Loheland

Loheland municipality Künzell Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 34 " N , 9 ° 45 ′ 47" E
Height :	409 m above sea level NHN
Postal code :	36093
Area code :	0661

Loheland is part of the Dirlos district of the municipality of Künzell near Fulda in Hesse with around 70 residents. Loheland is known nationwide primarily for its Loheland gymnastics and the handicraft products of the Loheland workshops. Today the anthroposophical settlement includes various educational institutions and businesses that are run by a manager and a board of directors under the umbrella of the Loheland Foundation.

History and present

Logo of the Loheland Foundation

The initiative to found the school settlement came from the two directors of the "Seminar for Classical Gymnastics" Hedwig von Rohden (1890–1987) and Louise Langgaard (1883–1974), who in 1919 acquired a large piece of land at the foot of the Rhön . After changing location several times since 1912, they wanted to set up a training facility based on their ideas and ideals: the “Loheland School for Gymnastics, Agriculture and Crafts”. Based on “Life is movement - movement is a living form”, the women designed a place where learning, working and living should go hand in hand. The women from the wages integrated gymnastics, gardening and agriculture, handicrafts and art in their concept. In the early 1960s, 350 to 400 women, men and children lived in the Loheland community.

Today Loheland is characterized by buildings of various sizes and appearances, shaded paths and lots of "green". A Waldorf kindergarten, the Rudolf Steiner School Loheland, Demeter agriculture, a vocational school for social assistance, the archive of the settlement, a carpenter's shop, a conference hotel with a garden café, a shop and residential buildings are located on the extensive grounds of the settlement .

Neighboring communities are Fulda , Eichenzell , Petersberg , Ebersburg , and Dipperz .

Gymnastics training

Until 2009, he trained in Loheland gymnastics to become a state-certified and recognized gymnastics teacher. In the Loheland Academy, the training has also been expanded to include a dual qualification either in the field of health education or creative education .

gallery

Gable House (Loheland Academy)
Old post
Farmhouse
Central wood heating

Rudolf Steiner School Loheland

literature

H. Bartsch: Horticulture course in Loheland from November 22 to 29, 1931. In: Demeter. 6/12, 1931.

I. Fischer, E. Köhn: Photo workshop Loheland. Photographs 1919–1939. Fulda 2004.

N. Fuchs: Foreword. In: Research ring for biodynamic economic methods (Ed.): Annual report 1928 on experiments according to biodynamic economic methods in the Loheland nursery. Darmstadt 1999.

Jürgen Tietz: Loheland - a modern women's housing estate dedicated to handicrafts. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 27, 2016.

Beatrice Härig: Values, wagons, vegan mastiffs. The anthroposophical settlement Loheland In: Monumente -Magazin December 2018, pp. 58–62

E. Mollenhauer-Klüber, M. Siebenbrodt: loheland 100. Lived visions for a new world . Catalog of the exhibition of the same name in the Vonderau Museum Fulda, Sept. 2019 - January 2020. Fulda 2019.

Web links

Official website of the Loheland Foundation
"Loheland, District of Fulda". Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of February 7, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on April 19, 2016 .
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Footnotes

↑ Richard Kirn : Loheland considered with hoarfrost . In: Die Rhön (= Merian , vol. 17 (1964), issue 4), pp. 51–52, here p. 51.
↑ Richard Kirn: Loheland considered with hoarfrost . In: Die Rhön (= Merian , vol. 17 (1964), volume 4), pp. 51–52, here p. 52.

[1] Richard Kirn : Loheland considered with hoarfrost . In: Die Rhön (= Merian , vol. 17 (1964), issue 4), pp. 51–52, here p. 51.

[2] Richard Kirn: Loheland considered with hoarfrost . In: Die Rhön (= Merian , vol. 17 (1964), volume 4), pp. 51–52, here p. 52.