130 Years of Friends of Nature - Historical Hike Reminds of the Moved History of Nature's Connectedness and Solidarity TOP News Austria - News from Austria and the World

On April 14, 1895, the Naturefriends went on a hike together for the first time. One month earlier, the founding members Georg Schmiedl and Simon Katz had called in the _Wiener Arbeiter-Zeitung_ for the founding of a tourist group. On Easter Sunday, 62 participants met at the Südbahnhof, recognizable by the _Worker-Zeitung_, and wandered from Mödling to the Anninger. Only four days later, the association name "Naturefriends" was decided. Just tw…