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Heritage Volunteers Projects
Rooms open for those Who come along not empty buildings, but places with visible and invisible traces of history, places which have grown and decayed over centuries, places which were shaped by those people who lived there long ago as well as those who only left yesterday – places which will be shaped by all of those who will live there or who will come as guests.
rooms which want to be filled with dreams and ideas, with meetings and exchanges, by people of different backgrounds, different cultures, different generations and different ideas and visions.
2018 Workcamps Building Weeks Heritage Volunteers
Open Houses & European Heritage Volunteers Project Places 2018
The history of Open Houses Network dates back to the mid-1980s, when a group of young people started to restore village churches in East Germany in voluntary work to protect them from decay. The engagement for these buildings united people who enjoyed the freedom these activities provided and who filled these rooms with life again in ways which by far exceed the craftsmen's work done – through exhibitions, concerts, making music together or just sitting by the camp fire.
Meanwhile, rooms free of political and ideological pressure are no longer urgently required; however, places have become rare where people can meet without commercial pressure, free of bureaucracy and institutionalism, free of nepotism and the exclusion which it produces.
What should be easy – to go somewhere in order to meet people and to work together – has become difficult. The tightrope walk between, on the one hand, public activities in a monetary and functional sense, and the retreat into private life on the other, is very difficult, and it requires a lot of power and permanent efforts to tackle red tape and financial restrictions.
Free spaces are less and less understood as common property, and are permanently being cut back. The idea of public property seems to have gone out of fashion, and places of common responsible work have become rare.
Open Houses Network tries to create and protect such spaces. In this process, we do not want to be the do-ers, but be people who have a vision, who want to initiate something, but who also are aware of depending on the co-operation of others. We understand our projects and events as offers – as offers to create space for commitment, for changes, for meetings.
Workcamps For the last 25 years Open Houses has organised international Workcamps at historical monuments and buildings. The projects are mostly situated in the countryside and the places are surrounded by beautiful nature. The Workcamps offer the opportunity to live together with people from different countries in basic conditions. The volunteers will take care of the surrounding area and will carry out small renovation works.
Often, the mix of different cultures and the willingness to carry out volunteer work inspires the inhabitants of the region to a new way of working and brings a new view on their own historical buildings, in particular in rural regions where the historic buildings rarely receive public attention.
The volunteers work six hours per day five days a week. The afternoons and evenings can be used for nearby cultural attractions, games, group activities, campfires and other similar things. On the weekends the volunteers have the opportunity to visit nearby places.
Building Weeks In addition to the Workcamps Open Houses offers something quite different: Building Weeks. These special projects are tightly linked with the aims and idea of Open Houses: to restore and protect public places with common responsible work. It is important for Open Houses to allow the buildings to preserve their particular spirit, history and atmosphere. Within the framework of the Building Weeks both, skilled manual workers and those with no manual training but a certain interest in the topic, are working together to restore historical monuments and carrying out other construction works. Participants of the Building Weeks have a bigger opportunity of gaining real experience in handcraft, restoration and other manual tasks and to expand their knowledge.
To make the work in the Building Weeks as productive as possible, it would be welcome if the volunteers would already have some technical skills or experience in working on a construction site. Although such previous experience would be and advantage thus enabling the volunteers to share their skills and experiences it is not a mandatory condition for the participation at Building Weeks.
Each Building Weeks project lasts for at least two weeks and the groups are small. It is also possible to take part for a shorter time, like just for one week. We offer this opportunity for those who are tied up in working life and do not have so much free time. In Building Weeks the emphasis lays on the manual work and the daily working time is six hours. On the weekends the volunteers have the opportunity to visit nearby places.
Lohra Castle Burg Lohra
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| In June and July Open Houses organises Building Weeks and Workcamps in the same period at Lohra Castle. The two working groups are living together and they are one community. The only difference between the two projects are the different topics they are working on. During the project it will be possible, that volunteers join the other working group, because of their skills or their own interests. Therefore please also see the Lohra Castle Workcamps descriptions. | LOCATION: Next towns: Bleicherode (6 km), Nordhausen (20 km), Erfurt (75 km) Region: Thuringia TERMINAL: Next bus station: Großlohra , Friedrichslohra/Wartehalle Next railway station: Gebra /Hainleite (5 km) Next airports: Leipzig/Halle (LEJ, 155 km) Frankfurt/Main (FRA, 280 km) Berlin (TXL, SXF, 300 km) AGE: at least 18 WHAT TO BRING: waterproof and strong work boots, rain jacket, appropriate clothes, sleeping bag Project Descriptions
Project Description Project Description Project Descriptions The projects of Open Houses are based on sustainable principles. So also the activities at Lohra Castle combine aspects of cultural heritage preservation and aspects of natural heritage preservation. On one hand the volunteers participating at the Building Weeks restore the historical buildings of the castle complex, on the other hand the participants of the Workcamps carry out works in the green areas and the forests around the castle.
