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Join our friendly community just an hour north of Berlin! Our shared home—a collection of repurposed railway buildings surrounded by a large natural garden—offers a peaceful retreat from urban life while maintaining easy city access. Join us in further developing a unique community place, while you enjoy the surrounding cycle routes, trails, lakes, forests, and cultural attractions.
15 hours of help per week
Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.
2 days off per week
Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.
Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.
Dedicated Workspace: Specific space for you to work remotely
Intermediate English or Intermediate German
Between 20 and 50 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
We are in an early phase of creating a community centered around cooperation and simple living in a pleasant, relaxing, nature-rich area of Germany.
This shared home is a group of old railway buildings surrounded by a large, pleasant natural garden.
We are situated in a small town just over an hour's journey from Berlin by train, direction north.
This social exchange can be combined with studying or working in Berlin, as a stop on your trips as a traveler in Europe, or with any other activity in this area. The train to Berlin-Ostkreuz or Gesundbrunnen takes just over 1 hour. A Deutschlandticket Rail Pass is recommended if you commute, and costs 64€ per month.
There is a train station a few minutes away, and there are large supermarkets around. There are lakes, woods, and hiking trails, and there is a superb long-distance cycling route (with quite smooth asphalt) which passes right by the place.
The area is suitable for scenic bike-rides (we have bikes), inline skating, kayaking/canoeing, hiking, birdwatching, trail-running, and visiting the nearby historical sites. These sites include ruins of a medieval monastery/nunnery with old gardens, a castle, a pottery museum, and occasional cultural events/markets. There are local paths linking the town to neighbouring villages. There is a brickworks museum with a nature and adventure park theme, with wildlife such as beavers + great bitterns.
For nature lovers:
Not too far away is a biosphere reserve with forests and wetlands, superb for birdwatching (cranes, storks, waterfowl) and foraging (berries, mushrooms). There are dozens of signposted walking and running trails, pine forests, and streams.
What you do as a community member will depend on your interests, and can include:
- gardening
- gathering, preparing, and stacking firewood
- beautification of our surroundings
- re-purposing things we have and find
We offer a room only, not meals. Cooking or grilling together is an option. We occasionally have surpluses of rescued food.
NOTE: The place is next to an active railway (hourly passing trains), but this is surprisingly not much of an issue, and many of the bedrooms/dorms are on the opposite sides of the buildings any way.
Excessive drinking/other does not align well with our community.
