Wayman

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Working away, Wolong Nature Reserve , China

One way Wart , even Wegwart , is a person responsible for the maintenance of a certain entrusted portion of a trail is in charge or a complete route network.

Function and tasks

Trail keepers often work on a voluntary basis at a hiking club or alpine club and are assigned a specific section. In addition, the local authorities or tourism associations employ chicory to maintain the footpaths in their region. The operators of nature reserves and landscape protection areas also employ volunteer or permanent waymen (such as the trail keepers of the US national park authorities).

Control falls in the state of the object regions of a Wegwarts transport securing means , marking of paths , the possible free cutting of trees and removing other obstacles (such as stones). In the event of major damage, they report to the body responsible for maintaining the route. Traffic safety finds its limits, for example, in the stability of summit crosses , even if they maintain a way to get there. The responsibility for this lies with the building contractors who erected the summit cross. In North America, enforcement of rights of way is also part of the process, sometimes even with police-like executive power ( route warden ).

For the alpine clubs, for which the "construction, acquisition, management and maintenance of paths" is part of the club's original purpose, the trailkeeper is one of the central offices in the structure of the club - the Austrian (OeAV) and German alpine club (DAV), for example, are responsible for securing paths for approx. 40,000 km of trails in the Eastern Alps. The two associations provide a route warden on the part of each section who is responsible for the route network areas (work area cadastre) regulated by the work area regulation (ArgO) (around 400 work areas with approx. 500 huts). The paths to and between huts supervised the respective warden . In some federal states of Austria there are also state control rooms .

In the meantime, there are also virtual path control rooms on the Internet, where safety-related defects can be reported. The alpine clubs are also working on related web GIS applications.

Economic and legal aspects of road maintenance

Within the alpine clubs, the concept of volunteer pathways is being rethought today: On the one hand, the lack of financial support from the municipalities and other institutions - despite the enormous regional added value in the tourism industry that a well-maintained alpine and sub-alpine trail network entails - is criticized. On the other hand, a case in Unterach am Attersee in 2009, in which the mayor was sentenced to compensation for damages after the fall of a German holidaymaker on a road under maintenance of the community , showed that the AV Wegwarte are also made personally liable in their function could. In this context, there was talk of the “Americanization” of the compensation system and a lack of personal responsibility on the part of road users, but the judgment was legally overturned in November 2009, which at least for Austria seems to have clarified the legal situation. In this context, a restructuring to commercial road maintenance and even the introduction of a road interest was considered in order to come to an amicable solution on the part of the road supervisor and beneficial tourism.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ United States Fish and Wildlife Service , United States Forest Service , National Park Service ; z. B. Join the Trail Keeper Team (Golden Gate National Parks). (No longer available online.) In: idealist.org. Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy - Volunteer Programs, May 12, 2009, formerly original ; Retrieved November 25, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.idealist.org
  2. ↑ a b c PES nationwide in financial difficulties: costs for roads and huts explode. In: → News, Archive. salzburg.ORF.at, October 16, 2009, accessed on November 25, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Quotation from the statutes of the Austrian Alpine Association § 3 Funds [for the particular realization of the association's purpose] Item 7
  4. ↑ a b ways. Austrian Alpine Club, accessed on July 16, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Working area regulations in: Alpine Club Trail Guide (PDF)
  6. ↑ about: Vorarlberg , Carinthia
  7. ↑ Online Wegewart Hamburg ( Memento from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ alps natural hazard management, OeAV, DAV, Hypo Tirol (ed.): Project A 1.3 - Safe on the move in the Alps. Development of a geographic information system to increase safety when hiking in the mountains . Folder. ( pdf , alpenverein.at [accessed on November 25, 2009]).
  9. ↑ Burggrabenklamm / Anker hiking trail. The incumbent mayor for 4900 €, the predecessor for 2000 € (not legally binding); The reason for the verdict was that they had failed to appoint an expert annually , but that would have overwhelmed the community's budget. Disaster for tourism. Burggrabenklamm and the Anker hiking trail in Unterrach am Attersee are closed . In: Bezirksrundschau Vöklabruck, Vöklabrucker Wochenspiegel . No. 34 , August 20, 2009, Local, p. 2-3 .
  10. ↑ Helmut Mödlhammer, head of the Austrian Association of Municipalities and Mayor of Hallwang: “If that goes to school, then no one will agree to take on the responsibility of a mayor. The municipalities are responsible for 70 percent of the Austrian road network. ”Quoted after outrage at the verdict against the mayor. (No longer available online.) Austrian Association of Municipalities, September 14, 2009, archived from the original on July 25, 2014 ; Retrieved November 25, 2009 .
  11. ↑ Appeals Senate of the Regional Court, Vice-President Elisabeth Schmidbauer: "These controls were 'sufficient' [... and] that there are 'no legal standards for the maintenance of alpine hiking trails'; if one therefore looks at the individual case, a completely safe state can never be achieved. You can't constantly monitor an alpine path '. "Quote from Andreas Widmayer: Hikers fell: local chiefs blameless . In: Salzburger Nachrichten . November 28, 2009, Court & Law, p. 21 ( article archive ).