Settler community
Settler communities are local associations of families or individuals who live and live together in a spatial context, usually in a settlement .
Settler communities mostly emerged in the course of the emergence of small settlements and in particular from organized group self-help projects (the joint building of houses or the settlement).
Settler communities are often organized as an association under the umbrella of the German Settlers Association / Association of Residential Property. The Ring Deutscher Siedler RDS eV also organizes settler communities.
The oldest settler communities emerged after the world wars in the 1920s and 1950s under the experience of hardship and lack of food. The main task of the settler communities was the organization of
- Self-sufficiency of the population and
- mutual help.
The settler communities maintain a more or less pronounced community life to this day.
New settler communities are still being formed in the present.
The main objectives of settler communities include:
- The organization of social community life
- The organization of bulk orders (e.g. heating oil or agricultural products)
- The organization of division of labor and neighborhood help
- Organized community care for the elderly and sick people
- Organization of parties and joint activities
Settler communities can consist of a few members up to several hundred member families. Settler communities are an early form of social housing projects .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dietmar Walberg: Guide to group housing projects and innovative living concepts. , Ed. Vd Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Zeitgenösses Bauen eV Kiel 2015. ISBN 978-3-939268-22-2 ; Chapter 6.3 / 6.4
- ↑ Working group for contemporary building eV: Building in Schleswig-Holstein Issue 11: "Through self-help to own homes"; Kiel 1950; P. 3 ff