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Dear wonderful and lovely people, that honor the crafts we share, we would appreciate your help and inspiration to build up this community space that we are working on in a good new way
Here we plan exhibitions, classes, workshops of all trades and kinds . Join us and feel welcome to join the board of directors to create this place and give a part of you so that it can become a Part of reality done by our good and creative human family. For the future we might develop the perspective for a the cooperation between NGOs from different nations, we are working with governmental grants of germany right now and we applied for the european fundings aswell as a funding for our cultural program and the Place that will be born - here in our community space, all you new friends from around the globe are more then welcome.
Help on the construction side
We are currently looking for help with building the wooden floor of the library, terraces around the house, some clay plastering in the cultural center and also painting walls. Additionally, help with gardening is always very much appreciated.
And also with the new program of workshops and classes for this late summer in our cultural center who feels the call please come.It will workshops about social interaction and art, aswell as sustainability and organic gardening.
For plastering and painting the walls you do not need any previous knowledge, learning will happen along the way. For helping with constructing the floor of the library it would be great if you have some basic DIY skills- but we gone show you anyway.
Besides we would love to have some support with our homepage and social media profiles.
We, that is Justus who is a sculptor, and Katrin who is a social worker, are building a cultural center in our village Bromskirchen (post code 35108 germany). We love traveling and enjoy nature a lot. Katrin has already worked away in Sweden and Belgium, Justus was in Australia and Canada Woofing and during the last tree years we had the great opportunity to become hosts ourselves. We are curious to meet new people, share and exchange knowledge and stories with each other, and to get to know you! Katrin is currently staying in Austria due to work, but she will probably be around
for a couple of weeks in summer.
We live in a 250 years old farmhouse, that has accommodated the family of Justus ‘grandmother during the time of the second world war. It is a house that is filled with stories and memories which we are happy to share with you. Besides, it is a fascinating building that preserved the knowledge and work of the people who built it long time ago.
We live very close (15 minutes walk) to a natural reserve and we are surrounded by beautiful landscape with lots of hiking trails and a lake for swimming.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We live very close (15 minutes walk) to a natural reserve and we are surrounded by beautiful landscape with lots of hiking trails and a lovely lake.
Maybe you know the stories that have been collected by the brothers Grimm: They lived in this area, inter alia in Marburg, a university city about 40 km from our house. We can show you the tower that served as inspiration for the illustration of the tower of “Rapunzel”. We can also help you with learning German if you want and we are happy to try to speak other languages as well. Both of us speak English and Katrin speaks some basic Spanish and some very basic French.
You will have the possibility to learn about helping with materials such as lime, clay and wood. Depending on when you come, you will have the possibility to help together with a carpenter, a conservator, and a professional in building tiled ovens. Whenever there is a workshop happening you are welcome to attend.
Besides we are curious to get to know you and happy to learn from you!
Help
We are in the process of building a cultural center in our village.
The center will consist of two buildings: One large atelier with a small kitchen, a bathroom, a sleeping place for artists in residence and a large (120m²) room that will be used for concerts/ theatre/ workshops. The atelier has been built last year but it is not yet finished and there are still many possibilities to engage into the building process and to learn from each other. The atelier is built from wood, with walls made from a hemp- lime mixture and plastered with local clay ( we produced the plaster ourselves). In case you are interested, Justus will be happy to share his knowledge with you on helping with hempcrete and clay plaster.
The other building used to be a barn and is part of our 250 years old farmhouse. We will turn it into a library with an open fireplace; a place for people to gather, read, discuss, develop new ideas, learn, exchange knowledge and also with a stage for concerts. We already plastered most of the walls with clay but the plastering needs some final finishing in some places. Besides, the building will receive a new floor, the open fireplace needs to be rebuilt and the “Gefache” will be renewed on the outside of the building. “Gefache” is the space between the timber frames in a half-timeber construction.
We will work on the Gefache in July and August: A friend of ours who is a professional conservator will join us and teach us how to do it. If you are interested in traditional building techniques your welcome to join this process as well.
You can participate in all the above-mentioned processes and thereby learn from professionals and maybe get some inspiration or tips for your own project. Or simply try out something you have never done before.
