3rd ESG Jamboree

30th of July - 06th of August 2011; Loreley/Germany

The next big ESG Jamborre from the YMCA of Europe will be from July, 30th until August, 6th 2011 in Germany. The planning has started - one of our big events will be a river boat tour on the Rhine. It will be a big event and adventure.
Get together with other young scouts- and Jungschar-leaders. We are looking forward to seeing you and a lot of young peoples from all over Europe. You can stay in a youth hostel, cabin or in your tent.

 Here you can find out more about the ESG Jamboree 2011: http://www.esg.eay.org/

Here the History and Myth of the Loreley

• History of the Loreley ( Lorelei )

First traces of human settlement have been 600.000 years ago. During the Middle Ages the Loreley ( Lorelei ) was well known, along with the Binger Loch, as the most dangerous section of the Rhine. Many mariners in their wooden dinghies came to tragedy here.

• Variation of the Loreley ( Lorelei ) Myth

The name Loreley ( Lorelei ) appears in a romantic ballad written by the poet Clemens Brentano in 1801. In this ballad, Loreley ( Lorelei ) is a beauty from Bacharach who wants to take her own life because her truelove is unfaithful. The bishop, fascinated by her loveliness and humility, takes her to a convent. En route to the convent, she stops at the cliff to look back on the palace of her truelove. When she sees him riding away, she throws herself in despair into the turbulent waters below.
In the Rhine fairytale of 1810, Brentano varied the theme so that Loreley ( Lorelei ) appears as the distraught woman Lurley, sitting on a rock combing her long golden hair and luring the bargees into their destruction.
see some more about it: http://www.loreley-info.com/index.php

beautiful Youth hostel

 Cabins

  Camping ground

 Rhine river

 Main street Goarshausen

 Castle

Come and join the jamboree