hundred from 1898 and to over two hundred from 1905. With the addition of new locations, it was already possible in the years before the construction of one's own home to offer around four hundred places every summer.

From 1911 onwards, the holiday campaigns were only carried out in the holiday center on Lake Wolfgang. The number of participants fluctuated between 450 and 560 from 1911 to 1987. The highest number of participating students in a single holiday camp was reached in 1937 with 562.

For educational reasons, the group sizes were reduced to a maximum of 55 students in the 1990s. The additional camps offered since 1988 - special, trial camp (today: mini camp), adventure camp (today: all-round camp), batch camp (today: boots camp) - increased the total number of participants to over 700 children and Teenagers. In 2007, the number of participants in all camps exceeded 1,000 for the first time.

history

The socially oriented and non-partisan association was founded on February 21, 1888. The founder is the Viennese pulmonologist Leopold Schrötter , Ritter von Kristelli, who wanted to give needy and “worthy” middle school students from Vienna the opportunity to spend a holiday in the country. The original name of the association was therefore also a holiday resort for needy and worthy high school students .

In the first few years, the holiday campaigns were organized in different parts of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. In the founding year 1888, a holiday campaign was held in Wildalpen in Styria for 22 schoolchildren . This first action lasted 60 days, from July 16 to September 14, 1888. In the 1890s, people lived in a house they had bought themselves in Steeg on Lake Hallstatt . Due to the rapidly increasing demand for these summer recreational activities, however, the search for a large holiday home of their own was soon started. With the acquisition of the "Frauenstein am Wolfgangsee " property - the property comprises around 40  hectares of forest and meadows and around two km of lakeshore - it was finally possible to erect the building that still exists today, including the ballroom. Since 1911, this building has provided space for around 450 young people.

By 2007, 44,987 children and young people were able to spend their holidays in the holiday resort. In the anniversary year 2008, the 45,000th participant was honored as part of the festive event "120 Years of the Holiday Center".

On July 16, 2011, the completion of the holiday home on Lake Wolfgang in 1911 was commemorated with the anniversary celebration “100 years of the Ferienhort am Wolfgangsee”.

Boating

Sailing trip with the boat "Cyklon"

The boating in the holiday resort originated in 1890 when the holiday campaign first took place at Lake Hallstatt. In the same year, the kuk port admiralate in Pola (today: Pula in Croatia) gave the holiday resort two dinghies from the Austrian Navy . At the same time, the then kuk torpedo master Johann Baumgartner was granted leave to instruct the pupils (as the students were called at the time) and teach them rojen (seafaring for rowing ). Thus Johann Baumgartner was the first boating supervisor in the holiday resort. The same marine section donated more boats in the following years, so that in 1905 there was space for 145 students in the boats.

With the relocation of the holiday campaigns to the specially acquired property on Lake Wolfgang in 1911, it was ensured that the boats made available by the Navy could continue to be used.

During the two world wars , however, no holiday campaigns could be carried out because Austria was at war. From 1916 to 1918 the holiday center housed the naval academy from Fiume as a summer training facility , after which the holiday center itself was able to use the site again every summer until the " connection " to the German Reich . When the German troops marched into Austria in March 1938 , the association was dissolved and the property was confiscated. Most of the boats in the holiday resort fleet were also confiscated by the naval Hitler Youth over the years , brought to various lakes and could not be found after the war.

During the Nazi era , the building on Lake Wolfgang was used as a non-commissioned officer school and later as a maritime vocational school. After the end of the war, the holiday resort was used by the American occupying powers . During this time, among other things, the ship's hut burned down, with two motor boats, two regatta boats, a transport platform as well as three boats and ship material falling victim to the flames.

When the property on Wolfgangsee finally returned to the association in 1947, only four of the former 17 boats were left ( Alfred , Hans , Anka , President ) that could be repaired. Therefore, the club management at the time started looking for new boat equipment. It finally came from the marine vocational school, which was housed in the home during the war, and from the naval depot on Lake Wörthersee .

After numerous purchases, repairs and sales, the current status (with the exception of the two-masted Albatros and Petrel ) was reached in 1954.

In 1965 the conversion of the sailing cutter to plastic sails began, soon afterwards most of the boat hulls were covered with laminate. For a few years now, one boat has been overhauled each year (necessary repairs to the hull, renewal of the interior).

In 1994 two more two-masters were purchased, which results in the current status of 15 boats:

  • Traditional class: Alfred , Hans , Anka , President
  • heavy cutter: hurricane , cyclone , typhoon , leopard , panther
  • light cutters: Phönix , Condor , Tiger
  • Two masters: sea ​​hawk , albatross , petrel

In the years that followed, boats were repeatedly donated to the holiday resort by private individuals. Two of these dinghies (a trainer and a corsair ) and a yawl ( wasp ) are still available today.

Petrel and Albatros have not been in use since 2008, resulting in a total of 13 boats, making Seefalke the only two-master.

Organization and financing

The association is represented externally by the board of directors and the president; the executive committee is responsible for the operational management of the board, which consists of three people who oversee the areas of education, public relations and fundraising. The extended board also includes the areas of legal advice and auditing. All members of the board work for the association on a voluntary basis and free of charge. The board is elected every four years by all members of the association; A general assembly takes place annually, during which the board gives an account to the members.

A full-time managing director serves as a contact person in the ongoing business of the association and carries out organizational, coordination and administrative activities on site.

The association is financed from membership fees, donations, sponsor payments and subsidies from the public sector. The public subsidies are used to support the prices of places for the needy. Another source of income is leasing the property to HBLA Ried during the school year .

Club presidents

Term of office president job
since 1995 Walter Rothensteiner Advocate General of the Austrian Raiffeisen Association
1989-1995 Klaus Liebscher General Director of Raiffeisen Zentralbank Austria
1977-1989 Hellmuth Klauhs General Director of the Cooperative Central Bank
1952-1976 Karl Weninger General director of the Austrian Credit Institute
1946-1951 Hans Pernter Federal Minister for Education a. D.
1935-1938 Klemens Ottel Consultant for commercial education in the Federal Ministry for Education
1916-1934 Max Hussarek from Heinlein kuk real secret council, kuk prime minister ret. D.
1907-1915 Richard Graf von Bienerth-Schmerling kuk real secret council, kuk prime minister ret. D., kuk governor
1898-1907 Wilhelm von Hartel kuk real secret council, kuk minister for culture and education a. D.
1888-1897 Alfred von Arneth President of the Imperial Academy of Sciences

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daily newspaper Der Standard from 16./17. July 2011 http://derstandard.at/1310511401005/Sommercamp-mit-sozialem-Hugel-Ferien-mit-Sinn-und-kein-Sommersplash

Web links

Commons : Ferienhort am Wolfgangsee  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ 0.6 ″  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 40.9 ″  E