Rhön Club (Rhönklub e.V.)
Club dates
Founded 1876
Address/
Contact
Peterstor 7
36037 Fulda
President vacant
Members 25,000 (2010)
Internet
Home page www.rhoenklub.de

The Rhön Club (German: Rhönklub) is an inter-state local history and rambling club in Bavaria, Hesse and Thuringia, with around 25,000 members in 88 branches and is one of the larger German rambling clubs in the Association of German Alpine and Rambling Clubs (Verband Deutscher Gebirgs- und Wandervereine).

Aims

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The club was founded on 6 August 1876 in Gersfeld with the aim of opening up the Rhön Mountains as a hiking and rambling area. Its aim today is the conservation of the valuable natural and cultural countryside of the Rhön from a number of ecological viewpoints, especially:

  • the preservation of rare plants
  • the care of native animals and the general protection of wildlife
  • the conservation of valuable cultural sites
  • the fostering of local customs
  • the preservation of local folk songs
  • the knowledgeable speaking of the dialect
  • the care of old cultural objects

Presidents

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From To Name
1876 1904 Justus Schneider (doctor)
1904 1913 Karl Wegener (architect)
1913 1939 Hugo Pfeiffer (king's counsel)
1939 1961 Oswald Milker
1961 1976 Josef Hans Sauer
1976 1989 Alfons Lühn
1989 2011 Regina Rinke
2011 2013 Ewald Klüber (engineer, 1948–2014)
since 24 June 2013 Vacant

Literature

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  • Rhönklub (publ.): Schneiders Rhönführer. Offizieller Führer des Rhönklubs. Verlag Parzeller, 2005, Fulda, ISBN 3-79000-365-4, pp. 96 ff.
  • Rhönwacht (the Club magazine) (2006, Issue 2, April to Juni)
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