W01, W02, W03 Lohra Castle is located on the edge of a nature reserve area and surrounded by beech forests and fruit trees. The site has a size of ten hectares, most of them green areas for which the volunteers will take care by cutting and collecting the grass at the meadows. Additionally, the participants of the project W02 will support the work of the Building Weeks that will take place in the same period by transporting building material.
W04, W05 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. Later they will under the guidance of a craftsman lay the water pipes and put afterwards the material which had been dug out back into the ditch. The remaining material will be used to level the ground at other parts of the castle area. Beside 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 the grass and afterwards level the ground.
W06, W07, W08 The hilly massive around Lohra Castle is listed as National Nature Reserve. Open Houses supports the Reserve since several years with volunteering activities. In a forest near the Castle the participants will remove trees and bushes which are not corresponding with the protection aims and will collect the wood remaining after maintenance works, load it on a truck, unload it at the castle and split and stack it for wintertime. Beside that, the volunteers will continue the maintenance of the green area at the castle.
W09, W10 Because around the outer walls of the castle trees had been grown up during the last two decades, actually the castle is partly not seen from the valley. So, besides taking care of green areas the volunteers will help to cut the trees around the walls in order to expose the view to the castle and will transport the wood to the storage place as well as splitting and stacking the wood.
Gantikow Manor is situated 100 kilometres north of Berlin. The house is surrounded by a nice village with a medieval church and a lake. The manor is a picturing example of a former baroque building, changed in the late 19th century in neo-baroque style. Over centuries, the houses belonged to the Earls von Platen, which sold it in 1872 to a civil family which started soon, in 1877, with the modernisation of the house and kept it in their ownership till 1945. After World War II, the house was first used as a refugee shelter and after that the community used the house as a village centre, hosting the community office, the local store, the school, the kindergarten, the doctor's room, the kitchen of the agricultural cooperative and several apartments. With its many rooms the large building is perfect to be used as a Youth Accommodation House. The house is surrounded by a beautiful park with old trees which reached originally up to the lake.
Project Description The Western part of the ground is characterised by a historical wall from natural field stones. Because of long-time lack of maintenance the upper part of the wall is damaged. Under the guidance of an experiences bricklayer the volunteers will restore the wall. Since the manor’s park was long time out of use it is partly still abandoned. The volunteers will continue the renaturation works that had been started during Workcamps in the previous years – they will cut bushes, level the ground, repair fences and construct new paths. At Gantikow Manor stove heating is used for the cold seasons. Therefore another task for the volunteers will be to cut, split and store fire wood for winter time. Finally, the participants will support the restoration works of the manor by transporting materials where they are needed - as for example to transport bricks to the roof level to repair chimneys.
Klein Dammerow Manor is located between Berlin and the Baltic Sea and surrounded by nature reserves with many fields, woods, ponds and rivers. The Manor is a very interesting brick building from 1892/93 with a beautiful interior. The walls are covered with clay and painted with lime casein paint. The historical wooden floor planks are revealed and renovated. Most of the rooms are equipped with historical furniture, what gives the house a magnificent attraction.
The manor house is surrounded by a huge former park with old trees. A stone-oven invites to experience conventional bakery and the fireplace assures nice evenings in the nature. The sports area with a football-ground and volleyball-net is just beside. The participants can also enjoy their leisure time discovering the Mecklenburg Lake District. This place is ideal for having a great summer.
Project Description The former park surrounding the manor house had been unused and abandoned for decades. Year by year, Open Houses brings back to life another part of the huge garden area. Also this year the gardening and cleaning works at the historical park will be continued. The participants will mow the lawn, cut bushes and trees and reconstruct paths. In the back part of the park that is still an inaccessible wilderness they will sort out stones to use them later for walls or paths and level the ground. In addition they will replace the old, broken fence by a new one. Beside that the volunteers will carry out small handcraft works as repair a storage house for fire wood, paint fences and similar tasks.
Rooms open for those Who come along not empty buildings, but places with visible and invisible traces of history, places which have grown and decayed over centuries, places which were shaped by those people who lived there long ago as well as those who only left yesterday – places which will be shaped by all of those who will live there or who will come as guests.
rooms which want to be filled with dreams and ideas, with meetings and exchanges, by people of different backgrounds, different cultures, different generations and different ideas and visions.
2018 Workcamps Building Weeks Heritage Volunteers
Open Houses & European Heritage Volunteers Project Places 2018
The history of Open Houses Network dates back to the mid-1980s, when a group of young people started to restore village churches in East Germany in voluntary work to protect them from decay. The engagement for these buildings united people who enjoyed the freedom these activities provided and who filled these rooms with life again in ways which by far exceed the craftsmen's work done – through exhibitions, concerts, making music together or just sitting by the camp fire.