Apart from that we could need help with updating the homepage of the cultural centre and attending its social media profiles. If you are into photographing, graphic design, film etc. you might also want to help us with producing content for social media, with the design of the cultural program or with some advertising? Or maybe you have some good ideas for the new and upcoming classes and workshops and you want tot join the directors board of that team, please be welcome !!
Last but not least, we love the cuisine of the world and to share great dishes between all of us, the same applies to people with gardening skills or those of you who are dedicated to keeping places tidy - the living area, the bathrooms- washing :)
As you see, there are many different things that can be done here, so what you are going to do will depend on what we are currently working on and of course on your talents and interests. Just let us know what your interests are, what you already know and what you would like to learn so that we can figure out something together.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Beginner
French: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
Please lets exchange our spoken word
Accommodation
You will stay with us in a 250 years old former farm house (which is right next to the cultural center).
Depending on how many people are staying with us you will have your own room or maybe need to share it with another person. We have two bathrooms in the house, you might need to share your bathroom with other workawayers and there is a second living room which you are also welcome to use beside the first living room. We usually eat together, trying to take turns with cooking. Besides, food is in the kitchen and when you're hungry you just take what you need.
What else ...
We live in a very small village in the north of Hesse at the border to North Rhine Westphalia, right next to an area called “Sauerland”. The next train stations and Flix bus stops are in Frankenberg/Eder (15 km) and bit north in Winterberg (20 km). We have a car to pick you up by the station.
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Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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Our main work was to plaster with natural clay the cultural center and we helped a little bit in the garden. The daily structure it's flexible and we always felt the freedom to work according to our… read more
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Our main work was to plaster with natural clay the cultural center and we helped a little bit in the garden. The daily structure it's flexible and we always felt the freedom to work according to our… read more
With their open minds and hearts, they brought a lot of joy and laughter to our home and were of incredible support.
Both of them are very respectful to others, caring and simply wonderful people to spend time with.
They helped us with clay plastering and… read more
Thank you for everything<3
I spent about a week this august at the culture center in Bromskirchen and I can say it is one of my favorite memories from this summer. The work was sometimes heavy but not a lot and going over really fast. You are really free to decide with what kind of work you want to help and can bring in own ideas.
We… read more
First of all, the people I met there were incredibly nice, in fact I feel like I can call them friends now. Justus is a very interesting human being to talk about any topic. We had very interesting "deep conversations" among the workawayers and him… read more
Dear workawayers, Don't expect a very strict and hard work, the time goes differently and this house, and this is amazing. The surrundings are beautiful in autumn, the… read more
I really hope to come back when the center is open !
From the moment I arrived I felt excepted and at home. I planned to stay 10 days, and ended up staying for three weeks, because the hosts as well as the other WorkAwayers were so pleasant people that I just couldn't imagen myself leaving.
The balance between work… read more
its a really nice place in a small quiet village with beautiful protected forest and woods and lake.
the old house is very charming and have his own character. Justus host us with kindness and very generous.
he share his project and vision to introduce us into the work for… read more
I helped building a cultural center ,an incredible project that really surprised me!! thank you very much, I'm wondering how is that going and I hope I can visit… read more
He stayed with us during quite a stressful period as things were super busy with construction work and a workshop taking place at the same time. We really appreciated to have this chaos-and-stress resistant person around!!! Mark helped Katrin with… read more
I hope to come back at some stage… read more
did AM and TOM bring to our house,
Oh yes I can tell you it is just great to have them as guests in your home and around you!!
Like a fireworks of joy on every day that is what the two of them are.
Tom did play beautiful musice on our piano periods of the day to enjoy.
Both did sing in the sweetest tunes what moved me… read more
It was such a joy to have her around. Isa is a very gentle person and at the same time full of life and energy and definitely a hard-working power-woman AND somebody you will have great conversations with!! She spoiled us by cooking delicious food and helped… read more
Working times are flexible, tasks are various and enjoyable (from plastering walls to baking cakes! :D), surroundings are stunning. Serene, friendly, creative and open-minded atmosphere.
Future workawayers, it won't be a bad idea if you bring with you a jacket or two, It can get a bit cold around… read more
