Upper Palatinate Forest Association

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Upper Palatinate Forest Association
(OWV)
230
purpose Hiking and local associations
Chair: Armin Messner
Establishment date: 1916
Seat : Willows in the Upper Palatinate
Website: www.owv-hv.de

The Oberpfälzer Waldverein - Hauptverein - registered association is a non-profit association that was founded in 1916 and maintains a network of hiking trails with well over 1000 km in its area of ​​activity. His area of ​​work includes the middle and northern Upper Palatinate , in the west to the Upper Palatinate Jura and in the east to the border with the Czech Republic , in the north to the famous Kappl pilgrimage church north of Waldsassen and in the south to the Schwandorf - Rötz - Waldmünchen line . He is entered in the register of associations of the local court Weiden id OPf. (VR 103).

The OWV is one of the Association of German Mountain and Hiking Clubs e. V. affiliated hiking and homeland associations, which have made the development and support of a German low mountain range their task.

aims

The Oberpfälzer Waldverein has the task of promoting the knowledge and awareness of the Upper Palatinate homeland among its members and the public and to do everything to preserve the local nature, such as to beautify the landscape and the places. The main tasks in fulfilling these goals are:

  • Nature, landscape and environmental protection (within the meaning of Section 29 of the Federal Nature Conservation Act ). The goals of the Bavarian State Association of German Mountain and Hiking Associations are binding.
  • Creation and maintenance of biotopes
  • Preservation of the cultural landscape
  • Preservation of monuments
  • The operation of local beautification
  • The care of hiking
  • The creation and maintenance of hiking trails, hiking parking lots, nature trails, game reserves, lookout points, information boards and benches
  • The creation of route descriptions in the form of leaflets and participation in hiking maps and hiking guides
  • The construction and maintenance of observation towers, hikers' homes and hiking bases
  • The promotion of local and local history literature including local research
  • The maintenance of the down-to-earth folk and customs in music, dance, play, etc.
  • Educating the public along these lines

All of this requires the creation of a comprehensive network of branch associations. All of these diverse tasks of the association are performed by idealists from among the members on a voluntary basis.

Publications

The arnica

"The Arnika" is the journal of the Upper Palatinate Forest Association. It appeared for the first time at Easter 1924 with the title “Oberpfälzer Wald. Messages from the Upper Palatinate Forest Association ”as a supplement to the“ Die Oberpfalz ”magazine. At the end of 1939, the "Oberpfälzer Wald" stopped its publication. The chairman of the board, Dr. Since the 1960s, Adolf Schuster has been committed to creating a new newsletter. At the beginning of 1964 there was again a club magazine in the form of a picture magazine. However, the demand was so low that no second issue was published. On January 25, 1964, the subject was taken up again at a working meeting in Weiden and it was decided to make another attempt. From 1965 onwards, the new club magazine with the title “Oberpfälzer Wald und Steinwald” appeared as a quarterly publication.

The leaf remained in this form until September 1968, when it was renamed “Die Arnika”. Since 2015, “Die Arnika” has been published in multiple colors.

Home of the Upper Palatinate

Another publication of the OWV is the scientific annual journal "Oberpfälzer Heimat", which has been appearing since 1956.

Hiking trails

The following hiking trails are maintained by the OWV:

  • Golden Road (approx. 90 km)
  • Burgenweg (approx. 176 km)
  • Green - White - Path as part of the east line of the Main-Danube- Path (approx. 133 km)
  • Nurtschweg (approx. 133 km)
  • Oberpfalzweg (approx. 229 km)
  • Naab-Vils-Weg (approx. 49 km)
  • Jakobsweg , section Tillyschanz to Ensdorf (approx. 89 km)
  • Main - Mies - Weg (approx. 93 km)
  • Karl-Krampol-Weg (approx. 81 km)
  • Wallenstein-Tilly-Weg (approx. 90 km)
  • Porcelain hiking trail (approx. 136 km)
  • Vilstalwanderweg (approx. 90 km)
  • 2 circular hiking trails near Theisseil (5.4 km and 5.1 km respectively)
  • Pfreimdtaluferpfad (approx. 13 km)
  • Gründerweg (approx. 28 km)
  • Pfreimd-Schwarzach-Weg (approx. 40 km)
  • Four paths of the OWV near Wernberg-Köblitz (Ehenbachweg: approx. 14 km, Buchbergweg: approx. 12 km, Kulmweg: approx. 12 km, Eixlbergweg: 20 km)
  • Erbendorf - Armesberg (approx. 12 km)
  • KTB path (approx. 13 km)
  • Spange motorway church (approx. 23 km)
  • Tannenlohe - Marktredwitzer Haus (approx. 15 km)
  • Weiden - Silberhütte (Keplerpfad: approx. 22 km, Weiden-Floß-Haselstein-Silberhütte: approx. 23 km)
  • From Waldeck to the Steinwald (approx. 13 km)
  • Paths in the southern stone forest
  • Ignaz-Mühlhofer-Weg (approx. 15 km)

structure

The association is divided into the main association based in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate and 53 branch associations in the following locations:

Awards

In 2016 the club was awarded the Eichendorff badge .

See also

Web links

Commons : Oberpfälzer Waldverein  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The arnica - magazine of the Oberpfälzer Waldverein e. V. No. 3/2019 , p. 208 .
  2. ↑ a b c Petra intent: 100 years OWV main association . In: The arnica - magazine of the Oberpfälzer Waldverein e. V. Band 3/2016 , p. 153-164 .
  3. ↑ http://www.onetz.de/weiden-in-der-oberpfalz/vermischtes/owv-hauptverein-vor-jubilaeums-wochenende-hund-jahre-fuer-die-heimat-d1698105.html