Harz Club

The Harz Club eV is an association for the care of the Harz customs and ensures the maintenance of the trails in the resin. It was founded in 1886 in Seesen and now has 13,500 members in 90 local branches.

History

The resin club was founded on August 8, 1886 in Seesen. The railway director Albert Schneider became the first chairman. Co-founders were, inter alia Oberforstrat Carl Reuss as vice chairman and a publisher Heinrich Conrad Huch as secretary. The first Annual General Meeting in April 1887 in Goslar, the club already had 23 branch associations with 1134 members. As a task he first saw the development of the resin for hikers and tourism. Later, the establishment of numerous local groups and the care of the Harz traditions took place. The nature reserve was included as an important goal in the year 1907 in the statutes. Before the outbreak of the Second World War the number of members amounted to nearly 20,000 in 120 local branches.

After the division of the resin was in the western part of the development of the Harz Nature Park in the foreground. In the GDR, the Harz Club was banned as an organization, similar functions were performed in subgroups of the culture of the GDR.

After the reunification of over 40 branch associations founded in the Harz region of the new federal states of Saxony -Anhalt and Thuringia. In 1994, the change in the association's name in "home, hiking and nature conservation covenant" was made.

Main chairman is Michael Ermrich, District Administrator of the resin. The Harz Club maintains an office in Clausthal- Zellerfeld and is a member of the Association of German Mountain and hiking clubs.

Tasks

The Harzklub performs the following duties:

  • Nature Conservation and Landscape Management
  • Promotion of walking, hiking guides
  • Publication of maps and hiking information
  • Maintenance of hiking facilities in the open countryside (benches, huts, etc.)
  • Marking of trails
  • Home care: customs, costumes, dialects, folk music, yodeling
  • Youth work
  • Surrender the home and members' magazine The resin
  • Promotion of local history, archival work
  • Preservation of cultural goods ( home offices, cultural monuments in the open countryside )
  • Courses and workshops
  • Advertising for the Harz home and public relations

Migrant Shelters

The Harz Club maintains the resin four hiking homes with accommodation for families and groups:

Steinerne Renne East Germany Clausthal-Zellerfeld Wildemann Sonnenberg (Harz) Integrated Authority File
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