The volunteers are asked to help on the excavation ground of the fortress with building work, repairing and painting walls, carrying stones or cleaning. Other tasks can be removing of bushes or documentation of your work. It is possible that you will be asked to help on another excavation place to do punctured excavations (1m x 1m) and filter the finds. Please be prepared for any work outside.
Accomodation & food:
Accommodation:You will live in a community house in the village, with toilet and shower facilities provided. All bed linen is provided.
Food:
The locals will prepare lunch. Breakfast and evening meals will be prepared by the volunteers in a small kitchen. So please bring recipes and special ingredients with you for cooking and to present meals from your country.
Location & leisure:
If you are interested in history, you will have the chance to learn a lot about the region and the fortress. You can travel to Weimar, which was the well known workplace of the poets Goethe and Schiller. You will be able to find out more about history and perhaps visit the former concentration camp Buchenwald. It will also be possible to go to a nearby castle called Schloss Burg. Perhaps you will get to see the concert of the world famous organ Silbermannorgel. You could go for a boat trip on the river Saale or just enjoy the natural environment while walking around the area.Please be aware that you will be in a very rural area from where it is quite difficult to get away (for shopping etc.), but there are very nice people in the village who are interested in meeting you.
Age:
18-26
Location:
Weisbach 2307368 remptendorf
Language(s):
English
Airport:
LEJ: Leipzig Halle (Leipzig, Germany)Vegetarian food will be available
Build a wooden hut together with local youth as their meeting point. The main task of the workcamp in 2019 will be to build a wooden hut which will allow the local youth to meet in a public place without disturbing others. The local youth will work together with you. Besides this, you will improve the surrounding of your accommodation. This will include landscape gardening and renovation work. Some other smaller tasks to improve the community infrastructure will be added. The group of volunteers will split up in the two different tasks every day. You might be asked to support the local festival team.
Accomodation & food:
The accommodation provided is the former centre of the sports club of Schwarzerden. It is now in public use for bigger events in this village. You will have a separate kitchen and a hall for sleeping (camping beds provided) and eating. There is also an outdoor place which you can use for eating and in the evening if the weather is fine. All necessary facilities are provided (showers, even a washing machine) but there is no public internet. Attention: This place is quite isolated; the village of Schwarzerden is 1km away. Next to the accommodation you can find the sports ground, you can use it whenever you want. You will have a beautiful view over the valley; you will be surrounded by forests and meadows. Just enjoy nature, go for a hike to visit a castle-.
Location & leisure:
The workcamp will take place in Schwarzerden. The village has a pub and a very small little shop (open only in the mornings). The village belongs to the local community of Freisen, together with 7 other villages. Freisen is situated in a 4km distance in the north of Saarland in a rural area. You can find many interesting places in Freisen: a historical railway, cultural and natural sights, a small zoo, a public swimming pool (a 3km walk from the accommodation). The local villagers are already looking forward to get to know you and to welcome you at the local village festival. The villagers will do their best to support some excursions by organising the transport (maybe to the famous sights of Trier or to Idar-Oberstein, the German centre of gemstones). But this cannot be guaranteed yet. The project is perfect for volunteers who enjoy being outside and in nature.
With your help, the outdoor areas of several nursery and primary school buildings in the area will be spruced up and decorated. For example, you will be carrying out a playground design project with the inner-city school Max-Planck-Gymnasium, sometimes with the children themselves. Besides this, you will be actively supporting the Youth and Culture Mile during the first weekend of the camp, as part of the "Neckarfest" town festival. Other activities are still being planned. There is also a project week at school in the week before the holidays. There will be another school festival, which you can also help out with.
Accomodation & food:
You will be staying in a former Kindergarten right next to the Mörikeschule school. The group will prepare and cook meals together.
Location & leisure:
Nürtingen has around 41,000 inhabitants and is in the Neckar valley near to the Swabian Alb. Ride your bike through the beautiful landscape, to nearby bathing lakes, along the Neckar or in the biosphere area at the foot of the Alb. In your free time you will also have the opportunity to enjoy the outdoor pool, to visit a climbing forest and to explore Nürtingen and the student city of Tübingen. The state capital Stuttgart is only half an hour away by train and offers many possibilities: museums, opera, shopping, planetarium, theatre etc.
