" 31th Meeting ‘Go and Hiking in the Mountains’
at Ischgl (Austria) "
July, 12. - 19. 2025
Also
in 2025, we shall have our yearly meeting with amateur Go players from Europe.
Once again, a Go teacher will be present:
Elian
Grigoriu, 6 Dan, from Vienna
He
will be accompanied by Mirta Medak, 3 Dan.
For the year 2025, we are
planning the 31st meeting "Go and Hiking in the mountains" at the
village Ischgl in the Paznaun
valley (Federal State Tirol in Austria). Those who like playing Go and like the
mountains as well, will meet like-minded
people during summer holidays at Ischgl. Also see here .
Ischgl ( http://www.ischgl.at ) is situated at 1.400m over sea
level, around Ischgl there are many options for
hiking. For those which are no strong walkers, there are easy walking-tours on
the ground of the valley and there
are cable cars for getting up to 2.700m over sea level.
A
video from Ischgl, from 2019: Two walking tours .
For playing Go in the Hotel
"Goldener Adler" there will be a comfortable extra room. There we
usually play
after dinner – till late night – and when weather is too bad for walking.
The meeting is no tournament, everybody looks for an opponent to play a
handicap game.
Sometimes, when weather is exceptionally good, we
play outdoors in the mountains at the cottage "Klein Zeinis", which
belongs to the hotel.
Since
1995, the meeting was organized by Mrs. Joshi Wiltschek († 2014) and Mr. Helmut
Wiltschek († 2021) (District
Baden, near Vienna). They held contacts to Japan, and they helped Japanese
people travelling to Ischgl.
In the years before 2021, Dr. Thomas Pfaff
(Kaiserlautern) and Roman Maschtera (District Baden, near Vienna) supported the
Organizers considerable.
Registrations
for the Go week at Ischgl
If you like to attend the
Ischgl Go week, please register for your accommodation directly at the Hotel
(see the information
below). You shall have to pay for your travel costs and for your hotel
accommodation. Moreover, we expect that the participating
Go players will pay additional 50 € for our expense.
Further questions please submit to info-ischgl@go-in-kaiserslautern.org
Further
Information: The Hotel "Goldener Adler", Addresses
and Links, How
to Travel to Ischgl,
More Pictures,
Professionals
and European Go teachers at Ischgl
"The Hotel ‚Goldener Adler‘ in the
center of the village Ischgl"
The Hotel "Goldener Adler" (Golden Eagle)
The Hotel "Goldener
Adler " ( http://www.goldener-adler.at ) is managed by the family Kurz and
offers to
its guests single and double bed rooms with breakfast and dinner.
Included are: steam-bath, sauna, whirlpool, once per week breakfast at the
cottage "Klein Zeinis"
and guided walking-tours.
Once per week, you will have coffee, tea and cakes at "Klein Zeinis"
after the walking-tour.
Bath or shower, telephone, television and a safe are available in the rooms.
The hotel has WLAN-access.
Breakfast and dinner are so
rich such that most Go players omit a regular meal at noon.
On request you will get sandwiches for your walking-tours.
The hotel price includes
the Silvretta
Card: This card admits free access to the bus in the Paznaun Valley
and free transfers by bus from the Landeck railway station to the hotel and
vice versus. The card admits
unlimited free access to all cable cars in the Paznaun and Samnaun valleys,
free entry to the museums and
to the swimming-baths in Ischgl, Galtür and See and free access by car to the
Silvretta Route, etc.
The costs per person per
night in summer 2025 are
135.00 Euros in a single bed room,
122.00 – 128.00 Euros in a double bed room,
plus 4 Euros tourism tax.
These prices are valid, if you will stay for 7 nights or more.
Otherwise you will have to pay a little bit more.
The prices per night moved up by 8 - 9 Euros, compared to 2024.
A detailed pricelist you will find here;
see also the website of the hotel ( http://www.goldener-adler.at ).
May be, you do not like to
live in the Hotel „Goldener Adler“ (because you do not like to have
breakfast and dinner there or because the rooms are too expensive) or, may be,
no free room is available at
the “Goldener Adler”. In these cases, the “ Tourismusverband Ischgl”
(Association of Tourism Ischgl)
can help you to find a room or an apartment in another house at Ischgl.
Ischgl is small and the other houses are at 10 min distance at maximum.
