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Franz Lorenz
We share in the alpine areas of work on
video length:
01:59
interviewer:
RuthD Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
copyright location:
Galtür
date of recording:
2008-08-22
English translation by:
Sylvia Manning-Baumgartner
Italian translation by:
Nicole D´Incecco
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1861
transcription:
The oldest alpine club of the world still exists, 'The British alpine club'. It can be considered the forerunner of all alpine societies. As mountaineering got more and more popular, communities of interest, clubs, were founded in various regions. Those were the precursors of the alpine clubs. As the influx into the Alps increased, the noble gentlemen said: "Instead of sleeping with the shepherds who stink and beside manure heaps we could build our own mountain refuges. That's how the alpine huts developed. To avoid confusion in the Alps of the Germans-speaking countries, in Lower Switzerland and Austria, and farther east, they said: "Let's divide the Alps into working areas." The Austrian alpine club was founded in 1861 in Vienna, far away from the Alps. Already two years later the German one in Munich was opened. The agents told us: "We're dividing the Alps into working areas." Every subdivision of the local club was assigned to a working section. The Silvretta region was assigned to the divisions from the southwest of Germany. That's why the division from Swabia came to Jamtal from Stuttgart and built their first hut there.