The Alpe-Adria SERVAS meetings are a series of border-crossing gatherings in the area of the Eastern Alps initiated by Dorothea Schelch and Luigi Uslenghi in 1989. Since then nearly every year up to 50 SERVAS members spend a weekend together, talking, hiking, singing, dancing and having fun.
A special thank is due to those SERVAS members who were deeply engaged in the organization of these meetings, of whom I want to mention only some of the main organizers (in alphabetical order of their first names): Alma Nimis (2005, 2008, 2011, 2018), Anna Halmanová (2019), Boris Horvat (1990, 2010, 2018), Christine Fischer von Bernus (2025), Dorothea Schelch (1989, 2002, 2010, 2018), Eva Meggeneder (2006), Hedwig Seyr-Glatz (2009, 2013, 2015), Helen Heim Hueber (2012), Herbert Forkl (2001, 2007), Iris Eibensteiner (2023), Luigi Uslenghi (1989), Renate Weckl (2017), Rudi Frank (1991, 1995, 1999), Vreny Boesch (2012), Zuzana Polakova (2009, 2015, 2024).
Here is a chronology of Alpe-Adria meetings (please help to complete the series!):
no. | date | place |
01 | 1989/9/29ff | Camporosso, Italy |
02 | 1990/10/12-14 | Grožnjan/Piran, ex Yugoslavia |
03 | 1991/10/11-13 | Wien, Austria |
04 | 1992/10/16-18 | Bagni di Lusnizza, Italy |
05 | 1994/6/17-19 | Bovec, Slovenia |
06 | 1995/6/2-4 | St. Gilgen, Austria |
07 | 1996/6/7-9 | Gemona, Italy |
08 | 1998/6 | Rakov Škocjan, Slovenia |
09 | 1999/5/14-16 | Salzburg, Austria |
10 | 1999/9/11-13 | Krk, Croatia |
11 | 2000 | Cividale del Friuli, Italy |
12 | 2001 | near Nürnberg, Germany |
13 | 2002 | Istanbul, Turkey |
14 | 2003 | ( please tell me the location, if you were there! ) |
15 | 2004/6/25-27 | Dolenjska, Slovenia |
16 | 2005/5/27-29 | Tarcento, Italy |
17 | 2006 | Admont, Steiermark, Austria |
18 | 2007/8/17-19 | Poppberg/Birgland, Germany |
19 | 2008/9/19-21 | Gorizia, Italy |
20 | 2009/9/18-20 | Bratislava, Slovakia |
21 | 2010/9/24-26 | Bohinjsko Jezero, Slovenia |
22 | 2011/9/09-11 | Hotel Park Oasi, Arta Terme, Italy |
23 | 2012/9/28-30 | Youth Hostel Kreuzlingen, Switzerland |
24 | 2013/9/20-22 | Hotel Dermuth, Klagenfurt, Austria |
25 | 2015/9/18-24 | Penzion Polana, Horný Smokovec, Slovakia |
26 | 2016/9/16-18 | Villa San Fermo, Lonigo, Italy |
27 | 2017/9/22-24 | Hotel Luitpold am See, Chiemsee, Germany |
28 | 2018/9/14-16 | Kamp Koren, Kobarid, Slovenia |
29 | 2019/9/20-22 | Sport Hotel Zátoň near Český Krumlov, Czech Republic |
30 | 2023/10/6-8 | Schloss Weinberg, Kefermarkt, Austria |
31 | 2024/9/27-29 | Hotel Urpin City Residence, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia (invitation) |
32 | 2025/9/… | Burghausen, Germany |
Berichte über die Alpe-Adria-Treffen gibt es auch SERVAS Schweiz auf https://www.servas.ch/servas-treffen (2019/Krumau und 2023/Schloss Weinberg)
2012 at Youth Hostel in Kreuzlingen/Switzerland for the first time in Switzerland. Vreny Boesch and Helen Heim Hueber