1st European Haiku Congress, Bad Neuheim, Germany (2005)
The 1st European Haiku Congress, organized by the German Haiku Society, took place in the village of Steinfurth near Bad Neuheim, Germany, in May 2005. Around 60 poets from more than a dozen European countries and Japan attended. British poet David Cobb delivered the opening address, and the main business of the gathering consisted of presentations from the various haiku societies in Europe.