What is the history of hostels?
Hostels have probably been around for as long as people have been travelling, but the hostel movement we are familiar with today was started by a german schoolteacher named Richard Schirrmann, in the summer of 1907. Each night the classrooms of Nette School were cleared of desks and chairs and straw sacks were put on the floor. Each morning the guests helped put the classrooms back in order again. Schirrmanns philosophy was “that the thoughtful young people of all countries could be provided with suitable meeting places where they could get to know each other! That could and must be the role of our youth hostels, not only in Germany, but throughout the world, building a bridge of peace from nation to nation!
