📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The holiday centre “Aschenhuette” run by a German NGO just outside of the community of Bad Herrenalb in south western Germany welcomes its first workcamp this year! For one week, volunteers will help with various tasks around the centre. The centre offers cheap opportunities for families, school classes or youth groups to enjoy a short holiday, to discover the black forest and its nature or to run a seminar.
💼 What the programme involves
You will be working on different renovation and maintenance tasks around the holiday centre “Aschenhuette”. Concrete tasks will be defined according to the weather conditions and might include the maintenance of paths, gardening, improvement of the barbecue place and the sports field and different indoor renovation work.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The group will be staying at the “Aschenhuette in bedrooms of four. Of course, the house is equipped with all necessary facilities. Full board is included in this workcamp, so you won’t even have to bother with cooking yourself.
📍 About the location
Bad Herrenalb is situated in the northern Black Forest, 15km east of Baden-Baden, and 22km southwest of Pforzheim. In 1841 Dr. J. Weiss established a cold water sanatorium here which was later transformed into a water therapy institute with a sanatorium for nervous disorders. Since 1954 Herrenalb is officially known as a “health resort”. The surrounding of Bad Herrenalb is perfect for hiking trips and to discover the nature.