📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The castle (a former fortress) with its tower, a well and a trench and some other buildings for living and working are situated on a 40 acres property. It is surrounded by woods, orchards, meadows and vegetable gardens. 34 adults and 30 children between 0 and late 50s belong to the community. Together, they bring this special place back to life. They build apartments and work spaces, they plant and harvest, organize festivals, markets, lectures, concerts, seminars and work camps with all in all about 5.000 visitors each year. They are committed to make the people aware of their surrounding and to spread ways of a sustainable and social way of living.
💼 What the programme involves
Building of shelters for bicycles as well as for fire wood (the entire castle is heated by wood – to have it properly dry is very essential), garden work, work in the community kitchen.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In tents and guestrooms, organic meals together with the community, shared bathrooms, compost toilets.
📍 About the location
Tonndorf Castle is situated in the Weimar county – the so called „Toscany of the East“. Tonndorf is a small village located south of Weimar and Erfurt in Thuringia.
⚠️ Requirements
Enjoying collective work outdoors
ℹ️ Additional information
Inspiration in the following fields possible: alternative learning and teaching, self-subsistence, supporting agriculture free of genetic manipulation, ecological building techniques (including strawbale-building); excursions to Weimar (Goethe, Bauhaus etc.) and Erfurt
A warm atmosphere in a very special place!
For further information please visit: www.schloss-tonndorf.de