📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Host organization is an Archaeological Open-Air-Museum named Zeiteninsel (Times Island). In prehistoric times in the valley near the river Lahn have been settlements already. Five different periods of such settlements during the last 11.000 years are shown and can be experienced in the open-air-museum which is not officially opened yet as there is still some work to do.
It is a workcamp including German language training. In general – also during excursion – there will be focus on language and culture/history of Germany/Europe. Lectures will be two hours per day / 18 hours in total (excluding Saturday and Sunday). The training content: Conversation training, Intercultural Diversities, History of Germany/Europe and Indo-European languages (word-nests), Grammar.
💼 What the programme involves
Participants will be doing some construction work – building walls / plastering with clay and doing some other work upon needs on the area of the museum.
Time of work will be around 5 hours per day, excluding Saturday and Sunday.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Participants will live in a youth centre a few km away from Argenstein. Cooking, cleaning, shopping etc. will be done by the group itself. Like in each workcamp, accommodation, food and travel-costs for excursions are free as well as materials/copies needed for the lectures.
📍 About the location
Argenstein is a small village, 7 km away from Marburg (a historical and picturesque old university town), 90 km north of Frankfurt/Main.