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Drachenfels Club

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Abbreviation
  
DVVD

Headquarters
  
Bad Dürkheim

Chairman
  
Egon Schmitt

Formation
  
14 April 1873

Membership
  
ca. 530

Purpose
  
Local history, landscape preservation and conservation

The Drachenfels Club is a society for the preservation and care of monuments in the vicinity of the German town of Bad Dürkheim. It owns numerous natural monuments and listed buildings, some of which it has been given and others which it has established itself.

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History

The Drachenfels Club was founded in 1873 under the chairmanship of Wilhelm Schepp. Its name came from the first project that the society undertook: to make the Dragon Cave (Drachenhöhle) accessible. The cave lies under the Drachenfels, a hill in the borough of Bad Dürkheim, which is linked to the legend of the Nibelung. Other renovations and the enclosure of spaces and natural monuments took place the following year. A short time later, probably around 1875, the new club was given the Laura Hut (Laurahütte) in Leistadt, which it had not built itself, but was able to use the legacy of the Retzer family from Freinsheim. From 1896 the club built its most expensive structure: the Bismarck Tower on the Peterskopf. Innumerable new refuge huts were built and countless renovations of buildings and natural sites followed. The club's activities were put on hold during the Second World War. In 1947 it was re-founded in its present form.

Cultural monuments

  • Laura Hut (Leistadt)
  • Bismarck Tower
  • Kriemhildenstuhl
  • Flaggenturm
  • Kaiser-Wilhelm-Höhe
  • Schaeferwarte
  • Vigilienturm
  • Natural monuments

  • Drachenfels
  • Drei Eichen
  • Heidefelsen
  • References

    Drachenfels Club Wikipedia