📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The history of Open Houses dates back to the mid-1980s, when a group of young people began to restore actual disused village churches. The focus lies on restoration and public use of historical monuments, which allows a long-lasting and effective recovery of the buildings. Currently Open Houses has several historic buildings in its care. All of them are attractive ensembles which display centuries of history. But most of them stood vacant for a very long time and suffered serious structural damage.
💼 What the programme involves
Restoration of the roof construction and the roof of a historical annexe of the Manor
On the garden site of Gantikow Manor an annexe with a hexagonally shape, a kind of small pavilion, is situated, which is endangered because of luck of maintenance during the past decades. Although the current, highly damaged roofing is dating back only to the middle of the 20th century, the historical research of the building showed in the roof construction interesting remains of older structures.
Under the professional guidance of a carpenter the participants will open the roofing, restore the roof construction and reroof the annexe. Because it will be sometimes not possible that the whole group will work on the roof at the same time the other volunteers will carry out in these times small renovation works at the house and on the ground. They will paint windows and doors, build new fences as well as carry out several fieldworks in the garden.
🏠 Accommodation on site
shared rooms, warm shower and toilets
📍 About the location
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 neo-baroque style in the late 19th century.
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 garden with old trees which reached originally up to the lake.
⚠️ Requirements
CV+photo and Motivation letter
ℹ️ Additional information
no remarks