Steyerberg garden of life

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Steyerberg garden of life
legal form registered association & cooperative
founding 1984 (settlement community) / 1986 (association)
Seat Steyerberg , Lower Saxony , Germany
main emphasis Respect for creation, support in everyday life, conflict resolution, inner concentration, ecology in everyday life
Website Lebensgarten.de

The life Steyerberg is a settlement community in spots Steyerberg the district of Nienburg in Lower Saxony with 140 members (as of April 2015). It sees itself as a model and research project for a harmonious interpersonal lifestyle in harmony with nature. The Lebensgarten is also a founding member and part of a worldwide network of ecovillages , the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN).

history

Aerial view of the settlement (right, with the red roofs)

As part of the Kraft durch Freude project , a residential and recreational facility for female workers in the largest ammunition factory of the German armaments company EIBIA with the code name “Karl” was built in 1938 . After the end of the war, the buildings were used by the British as accommodation for work companies and were given the name Helena-Lager. This camp housed mostly German prisoners of war until the end of the captivity of war in 1947, after which it was converted into the German Civil Labor Organization or German Service Organization and used for military training purposes until the early 1980s. The first peaceful use of the building began in 1984 based on the Scottish Findhorn community , two years later Lebensgarten Steyerberg e. V. founded. The building fabric in need of renovation was gradually rebuilt in an ecological way in the pioneering phase of the Lebensgarten. In 2000 the seminar house with two conference rooms and 17 guest beds was built from a hall.

Infrastructure

The members live in their own apartments or houses on the grounds of the Lebensgarten. In addition, several special-purpose operations were set up in the Lebensgarten : the seminar operation as the administration of the seminar house, an electric car sharing with its own PV system, the school for mediation , the Money Network Alliance MonNetA with the support of Margrit Kennedy and the permaculture park . Independent businesses: The Phönix book room; since 2003 an institution recognized by the youth welfare office, the Steyerberg Institute for Learning Therapy; aps advertising design and treatment rooms at the Kühnel & Partner occupational therapy practice . Four other registered associations have their seat in the garden of life: Choka Sangha , a Zen Buddhist group, operator of the permaculture park; the Steyerberg Center for Nonviolent Communication based on Marshall B. Rosenberg's concept ; since 2005 the association Mindfulness and Understanding .

everyday life

The garden of life sees itself as a place to encourage contact between residents and guests and with other people. Vegetables are grown in the residents' gardens and in the permaculture park. As a daily ritual, meditation, singing and circle dances are also offered to guests every morning.

decision making

The political structure of the village is based on grassroots democracy . Decisions are made according to the principle of consensus in monthly general meetings. The board consists of 6 to 8 people and represents the executive branch. Members can support the community at their own discretion and are on their own in their apartments.

Personalities

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://gen.ecovillage.org
  2. ^ Website on the history of the powder factory
  3. ↑ http://www.mediation-steyerberg.de Meditation Steyerberg Training facility for meditation since 1990
  4. ↑ monneta.org , accessed February 26, 2015.
  5. ↑ http://www.aps-werbedesign.de/
  6. ↑ Choka Sangha - Zen Buddhism & Permaculture Steyerberg , accessed on February 26, 2015.
  7. ^ Center for Nonviolent Communication Steyerberg eV , accessed on February 25, 2015.
  8. ↑ Mindfulness and Understanding , accessed on February 26, 2015.