Requirements:
You need to be able to ride a bike. There is a registration fee of 50 EUR for participants who are not from Germany.
With your help, a playground in Bielefeld will be cleaned and renovated, so that it's once again attractive and appealing for children in the local area. You'll be working on the old playground equipment, repairing the sand boxes and other broken parts, renewing the floor with the demanded playing surface, laying down paths and setting up new safety precautions to protect the children. Alongside this, we also ask for your creativity, as you'll be able to redesign the playground with your paintbrushes and imagination. At the end of the camp, you will organise an official opening of the new playground for the children and their parents in the local area. There is a registration of 50 EUR for participants who are not from Germany.
Accomodation & food:
You'll be staying on an idyllic farmyard, in the hay barn. You'll prepare and cook your own meals together in groups.
Location & leisure:
Bielefeld, a town with 300,000 inhabitants, lies on the edge of the Teutoburg forest. The town offers many free time and culture opportunities, for example music and theatre attractions, cinemas, pubs etc. The Teutoburg forest is a great place to go walking. It is also possible to take a day-trip to Hannover, Osnabrück or Münster.
Requirements:
Some of the work will be physical demanding. This camp is not suitable for participants with a hay allergy.
So far, two workcamp groups and volunteers of the community of Bopfingen already started building the main house of the Celtic housing complex. Your task will be to further work on the walls and the floor of the house. The working place is set on the top of the hill Ipf , so you will be working outside with a wonderful view over the region. All the material you work with is natural materials like clay, wood, and stone.
Accomodation & food:
The group will be staying at the local sport club s house equipped with all necessary facilities, a big living room and a kitchen which you can use to cook. Please bring your own sleeping bag There are large sports areas and a football pitch outside that you can use in your free time, of course. The house is in a quiet area, but very close to the town s centre with several supermarkets close-by.
Location & leisure:
Bopfingen is a small town in Southern Germany. It has a beautiful centre with a lot of houses in old German style. What makes Bopfingen special is the mountain next to the town which is called Ipf with its flat plateau on the top. The Ipf has an important historical meaning in this area. In former times the Celts lived there and until today a lot of archaeologists and historians come to explore the region. It is surrounded by beautiful nature where you can go for a walk or hike. Around Bopfingen you will find various museums, the romantic historic city of Noerdlingen, the Ries (a large circular meteor impact crater with a diameter of 24 km), and if you would like to visit a bigger city Ulm is not far away with its famous cathedral and the highest church tower in the world.
The participants will carry out maintenance and gardening works on the ground like cultivating the garden, clipping hedges, renewing and painting fences. During this workcamp, a building Week will take place. In that context, some tasks as helping to carry material may appear.
Accomodation & food:
shared rooms with 4 - 6 beds, limited warm shower and toiletsFOODThe meals will be prepared together as they are part of the community life, what means that every participant will be responsible for the meal at least once during its stay. So it would be very nice if the participants could bring typical recipes from home in order to introduce each other to the preparation of food from all over the world.
Location & leisure:
Rathewalde Youth Accommodation House is situated at the health resort Rathewalde in Saxony. The building is located directly at the border of the National Park Saxon Switzerland (Sächsische Schweiz). The mountains are famous for their typical formations of sandstone with lots of small caves and overwhelming views from the mountain tops. The nature reserve offers various possibilities of hiking and climbing tours of different levels as well as cultural events like theatre performances at the open air theatre called cliff stage Rathen (Felsenbühne Rathen). The Youth Accommodation House was built around 1880. During the past decades countless volunteers renovated and extended the mansion. Today it attracts visitors by different styles from sequential construction periods. The mansion is surrounded by a beautiful garden, an orchard and large rhododendrons. From there you have a fascinating view on rock formations.LEISURE TIMEThe camp places are mostly situated in small villages in rural areas, so the participants should not expect busy places and normal city activities for the leisure time during the working days. Small trips in walking distance are possible in the afternoon. On the weekends it is possible to organise an excursion to nearby cities or to have other leisure activities.
