Harz Club
| Harz Club | |
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| legal form | registered association |
| founding | 1886 |
| founder | Albert Schneider , Johann Wilhelm Wiegand |
| Action space | resin |
| Chair | Oliver Junk |
| Members | 13,000 |
| Website | harzklub.de |
The Harz Club e. V. (Heimat-, Wander- und Naturschutzbund) with its seat in Clausthal-Zellerfeld is an association for the maintenance of the Harz tradition and ensures the maintenance of the hiking trails there. It was founded in Seesen in 1886 and today has around 13,000 members in 87 branch associations that have formed in the villages in and around the Harz Mountains in Lower Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt. The main association is entered in the register of associations at the Braunschweig Local Court (VR 170013).
history
The Harz Club was founded on August 8, 1886 in Seesen. The railway director Albert Schneider became the first chairman. Co-founders were u. a. Oberforstrat Carl Reuss as deputy chairman and publisher and bookseller Heinrich Conrad Huch as secretary. At the first ordinary general meeting in Goslar in April 1887, the association already had 23 branch associations with 1134 members. His first task was to open up the Harz for hikers and tourism. Later on, numerous home groups were founded and the Harz customs were maintained. Nature conservation was included in the statutes as an important goal as early as 1907. Before the outbreak of World War II, the number of members was almost 20,000 in 120 branch clubs.
After the division of the Harz, the development of the Harz Nature Park was in the foreground in the western part. In the GDR , the Harz Club was banned as an organization, and similar tasks were performed in sub-groups of the GDR Cultural Association .
After reunification , more than 40 branch associations were founded in the Harz region of the new federal states of Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia . In 1994 the name of the association was changed to “Heimat-, Wander- und Naturschutzbund”.
The main chairman was Michael Ermrich until April 25, 2015 , from this date the Lord Mayor of Goslar Oliver Junk took over the chairmanship of the Harz Club as club president. The Harz Club has an office in Clausthal-Zellerfeld and is a member of the Association of German Mountain and Hiking Associations .
tasks
The Harz Club performs the following tasks:
- Nature conservation and landscape management
- Promotion of hiking, guided tours
- Issue of hiking maps and hiking information
- Maintenance of hiking facilities in the open countryside (benches, huts, etc.)
- Marking of hiking trails
- Homeland care: customs, costumes, dialect, folk music, yodelling
- Youth work
- Publication of the home and members' magazine Der Harz
- Promotion of local history research, archive work
- Preservation of cultural assets (local parlors, cultural monuments in the open countryside)
- Courses and workshops
- Advertising for the Harz homeland and public relations
Migrant homes
The Harz Club maintains four hiking homes in the Lower Saxony part of the Harz Mountains with overnight accommodations for families and groups in:
- Wild man
- Bad Lauterberg - Lönsweg 12
- Torfhaus - Goetheweg
- Sonnenberg - Hans-Dieter Harnisch House
Awards
The following branches of the Harz Club received the Eichendorff badge :
- 1986 Herzberg branch
- 1994 Buntenbock branch
- 1996 Lutter branch
- 1997 Bad Sachsa branch
- 1997 branch association Neustadt / Osterode
- 1998 Wernigerode branch
- 2002 branch association Thale
- 2004 Göttingen branch
- 2006 Ilfeld-Wiegersdorf branch
- 2008 Güntersberge branch
See also
- Berliner Wanderclub , a former branch of the Harz Club
- Harzer Hexenstieg
- List of clubs in the German Hiking Association
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.harzklub-herzberg.de/wp-content/.../Der-Harzklub-Herzberg-Geschichte.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.harzklub.de/zweigvereine/buntenbock.html
- ↑ a b http://www.wanderindex.de/wanderverbaende/hauptverband/eichendorffplakette.html
- ↑ http://www.bad-sachsa-geschichte.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13&Itemid=26
- ↑ http://www.neustadt-harz.de/vereine/harzklub/
- ↑ http://www.harzklub.de/zweigvereine/wernigerode.html
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ http://www.harzklub-ilfeld-wiegersdorf.de/?page_id=251
- ↑ http://www.mz-web.de/quedlinburg/eichendorff-plakette-fuer-den-zweigverein-8009224
