Truth about Youth Hostels

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Truth about Youth Hostels In August 1909, the German teacher Richard Schirrmann had been caught in a violent thunderstorm on an 8 -day hike with his students and found shelter in a barn by a farmer. While the students were asleep, Schirrmann was awake all night. The thought suddenly attacked him , " You'd have places to create movement with a secure and affordable overnight stay cheerful young people and students. " He published this idea for the first time in 1910 in an essay on " Voksschuelerherbergen " ( " Elementary school students accommodation " ) PG Accomodation Ahmedabad " ... Even the boys and girls of the common man must practice fresh merry moving as counterweight for the room stool time of their school time ... how can I imagine now appropriate and sufficient accommodation for the enormous army of elementary school ? ... every city and almost every village has a primary school, which almost waits in holidays with empty space for them in a bedroom and a dining room for movement cheerful children are transformed . Two classrooms are sufficient , one for boys , one for girls . banks are partially set one above the other. gives free space for the list of 15 beds .... each camp consists of a tightly plugged with straw mattress and pillows, 2 sheets and a blanket ... each child is stopped , its storage space to bring back in order finely neat ... " After publication of this essay in the " Cologne Gazette " (Cologne Newspaper ) numerous money and gift in kind and offers of support came from all over Germany . In 1912, the first hostel of Altenia Castle , Germany was opened 2 bedrooms with 3 - storey solid wood beds, a dayroom, kitchen , laundry and shower rooms: The first youth hostel was arranged according to the plans Schirrmann . First hostel warden was Richard Schirrmann . He lived right across the hostel rooms. In the same year Schirrmann published the first hostel list of about 140 addresses. In many of these accommodations , however were not even basics of accommodations , eg for girls were nothing.


In 1913 were already 301 youth hostels in towns and villages . A year later a 535 counted. In 1920, the first issue of the journal " Youth " was published , and with around 700 addresses the first manual with addresses by youth hostels were published . From 1924-1929 with the first lottery in favor of the youth hostels 1.5 million realm Marks were recovered. In 1932, already had 2,123 hostels in Germany . More than 4.5 million overnight stays in place . But more than 600 hostels were already opened at the end of the twenties in other countries , such as Poland, Holland , France, England and Switzerland. Paying Guest in Ahmedabad On 20 October was created in 1932 in Amsterdam in the presence of land agencies from Switzerland , Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Netherlands , Norway , Denmark, Great Britain, Ireland , France and Belgium, the International Youth Hostel Federation ( Hostelling International ) . The association has its seat today in Welwyn Garden City near London. Richard Schirrmann was elected as president. Conference language was German . The next conference in 1933 also Isabel and Monroe Smith participated from the U.S.. Within a year they could open thirty youth hostels in the United States. Also in 1933 the National Socialists came to power in Germany . All political and religious youth combinations were dissolved and replaced by a system of forced uniformed youth organization under the leadership of the " Reich Youth Leadership ." Richard Schirrmann must resign as chairman of the German youth hostel factory . He was not impressed by the idealistic elements of the new movement and became the honorary president of the Reichsverbandf端r German youth hostels. A decision he later bitterly regret . In 1936, for political reasons, it had come to break with the International Youth Hostel Federation . In 1947, after the end of World War II , 247 hostels with 1.1585 million overnight stays were counted again in Germany . From 1949-1990 also in the GDR developed an extensive network of hostels . Initially run as associations, later these were state institutions led the youth to become. The existing organizations were dissolved. In 1960, the youth were in the Federal Republic. More than 720 houses realized 11,300,312 overnight stays. Were created in 1990 after the end of the GDR and in the new states of the Federal Republic Hostel associations. In November, these associations of the German Youth Hostel Association closed . Youth today Worldwide, there are more than 4,000 hostels in 65 countries, with more than 600 in Germany alone.


The hostels in Germany offer their guests more than an inexpensive overnight stay. In addition to small, cozy old buildings or the experience in castles and residences you also find many houses in scenic environments and in large cities. Radhakrishnahostels is provide accommodation in ahmedabad payingguest Ahmedabad

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