Mountain Association for Northern Bohemia
The Mountain Association for Northern Bohemia was a tourist association based in the Bohemian Schönlinde (today: Krásná Lípa / Czech Republic), whose area of activity was in the Bohemian Netherlands on the border with Saxony. It was founded in 1885 and dissolved in 1938 after the Sudetenland became part of the German Empire .
history
After the mountain association for the Khaathal had been founded in 1884, the mountain association for the northernmost Bohemia was formed based on its model on September 13, 1885 in Schönlinde, whose predecessor was a disbanded tourist club. Soon, departments of the Mountain Association were established in the surrounding areas of the western Lusatian Mountains , eastern Bohemian Switzerland and the Bohemian Netherlands or Schluckenauer Zipfel. As early as 1893, the mountain association for the Khaathal joined the mountain association for northernmost Bohemia. The members of the mountain association had set themselves the goal of promoting tourism through the construction and expansion of a well-marked network of hiking trails with benches, as well as the construction of observation towers, accommodation houses and outdoor pools and the publication of hiking and travel guides for the region.
The association organizes summer and winter excursions, took on the construction and expansion of student and youth hostels and also took out a so-called book of the decade and the poet's greetings for the solstice celebration called Höhenfeuer .
After the turn of the 20th century, the mountain association had over 1640 paying members and 18 local groups or departments. These were based in Altehrenberg , Blottendorf , Daubitz, St. Georgenthal , Hainspach , Khaa, Kreibitz , Niedergrund, Oberpreschkau, Rumburg, Schluckenau, (Groß) Schönau, Schönbüchel, Schönlinde, Warnsdorf , Wolfsberg, Zeidler and Zwickau in Bohemia.
After the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1919, the Mountain Association remained in existence. The nationality of its members was predominantly German.
In the course of October 1938 the annexation of the border area of Czechoslovakia to the German Reich and the formation of the Reichsgau Sudetenland followed de facto the dissolution of the mountain association and its alignment with the other National Socialist mass organizations. After the re-establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1945 and the subsequent expulsion of the German-Bohemian population, it was no longer possible to revive the association in its old form. The later founded local group Krásná Lípa of the club českých turistů , which was dissolved in 1948, preserved parts of the legacy of the old club. In 1972 the old Wolfsbergbaude including the observation tower was saved through a formal takeover in private ownership.
Initially, the association's work was publicly reported in the North Bohemian tourist newspaper. In later years a separate club magazine appeared, called Rundblick and published in Bohemian Leipa.
The first chairman from the time the association was founded until his death was the medical doctor MUDr. Johann Hille (1852–1925) from Schönlinde, who was also the initiator of the first Kammweg , laid out in 1902/04 and whose grave is still preserved today.
Tourist destinations established by the mountain association and its predecessors
(Selection)
- 1885 Refuge on the Kinskyhöhe near Khaa
- 1886 Lookout tower on the dance plan , renovated in stone in 1905
- 1886 Refuge on the Iricht near Daubitz and expansion of the path there
- 1886 Refuge on the Klötzerhöhe near Kreibitz
- 1887 refuge and 1888 observation tower on the Wolfsberg , extended to a mountain inn in 1901
- 1888 refuge and 1891 observation tower on the Tannenberg
- 1904 Waiting on the castle hill near Warnsdorf
- 1905 Gebirgsverein-Schänke on the Rauchberg
- Lookout tower on the Jüttelsberg (destroyed in 1903)
- 1909 hut on the Pirsken
- 1930 Birkenbaude at Zeidler
- 1934 Refuge on the Scheibenberg near Khaa
Publications of the mountain association
- Decade book, first, of the mountain association for northernmost Bohemia 1885-1895 , Schönlinde 1896.
- Robert Weber: home in the Netherlands. 43 poems , published by the mountain association for northernmost Bohemia, Rumburg, Pfeifer, 1933.
literature
- Anton Richter: Festschrift to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Mountain Association for northernmost Bohemia, 1885–1925 , 1925.
Web links
- Entry on the mountain association for northernmost Bohemia on deutschboehmen.de
- Mountain Association for Northernmost Bohemia (Czech)