Taunus Club
The Taunusklub ( TK for short ) is an association of 23 legally independent hiking clubs that operate under the common name Taunusklub . The associations have a total of around 3000 members. Therefore one speaks of the whole association and the member associations . The parent club in Frankfurt am Main was founded in 1868 and is based there. It is entered in the register of associations at the Frankfurt am Main Local Court (VR 5660). The respective clubs are members of the Association of German Mountain and Hiking Clubs . The Taunusklub has marked a 2700 kilometer network of trails throughout the Taunus region and operates five hiking homes.
General
The main areas of activity are:
- Joint walks
- Public walking events
- Local history and natural history excursions
- Maintenance of the marked trails
- Co-editor of hiking guides and maps
- Operation of the hiking homes
The Taunusklub works with the issuing of hiking maps and is active in the nature conservation council . He is committed to the preservation of nature, bird protection trees, biotopes, brook sponsorships and the monitoring of natural monuments.
In the Hessenpark there is a permanent exhibition in the Taunushaus , in which the history and work of the association is presented.
Member associations (branch associations)
| society | place | Members | founding year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taunusklub parent club | Frankfurt am Main | 850 | 1868 |
| Branch association dissolved | Eppstein | 0 | 1871 |
| Taunus Club | Fischbach | 200 | 1925 |
| Taunus Club | Frankfurt-Nied | 146 | 1911 |
| Taunus Club | Neu-Anspach | ? | ? |
| Taunus Club | Niederreifenberg | ? | 1903 |
| Taunus Club 1885 | Bad Homburg vor der Höhe | ? | 1885 |
| Taunus Club 1878 | Oberursel | ? | 1878 |
| In gymnastics club merged | Idstein | 0 | 1878 |
| Taunus Club / * | Bad Ems | ? | ? |
| Taunus Club | Bad Soden am Taunus | 212 | 1890 |
| Taunus Club | Usingen | 114 | 1885 |
| Taunus Club | Schmitten | ? | ? |
| Member association dissolved | Hofheim am Taunus | 0 | ? |
| Taunus Club | Lorsbach | ? | ? |
| Taunus Club | Koenigstein | 150 | 1879 |
| Taunus Club | Graevenwiesbach | > 60 | ? |
| Taunus Club | Kronberg | 21st | 1877 |
| Taunus Club | Muenster | ? | ? |
| Branch association dissolved | Mammolshain | 0 | 1977 |
| Taunus Club | Butzbach | ? | ? |
| Taunus Club | Bodies | 103 | 1907 |
| Branch association dissolved | Nassau (Lahn) | 0 | ? |
/ * The Taunus Club Bad Ems e. V. has joined the neighboring Westerwald Association .
In the course of time branch associations have been dissolved and newly founded. The date of establishment is always that of the first establishment. Some clubs have gone under over time, such as B. Idstein (founded 1878) or Eppstein (founded 1871).
Migrant homes and other structures
The Taunus Club operates a youth and hiking home in the observation tower on the Großer Feldberg . Another hiking home of the Taunus Club is located in Oberursel.
The Taunus Club built a number of observation towers . These included the Burgberg Tower in Bad Soden am Taunus in 1900 , the Hardtberg Tower in Königstein , the Meisterturm in Hofheim , the Schiller Tower in Oberursel in 1905 and the tower on the Herzberg in 1911 .
Hiking trails
The trail marking department of the Taunus Club looks after a network of hiking trails in the Taunus of around 2700 km. The respective local branch clubs are responsible for the individual routes. The Taunusklub is (co-) editor of a series of hiking guides and hiking maps that show these trails.
Examples are the Lahnhöhenweg to the left of the Lahn and the Limeswanderweg , which the Taunus Club marks and maintains.
See also: Section Web Links (OSM Wiki).
history
On January 5, 1868, the Taunus Club was founded as the first German area hiking club and the cartographer August Ravenstein was elected first chairman. The goals of the association were to look after the homeland, to promote tourism and, above all, to combat poverty in the Taunus.
There were over 20 nurses' stations and kindergartens as well as a basket weaving school in Grävenwiesbach . At the end of the 19th century, the marking of hiking trails began. Furthermore, shelters and lookout towers were built. The first hiking guide was published in 1871.
Sections of the Taunus Club soon formed in the villages of the Taunus. In 1883 the sections became independent associations that together formed the Taunus Club as a whole .
After the National Socialists came to power, the Taunus Club as a whole was forcibly dissolved in 1934. After the war, the clubs were re-established and in 1956 the traditional name Taunusklub was resumed.
First logo of the Taunus Club from 1842/1868
Logo of the Taunus Club from 1884 to 1909
Logo of the Taunus Club from 1908 to 1934
Logo of the Taunus Club from 1934 to 1957
Logo of the Taunus Club from 1957 to 1984
Logo since 1984
Logo use on hiking trail signs
More recently colored logo.
The memorial on the Stockborn
Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 22.3 ″ N , 8 ° 28 ′ 2.5 ″ E On September 12, 1926, the honorary grove of the Taunus Club was inaugurated on the Feldberg. This was intended to commemorate the 126members of the Taunus Club who diedin the First World War . The memorial consisted of three quartzite rocks and a bronze plaque bearing the names of the fallen. Next to it was a large oak cross.
After the Second World War, the memorial was relocated a few hundred meters to its current location and redesigned. Now it not only reminds of those who died in the two world wars, but of all those who died in the Taunus Club. Every year, the Taunus Club hosts a star hike to Stockborn, where a memorial event for the dead of last year takes place.
Honors
The Taunusklubweg on the edge of the Hornau district of Kelkheim is named after the Taunusklub .
The Taunus Club was awarded the Eichendorff badge in 1983 . The following branches also received this award:
- 1988 Oberursel branch
- 1990 Bad Soden branch
- 1992 Neu-Anspach branch
- 1993 regular club Frankfurt
- 1995 Wetzlar branch
- 2003 Münster branch
- 2007 branch association Köppern
people
- Peter Kittel († 1919), chairman of the Taunus Club from 1888 to 1914.
literature
- Walter Conrad (Ed.): 1868–1968 Taunus Club. 100 years in the service of the homeland . Taunusklubs eV, Frankfurt am Main 1969.
- Hermin Herr: Lexicon from the High Taunus. Mountains, paths, forests, history . Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-7829-0437-0 .
See also
Web links
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List of hiking trails of the Taunus Club at OSM - Exhibition about the Taunus Club in Hessenpark
- History of the Taunus Club ( PDF ; 340 kB)
Homepage of the umbrella organization:
Homepages of some branch associations:
- Taunusklub parent club in Frankfurt am Main
- Taunus Club Bad Soden am Taunus
- Taunusklub Hofheim in Hofheim am Taunus until the end of 2018
- Taunus Club Lorsbach e. V. in Lorsbach
- Taunus Club Usingen
- Taunus Club Frankfurt-Nied
Homepage of a branch of the Westerwald Club :
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of contact persons for all branch associations (number updated in 2018)
- ↑ Organization
- ↑ After its founding, the Tanus Club used the logo created by August Ravenstein in 1842 for the Hausbau- und Feldberg Commission of the "Geography and Statistics Association"
- ↑ The abbreviation VDTV refers to membership in the " Association of German Tourist Associations "
- ↑ The abbreviation VDGWV refers to membership in the " Association of German Mountain and Hiking Associations "
- ↑ After the seizure of power, the entire Taunus Club was dissolved and the "Taunusbund" existed
- ↑ a b c d e f g h history