Frankfurt am Main section of the German Alpine Club
| Frankfurt am Main section of the German Alpine Club (DAV) (DAV Frankfurt am Main) |
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| purpose | Mountain sports, mountaineering and alpinism |
| Chair: | Daniel Sterner (Chairman), Helmut Schgeiner (Deputy Chairman), Karin Gierke (Deputy Chairman), Wolfgang Ringel (Treasurer) |
| Establishment date: | September 3, 1869 |
| Number of members: | 11,358 (as of December 31, 2019) |
| Seat : | Frankfurt am Main , Hesse |
| Website: | DAV-FrankfurtMain.de |
The Frankfurt am Main section of the German Alpine Club (DAV) ( DAV Frankfurt am Main for short ) is a section of the German Alpine Club in Frankfurt am Main . It was founded on September 3, 1869, 4 months after the main club, as the seventh section of the DAV. The DAV Frankfurt am Main is one of the oldest and with 11,358 members (as of December 31, 2019) also one of the largest sections of the German Alpine Club (ranked 18th after the Darmstadt-Starkenburg section and thus the second largest alpine club in Hesse ) and thus also one of the largest sports clubs in Germany .
Known members
- Theodor Petersen (1836–1918), chemist and alpinist . Founder of the Frankfurt am Main section and its 1st chairman from 1869 to 1918. First central president of the German and Austrian Alpine Club .
- Jan Hojer , participant in the 2020 Summer Olympics in sport climbing .
Climb
- DAV climbing center Frankfurt am Main
- CLIMBING THERAPY for people with disabilities
Huts of the section
- Gepatschhaus , 1928 m (built in 1873)
- Rauhekopfhütte , 2731 m (built in 1888)
- Riffelseehütte , 2289 m (built in 1939 / expanded in 2000)
- Verpeilhütte , 2025 m (built in 1906)
- Former huts of the section
- House Oberreifenberg
- Taschachhaus , 2434 m (built in 1873/74, today Section Munich )
- Weißkugelhütte , 2544 m (built in 1892/93, today the Autonomous Province of Bozen - South Tyrol)
Gepatschhaus
Rauhekopfhütte
Riffelseehütte, access side with a view of the Geigenkamm
Verpeilhütte, behind it the Westliche Sonnenkögel (3008 m) and on the right the Verpeiljoch (2825 m)
Taschachhaus
Web links
- Frankfurt am Main section
- Writings of the Frankfurt am Main section (digital copies of the DAV library)
- Frankfurt am Main section in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b DAV-Bibliothek.de: Section publications, Frankfurt am Main section PDF file
- ^ A b Section Frankfurt am Main , German Alpine Association, alpenverein.de
- ↑ Kletterzentrum-Frankfurtmain.de: DAV climbing center Frankfurt am Main
- ↑ DAV-FrankfurtMain.de: CLIMBING THERAPY