Cooking pot or melting pot? The Nuremberg region as an intercultural space

CODE: ijgd 26320

Work:

In Hersbruck you have the opportunity to participate in many different great projects. You can work with your hands, get creative and work with different building materials. The focus here is on interculturality and meeting young people from the Nuremberg region. A more specific project description will follow

Accomodation and food

You will spend the night in shared rooms in the Edelweißhütte learning and experience room. A modern guest house. There is a well-equipped kitchen.
You cook together. You will be provided with money for shopping. Vegetarian or vegan meals are possible. Please indicate any intolerances when registering.

Location and leisure

Hersbruck is not far from Nuremberg and has 2 train stations (Hersbruck (l Pegnitz) and Hersbruck (r Pegnitz)). You can travel from both in the direction of Nuremberg. You also have many opportunities to spend your free time on the grounds of the Edelweißhütte: Soccer, table tennis, table soccer, a lovely campfire site and a pizza oven, which was created in a previous project. There are also several lakes nearby (Happurger Stausee and the “Baggersee” swimming lake), the outdoor pool in Hersbruck and many paths where you can hike to your heart's content. The city of Nuremberg with its many sights is easily accessible by S-Bahn. A visit to the Museum of the Future is highly recommended!
The history of Hersbruck: From July 1944 to April 1945, Hersbruck was home to the second largest satellite camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp. 9,000 prisoners from all over Europe were held here. They had to build an underground tunnel system for an armaments factory in neighboring Happurg. The Hersbruck/Happurg documentation site commemorates this camp with two installations: one is located at the former site where the concentration camp prisoners were housed in Hersbruck; the other at the former site of forced labor in Happurg. The Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial offers free public tours every first Sunday of the month at 2 pm. The meeting point is the documentation site in Hersbruck (Badstraße, in the immediate vicinity of the Fackelmann-Therme), where excursions are also available if you would like to take a short historical detour with your group.

Project hosted by

The ijgd has been organising volunteer service programmes since 1949. We are an independent, non-profit association for international youth work, a recognised independent youth welfare organisation, and one of the largest and oldest workcamp organisations in Germany. Each year, we assist around 5,000 young people into volunteer work in Germany and abroad. We give them the opportunity to be creative, act in solidarity, take responsibility for themselves, and discover their own true potential and strengths. Our principles: Ecological learning, voluntary contribution, self-organisation, social development, intercultural learning, gender equality, anti-racism/anti-discrimination and political education.
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Directions to meeting point

At the train station in Hersbruck (l Pegnitz) Attention! There also is a train station called “Hersbruck (r Pegnitz)”, this will NOT be the meeting point! You will be picked up in a minibus by the camp leaders. The camp leaders will ask for your arrival times beforehand. Please let the camp leaders know if there are any last-minute changes. We ask for an arrival until 6pm.
Directions to Meeting Point: From airport Nürnberg take the U-Bahn (U2 directed to „Nürnberg Röthenbach“) to „Nürnberg Hauptbahnhof“, this is Nürnberg central station. At the central station you need to change into the S-Bahn (S2 directed to “Hersbruck(l Pegnitz)") and get off at your destination Hersbruck (l Pegnitz).
More Information about train and bus connections: www.bahn.com.

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