The location was chosen because in the 1920s, Ludwig Wittgenstein taught at elementary schools in the area surrounding Kirchberg am Wechsel.
Only four of the five founders gave talks on his philosophical work at the first meeting, but at the second, 120 speakers attended from around the world.
[2] Starting with the second symposium, the papers accepted for presentation have been published in edited proceedings.
The proceedings published at ontos verlag are available Open Access online at a site prepared by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen.
The Wittgenstein Archives have also prepared a site that contains an Open Access selection of symposium papers from the period 2001-10.