Slovenian Scouts and Guides in Carinthia

The Slovenian Scouts and Guides in Carinthia ( _sl. Slovenski koroški skavti in skavtinje _de. Slowenische Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen in Kärnten) is the Scout and Guide association of the Slovenian-speaking minority in Carinthia. It is affiliated to the Carinthia division of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of Austria as a Scout group. The association is coeducational.

History

The first Scout group of the Slovenian-speaking minority was founded in 1959 by the Catholic priest Janez Rovan SDB in Klagenfurt. It was registered as Klagenfurt 6 as a member of the Pfadfinder Österreichs Landeskorps Kärnten". The home of the group was a boarding school. In 1970 the first Girl Guide patrol was established.

At the beginning of the 1980s there were 70 active members and a patrol in Bleiburg was founded.In 1984 the biggest camp of Slovenian Scouts and Guides in Carinthia took place in Globasnitz.After the boarding school in Klagenfurt was disbanded, Bleiburg became the home of the Scouts and Guides.

The Slovenian Scouts and Guides in Carinthia worked closly together with other Scout groups in Carinthia and with Slovene Scouts and Guides in Italy. After Scouting in Slovenia started again, there was also close cooperation.

In 1993 the Slovenian Scouts and Guides in Carinthia left the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of Austria.

In 2001 Slovenian Scouts and Guides in Carinthia took part in the camp "Gelebte Nachbarschaft-Techuana 2001".cite web |title=Pfadfindertreffen |publisher=ORF
language=German |date =2001-08-01 |url=http://vgarchiv.orf.at/slowenen/archiv/2001/200108.htm] This camp was organized by the Carinthia division of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of Austria, the Zveza tabornikov Slovenije, the Associazione Guide e Scouts Cattolici Italiani, the Corpo Nazionale Giovani Esploratori ed Esploratrici Italiani and the Deutsche Pfadfinderschaft Sankt Georg. The Slovene Scouts of Trieste also took part in this camp, as well as other Scout groups from different Scout associations.

After this camp, Slovenian Scouts and Guides renewed their ties to other Scout groups in Carinthia, and rejoined the Carinthia division of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of Austria in 2003.

ources

*Peter Kristof: Slowenische Pfadfinderinnen in Kärnten (in German) in PPÖ-Brief 1/2004, p.24
*Peter Kristof: Slovenski koroski skavti in skavtinje (in Slovenian) in PPÖ-Brief 1/2004,p.24
*Hans Hopfgartner: Gelebte Nachbarschaft-Techuana 2001 (in German), special issue Gelebte Nachbarschaft-Techuana 2001, p. 4 in PPÖ-Brief 4/2001