Meanwhile, rooms free of political and ideological pressure are no longer urgently required; however, places have become rare where people can meet without commercial pressure, free of bureaucracy and institutionalism, free of nepotism and the exclusion which it produces.
What should be easy – to go somewhere in order to meet people and to work together – has become difficult. The tightrope walk between, on the one hand, public activities in a monetary and functional sense, and the retreat into private life on the other, is very difficult, and it requires a lot of power and permanent efforts to tackle red tape and financial restrictions.
Free spaces are less and less understood as common property, and are permanently being cut back. The idea of public property seems to have gone out of fashion, and places of common responsible work have become rare.
Open Houses Network tries to create and protect such spaces. In this process, we do not want to be the do-ers, but be people who have a vision, who want to initiate something, but who also are aware of depending on the co-operation of others. We understand our projects and events as offers – as offers to create space for commitment, for changes, for meetings.
Workcamps For the last 25 years Open Houses has organised international Workcamps at historical monuments and buildings. The projects are mostly situated in the countryside and the places are surrounded by beautiful nature. The Workcamps offer the opportunity to live together with people from different countries in basic conditions. The volunteers will take care of the surrounding area and will carry out small renovation works.
Often, the mix of different cultures and the willingness to carry out volunteer work inspires the inhabitants of the region to a new way of working and brings a new view on their own historical buildings, in particular in rural regions where the historic buildings rarely receive public attention.
The volunteers work six hours per day five days a week. The afternoons and evenings can be used for nearby cultural attractions, games, group activities, campfires and other similar things. On the weekends the volunteers have the opportunity to visit nearby places.
Building Weeks In addition to the Workcamps Open Houses offers something quite different: Building Weeks. These special projects are tightly linked with the aims and idea of Open Houses: to restore and protect public places with common responsible work. It is important for Open Houses to allow the buildings to preserve their particular spirit, history and atmosphere. Within the framework of the Building Weeks both, skilled manual workers and those with no manual training but a certain interest in the topic, are working together to restore historical monuments and carrying out other construction works. Participants of the Building Weeks have a bigger opportunity of gaining real experience in handcraft, restoration and other manual tasks and to expand their knowledge.
To make the work in the Building Weeks as productive as possible, it would be welcome if the volunteers would already have some technical skills or experience in working on a construction site. Although such previous experience would be and advantage thus enabling the volunteers to share their skills and experiences it is not a mandatory condition for the participation at Building Weeks.
Each Building Weeks project lasts for at least two weeks and the groups are small. It is also possible to take part for a shorter time, like just for one week. We offer this opportunity for those who are tied up in working life and do not have so much free time. In Building Weeks the emphasis lays on the manual work and the daily working time is six hours. On the weekends the volunteers have the opportunity to visit nearby places.
Heritage Volunteers Projects In accordance to the above described focus on heritage European Heritage Volunteers, a branch of Open Houses, organises Heritage Volunteers Projects.
Heritage Volunteers Projects combine practical work for the preservation or restoration of a cultural or natural heritage site with an extensive educational part that gives the theoretical background for the hands-on works and provides deeper heritage linked knowledge. Heritage Volunteers Projects focus on traditional handcraft techniques, on the revitalisation of abandoned monuments, on the restoration of historical parks, on the maintenance of cultural landscapes or on other related topics.
Some of the Heritage Volunteers Projects are organised in the framework of the World Heritage Volunteers initiative. The initiative was launched as a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Education Programme in order to mobilise and involve young people and youth organisations in heritage preservation and promotion. Since 2008 more than 200 projects at more than 100 World Heritage Sites in more than 50 different countries worldwide have been organised, in which more than 3,500 volunteers from over 70 countries have taken part. The European projects of World Heritage Volunteers are coordinated by European Heritage Volunteers.
Furthermore, European Heritage Volunteers initiates, develops, supports and mentors European Heritage Volunteers Partner Projects which are organised by heritage linked non-profit organisations in other European countries.
Read more about Heritage Volunteers Projects on www.heritagevolunteers.eu.
Mid Term Volunteering Open Houses offers the opportunity to participate for a longer time in volunteer projects, too. This kind of volunteering enables the volunteers to get to know deeper the hosting organisation, its work and aims. In a time frame between four weeks and four months the volunteers will get the chance to learn a lot about Germany, its culture, language and people.
From May till October Open Houses is looking for around fifteen Mid Term Volunteers. There are three different kinds of MTV projects: Social Camp Leading, Technical Camp Leading and Guest Guiding.
For the time of the Mid Term Volunteering accommodation, food and insurance are covered by Open Houses, the volunteers receive a small pocket money. At the beginning of their service the Mid Term Volunteers as a kind of introduction for about two weeks will take part in a Workcamp resp. Heritage Volunteering Project as regular volunteers in order to get familiar with Open Houses and the atmosphere of volunteer work.
