We are
there for you
The Kolpinghaus is made up of many people who have set themselves the goal of creating a "temporary home where young people can feel at home". In addition to the current 17 full-time employees, many volunteers from the Kolping Familie Graz and the Kolping Jugend Graz are needed to make this vision a success. All these helping hands are united by the vision of Adolph Kolping.
Team
Association
Kolpinghaus Graz is run by the non-profit organization Kolping Graz. More information about the club can be found on the club's own website.
Kolping Jugend
In addition to the Kolping Familie, the Kolping Jugend (Kolping Youth) is also organized as an association. Residents can register as members and take part in numerous activities and use the premises of Kolping Jugend Graz. The Kolping Jugend Graz is part of the Kolping Jugend Österreich.
Chess club
In addition to the Kolping Familie Graz and the Kolping Jugend Graz, the Kolpinghaus Graz is also home to a third club, our chess club.
The chess club can now look back on 30 years of existence and has consistently taken part in the local championships in Graz. The club regularly trains and plays in various formations made up of chess-loving residents and former residents and is led by our former managing director and president Hermann Krogger.
People interested in chess, whether beginners or advanced players, are always welcome at SV Kolping Graz. For more information, please contact Hermann Krogger on 0316/ 82 94 70 555 and at hermann.krogger@kolping-graz.at.
Kolping
Österreich
The Kolpinghaus Graz and the Kolping Graz Association are part of the Kolping Österreich network. Kolping Österreich is a non-profit, Christian-social membership association that has seen its work as a contribution to solving social issues for over 150 years. The association has set itself the task of offering living spaces for young and old. Kolping Österreich is also there for people with special needs in various facilities.
Over the years, Kolping has developed into a modern social organization operating worldwide: The International Kolping society comprises around 5,000 local groups with more than 500,000 members in over 60 countries around the world.
Rent our
Ballroom and seminar room
We also rent out our ballroom and seminar room to external groups and event organizers. Also with catering and including modern technology and equipment. For more detailed information on prices and available dates, please contact us.
Adolph Kolping
Adolph Kolping (1813-1865) is the founding father of all Kolping institutions and is very much present in our Kolpinghaus. Partly figuratively, but above all through his ideas and approaches.
He came from a modest background and began his career as a journeyman shoemaker. For ten years, he shared the often difficult living conditions of the journeymen and then decided to study theology to become a priest.
In 1849, he founded a Catholic journeymen's association to offer journeymen, i.e. marginalized young people, a temporary home and prospects for coping with life. His idea quickly spread throughout Germany and Austria. The houses of Kolping were a place of community and education in the sense of political, social, and religious education. In his thoughts and actions, Adolph Kolping was a pioneer of the basic principles of Christian social teaching and is a role model for our work today. His social doctrine is based on four fundamental pillars: Family, society, work, and religion.
