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5 Feb 2025
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We are a german-french family with 3 grown-up children and Onno, our family dog. After having lived in Berlin for 25 years, we live now in beautiful Mecklenburg in the lake district. In Zahren we have restored a manor house (a house from the 18th century, listed as a monument) with its former horse-stable (a beautiful brick building from the end of 19th century) and its former Milkhouse within a listed park with old trees and orchards with old apple varieties and other fruits.
We regularly host start-ups, media companies and corporate teams for offsites, retreats and strategy meetings. The team sizes are most often between 10 and up to 40 people and are also international. We also host families and groups of friends or just people who are willing to stay some time in the quiet and beautiful countryside.
We are looking especially for help with the following activities/tasks:
- Housekeeping
- Help in the kitchen: prep & service
- Gardening
- Building, DIY, Caretaker
- Social Media & Web
We are paying at least the minimum wage which is currently 12,41 EUR per hour in Germany.
We would like to host a team of three or four workawayers (couples are welcome) at the same time who are willing to stay at least 2 months with us and ideally more than that :-D
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You can learn German with us or learn how we live in the countryside, our understanding for great hospitality, good cooking, our passion for hosting.
In addition, the teams that are our guests are usually international, young and often multicultural.
You will surely also learn from other workawayers who work and live with you. Everyone having a personal experience and ambitions. We try to match all for a good combination of personalities and skills.
That seems interesting to you?
You can fulfill our needs? and bring experience and the will to learn more?
You are willing to learn more about how to reach high standards in hospitality with the very personal touch: professionalism, authenticity and the passion for hosting?
Have a look at our calendar and send us a message with:
- a description of your skills
- the period of time you could be here.
We look forward to talking about all that on a video call soon...Host offers payment in line with the minimum wage
This host offers accommodation and payment.
Help
Mainly you will help us in these fields all depending on your skills and ambitions. We try to match workawayers in order to get the best combinations of personalities and skills during the whole year:
- housekeeping: you will help our housekeeping team with cleaning the apartments and public areas and preparing the spaces for our guests. We expect all spaces clean and beautiful when the guests arrive.
- kitchen: help us in the kitchen cooking the meals for our guests and in service.
- prep: manufacturing products depending on the season: preserves, jams, liqueurs
- gardening: we have a large park which needs to be maintained: mowing the grass, preparing the different areas for the next season, weeding, watering plants, gardening in the vegetables garden...
- maintaining the buildings: painting, woodwork...
- Web & Social Media: photos, videos, content creation, text, planing of postings
There is a variety of tasks you can help us with! We can talk about that on a video call before you visit us. We prefer Workawayer who could help us at least with two or three of these fields.
Please mention that in your application :-D that would be great to get to know you better :-D
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: Fluent
Accommodation
We can accommodate you with other coworkers in a house behind the manor house with a beautiful garden. You'll have a room for yourself and will share the kitchen and the bathroom with other workawayers.
The furnishing of the house is quite basic with a little plus: fire stove in the kitchen, fiber optic internet connection, a garden where you can grow your own veggies, with apple, walnuts and plums trees, elderflowers...
What else ...
In your free time, there are some different outdoor activities here (we have a great disc golf parcours in the parc :-D Some other activities are right in the village or in the surroundings: horse riding, bathing in the lake, cycling, hiking... the countryside is beautiful here but also lonely. It is important to know that our place is located in the least populated area in Germany. So, if you are looking for bars and clubs around in your free time, we might not be the ideal place for you ;-)
If you stay longer, you could visit Berlin or Hamburg, Schwerin or Güstrow or go to the Baltic See.
If you come with your car you would be more flexible but if not, you can borrow some bikes from us or we will drive you to the next supermarket ;-)
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have created in Zahren a digital TeamSpace for Company Offsite and Workation in the beautiful Mecklenburg with a fiber connection up to 1GB/s. We are very happy to welcome digital nomads!
Space for parking camper vans
You could park in the garden behind the workaday-house, next to the manor house.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Feedback (3)
Eli is a very positive, cheerful, and vibrant young woman. She is ambitious, eager to learn, and a quick learner who doesn’t hesitate to take on work.
She primarily helped with housekeeping and in the kitchen, and her baking skills are absolutely… read more
Anne-Laure and Marcus were incredibly helpful, understanding and organized, so grateful to have met such inspiring people. ❤️
The work was fun, although demanding, it was a great experience which taught me a lot. I enjoyed working manually, cleaning, helping in the kitchen. And you never get bored, because every day… read more
They stayed with us for six months and did an outstanding job! Apart from being a lovely couple, they are truly wonderful people to be around. During their time here, they became almost like part of the family. 😄
Amy is a very dedicated and responsible person, and we absolutely love her sense of humor! We… read more
He introduced me to… read more
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Eli is a very positive, cheerful, and vibrant young woman. She is ambitious, eager to learn, and a quick learner who doesn’t hesitate to take on work.
She primarily helped with housekeeping and in the kitchen, and her baking skills are absolutely… read more
Anne-Laure and Marcus were incredibly helpful, understanding and organized, so grateful to have met such inspiring people. ❤️
The work was fun, although demanding, it was a great experience which taught me a lot. I enjoyed working manually, cleaning, helping in the kitchen. And you never get bored, because every day… read more
They stayed with us for six months and did an outstanding job! Apart from being a lovely couple, they are truly wonderful people to be around. During their time here, they became almost like part of the family. 😄
Amy is a very dedicated and responsible person, and we absolutely love her sense of humor! We… read more
He introduced me to… read more
