Lehenhof
The Camphill -Dorfgemeinschaft Lehenhof e. V. is a socio-therapeutic village community founded by Karl König in 1964. The village community consists of several locations in the municipalities of Deggenhausertal in the Bodenseekreis and Ilmensee in the Sigmaringen district in Baden-Württemberg . More than 300 people of all ages live and work together in the Lehenhof village community. The basis for the common life and work of people with and without disabilities are the foundations based on the anthroposophical view of the world and man, according to which people with disabilities should be able to participate in social life by living in a diverse living and working community. In the work area, services should be offered and products manufactured that also represent an immediate value for the respective customer outside the village community (in contrast to pure employment measures). In this sense, the concept of the village community is to be understood as lived inclusion.
history
The Lehenhof was founded as the first Camphill village community in Germany in 1964 by Karl König. A few people started building a socio-therapeutic community here: an abandoned farm estate formed the nucleus of a community in which over 300 people now live and work. The result was a "village" with houses and workshops, a cultural center, agriculture, gardening, ambulance, therapy rooms and a cemetery. There are more houses and workplaces in the surrounding villages. A natural food shop sells the organic products made at the Lehenhof and other organic products.
Today (2015) the Lehenhof community is the largest employer in the Deggenhausertal community and is rooted in the community and the Lake Constance region through a variety of neighborly, economic, political and cultural contacts.
Today, the village community includes adults with various disabilities, local employees, their families, retired employees and people with and without disabilities who live outside but come to work every day.
In 2015 the Dorfgemeinschaft Lehenhof e. V. celebrates its 50th anniversary. Numerous events such as concerts, lectures, guided tours and an open day took place throughout the year. The highlight was the big ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary, in which the Federal Government Commissioner for the Issues of Disabled People , Verena Bentele , spoke a greeting. As part of this ceremony, the topping-out ceremony for a large extension building was also celebrated.
Living
The communal living was originally set up in manageable, independent house communities in which the adult people with disabilities and the employees run a common household with their families and organize housework and leisure together. The houses are accordingly equipped with friendly common rooms, functional and sanitary rooms and with private rooms for disabled people and employees.
Over the years, the needs of the residents became more individual, so that the Lehenhof village community differentiated its housing offer. Today (2015) supervised people also live in small shared apartments, alone in an apartment or as a couple in their own apartment. A house with a special infrastructure and appropriately trained specialist staff is available for people with a high need for care. In addition, the “classic” house communities still exist today. Over the years, the Lehenhof village community expanded into the surrounding communities, so that today there are house communities and workshops in Deggenhausen, Obersiggingen and Illmensee-Lichtenegg.
The house communities in the village community see themselves as a home for their residents, in which you feel you belong, experience community and support from people you trust, but in which you are also challenged to achieve relative independence in coping with everyday life. Self-worth and dignity should be experienced in mutual give and take.
Work
Workshops for people with disabilities (WfbM) are located in the Camphill Werkstätten Lehenhof gGmbH . Among other things exist
- a wholemeal bakery that has already been recognized twice by the magazine Der Feinschmecker as “one of the best bakeries in Germany” and whose bread is sold through organic shops and wholesalers throughout southern Germany, Switzerland and Austria;
- a paper workshop, in which mainly exercise books of all common formats and rulings are made by hand and sold through a workshop network (“Sedulus”);
- a wood workshop, in which sustainably produced stove lighters are made from recycled materials ("k-lumet");
- Packaging and labeling workshops that work, among other things, for the friendly Sonett company;
- a weaving mill in which fabrics are woven and processed, and
- a dye works in which raw wool is dyed and spun with vegetable dyes.
In addition to the WfbM, there are other operating units in the work area of the village community, some of which are also used by people with disabilities, such as an agricultural Demeter farm where dairy cattle are kept and grain is grown, a Demeter nursery that sells vegetables, fruit and flowers and a cheese dairy, in which the farm's milk is processed into various types of cheese. The latter was the 2015 as part of the cheese test association for craft milk processing in organic farming with the golden cheese harp in 2015 for the Munster cheese excellent.