The European Cultural Heritage Summit from June, 18th, to June, 24th, under the motto „Sharing Heritage – Sharing Values” will be a main highlight of the European Year of Cultural Heritage.
The Summit will engage and mobilise a wide range of public and private stakeholders for an ambitious European Cultural Heritage Agenda and will be attended by highest representatives of European Union Institutions, Member States and civil society organisations from all over Europe.
Key policy and public events on Europe and Cultural Heritage, the Award-giving Ceremony for the European Prize for Cultural Heritage and side events organised by European and German organisations and institutions will take place.
European Heritage Volunteers will organise a Heritage Volunteering Project alongside the European Cultural Heritage Summit that shall enable young people on one hand to get a close and detailed inside view into the network of organisations, institutions and stakeholders that are active all over Europe in the field of Cultural Heritage, on the other hand to support the organisation of this outstanding event.
A group of twelve young volunteers from twelve different European countries – young adults, students and young professionals – are invited to participate in this project.
During an introduction phase in Weimar, Germany, the volunteers will get to know each other and exchange about their cultural and professional backgrounds. They will receive an overview about volunteering projects for heritage, learn on the example of the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Classical Weimar” about tangible and intangible aspects of heritage sites as well as about the challenges to preserve, to restore and to maintain heritage sites and will contribute during two days by their own practical work to the restoration and the maintenance of the site.
After having moved to Berlin the group will be welcomed by representatives of the German Cultural Heritage Committee that will provide an introduction about the background as well as about the technical aspects of the European Cultural Heritage Summit.
During the European Cultural Heritage Summit every two volunteers will be – alternating in shifts of half a day each – responsible for a particular heritage site resp. a historical conference venue and provide the participants of the Summit with background knowledge about the history of the site and its direct surroundings while identifying links to similar buildings, similar quarters resp. similar heritage linked constellations, potentials or challenges in their home countries or in other European countries and so illustrating the European dimension of Cultural Heritage. In addition, they will support the participants of the Summit while recommending them other activities in the frame of the Summit’s programme that may fit to their interests.
The other half of the days the volunteers will have the opportunity to visit the events of the Summits’ programme for free, to establish contacts and to network with other participants of the European Cultural Heritage Summit.
The Stone Age Park “Steinzeitpark Dithmarschen” is an educational structure placed at an archaeological-environmental area of a size of 40 hectares that includes original archaeological heritage sites, environmental open spaces of high diversity and a “Stone Age Village” in the form of an Open Air Museum. Main aim of the institution is to communicate reflected knowledge about the prehistoric relationship between human beings and environment and to wake understanding for other cultures in time and space. The Stone Age Park aims to create in the long run a cultural landscape from the New Stone Age era 5,000 years ago and to communicate the complex connections of landscape development in the Stone Age as well as the results of the prehistoric research towards a wider public. By using a mostly natural – although landscape architectural steered – development process lasting several decades former corn fields will be converted into an area that provides the impression of a landscape of the New Stone Age. In the same time the area with its nine well preserved archaeological sites – large graves, grave hills and “colossus beds” – will offer an attractive space for educational and recreation purposes. Basing on new results of archaeological excavations and using handcraft techniques that had been used during Stone Age era a “Stone Age Village” had been constructed that offers to the visitors various activities illustrating the life in the Stone Age as doing archery, preparing flint stones, sparking fire, baking bread in traditional way and others. The development concept for the open space areas orientates at the prehistoric landscape created by the first rural settlers in the region near the Western coast of the current Northern Germany while using cattle. To re-establish this traditional form of landscape management by extensive pasturing Stone Aage Park started to settle traditional cattle races. The concept of “Steinzeitpark Dithmarschen” is completed by an exhibition area hosting a permanent exhibition about New Stone Age and various changing exhibitions and a regular calendar of presentations and courses in prehistoric handcraft techniques.
The European Heritage Volunteers Project will contribute to the ongoing construction of the Open Air Museum, carry out maintenance measures in the open space areas and support the concept of mediation of the Stone Age period to visitors. The works will be carried out in two or three groups, and the volunteers will have the opportunity to alternate during the duration of the project between the particular groups. Basing on results of archaeological excavations in Northern Germany one group will construct a wooden path through a moor while using techniques that had been used in New Stone Age period. Another group will maintain the archaeological heritage sites in the Stone Age Park while planting hedges and constructing hurdle fences to create a natural “protection zone” around the graves, reconstructing a model of a “construction site” from the Megalith era, repairing paths, cutting grass and similar. Finally, the volunteers will translate the content of information desks in the Open Air Museum into English resp. from English to their mother tongues to make the site more accessible for foreign visitors.
