How youth hostels provide the magic power to surprise almost every body. Here is the little known (yet true) story of the origin of hostels.

In August 1909 the German teacher Richard Schirrmann had been caught in a violent thunderstorm on an eight day migration with his pupils and found accommodation in a barn by a farmer.

While the pupils were sleeping, Schirrmann was laying awake the whole night.

The thought attacked him suddenly, One would have to create places, at which move-joyful young many people and pupils receive a safe and inexpensive overnight stay.

He published this idea for the first measure in 1910 in an essay about Voksschuelerherbergen ("elementary school pupil lodgings"),

"also the boys and girls of the common man must practice fresh merry moving as counterweight for the room stool instant of their school years... how do I imagine now appropriate and sufficient lodgings for the enormous army of the elementary school pupils