Cologne H3 history

The Eau De Cologne Hash House Harriers was founded on the 25th of July, 2004 by  Marcel “Moss Bros” Stoyle and Dirk “Maradona” Wanke, with the help of the Bonn and Düsseldorf Hash House Harriers.

It was formed to fill the distance gap between Bonn and Düsseldorf. Since the Bonn Hash House Harriers and the new Düsseldorf Hash House Harriers were running at two ends of the Rhine, it only seemed logical to have a hash in the middle – in Cologne. The original idea was to have a hash in one of the three locations, each group setting a run every third week; one week in Bonn, one week in Cologne and one week in Düsseldorf.

The name of the kennel was Moss Bross’ idea. He drew the first logo, later changed by Mick “Local Yokel” Caulfield to fit in with the Combined Rhine Area Packs new logo in 2005.

Main events hosted by Eau De Cologne hash were their first run, which was also a pre-lube for the 2004 Inter Hash in Cardiff, was host for many visiting hashers and they also hosted the 2004 Annual Combined Rhine Area Packs Pub Crawl.