The educational programme will consist of a detailed introduction during the first days, an excursion on Saturday and the opportunity to participate at all activities during the “Stone Age Week” that will take place parallel to the second week of the European Heritage Volunteers Project at the Open Air Museum. The “Stone Age Week” under the title “Life in the Stone Age – second European gathering after 5,000 years” will gather around 80 participants from all over Europe as well as from other continents that are active as researchers about Stone Age resp. in the field of museum pedagogic and non-formal education linked to prehistoric era. The participants of the “Stone Age Week” imitate during these days the life in Stone Age to gain realistic inside view and first hand experiences about this era and offer in addition public lectures and presentations about life in Stone Age.
The “Waldlust” Hotel in Freudenstadt, founded in 1899, was a first choice resort of a noble society of spa guests. It stands as a historic architecture building, as a cultural heritage treasury, as a long time social meeting place in a high rank – a unique symbol of a former golden period of town development. During the 1st third of the 20th century the hotel took a breathtaking career, carried by the arrival of many world famous guests – kings, queens, princes, poets, artists and also the international jet set. ”Waldlust”, the leading hotel of Freudenstadt, came to success by the entrepreneurial genius of a widespread hotel dynasty, the Luz family, who owned and managed several well known houses in Freudenstadt, Baden-Baden and Austria. Today the old palace with its impressive size and scenery and its glorious “personal” history offers us a review back to a golden era, almost unimaginable for such a small town deeply embedded in the Black Forest woods. The “Denkmalverein Freudenstadt” (Freudenstadt Association for Heritage) is highly ambitious to preserve the splendid architecture as cultural heritage site of a great age. Therefore it undertakes rooftop repairing, water containment and other constructive measures, carries out conservation works as well as preventive measures against the loss of art and assures the houses' safety by constant controls. The association also informs about the great history of the heritage site by guided tours and by public relation efforts of all kinds. The “Waldlust” Hotel is surrounded by a wide park area, which formerly served as an old style wellness and leisure time retreat for the noble high society clientele: with broad promenades, nicely built in the steep hillside, with stone walls and stair cases as well as intimate sitting opportunities, which offers marvellous outlooks far to the East up to the “blue ribbon” of the Swabian Alb. This once very characteristic Grand Hotel leisure ground had been fallen to oblivion in many years. Due to the absence of any gardening and cultivation forms and structures had gone lost – until the “Denkmalverein Freudenstadt” started to restore paths and interesting places of this traditional ground.
The European Heritage Volunteers Project is a continuation of a similar project that took place at the same heritage site in 2017. The project will consist of two parts – the documentation of the interior of the former Grand Hotel and the restoration of the historic hotel park. The documentation of the interior that will be lead by a local architect aims to document the most valuable rooms by drawing, photo documentation and verbal description in order to provide a serious base for later restoration, but also to allow stylistic comparison and art historical research as well as to protect the decorative elements against theft. While restoring and cultivating further parts of the historic hotel park the old concept of “Parkwald” (“park forest”) should be regained und brought into presence. This concept, being founded during the 1st decade of 20th century solely in Freudenstadt, means a specific and delicate kind of cure and wellness infrastructure. The “park forest” idea had come out as a unique pioneer act made by the Freudenstadt town builders of those years. The works that will be carried out in the park will include a conceptual and intelligent sweep of the green wilderness, which has captured the originally garden site. This means the clearing of small or middle aged trees and plants that are not typically for the park as well as the excavation of garden structures with century old origin currently covered by leaves. Those works and measures will help the city of Freudenstadt, its citizens and guests, to realise the enormous treasure of air-bath heritage and livelihood during the golden age, when this formerly rural town deep down in the woods became a world famous spa resort. In 2025, when Freudenstadt will host a half year “green exhibition” for the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, the hotel park shall contribute to the exhibition with singular and outstanding historic scenery.
Located in the Western Ore Mountains, the Schneeberg Mining Landscape is one of the seventeen Saxon component parts of the UNESCO World Heritage nomination Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region. In the 19th century, the mine Fundgrube Wolfgang Maßen was one of the most important cobalt mines in Saxony. This created the prerequisite for some exceptional technical installations which by the beginning of the 19th century led to the construction of a major ore dressing work on the mining site. Of the mine complex, the stamp mill building, the administration and assembly building, the foreman’s house, the mine forge and remains of the hoisting house and power house have been preserved. Restoration works are on-going at the stamp mill of the mine including the underground stamp wheel house since 2004. A miners’ association is responsible for the care and maintenance of the mill. The closely associated Schindlers Werk Smalt Works is a rare example of an extraordinary well-preserved processing site and colony for cobalt blue production of the 17th to 19th centuries with all production facilities as well as social and administrative infrastructure. It bears testimony to the blue dye sector of the Ore Mountains which was one of the most important production pillars of mining in the region and enjoyed a long period of domination in Europe. It is the last smalt works of the Ore Mountains, which produced the famous cobalt blue dye from 1649 to the middle of the 19th century and from then until today ultramarine pigment. The structure of a typical blue dye factory, grouped around an inner courtyard and a manor house, is largely preserved. It includes all production, administrative, residential and agricultural buildings from the 17th to the 20th century. Some of the buildings are exposed to short or medium-term risks. A first programme for the preservation and reconstruction of the static structures and the roofs is initiated. In 2017, a mining association was founded to support maintenance work and develop a sustainable concept for the reuse of the whole area.
