Austrian Alpine Club

Austrian Alpine Club

Sport	Mountaineering
Category	Amateur athletic association
Founded	November 19, 1862 (1862-11-19)
Regional affiliation	195 sections
Headquarters	Innsbruck
President	Andreas Ermacora
Official website
www.alpenverein.at

The Austrian Alpine Club - or more accurately the Austrian Alpine Association - (German: Österreichischer Alpenverein) has about 573,000 members (as of end 2018) in 196 sections and is the largest mountaineering organisation in Austria. It is responsible for the upkeep of over 234 alpine huts in Austria and neighbouring countries. It also maintains over 26,000 kilometres of footpaths, and produces detailed maps of key mountain areas within Austria. Much of this work is done by the association's 22,000 volunteers.1

The association also has sections in Belgium and the United Kingdom, and a group in Poland.

• Belgium: Vlaanderen Klim- en bergsportfederatie, or Sektion Flandern - 12,300 members (as of end 2018)
• United Kingdom: Austrian Alpine Club (UK), or Sektion Britannia - 15,200 members (as of end 2018)
• Poland: Alpenverein grupa polska - a group hosted within (the Vienna-based) Sektion Austria
• Slovakia: Alpenverein Slovakia - a group hosted within (the Vienna-based) Sektion Austria (as of 2013)

While all the above sections are in charge of their respective regional area of operation, one section is in charge of Austria's long distance path network:

• Long Distance Hikers: [1] - based in Graz and Vienna, Austria, appx. 1250 members as of 2018.

In 1871 Guido von List became the association's secretary.

The association has a museum in Innsbruck dedicated to the history of alpinism.

See also[]

• South Tyrol Alpine Club (Alpenverein Südtirol, AVS)
• German Alpine Club (Deutscher Alpenverein, DAV)

External links[]

• OeAV (Austrian Alpine Association) (in German)
• Austrian Alpine Club(UK) - OeAV Sektion Britannia (in English)
• Alpenverein Polska (Ortsgruppe of OeAV Sektion Austria) (in Polish)
• Alpenverein Slovakia (Ortsgruppe of OeAV Sektion Austria) (in Slovak)

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