Saxon Mountaineering Association

Sächsischer Bergsteigerbund e. V., Section of the German Alpine Club (SBB)
purpose	Mountain Sports Association
Chair:	Alexander Nareike
Executive Director:	Christian Walter
Establishment date:	March 1, 1911, re-established December 21, 1989
Dissolution date:	1945
Number of members:	16,164 (as of December 31, 2019)
Seat :	Dresden , Saxony
Website:	Bergsteigerbund.de

The Saxon Bergsteigerbund e. V., section of the German Alpine Club (SBB) is a federation of individual members, small and large clubs and the largest mountain sports association in the region for mountain sports activities in Saxon Switzerland and its surroundings. It is the largest sports association in Saxony. The aim of the SBB is to promote mountaineering and alpine sports in the Alps and the German low mountain ranges. As the area supervisor for the Saxon Switzerland climbing area in the German Alpine Association (DAV), the association is primarily committed to Saxon Switzerland , Saxon climbing and the protection of nature in the Saxon Switzerland National Park .

The association pursues these goals with various means. On the one hand, there are measures to ensure mountaineering, such as the supervision of the rings, abseil loops and summit books , the rock renovation and the securing of paths, on the other hand also training measures , the updating of the Saxon climbing rules, the implementation of joint mountain trips and the Maintaining cultural values. The SBB has its own choirs and maintains two huts in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains and an archive for the summit books of Saxon Switzerland. A working group of the association assesses newly developed climbing routes ( first ascents ) for compliance with the Saxon climbing rules.

The SBB is a registered association and has offices in Dresden . The Pirna branch also has its own office in Pirna -Sonnenstein.

The 2015 in Dresden opened club center of the SBB with DAV - climbing gym .

history

The SBB was founded on March 1, 1911, and one of the first members was Rudolf Fehrmann . Like all German clubs, the SBB was banned in 1945. He could not resume his activities in the post-war period and the GDR. On December 21, 1989, the SBB was re-established in Dresden, in the summer of 1990 it became a section of the German Alpine Club , where it is 11th with currently 16,164 members. This makes it one of the largest sports clubs in Germany .

In 2013 it was decided to build a new club center in Dresden. It opened on January 30, 2015. In addition to the offices of the office, the club center also houses a climbing hall.

organization

The organization of the association takes place in predominantly voluntary structures. Only a handful of full-time employees look after the office.

According to the statutes, the general assembly is the highest body of SBB. As a rule, the general assembly is convened once a year. The board of directors is responsible for the implementation of resolutions of the general assembly and the enforcement of the statutes, which consists of 8 members. The full-time employees of the office are largely responsible for the administration (bookkeeping, member administration) of the association.

View of the "Saupsdorfer Hütte". The SBB has been operating the half-timbered house in Saupsdorf , built in 1818, as an accommodation facility since 1993.

Culture

Singing has long been a part of mountain climbing or hiking. So it stands to reason that the association is also involved in this area. The three choirs of the SBB are the Bergfinken Dresden (founded in 1920), the Bergsteigerchor Sebnitz (1928) and the men's choir Sächsische Schweiz (1977). They maintain and develop the Saxon and German mountain and hiking songs, but their repertoire also includes folk and native songs as well as classical works. Performances by the choirs frame various SBB events. The well-known Saxon mountaineering choir Kurt Schlosser is not an SBB choir.

SBB huts

Elbe Sandstone Mountains ( Saxon Switzerland )

• Bielatal hut at 380  m in the Bielatal
• Saupsdorfer Hütte at 285  m , in Saupsdorf

Climbing hall Dresden

Opened in Dresden on January 30, 2015 club center of the SBB with DAV - climbing gym .

literature

• Albert Goldammer and Martin Wächtler: Mountaineering in Saxony; Saxon Mountaineering Association. Dresden 1936.
• Author collective: Festschrift 100 years of the Saxon Mountaineering Association. Dresden 2011.

Web links

Commons : Sächsischer Bergsteigerbund  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Saxon Mountaineering Association
• Section publications Sächsischer Bergsteigerbund (digital copies of the DAV library)
• Saxon Mountaineering Association in the Historical Alpine Archive of the Alpine Clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)
• Bielatal hut
• Saupsdorfer Hut

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Alpenverein.de: number of members of the Saxon Mountaineering Association ; Homepage: The SBB now has 15,000 members , bergsteigerbund.de, accessed on August 2, 2018
2. ↑ The Saxon climbing rules , bergsteigerbund.de, accessed on August 2, 2018
3. ↑ Bergsteigerbund.de: Projects Association Center , accessed on March 12, 2015.
4. ^ Statute of the Saxon Mountaineering Association eV | Sächsischer Bergsteigerbund eV In: Sächsischer Bergsteigerbund eV ( bergsteigerbund.de [accessed on May 3, 2017]).
5. ^ Sächsischer Bergsteigerbund: Partners & Friends. Retrieved October 15, 2017 . 
6. ^ Bergsteigerbund.de: Climbing hall Dresden