📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
In Flechtdorf there is a monastery from the Middle Ages. Here, the association at the Flechtdorf monastery has taken on the responsibility of restoring and maintaining this listed building and its grounds, in order to make it useable for events again. If you are interested in preserving monuments and hands-on manual work, then this is exactly the camp for you! Your help is needed: firstly we need help to renew the exterior doors in the west wing and to build a wooden ramp on the first floor. Secondly, we need help to build a suspended ceiling in the south wing and the area for storing stones and wood needs protective roof covering. Additionally, there are many maintenance tasks and improvements to be done all over the grounds of the monastery, above all the wooden beam ceilings and wallpaper must be taking out from the horsemen’s building.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be staying in the Aartalhalle in Flechtdorf. You will prepare and cook meals in small groups.
📍 About the location
In your free time you can go swimming in the Diemel reservoir and take a trip to the factory towns of Korbach and Frankenberg. In Willingen there is a climbing hall as well as a kart and bowling centre. You can also visit the castle in Bad Arolsen and the fort in Waldeck. Other possible destinations are the towns of Kassel and Hannover. The doucmenta, one of the most famous art exhibitions in the world, will be taking place in Kassel during your stay.
⚠️ Requirements
This project is a tri-national project open only to participants from Germany, France and Spain. It is also only suited to participants who can really get involved with manual work.
ℹ️ Additional information
You will get your hands dirty while working! The area is very rural, there are no places to go shopping nearby. The work will be physically demanding.