Tempelhof (community)

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The Tempelhof eco-settlement has been a grassroots democratic community in Kreßberg in northern Baden-Württemberg since 2010 . Almost 150 people live in the 30 hectare village area.

The community is part of the Global Ecovillage Network , a worldwide network of ecovillages.

history

The founding of the Tempelhof began in Munich: Twenty people from diverse societies and beliefs worked for three years on the vision of living together with an ecologically sustainable, socially just and meaningful way of being. At the beginning of 2010, the Tempelhof found the right place for the implementation. On December 21, 2010 the purchase of the single, abandoned village with living and working opportunities for around 200 people was sealed. Today around 140 people (100 adults and 40 children) live in the village.

The Tempelhof is located in the middle of a rural, hilly landscape and as the crow flies about 10 km east of the city of Crailsheim . 4 hectares of building land with numerous buildings and 26 hectares of agricultural land offer space for communal living and commercial operations as well as social and creative projects. There is a large kitchen, a seminar and guest house, workshops, a multi-purpose hall with a stage, residential buildings and lots of nature. Germany's first Earthship has stood here since 2016 .

The cultivation of the soil serves the self-sufficiency with organic food. In 2015, 20 people worked in the gardening, arable farming, animal husbandry, cheese dairy, beekeeping, bakery and kitchen, thus realizing solidarity agriculture. Further jobs were created in seminars, construction, administration and in the operation of a free school . There is no private ownership of land, the non-profit foundation at Tempelhof Palace has acquired the property and given it to the Tempelhof Palace Cooperative under a long lease with a term of 99 years .

In today's village center is a noble residence with was name-giving in the 17th century summer palace . In the 19th century the premises were converted into an educational institution for children and young people. From 1983 to 2006 there was a facility for the disabled on the site. In 2010, the community foundation acquired the site for 1.5 million euros.

The commercial and residential buildings of the former facility for the disabled had stood empty for years; The five half-timbered houses, two low-rise buildings, two apartment buildings and the gymnasium were reactivated in-house. On average, each resident has a private living space of 24 square meters.

The Tempelhof wants to experiment with new forms of construction and living. In addition to the residential houses, people live in yurts, mobile homes, construction trailers and an earthship . The latter was completed in 2016 after a year of construction. It is a passive solar air-conditioned building that has simple, intelligent systems for water collection and storage, ventilation, heating, wastewater treatment and food production. The Earthship includes sanitary facilities, kitchen, living and dining room as well as an integrated greenhouse, in which crops provide a natural climate and water treatment. It is a real laboratory for new forms of close coexistence and a research field. As a community house on 155 m², it offers a group of 25 Tempelhofers the opportunity to live together in an even closer environment. The overall residential complex includes additional yurts and construction trailers that serve as individual "rooms". There are numerous facilities on the village grounds, a car sharing facility, a bakery, a village canteen with a café, a forest kindergarten and the school for free development , an alternative school with 63 students.

organization

All adult residents are members of the village cooperative with a cooperative contribution of 30,000 euros and pay a monthly basic amount of 250 euros for food; A warm rent of five euros per square meter is estimated for the living space.

New residents go through a standardized admission procedure that also includes a twelve-month approach period.

A federal office of the More Democracy Initiative is located on the premises .

everyday life

decision making

All decisions are made on a grassroots basis . A “we process” is practiced as a community-building method. This process is based on an approach by Scott Peck in which not individual experienced leaders, but all group members take responsibility.

Culture

There is an intensive seminar operation; In addition, there are regular cultural events on the site, such as lectures, theater performances and painting workshops.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lots of space for community at the Tempelhof in Kreßberg . In: Hohenloher Tagblatt , Südwest Presse , June 11, 2016; accessed on March 7, 2017
  2. ↑ Project description Tempelhof . GEN, accessed March 7, 2017
  3. ↑ A kibbutz in Swabia . In: Sagwas.net, August 11, 2016, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung ; accessed on March 7, 2017
  4. ↑ Earthship at Tempelhof Palace . ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Earthship-Deutschland.de, July 29, 2015; accessed on March 7, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / earthship-deutschland.de
  5. ↑ The community relies on sustainable management . Deutschlandfunk , August 19, 2015; accessed on March 7, 2017
  6. ↑ Solidarity community: Going into relationships . Südwest Presse , December 19, 2017; accessed on February 8, 2018.
  7. ↑ The invented place . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung magazin , 47/2012; accessed on March 7, 2017
  8. ↑ Tempelhof Community: A stroke of luck . sein.de, March 25, 2014; accessed on March 7, 2017
  9. ↑ Live in community . In: Schrot und Korn , November 2, 2012; accessed on March 7, 2017

Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ′ 34.6 "  N , 10 ° 12 ′ 23.4"  E