Confused

[JabbaPapa]

Albergues on the Camino grew out of the Youth Hostel movement in Germany in early 1900. Hostels were originally designed to get poor children out of the city and into the fresh country air. Today, there are now hostels around the world.

It's the exact opposite -- the very word "hostel" is derived from the Mediaeval Latin "hospital", the meaning of which was "pilgrim's refuge". Later, the word diverged into the modern hospital, hotel, and hostel, losing its original meaning.

On the Camino, there are several villages called "Hospital de" something ; these names are NOT derived from "the Youth Hostel movement in Germany in early 1900". They are derived from the fact that these villages were built around mediaeval pilgrim albergues.

Youth hostels are derived from pilgrim's albergues (not just those on the Camino, those that existed extensively throughout Europe on the various pilgrim Ways).

 

[pjacobi]

See the following thread for how Albergues were first established on the Camino.

-Paul


https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...ccommodation-doesnt-make-you-a-pilgrim.43115/

 

[Tincatinker]

I'm not sure that that thread supports your original assertion amigo. Sillydoll's post shows that the concept of paroquial and donativo Albergues grew out of a recognition that there were those who would wish to undertake the pilgrimage to Santiago who could not afford traditional hotel accommodation. There was also the recognition that such a concept would reflect and revive the medieval history of the pilgrimage and the Hospitals of old.

And none of it in any way linked to the concepts and intentions of the Youth Hostel movement.