The volunteers will support the conservation and restoration of both heritage objects – Fundgrube Wolfgang Maßen and Schindlers Werk. The works on both sites will go parallel, and the volunteers will be able during the project duration to alternate between the two working groups.
At Fundgrube Wolfgang Maßen the volunteers will work as well in the underground as in the wheelhouse and its surroundings. They will support the driving of an underground tunnel, will survey and document underground works in the area and excavate the so-called "Mehlführung" from 1863, a kind of dressing site. In case of bad weather works in the wheel chamber will be possible, too.
At Schindlers Werk the volunteers will carry out securing and maintenance works at the coachman's house, the long house (“Langes Haus”) that was housing former stables and the carpentry workshop, at the houses 3, 5 and 6 as well as maintenance works at the already secured Black Casino. Furthermore, they will prepare respectively establish the crucible furnace area of the works for exhibition purposes as well as setting up a new archive room and rearrange the factory archives.
In the frame of the educational part various guided tours, excursions and lectures will be organised so that the volunteers can gain a comprehensive and detailed inside view into the historic Ore Mountains Mining Region and in particular in the Schneeberg Mining Landscape, its potentials and the challenges to rescue, conserve and revitalise it.
The project will be carried out in the frame of the UNESCO World Heritage Volunteers initiative.
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the small town of Weimar in Thuringia saw a remarkable cultural flowering. Enlightened ducal patronage attracted many leading German writers, composers and artists to the town, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller and Franz Liszt, thus making Weimar the cultural centre of Europe at that time. This development is reflected in the high quality of many of the buildings and parks in the surrounding area.
“Classical Weimar” was inscribed in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1998, the 20th site in Germany to be recognised as World Heritage. “Classical Weimar” comprises twelve individual buildings and ensembles, all of which portray tangible and intangible elements of Classical Weimar’s cultural heritage. Weimar’s City Castle, the Duchess Anna Amalia Library, Goethe’s and Schiller’s residences, the Town Church, the Ducal Vault with the Historic Cemetery and many others are included on the World Heritage List.
Weimar’s historical parks and gardens connect the historical buildings and their surrounding grounds and are a key feature in the “Classical Weimar” collection: the Park on the Ilm with the Roman House and Goethe’s Garden House, Belvedere Park with its Castle and Orangery, Tiefurt Park and Castle and Ettersburg Park and Castle.
The European Heritage Volunteers Project “Parks and Gardens of Classical Weimar” has been taking place since 2012 aiming to combine practical work to restore and maintain the cultural landscape with heritage education and the promotion of the idea of volunteering for heritage.
The practical part consists of three elements: Over years international volunteers restored a system of historical paths at Belvedere Park, based on plans from the early 19th century carefully searching for remains of the original paths which disappeared several decades ago, and uncovered and restored their tracks. This works will be continued and shall be finished.
Another part of the group will carry out – alternating from day to day – maintenance works in other parks and gardens of the site “Classical Weimar”, to support so Weimar Classic Foundation in works that can be undertaken only manually, such as cutting long-grass meadows on slopes. At the same time the volunteers gain a detailed and varied knowledge about the different parks and gardens of the World Heritage site and the challenges in managing them.
A third group will work at the "kitchen garden" that had been arranged in the 19th century as a combined fruit, vegetable and flower garden. The dry stone walls as the formative element of the garden are ruinous. In the frame of the project the first steps towards the restoration of the dry stone walls will be undertaken: Plants that damage the walls will be carefully taken away, the walls will be documented, the stones that had fallen down over decades will be collected, their original places determined, smaller areas will be restored and the cap stones will be placed back. The works will be guided by a bricklayer specialised on historic walls and traditional techniques.
The educational part of the project will inform the volunteers about the background of the project, provide knowledge about historical garden and park architecture, traditional gardening and other related topics and will include lectures and guided tours about “Classical Weimar” as well as excursions to related heritage sites. The possibility of free entrance to museums and exhibitions enables individual study.
As in all years since 2012, also the 2018 project will be carried out in the frame of the UNESCO World Heritage Volunteers initiative.
