Honorary members, 116 in number, laid the foundation stone for the Linz Alpine Club in 1874. The founding father was Johann Pollack, son of a canvas dealer and long-time caretaker of the Giselawarte. That’s what it says in the history book, the commemorative publication for this year’s anniversary.
150 years later, the Linz Alpine Association has more than 26,000 members with its 18 local groups, which are committed to preserving the mountains and thus also to nature conservation and paving the way for the mountain experience.
Around 300 guests came together on Friday evening at the Oberbank Donau-Forum in Linz to celebrate the anniversary. We looked back, looked at the present and looked at the future. There are many challenges ahead: climate change, infrastructure, i.e. huts and paths in the mountains, and littering.
“Priceless, priceless”
The team led by President Herbert Blauhut was congratulated by State Governor Thomas Stelzer (“nature is a gift that also means responsibility, for which the volunteer members of the Alpine Association are invaluable and priceless”) and the Executive Vice Mayor Dietmar Prammer (“the Alpine Association is through the huts , the maintenance of the path and the care of the Giselawarte outside the city “forming the image of Linz”), Bishop Manfred Scheuer, Oberbank general director Franz Gasselsberger, himself an enthusiastic mountain walker and with his wife Gerti “a well-rehearsed team for 38 years”, and the new president of the Alpine Association Austria, Wolfgang Schnabl, who gave the speech.
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Image: Mike Ferihuemer Photography
Source: Nachrichten
