📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
European Heritage Volunteers
💼 What the programme involves
The practical part consists of three elements: Over years international volunteers restored a system of historical paths at Belvedere Park, based on plans from the early 19th century carefully searching for remains of the original paths which disappeared several decades ago, and uncovered and restored their tracks. This works will be continued and shall be finished.Another part of the group will carry out aeuro alternating from day to day aeuro maintenance works in other parks and gardens of the site aeurooeClassical Weimaraeuro, to support so Weimar Classic Foundation in works that can be undertaken only manually, such as cutting long-grass meadows on slopes. At the same time the volunteers gain a detailed and varied knowledge about the different parks and gardens of the World Heritage site and the challenges in managing them.A third group will work at the "kitchen garden" that had been arranged in the 19th century as a combined fruit, vegetable and flower garden. The dry
🏠 Accommodation on site
shared 6- or 8 bed rooms in a hostel in the city, warm showers, toilets,The meals will be prepared together as they are part of the community life, what means that everybody will be responsible for the meal at least once during its stay. So it would be very nice if you could bring typical recipes from home in order to introduce each other to the preparation of food from all over the world.
📍 About the location
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the small town of Weimar in Thuringia saw a remarkable cultural flowering. Enlightened ducal patronage attracted many leading German writers, composers and artists to the town, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller and Franz Liszt, thus making Weimar the cultural centre of Europe at that time. This development is reflected in the high quality of many of the buildings and parks in the surrounding area. aeurooeClassical Weimaraeuro was inscribed in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1998, the 20th site in Germany to be recognised as World Heritage. aeurooeClassical Weimaraeuro comprises twelve individual buildings and ensembles, all of which portray tangible and intangible elements of Classical Weimaraeuros cultural heritage. Weimaraeuros City Castle, the Duchess Anna Amalia Library, Goetheaeuros and Schilleraeuros residences, the Town Church, the Ducal Vault with the Historic Cemetery and many others are included on th
ℹ️ Additional information
Motivation letter related to the project and CV photo required