- Ore Mountain Club
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Ore Mountain Club 
Founded 5 May 1878 (Schneeberg);
19 June 1955 (Frankfurt/Main - west);
21 April 1990 (Zschorlau - newly founded in the east);
12 October 1991 (Eibenstock - reunification)Based in Schneeberg President Dr. Gabriele Lorenz
(1st federal chairwoman)Branches 62 Members 63 (1878); 28,000 (1929); 3,859 (2008) Website http://www.erzgebirgsverein.de The Ore Mountain Club (German: Erzgebirgsverein) is one of the oldest and most tradition-steeped local history, mountain and hiking clubs in Germany. The club was founded in 1878. After the Second World War the club and its many branches were banned by the East German authorities, but it was refounded in West Germany in Frankfurt am Main in 1955. Only after the political events of Die Wende in 1990 was it newly founded in the Ore Mountains. At the end of 2008 the club had over 3,859 members in 61 branches. Before 1945 there were more than 25,000 members. In 1929 the Ore Mountain Club even had over 28,000 members in 156 branches and managed several accommodation houses on the Fichtelberg near Oberwiesenthal and the Schwartenberg between Seiffen and Neuhausen/Erzgeb..
Today the Ore Mountain Club has 12 woodcarving and 30 bobbin lacemaking groups (Schnitzgruppen and Klöppelgruppen). In 2008 its members did 220,000 hours of voluntary work. The club's trail rangers look after 4,042 kilometres of hiking trails in the Ore Mountains with 6,136 signposts, 2,346 benches and 377 refuge huts. [1]
External links
- Official homepage (German)
Sources
- Das schöne Erzgebirge im Sommer und Winter; 138 pages. Schneeberg, 1929; Druck C. M. Gärtner, Schwarzenberg
- Gerhard Schlegel, Erich Reuther, Dieter Schräber: 125 Jahre Erzgebirgsverein - eine Festschrift. Schneeberg, 2003 ISBN 3-931770-41-9
References
- ^ Ore Mountain Club Annual Statistics, December 2008
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