hostel
A hostel (from ahd. Heritable for the army and bergamot , a derivative mountains of the verb, ie "salvage, accommodation for the army") outdated and embezzlement , is a structural accommodation for travelers under the management control and for the guest in the Is usually chargeable.
history
Originally used as a term for " army camp ", the term later referred to the tavern or inn . In Germany, a distinction was soon made between the inn for foreigners for a fee and the inn in the real sense managed by the host's father and mother in the guild. Here traveling journeyman found accommodation, employment agencies and a certain amount of medical care. Local journeymen used the hostels (“journeyman's hostels”, also called “traffic”) for gathering purposes and as a repository for the journeyman's shop .
Hostel to home
In the 19th century, at the suggestion of Johann Hinrich Wichern (1808–1881), the hostels under Christian house rules spread to the home , set up and partly operated from charitable donations, the wandering journeymen offered cheap accommodation and were supposed to protect them from the negative influences of the inn . The first hostel at home was founded in Bonn in 1854 under the leadership of Professor Clemens Theodor Perthes (1809–1867), after which the hostel system spread to numerous cities.
Some hostels were connected to journeyman's associations under Catholic leadership. The German Protestant hostel associations formed the German hostel association with the organ Der Wanderer , which was also the organ of the central board of German workers' colonies and the general association of German catering stations.
In 1902 there were 462 hostels in Germany and 280 catering stations with around 19,000 beds (abroad, especially in Switzerland: 31); In 1902 3 million night quarters were taken. A common prayer was one of the offers.
Certain hostel foundations such as Herberge zur Heimat in Detmold or buildings such as the Herberge zur Heimat in Essen continue to exist today .
Similar institutions are workers' colonies and migrant workplaces .
Youth hostels
A special form of hostels are youth hostels that exist in many countries around the world and that are grouped together in the Hostelling International (HI) association . These were originally intended specifically for groups of children and young people, but today they also offer other members inexpensive accommodation.
Hostels
The term hostel has established itself today in Germany and internationally for accommodations that are specifically aimed at backpackers , i.e. individual travelers on a low budget. Like the youth hostels, they mainly offer sleeping places in multi-bed rooms, which for reasons of space economy often contain bunk beds or are similar to bed camps . In Germany, a number of hostels are developing into simple hotels with modern, often colorful room design, whereby the accommodation options offered within a house often differ greatly in standard and price.
Up until now, hostels in Germany were mainly located in frequented travel destinations, especially in metropolises. However, more and more often - like abroad - small hostels are opening in other touristically attractive, sometimes remote and idyllic locations.
Hostels in large cities are primarily aimed at an international audience. The common lingua franca is English. The number of young people traveling long-distance has risen sharply due to the fact that airline tickets have become much cheaper in recent decades, enabling a rapid increase in the number of hostel beds in major European cities. Many hostels are operated by commercial and for-profit companies that have grown into private competition for youth hostels and hotels in the cheapest market segment in profitable locations and often run several hostels in different locations. The largest companies in London and Berlin have up to 800 beds in one house. In contrast to youth hostels, no membership is required to stay overnight in a hostel.
The qualitatively very simple accommodation in four- to ten-bed rooms, so-called dorms (short for dormitory , English for "dormitory"), makes it possible to offer low prices from 10 € even in the center of large cities and in tourist areas. Often breakfast is offered in a common room. The prices for single rooms are around € 20–60 per night. Most of the sanitary facilities are shared. Usually kitchens are offered for self-catering, often washing machines and information about the city or region. Features of better standard are: washbasins or baths in the rooms, lighting or an opaque curtain on the bed, locker, room key for each occupant, bed linen included in the price. Even the Internet , ideally as Wi-Fi available for free in the room, and the 24-hour reception are increasingly gaining acceptance.
While the German Youth Hostel Association (DJH) sees young group travelers in particular as a target group, the hostels focus on individual travelers. The number of young travelers is above average. Individual travelers are mostly traveling alone or in very small groups, which makes it easy to establish contact. Some hostels even offer a supporting program with bar / alcohol and (live) music. Depending on the rooms and the composition of the guests, there may be restrictions on the night's sleep.
The "Backpacker Network Germany eV" is an association in which many independent and owner-managed German backpacker hostels have come together.
In January 2000 the DJH had the word mark “Youth Hostel” registered with the German Patent and Trademark Office. After five years of litigation between the plaintiff A&O Hotels and Hostels and the DJH, the Federal Patent Court (Az .: 25 W (pat) 8/06) ordered in January 2009 to delete the “Youth Hostel” brand. The DJH had filed a complaint against this with the Federal Court of Justice, so that the name initially remained protected and the legal dispute entered a new round. With a decision by the BGH on September 17, 2009, the DJH's appeal was rejected. The youth hostel brand has thus been permanently deleted.
So-called 5 star hostels have also existed since 2015. The 5 star hostels are based on an evaluation of independent criteria.
Emergence
Hostels, which were frequented by young backpackers, emerged from the sixties, first in Australia and other English-speaking countries as well as in the in the 68s - Generation popular tourist destinations of India and Southeast Asia . With the travelers, the idea soon came back to Europe: from the 1970s, the first private hostels opened primarily in the United Kingdom , France and the Netherlands . As more and more young people - again especially from English-speaking countries - started traveling the world for several months after leaving school, the first backpack hostels independent of the Youth Hostel Association came into being in Germany in the 1990s . The first hotels in Germany to explicitly call themselves backpacker hostels were the Lübeck Backpack Hotel in 1991 , which was built as part of the Lübeck Werkhof, a center for alternative ways of working and living, the now defunct Southern Cross Hostel in Donaueschingen and the Hamburg Schanzenstern . In 1994, Ante Zelck with Mittes Backpacker Hostel , the first hostel in Berlin . As the first house in the new federal states, the Hababusch Hostel was established in Weimar in 1996 as a non-profit student project. In the following years, the new openings concentrated primarily on Berlin, to a much lesser extent on Hamburg, Munich and finally Cologne . Today there are around 70 backpacker hostels, which are now also establishing themselves in many medium-sized cities, especially in the north, in North Rhine-Westphalia , Bavaria and Saxony .
See also
- youth hostel
- Friends of Nature Houses
- Guest house
- Pension (accommodation)
- accommodation
- vacation on the farm
- Post office
- Mattress storage
- Mountain hut
- Host service
- Obligation to host
- KiEZ children's and youth recreation centers
literature
- Jürgen Haug: Notes from a hiker's hostel , 2nd edition, Autonomie und Chaos, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-392-32112-3-4 ( full text online PDF, free of charge, 257 pages 18.4 kB).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedrich Kluge: Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, 23. Erw. Edition (edited by Elmar Seebold), de Gruyter, Berlin - New York: 1999.
- ↑ hernia , the . In: Adelung: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect . tape 4 . Leipzig 1801, p. 925 ( zeno.org [accessed January 2, 2010]).
- ↑ See Jürgen Scheffler (Ed.): Bürger & Bettler. Materials and documents on the history of non-sedentary help in der Diakonie , Vol. 1, 1854 to 1954, Bielefeld 1987.
- ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon. Volume 9, Leipzig 1907, p. 195. Online at zeno.org, accessed on September 17, 2014.
- ↑ short Spiegel article “Hostels in Germany. Flat share for nomads "
- ↑ Spiegel article "Hostels in Germany: WG for nomads" Spiegel online , July 18, 2007