유스호스텔 창립 100주년 - 연합뉴스 2009.8.27 기사
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100 years of hostelling
How it all started
The founder of the youth hostel movement was a German teacher, Richard Schirrmann. He was a believer in learning by direct observation and often took his classes on excursions and hiking trips. The hiking trips could last several days, and Schirrmann and his pupils would find accommodation in farm buildings.
On one of these excursions, on 26 August 1909, the group was caught in a thunderstorm. They finally found shelter in a school building in the Bröl Valley. The headmaster let them use a classroom and a farmer gave them some straw to sleep on and some milk for their evening meal. The storm raged the whole night. While the boys slept, Schirrmann lay awake. That was when he had an idea…
"The schools in Germany could very well be used to provide accommodation during the holidays. Villages could have a friendly youth hostel, situated a day's walk from each other, to welcome young hikers."
The hostel movement grew rapidly after the first real youth hostel opened in Altena, Germany.
That stormy night was when the worldwide youth hostel movement was founded. In 1910 Schirrmann wrote an essay setting out his ideas for "Volksschülerherbergen" (hostels for pupils of ordinary state schools).
"Two classrooms will suffice, one for boys and one for girls. Some desks can be stacked away thus freeing space to put down 15 beds. Each bed will consist of a tightly stuffed straw sack and pillow, two sheets and a blanket… Each child will be required to keep his own sleeping place clean and tidy."
In 1912 the first real youth hostel opened in the old castle of Altena. The castle was restored and equipped according to Schirrmann's design, with two dormitories with massive triple-tier wooden bunks beds, a kitchen, washrooms and a shower bath.
The youth hostel movement grew rapidly. By 1913, already 83 youth hostels and 21 000 overnights were recorded. By 1921 the number of overnights stays had already reached 500 000. By the summer of 1931 there were 12 youth hostel associations in existence in Europe, operating a total of 2 600 hostels, but there was very little contact between the associations.
This all changed on 20 October 1932 when the first international conference was held at a hotel in Amsterdam. It was attended by representatives from 11 hostel associations: Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England and Wales, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Switzerland.
The conference marks the birth of International Youth Hostel Federation – the organisation today better known as Hostelling International.
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,645109,00.html
08/26/2009
Centenary of a German Export
Youth Hostels Celebrate 100 Years
Everyone enjoys wallowing in memories of summer vacations and holidays with friends, but for many Germans a holiday is not complete without the customary stay in a youth hostel, or "Jugendherberge." And this week the venerable institution is celebrating its centenary, with hundreds of events all across the country being held to celebrate 100 years of what became a global movement.
The first permanent youth hostel opened on Aug. 26, 1909 in the Altena Castle in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany. It was built by a teacher named Richard Schirrmann who came up with the idea of a low-cost hostel while he was sheltering from a thunderstorm one night during a school trip with his class.
Despite its early associations with the Hitler Youth Movement, the concept of a budget-oriented hostel with a homey-feel has remained largely unchanged over the past century.
The Great Outdoors
An emphasis is frequently put on the environment, with many hostels promoting ecological sustainability and conservation of resources. Guests are encouraged to spend their days outside, pursuing activities like hiking and cycling, and the first hostels were even closed during the day, preventing guests from staying indoors.
Still today, hostels -- which usually have bunk beds in dormitories to encourage socializing amongst guests -- intend to give city youngsters the opportunity to get away from their urban homes and enjoy the great outdoors. As travelling and so called "inter-railing" increasingly became part of the youth culture towards the end of the 20th century, the number of hostels in Germany boomed.
Urban Success
Today the hostel culture has become an international movement with over 90 youth hosteling associations spread over 80 countries comprising more than 4,000 hostels. Originally limited to the hills and the countryside, thousands have also sprung up in towns and cities across the world.
Some of Germany's most famous hostels include Berlin's 'Ostel' -- which promises a taste of what life was like in communist East Germany -- as well as Colditz Castle in Saxony, a former jail for prisoners of war during the Third Reich.
Chains of hostels have also thrived in the past decades, with some cities reporting a higher average income per room for hostels than hotels. The independent hostel industry seems to have escaped the financial crisis largely unscathed, unlike the top-end hotel industry that has been hurt badly by companies cutting corporate travel and many wealthy tourists not spending as much on accomodation as they have in previous years.
Scotland's largest hostelling association, SYHA reported a 60 percent surge in booking this year after launching its first television advertising campaign. "Hostelling has always been about affordable travel for all and friendly communities - values which are recession-proof," SYHA's head of sales and marketing, Louise Nowell, told the Scotsman newspaper.
International Jubilee
The German Youth Hostel Association (DJH) is another of these umbrella societies. Last weekend it hosted a huge party in Altena Castle attracting hostel-lovers from all over Europe. During an official celebration that took place at the beginning of August, a commemorative coin and stamp were presented by the DJH.
But in the same way in which the hostels themselves have surged beyond Germany's borders, so will the festivities marking the anniversary. Dozens of hostels around the globe are hosting Open Door programs to promote hostels in the countries where they have not yet been established. And Australia's Youth Hostel Association (YHA) has launched a competition giving participant the chance to win 100 nights in hostels across the country.
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