Age:
18-30
Location:
Rathewalde, pirna, germany
Language(s):
English, German
Airport:
DRS: Dresden (Dresden, Germany)This project is suitable for disabled volunteersVegetarian food will be available
Nearby the youth accommodation houses that are part of Lohra Castle complex there is a camping site which can be used by youth groups. A former agricultural building will be rebuilt into a sanitary house for campers. Therefore it is necessary to construct a water line to this building.An excavator will dig the line and the volunteers will accompany this work by collecting stones and bringing in an insulating layer of sand. They will also help to dig small parts where the excavator does not reach. Later they will, under the guidance of a craftsman, lay the water pipes and put afterwards the material which had been dig out back into the ditch and close the line. The remaining material will be used to level the ground at other parts of the castle area. Besides that the volunteers will take care of the nearby located natural protected area, a huge meadow with old scattered fruit trees, that was for a long time out of maintenance. The participants will collect stones and branches covered under the grass to enable to mow and collect the grass and afterwards level the ground.
Accomodation & food:
ACCOMODATION:shared rooms with 2 - 5 beds in 3 guest houses, warm shower (limited hot water), 1 camp kitchen (cold water), coal-burning stovesFOODThe meals will be prepared together as they are part of the community life, what means that every participant will be responsible for the meal at least once during its stay. So it would be very nice if the participants could bring typical recipes from home in order to introduce each other to the preparation of food from all over the world.
Location & leisure:
Lohra Castle is situated in the heart of Germany in Northern Thuringia. The castle, which is surrounded by a scenic hilly landscape, is located on the edge of a nature reserve area. Being one of the largest castles in Thuringia, the history of the castle Lohra begins in the Middle Age. The castle is more than 1,000 years old. Today, it includes twenty buildings from different times: medieval fortifications, remnants of a tower from the 11th century, a Romanesque chapel, a manor house from the Renaissance period as well as stables and granaries from the 19th and the early 20th centuries. The ensemble is situated in the centre of a beautiful forest. For years Lohra Castle was vacant. In the 1990s Open Houses started to restore the castle and to revive it by cultural activities. Since that time, a large number of Workcamps, Building Weeks, exhibitions, concerts and other activities with international participants took place in the castle.LEISURE TIMEThe camp places are mostly situated in small villages in rural areas, so the participants should not expect busy places and normal city activities for the leisure time during the working days. Small trips in walking distance are possible in the afternoon. On the weekends it is possible to organise an excursion to nearby cities or to have other leisure activities.
Age:
18-30
Location:
Großlohra, germany
Language(s):
English, German
Airport:
LEJ: Leipzig Halle (Leipzig, Germany)This project is suitable for disabled volunteersVegetarian food will be available
Are you interested in archaeology and historical craftsmanship? Then this is the camp for you. You can participate in setting up the archaeological open-air museum "Zeiteninsel" (Times Island). Numerous settlement remains from all prehistoric cultural periods have been discovered in the Lahn valley near to the Niederweimar and Argenstein areas. The extensive archaeological evidence proves that there has been a constant settlement in the region for millennia. The first archaeological open-air museum on the history of settlements in the region of Hessen is being set up here in order to display the rich archaeological discoveries. There will be 5 stations on the grounds of the museum, each dedicated to a certain time period. You will aid the completion of a Germanic residential stable from the early Roman Empire (around the birth of Jesus Christ). It is likely that a large family or clan lived in this type of house, almost 30m in length and around 7m in width, together with their animals. With professional guidance from a team on-site, you will help with the construction of the house. More specifically, you will be making walls out of wooden wicker and then plastering them with clay. There could also be an opportunity for you to take part in certain workshops (such as archery, bronze casting, etc.).
Accomodation & food:
You will be staying in a local youth centre in Wolfshausen.The group will prepare and cook meals together.
Location & leisure:
You will be stayin.g in Wolfshausen, a district of Weimar (Lahn). It is very rural, but there is a train station in Niederweimar from which you can reach the university town of Marburg, with its numerous attractions, in just 7 minutes. Besides this, major cities such as Frankfurt and Kassel are also very easily reachable by train. If you haven't had your fill of archaeology after working, you could also visit the "Römerkastell Saalburg" archaeological open-air museum near Frankfurt.
Requirements:
The work involved could sometimes be physically demanding. This camp designed for participants who are interested in archaeology and historical craftsmanship.
« We did a lot of conservation work, building hiking paths, tidying up wooded areas, removing weeds, planting trees, etc. The work was extremely successful and I found it very rewarding. »
