Eifel Club

[2] Its purpose is the "maintenance of local customs, the protection and care of monuments to which it is particularly committed".

[3] The Eifel Club was founded on 22 May 1888 in the event hall at Bad Bertrich by Adolf Dronke and, in 2013, it celebrated its 125th anniversary.

It also runs the youth hostel of "Schilsbachtal" by the Rur Reservoir Schwammenauel in Simmerath-Woffelsbach.

Since 1899, the club has owned the lower ward of the castle at Manderscheid, the ruins of which it has since carefully renovated and also made available for events.

From 1983 to 1993 the Eifel Club organised the Euregio Star Walk at the tripoint of Vaals, where the borders of the Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands meet.

Eifel Club 25th anniversary medal 1913, obverse
The reverse of this medal dedicated to the Jewish member Siegmund Katz (1838 Bonn - 1928)
A waysign erected by the Eifel Club on a path in Eschweiler