In 2019 the Lehenhof opened a large workshop and organic shop with bistro and delivery service in Deggenhausertal-Untersiggingen, which is the first full supplier for the place. The conceptual basis is the collaboration between people with and without the need for assistance in all areas of the health food store. The organic shop represents an important further development of the Lehenhof's work offers. In addition to the Lehenhof products from all workshops, an extensive organic range is available. The adjoining café quickly developed into a popular meeting place.
Together with the Camphill school communities and the Camphill Werkstätten Hermannsberg gGmbH , the Camphill Werkstätten Lehenhof gGmbH are shareholders of the SKID gGmbH in Überlingen , a service provider for outpatient and community-integrated living, social and cultural support for people in need of assistance and the operator of the Überlingen pasta factory.
Culture
Numerous cultural events such as lectures, concerts, plays and festivals take place in the Lehenhof village community. Culture is an integral part of the village community in the sense of enriching everyday life. Well-known artists and ensembles also make regular guest appearances in the village community and have turned the Tyco-de-Brahe-Saal in the heart of the village into a regional event center.
The people living and working in the village community also regularly study plays, the public performances of which repeatedly meet with positive feedback in the sense of lived inclusion.
Connection to other institutions
The Camphill-Dorfgemeinschaft Lehenhof has close connections to other facilities for disabled people and education. The fact that the Lehenhof village community was one of the first of its kind has resulted in numerous other camphills in the Lake Constance region and throughout Germany.
Through the cooperation in sales organizations, associations and interest groups, there are close connections to numerous other institutions.
The Camphill Dorfgemeinschaft Lehenhof eV and the Camphill Werkstätten Lehenhof gGmbH are members of the Bundesverband Anthroposophisches Sozialwesen e. V. and the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband ; Both were founding members of the Regional Association of Anthroposophical Social Work in Baden-Württemberg eV ( Anthropoi Baden-Württemberg ) in 2018 . As a WfbM, Camphill Werkstätten Lehenhof gGmbH is also a member of the state working group WfbM Baden-Württemberg and the federal working group WfbM.
As a Camphill institution, the Lehenhof is networked worldwide through the Camphill movement and the Anthroposophic Council For Inclusive Social Development .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sedulus online shop. Sedulus Vertriebs GmbH, accessed on December 31, 2019 .
- ↑ k-lumet website. Ledder workshops of the Diakonisches Werk in the church district of Tecklenburg, accessed on December 31, 2019 .
- ^ Website of the Sonett company. Sonett GmbH, accessed on December 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Sonett celebrates the new logistics center with 70 carers from the Camphill Community Lehenhof. In: sonett.eu. Sonett GmbH, April 2016, accessed on December 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Cheese examination
- ^ Association for artisanal milk processing in organic farming
- ↑ Prize of the Best 2015: THE 3 CHEESE HARP WINNERS. In: hofkaese.de. Association for artisanal milk processing in organic farming, accessed on December 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Demeter cheese from Lehenhof awarded as the best cheese. In: demeter.de. Demeter eV, December 17, 2015, accessed on December 31, 2019 .
- ^ Website of the Lehenhof organic store. Lehenhof Bioladen Camphill Werkstätten Lehenhof gGmbH, 2019, accessed on December 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Manuela Klaas: A togetherness at eye level . In: Life at the lake . tape 37 , 2019, pp. 80-87 .
- ↑ Cristiane Keutner: Deggenhausertal: Lehenhof opens its organic shop in Untersiggingen. In: Südkurier. July 7, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019 .
- ^ Website of the Camphill school communities e. V. Accessed December 31, 2019 .
- ^ Website of the Camphill village community Hermannsberg. Accessed December 31, 2019 .
- ↑ SKID gGmbH website. SKID gGmbH SozialKulturelle IntegrationsDienste, accessed on December 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Lehenhof. Retrieved October 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Wolf-Dieter Guip: Deggenhausertal: Passionate commitment to cultural offers on the Lehenhof. August 11, 2019, accessed October 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Bundesverband Anthroposophisches Sozialwesen e. V.
- ^ Anthropoi Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved October 24, 2019 .
- ↑ LAG WfbM Baden-Württemberg eV: LAG WfbM Baden-Württemberg eV Accessed on October 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Federal Working Group WfbM
- ↑ Camphill movement ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Home. Accessed October 24, 2019 (German).