The cultural landscape Upper Middle Rhine Valley is an outstanding organic cultural landscape that includes a rich diversity of both cultural and environmental aspects and enables so a big variety of interventions by volunteering activities. The 65 kilometres long stretch of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, with its castles, historic towns and vineyards, graphically illustrates the long history of human involvement with a dramatic and varied natural landscape. It is intimately associated with history and legend and for centuries has exercised a powerful influence on writers, artists and composers. The terracing of its steep slopes in particular has shaped the landscape in many ways for more than two millennia. However, this form of land-use is under threat from the socio-economic pressures of the present day. The conservation of the area is partly in a bad state because of the fact that a lot of the former vineyards are out of use, that the maintenance both of the dry stone walls and the biotopes is physically demanding and that the knowledge about traditional techniques is disappearing.
A dominant of the Rhine scenery is Marksburg Castle – the only medieval stronghold on the hills along the Middle Rhine which has never been destroyed. The value and the significance of Marksburg Castle can be found in particular in its complete preservation as a medieval fortress. The impressive stronghold with most buildings dating back to the 13th to 15th century consists of wall rings containing keep, residential buildings, baileys and bastions all on top of a hill above the small romantic town of Braubach, and with its interesting, typical interior rooms such as castle kitchen, great hall, bedchamber, chapel, armoury, wine cellar and battlements it allows to travel back into the Middle Ages.
Marksburg is the seat of the German Castles’ Association. The association considers itself an association of curators and friends of national monuments from all groups of society and professions and is also an umbrella organisation supporting initiatives for individual monuments.
The 2018 project will focus on the diversity of the cultural landscape Upper Middle Rhine Valley and illustrate – both during the hands-on part and the educational part – different aspects of the maintenance of the World Heritage site.
The first week will be dedicated to the cultural aspects of the site and will take place at Marksburg Castle. During the practical work the participants will work in the outer bailey of the castle to make a new museum area in the heritage site accessible for visitors. In the frame of the educational part the participants will gain background knowledge about Marksburg Castle itself, but also about the different uses of fortresses from the Middle Age till nowadays as well as about the potentials and challenges of the conservation, the restoration and the management of historical complexes in general.
The second week will be dedicated to the traditional dry stone walls that are outstanding characteristics of the cultural landscape Upper Middle Rhine Valley, but are partly in a very bad state. In Spay, a small town on the left bank of the Rhine, some years ago a very active citizens initiative had been founded that cares for the local environment. In cooperation with this initiative and under the professional guidance of experienced craftsmen the volunteers will restore damaged parts of the historical dry stone walls along a highly frequented hiking trail crossing the former wine yards.
The study part will provide the theoretical background and additional knowledge about this traditional technique.
The project will be carried out in the frame of the UNESCO World Heritage Volunteers initiative.
A Jewish community in Halberstadt had existed since 13th century. The community developed from the middle of the 19th century on into one of the centres of the Jewish orthodoxy and one of the most important Jewish communities in Middle Germany. The three Jewish cemeteries in Halberstadt with in total more than 1,000 grave stones from a period of more than 300 years sire of the clarity of past days. The inscriptions represent a value that has to be saved for upcoming generations and is still waiting to be discovered. At cemetery Nr. 1 that had been used from 1644 till ca. 1800 around 250 of originally more than 1,600 grave stones are preserved. At cemetery Nr. 2 that had been used from ca. 1800 till ca. 1896 around 450 grave stones are preserved. At cemetery Nr. 3 that had been used from ca. 1896 on around 380 grave stones are preserved. The Baroque grave stones at the oldest cemetery are rich decorated and therefore very important from the art history point of view. Important persons are buried at this cemetery; the inscriptions provide an impression about 200 years history of the Jewish community. The two younger cemeteries offer long invariably Hebraic inscriptions of a period of 140 years – from the beginning of the Jewish orthodoxy till the end of the Jewish community in Halberstadt. In an era of growing assimilation and acculturation when elsewhere the percentage of German inscriptions on Jewish gravestones was increasing both cemeteries are representing a special feature in Middle Germany. Jewish gravestones are not only materialised evidences of Jewish culture – in difference to Christian gravestones they content numerous information about the deceased person and are therefore often the only evidences of the disappeared Jewish culture of a town or a village. Most of the gravestones at the Jewish cemeteries in Halberstadt are endangered by efflorescence, and the inscriptions become from year to year less readable. Thus, verbal and photographic documentation of the grave stones in order to create a second transmission as well as cautious restoring measures to counter the process of ongoing decay are urgently needed, before this unique archive of the history of the Jewish community in Halberstadt will disappear forever.
The European Heritage Volunteers Project will take place at the cemeteries Nr. 1 and Nr. 3, so the oldest and the youngest of the three Jewish cemeteries in Halberstadt.
At the oldest cemetery the vegetation around the grave stones will be removed and the moss at the stones will be carefully eliminated in order to prevent the ongoing impairment of the grave stones by plants. In addition, the terrain will be measured and the exact position of every grave stone marked. The arisen plan will serve as base for the detailed documentation of all grave stones at the oldest cemetery in the following years.
