Lörrach Youth Hostel

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Lörrach Youth Hostel

The youth hostel Lörrach , also Helmut Waßmer youth hostel Lörrach , is one of the 50 youth hostels of the DJH-Landesverband Baden-Württemberg e. V., one of the regional associations of the German Youth Hostel Association . It is located in the Baden-Württemberg district town of Lörrach in the triangle near Basel .

location

The youth hostel is on the edge of the Salzert Forest east of the village center of the Lörrach district of Stetten in the direction of the satellite town of Salzert on the northern slope of the Dinkelberg at an altitude of 370 meters. Not far from the hostel there is a rope course and a Finnish lift . The hostel is only a few hundred meters from the German-Swiss border . In the neighboring forest, the Iron Hand forms a corner of the area belonging to Switzerland .

history

It was built from 1980 to 1982 on the initiative of Hellmut Waßmer , whose name it has had since 2015. Waßmer convinced Lord Mayor Egon Hugenschmidt to build a youth hostel in Lörrach, the cornerstone of which was laid on February 26, 1980 by the then Baden-Württemberg Minister of Culture and later Federal President Roman Herzog and which was inaugurated on April 26, 1982 by Federal President Karl Carstens . The city of Lörrach and the district of Lörrach sponsored the construction. The very idiosyncratic and expensive building was planned by the Karlsruhe architect Reinhard Brettl. The construction costs were given as 7.1 million DM .

description

The hostel consists of two interconnected buildings, each with an octagonal floor plan and a silver-colored tent roof . The house has 168 beds in 49 rooms and four seminar rooms, the largest of which can accommodate 98 people. Outside there is a sunbathing lawn, ball playgrounds, table tennis facilities and a wooden hut with a barbecue area.

Web links

Commons : Lörrach Youth Hostel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see the regional association's website; accessed on October 22, 2018
  2. ↑ see chronicle of the city of Lörrach from August 1st, 1979 to July 31st, 1980. In: Unser Lörrach 1980 , Volume 11, p. 230; with a photo of the laying of the foundation on p. 229
  3. ↑ see Egon Hugenschmidt : III. Lörrach from 1960–1982. In: Loerrach. Landscape · History · Culture. Loerrach 1982, p. 547
  4. ↑ see Egon Hugenschmidt : III. Lörrach from 1960–1982. In: Loerrach. Landscape · History · Culture. Loerrach 1982, p. 546
  5. ↑ see chronicle of the city of Lörrach from 1.8.1981 to 31.7.1982. In: Unser Lörrach 1982 , Volume 13, p. 242

Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′ 2.1 "  N , 7 ° 40 ′ 42.1"  E