Gantikow Manor
In het kort:
- Land
- Duitsland
- Soort werk
- Constructie, Handarbeid, Restauratie
- Projectduur
- 14 t/m 25 augustus
- Aantal deelnemers
- 20 (10 mannen en 10 vrouwen)
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- Accommodatie en maaltijden
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The Manor is located at a scenic place a few meters away from an idyllic lake in northern Brandenburg. This quiet location is home to a small and peaceful community which every year welcomes the arrival of our volunteering groups.
The volunteers will be enjoying their leisure time between the lake and the green areas surrounding the manor; however, they will also take care of the gardens by cutting grass, cleaning and trimming bushes, and minor works of renovation works in the social areas and smaller works. One of the tasks will involve assisting works on the construction of a new pipe line of the house, concerning mostly digging.
FINANCES
All costs linked to the project are covered, including food, accommodation, insurance and transportation during the stay at the project. Travel costs to and from the camp place are not covered. Participants should organise their journey to and from the project place by themselves and on their own expenses. Furthermore, participants should bring their own pocket money.
ACCOMMODATION
As in most of Open Houses' camps the volunteers will live at the same place where they also work on, what means that they live more or less on a building site. The accommodation is very simple: ; there are shared rooms with simple beds or mattresses. The accommodation is equipped with showers with hot water, there is a common kitchen.. The equipment is simple but fair. After work, when everybody wants to take a shower, there can be a limit of hot water.
FOOD
The 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.
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.
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Open Houses – rooms which want to be filled with dreams and ideas, with meetings and exchange, by people of different backgrounds, different cultures, different generations and different ideas and visions.
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 doers, 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.
| Projectnaam | Gantikow Manor |
|---|---|
| Projectcode | W12 |
| Land | |
| Soort werk | |
| Startdatum | 14-8-2023 |
| Einddatum | 25-8-2023 |
| Aantal vrijwilligers | 20 (10 mannen en 10 vrouwen) |
| Leeftijd | 18 t/m 30 jaar |
| Taal |