📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
-
💼 What the programme involves
The historical Barnau-Tachov park is a new archaeological open-air museum (opened in 2011), which invites its guests to take a trip through time to the daily life of people living in the 9th to the 13th centuries. During the tour, you can wander through an early-middle-aged Slavic village, scale a n 11th century motte castle and arrive at a high middle-aged settlement. Under guidance of trained professionals, a 1:1 reconstruction of middle-aged houses from this time have and will be built. You will get involved with the construction of these wooden houses with loam and wattle walls and thatched roofs, and on the shaping of the natural and landscape area. Besides this, you ll be helping to organise a museum festival both for children and the rest of the family.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You ll be staying in sheltered accommodation with beds near to the historical park. You ll cook your own meals together.
📍 About the location
There are several opportunities for day trips i for example to the concentration camp memorial in Flossenburg, the KTB Geo-Centre (Drilling Tower) in Windischeschenbach or to the public observatory in Tirschenreuth. You could even visit out neighbours in the Czech Republic (Pilsen, Prague, Eger). In Barnau itself there is the German Knopfmuseum (button museum) and the Waldfreibad Altglashutte (outdoor pool complex). Barnau is difficult to reach with public transport, so you ll need to be prepared to use your talents to organise trips. You ll be able to book a bus to use for travelling.
⚠️ Requirements
Waterproof work clothes are absolutely necessary, since the work will take place outside.
ℹ️ Additional information
Barnau is in an idyllic location between the Czech border and the Upper Palatine Forest. More info at www.baernau.de; www.geschichtspark.de. The work can sometimes be physically demanding.