Although it may seem paradox the state of conservation of the grave stones at the youngest cemetery is the worst one. This situation is caused by the fact that the material that had been used had partly lower quality than the material used for the older grave stones as well as that some gravestones are made of artificial stone. Therefore the documentation will start at the gravestones of the youngest cemetery. The documentation will include a digital photographic part and a verbal part and may be complemented at one or the other grave stone by manual drawings. The digital documentation is understood as the first step to make parts of the inscriptions later readable that are currently already not readable by human eyes.
In the frame of the educational part various lectures and guided tours as well as an excursion will be organised that the participants can gain comprehensive and detailed knowledge about the Jewish history in Germany and Europe, about Jewish heritage, but also about the rich history and the high valuable heritage of Halberstadt in general.
In 1168, the first discovery of silver ore in Freiberg had a profound and lasting effect on the development of the region. Located in a Central European mountain range the region has played a major role at certain times in the output of tin, silver, cobalt, caolin and uranium in a global context. The rich ore deposits gave the region its name Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains). Mining was for centuries the key industry forming an exceptional transboundary mining cultural landscape with all its typical surface and underground installations, mining towns and natural features as well as the associated intangible values.
The mine Alte Elisabeth in Freiberg is part of the Himmelfahrt Fundgrube mining system, the largest ore mine in the Freiberg area and the most productive mine in the history of the Ore Mountains. The Alte Elisabeth mine’s surface buildings are located on a large waste heap mesa tiered since the early 16thcentury overlooking Freiberg town. In 1848, the shaft was given a steam gin system, which has been preserved along with most of the equipment, including the historic steam engine. The building complex covers the hoisting house, machine house and power house, the chimney with smoke flue, the sorting house added to the hoisting house, which was since 1856 used as a prayer room, and the mining forge building. In 1936 a separate building was erected to house the Schwarzenberggebläse, a blowing engine, from 1831, a masterpiece of mechanical engineering built in gothic style. The heritage-listed underground workings of the Alte Elisabeth, with its important water wheel chamber, are connected to the headings at other shaft complexes at various levels. Soon after mining ceased in 1913, the Alte Elisabeth shaft complex including selected underground areas was taken over by the Freiberg Mining Academy for teaching purposes.
The Rothschönberger Stolln (Rothschönberg drainage gallery) is regarded worldwide as the final point of the technological development of trans-regional water-adits. Constructed from 1844 on, it is the most important and deepest lying adit system of the Freiberg mining district still in operation today. Eleven Lichtlöcher (shafts) were deepened to advance the gallery. Located on a large heap, the Lichtloch VII is a well-preserved example of these shafts including the hoisting house with adjacent wheelhouse, the mine forge and the powder house. Today, a local mining club carefully maintains the site and presents it to the public.
The volunteers will support the new roofing of the historic wooden shingle roof of the shaft and administration building of the Alte Elisabeth mine. They will produce a kind of handmade shingles that are traditionally used in the Ore Mountains region. Volunteers will split of the shingles from logs (spruce or larch), will provide them with a groove. The participants will be qualified to produce wooden shingles and get familiar with the typical regional roofing. In addition, the volunteers will support the roofing works that are carried out in the same time. The works will be lead by a carpenter who is specialised in traditional wooden shingle roofing. At Lichtloch VII the participants will restore the capping of the wheel chamber with gneiss stones. The capping of the wall remains have suffered from weathering and several stones are missing; the arches of the openings are not preserved. The participants will sort and square the rubbles stones for the walls, prepare the surrounding area, reconstruct the arches and complement missing parts. The stones will be embedded in mortar and the recessing joints will be filled in using small stones to supplement the walls of the wheel chamber up to twenty centimetres and grout the capstones for the brick wall's top edge.
Lohra Castle Burg Lohra
| CONS OH-B03 17.06. - 30.06.2018 CONS OH-B04 01.07. - 14.07.2018 CONS OH-B05 15.07. - 28.07.2018
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| In June and July Open Houses organises Building Weeks and Workcamps in the same period at Lohra Castle. The two working groups are living together and they are one community. The only difference between the two projects are the different topics they are working on. During the project it will be possible, that volunteers join the other working group, because of their skills or their own interests. Therefore please also see the Lohra Castle Workcamps descriptions. | LOCATION: Next towns: Bleicherode (6 km), Nordhausen (20 km), Erfurt (75 km) Region: Thuringia TERMINAL: Next bus station: Großlohra , Friedrichslohra/Wartehalle Next railway station: Gebra /Hainleite (5 km) Next airports: Leipzig/Halle (LEJ, 155 km) Frankfurt/Main (FRA, 280 km) Berlin (TXL, SXF, 300 km) AGE: at least 18 WHAT TO BRING: waterproof and strong work boots, rain jacket, appropriate clothes, sleeping bag |
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