Hostel

A hostel (from OHG heri for the army and bergamot, involve a derivative of the verb, ie " rescue, shelter for the army " ) outdated and peculation, is a structural accommodation for travelers under the management and for the guest in the rule is chargeable.

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History

Originally used as a term for " camp ", the term later referred to the tavern or inn, where you soon differed in Germany between the inn for strangers paid and managed to craft time by warden and matron hostel in the proper sense. Here were journeymen accommodation, job placement and also some medical care. Locals journeyman used the Hostels ( " journeymen Hostels ", also known as " traffic " ) to meeting purposes, as well as a repository of journeymen store.

Inn of the home

In the 19th century under Christian House Rules hostels spread of excitation Johann Hinrich Wichern ( 1808-1881 ) to the home, decorated from charitable donations and partially operated, the wandering journeymen offered affordable accommodation and they should protect them from the influences of the inn. The first hostel to the home was established under the leadership of Professor Clemens Theodor Perthes (1809-1867) in 1854 in Bonn, whereupon the hostelling common in many cities.

Most hostels were connected to journeymen associations among Catholic line. The German Protestant hostel associations formed since 1886 the Germans Herberg club with the organ " The Wanderer ," which was its organ of the Central Committee of German workers colonies and the General Association German aid stations.

1902 passed in Germany 462 Hostels for home and 280 aid stations with about 19,000 beds ( abroad, especially in Switzerland: 31); 1902 were taken 3 million night quarters. A common prayer was one of the offers.

To this day, continue to exist certain atmosthere foundations such as hostel for home in Detmold or building as the hostel to home in Essen.

Hostels

A special form of the hostels are hostels that exist in many countries of the world and the world in the Hostelling International ( HI) are joined together. These were originally designed specifically for children and youth groups, but today also offer other members a low-cost accommodation.

Hostels

The term hostel has now established itself in Germany and internationally for accommodation, specifically aimed at backpackers, so individual travelers with a low budget. As the hostels they offer predominantly beds in shared rooms, which often included for reasons of economy of space bunk beds ( Bunkbeds ) or similar bed camps. In Germany, a number of hostels to develop simple hotel with modern, often colorful interior design, the accommodation options offered inside a house in standard and price often differ greatly.

Hostels were found in Germany until now, primarily at busy tourist destinations, particularly in metropolitan areas. However, more and more open - and abroad - even small hostels in other tourist spots, sometimes remote and scenic countryside locations.

Hostels in the big cities are primarily aimed at an international audience. Common language of communication is English thus. Due to the strong cheapening of airline tickets in the last few decades the number of young long-haul travelers increased sharply and enabled a rapid growth of hostel beds in large European cities. Many hostels are run by commercial and profit-making companies that have grown in profitable locations to a private-sector competition for hostels and hotels in the cheapest market and often run several hostels in different locations. The largest enterprises in London and Berlin have up to 800 beds in a house. In contrast to the youth membership is not required for the night in a hostel.

The qualitatively very simple accommodation in four- to ten -bed rooms, dorms so-called (short for dormitory, English for " dormitory " ), enables us to offer low prices from 10 € in the center of large cities and tourist focal points. Often Breakfast is served in a common room. Prices for single rooms are about 20-60 € per night. Sanitary facilities are used primarily in common. Most self-catering kitchens, often washing machines and information are available to the city or region. Features better standards are: sink or bathrooms in the rooms, lighting or opaque curtain at the bed, locker, room keys for each room residents, bed linen included in the price. Also, the Internet access available, ideally as a WiFi free in the room, and the 24 -hour front desk are increasingly gaining ground.

While the German Youth Hostel Association ( DJH ) looks particularly youthful group travelers as a target group, the hostels rely on individual travelers. Above average, the number of young adults. Individuals are usually alone or in very small groups go, allowing easy contact. Some hostels even offer a program with a bar / Alcoholic and ( live ) music. Depending on the premises and the composition of the guests is perhaps to be expected with restrictions on the night's rest.

The " Backpacker Network Germany eV " is an association, in which many independent, owner-managed German backpacker hostels have joined.

The DJH had made in January 2000, the word mark " Youth " for themselves at the German Patent and Trademark Office app. After five years of litigation between the plaintiff A & O Hotels and Hostels and DJH the Federal Patent Court ruled (Case No.: 25 W ( pat) 8/ 06) in January 2009, to delete the mark " Youth ". Against the DJH had filed a complaint with the Federal Court, so that the name was initially more protected and the dispute went into a new round. With a decision by the Supreme Court of 17 September 2009, the Board of DJH was rejected. The brand Hostel is thus permanently deleted.

Formation

Hostels, which were frequented by young backpackers, emerged from the sixties, first in Australia and other Anglo-Saxon countries and the popular in the '68 destinations of India and South East Asia. With the traveler an idea soon came back to Europe, in the 1970s, the first private hostels opened mainly in Great Britain, France and the Netherlands. Since more and more young people - again, especially from English-speaking countries - after school several months of world travel took emerged from the nineties eventually also in Germany, the first independent of the Youth Hostels Association backpack hostels. The first houses in Germany that explicitly backpacker hostel called themselves, in 1991, the backpack Hotel Lubeck, within the framework of the operation center of Lübeck, a center for alternative work and life forms that emerged, the non-existent Southern Cross Hostel in Donaueschingen and the Hamburg Schanzenstern were. In 1994, Ante Zelck with Mitte's Backpacker Hostel, the first hostel in Berlin. The first house in the new federal states in 1996 established himself in the Weimar Hababusch Hostel as a non-profit student project. In the following years, the new stores were opened mainly to Berlin, to a much lesser extent, to Hamburg, Munich and finally Cologne. Today there are about 70 backpacker hostels, which is now establishing itself in many medium-sized cities, especially in the north, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria and Saxony.