📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
The Kastanienhof organizes two construction weeks every year, bringing together members of the association, dedicated craftsmen, former and current volunteers and an international SCI work camp. Work is done on the listed building: woodwork, plastering with clay and cement, building on scaffolding. You learn a lot about craftsmanship. In addition, there will be small agricultural work and there will be a joint harvest and cooking for all helpers. On the weekend of 1.-2.8.2026, the Kastanienhof participates in the medieval market festival on the castle Burg Hanstein with the sale of products and homemade ice cream. Here you are welcome to help. The medieval market is definitely worth a visit.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The work camp will be housed in tents with mattresses and sleeping mats in the attic of the barn and the residential house. There is also the possibility to pitch your own tent. Sanitary conditions are basic but clean, with a nicely designed bucket toilet and solar shower outside, hot shower inside the residence. There is also a small pool overlooking the valley in the chill out area.
Meals consist of freshly harvested and other farm-grown organic produce, as well as purchased organic quality food. Vegan and vegetarian food is available.
📍 About the location
You are invited to walk to the castle, to play music, to make a campfire, to visit the beautiful cities of Göttingen or Hannoversch-Münden or to go swimming in a lake.
⚠️ Requirements
Willingness to do six hours of physical labor daily. Appropriate disguise is needed for the medieval festival on the weekend. Feel free to bring something for it. Otherwise you can find something at the Kastanienhof.