📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
About 15 years ago the association „Integration Schollenhof“ started to rebuild a very old and empty farm, the “Schollenhof“, in order to make it useful for the children of an inclusive Montessori-School. The emotional history of this deserted homestead goes back to the Middle Ages. The first documented record of it was done in 1319. Many of its rooms are still in the old-fashioned style of the old farmhouses of the region. For this reason, it was used as a historic set for a television series about the 20s. Nowadays the “Schollenhof“ is a meeting place for people with and without disabilities. Kids of the inclusive school spend time there by participating in workshops, exploring the surroundings and meeting the animals. About four youngsters with disabilities are currently working there and are ready to support the workcamp as well.
💼 What the programme involves
There have already been created many facilities and services, for instance, a garden with vegetables, herbs and flowers, a pottery with a furnace, workshops to work with wood and metal, a shop offering local home-made goods and vegetables, stables for horses, goats, sheep and geese as well as a bread bakery. However, there is still much to do: new raised beds are to be built and planted with seasonal vegetables and fruits and the insect hotel, also known as a bug hotel or insect house in the garden can also be renewed. The walls of the house and the wooden frame are also in need of renovation and should be urgently updated and plastered.
There is plenty to do in the barn as well. The hay, which can no longer be used for feeding the animals, needs to be removed from the barn. In case of bad weather, many other renovation works can be carried out in the house.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accommodation will be very, very basic, in a room with mattresses or a camp bed. As a compensation, volunteers can use a well-appointed kitchen, a very comfortable and homely living room and lots of space in the court outside. WiFi will be provided.
📍 About the location
The Schollenhof is located in the Upper-Rhine lowlands between the Black Forest (“Schwarzwald”) and the bordering territory with France. From the yard one can see the black forest as a panorama. The area is very famous for its beautiful scenery and cherry tree flowers in the spring.
You can see the place as an example of an inclusive stile of integrative pedagogics and work.
In the leisure time the group is free to explore the region on bicycles. Trips to picturesque places of the Black Forest will also be organized. There will be visits organized to picturesque places in the Black Forest.
⚠️ Requirements
Please bring a sleeping bag, an isolation sheet, work clothes and a warm sweater. You should be able to ride a bike. Moreover, people suffering from high fever (due to the allergy etc.) are not recommended to take part in the workcamp.
ℹ️ Additional information
Please bring a sleeping bag, an isolation sheet, work clothes and a warm sweater. You should be able to ride a bike. Moreover, people suffering from high fever (due to the allergy etc.) are not recommended to take part in the workcamp.
