Login Registration Membership Zone. Search form Search. After the 1st World Scout Jamboree the Scouts lookout for a place where they could live Jamboree feeling days per year and find it in Kandersteg.
The 14 kilometres long tunnel will extend direct rail service between the Bernese Oberland, Wallis and Italy. Lord Robert Baden-Powell organises a first experimental scout camp at Brownsea Island, England, bringing together 20 boys from different parts of society.
A chalet is built near the banks of the river Kander. The workers depart, and the buildings are left abandoned. What is known nowadays as the Old Chalet, is one of the few buildings that remained after this period. During a visit to Kandersteg, already a well known holiday destination, the Chief Scout of Switzerland, Walther von Bonstetten, discovers a derelict Chalet. He proposes the creation of an International Home for Scouts in Kandersteg.
Scouts from all around travel to Kandersteg to visit the Permanent Mini Jamboree and the Chalet soon becomes the home of the 1st Rover Moot creating peace and friendships. During the II World War, the Centre serves as a refuge until it can accommodate Scouts from all around the world again. The Home Association purchases a chalet and land along the banks of the river Kander. The Centre was inaugurated on the 21st of May In a letter to all Scout Associations, the International Bureau wrote: ,,We have great pleasure in announcing to the Scouts of all countries that the scheme proposed by the Chief Scout has now been realised.
Dutch Scouts decorate a room in the Chalet, thus fashioning the first of the Scout Organisations rooms. In the following months, a Hungarian room is created as well as two rooms decorated by the Swiss Scout groups.
