📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Open Houses
💼 What the programme involves
The complex of Belvedere Orangery and the associated buildings had been restored by Weimar Classic Foundation during the last years and was reopened in 2015. In the former Garden Inspector s House is installed a permanent exhibition prepared by European Heritage Volunteers about European Heritage Volunteers Projects in Europe as well as about UNESCO World Heritage Volunteers Projects worldwide. The exhibition is complemented by videos presenting some of the Heritage Volunteers projects having taken place in Europe during the last years.The volunteers taking part in the Guest Guiding project will be at the place from Tuesday to Friday in the afternoons and on Saturdays and Sundays the whole days aeuro the time when most of the visitors will come. S/he should be available for the visitors of the exhibition, answering their questions concerning European Heritage Volunteers, UNESCO World Heritage Volunteers in general and the UNESCO World Heritage Volunteers project at Belvedere Park. Own
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteer is accommodated in a shared flat in Weimar. After the introduction week(s) s/he gets 15 aO pocket money for each real guest guiding week lasting seven days and 7 aO for food per day and s/he will have a simple bike to get from the accommodation to the working place (ca. 4 km). For the participants of this project should be clear that s/he is the only volunteer at the place.
📍 About the location
Weimar is a beautiful small city, located in the middle of Germany in the state of Thuringia. It has a huge number of cultural important places; especially the Classical Period made the city, what it is now. By the late 18th century many of the leading writers and thinkers in Germany, such as Goethe, Schiller and Herder, came to Weimar and shaped the cultural life and in the same time the image of the city. Weimar became the cultural centre of Europe at that time. Many painters, composers and philosophers lived in the city during the classical period. Until now you find many creative and inspired people living in Weimar, which were attracted by the great accumulation of cultural spirit. Since 1998 aeurooeClassical Weimaraeuro is inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Besides Goetheaeuros House, the City Church and the City Palace, especially the parks and gardens with their impressive landscape architecture and pretty castles are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site aeurooeClas
ℹ️ Additional information
Motivation letter related to the project,CV photo and basics of German required