For a map of the village
Ischgl see here: Google_Map
"After dinner: Playing Go in the Hotel ‚Goldener Adler‘ " (Picture by
Günter Ciessow)
Hotel "Goldener
Adler"
Mail: Hotel Restaurant "Goldener Adler",
Kirchenweg 19, 6561 ISCHGL, AUSTRIA
Telephone: 0043-5444-5217
Fax: 0043-5444-5571
e-mail: Hotel@goldener-adler.at
web: http://www.goldener-adler.at
Tourismusverband Ischgl
(Association of Tourism Ischgl)
Mail: Tourismusverband Ischgl, 6561 ISCHGL, AUSTRIA
Telephone: 0043-5444-5266-0
Fax: 0043-5444-5636
e-mail: reservation@ischgl.com
web: http://www.ischgl.com
Thomas Pfaff (Organizer and
contact in Germany)
Mail:
Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 148, 67663
Kaiserslautern, GERMANY
Telephone: 0049-631-13698
Fax:
0049-322 217 028 89
e-mail: info-ischgl@go-in-kaiserslautern.org
web: http://www.Dr-Thomas-Pfaff.de
Roman Maschtera (Organizer and contact in Austria)
Mail: Am Reisenbach 4b,
2440 Reisenberg, AUSTRIA
Telefone:
0043- 664-4007880
e-mail:
roman.maschtera@aon.at
Helmut Wiltschek (late
organizer and initializer of the summer
Go meetings at Ischgl), he passed away in 2021.
|
Nakayama
Noriyuki († 2010) |
7-Dan |
Nihon Ki-in |
1995 - 2009 |
|
Abe Yoshiteru († 2009) |
9-Dan |
Nihon Ki-in |
2005 |
|
6-Dan |
Nihon Ki-in |
2007 |
|
|
9-Dan |
Nihon Ki-in |
2010 - 2011 |
|
|
9-Dan |
Nihon Ki-in |
2011 |
|
|
6-Dan |
Kansai Ki-in |
2013 - 2018 |
Further companions of Mr.
Nakayama: Nakaoka Jiro (2x), Hisajima Kunio and Mrs. Nakayama Kaoru.
Participants of the Winter Meetings „Go and Ski“ 1996-1997: Mrs. Tsukuda Akiko,
Mrs Shigeno Yukiko
and from Kansai Ki-in Muraoka Shigeyuki and Honda Goro.
European
Go teachers at Ischgl
|
Alexander Eerbeek
(Niederlande) |
5-Dan |
Teacher at polgote.com |
2024 |
|
|
|
|
2025 |
"Teaching-games with Hayashi Kozo Sensei
in the 'Adler' "
VIDEOS: Hayashi singing and playing on his
‚Shamisen‘
at the Go-Meeting Ischgl 2017 (by
Hans Otto) ---
at the EGC Bordeaux 2011 and (by Richard Mullens)
"Nakayama Noriyuki Sensei († 2010) playing
at the cottage 'Klein-Zeinis' "
If you travel by
aeroplane:
The airport nearest to Ischgl is Innsbruck, other options are the
airports Vienna or Munich in Germany.
From the airport you go to a railway station and then by train to
‘Landeck/Tirol’.
The name of this railway station is ‘Landeck-Zams’. In front of the Station you
will find taxis and a bus-stop.
The bus from Landeck to Ischgl starts once per hour. Enter the bus “line 260”
(destination Galtür/Bielerhöhe),
get out at the bus-stop ”Ischgl -
Mehrzweckhaus” at Ischgl.
In Ischgl you have to walk 200m from the bus-stop to the hotel. The Hotel
‘Goldener Adler’ is situated in
the center of the village Ischgl near the church.
For a map of the village
Ischgl see here: Google_Map
For groups of Go players
arriving at Innsbruck, a transfer by bus
from Innsbruck to the hotel can be
arranged.
If you travel by train:
See above.
If you travel by car:
Apply the route Innsbruck – Bregenz, follow the direction ‘Landeck’, apply the
exit ‘Pians’.
From exit ‘Landeck’ the nearest exit in the west is ‘Pians’. Follow the
direction ‘Ischgl’ or ‘Paznauntal’
and find the hotel in the center of the village Ischgl.
"The village Ischgl in the valley Paznauntal in the Federal
StateTirol"
"Andreas Koch and a group of Japanese ladies at the Idjoch"
"Helmut Wiltschek and his birthday-cake on 20.07.2001 " (Picture by Günter Ciessow)
"Birthday-cake on Helmut‘s 80th birthday (20.07.2019), sponsored by Mr.
and Mrs. Krone "
(Picture by Christian Krone)
"Hikers in the Jam-valley"
"Thomas Pfaff and Andreas Koch playing Go in the ‘Golden Eagle' "
Text: Dr. Thomas Pfaff,
Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 148,
67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Pictures: Günter
Ciessow, Christian Krone and Dr. Thomas Pfaff
Videos: Hans Otto, Richard
Mullens and Dr. Thomas Pfaff
We do not guarantee for the
specified costs at the hotel.
Last update: 11.02.2025