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Germany. Basisgemeinde Wulfshagenerhutten
Wulfshagenerhiitten
The Basisgemeinde (base community) is a Christian community of
existing about 60 people - adults and children, married as well as single people
eco-village
- situated in a little village in northern Germany. The community
started 25 years ago in southern Germany and moved to the buildings
of a former children's home in 1983 in order to establish a common
task. Since then members and guests of the community live and work
together in a loving and brotherly way.
We consider all the different kinds of work as equal in value and importance,
as they are all service and contribute to a common whole:
• the production of wooden toys and locomotion auxiliaries for kindergarten
in our recently extended factory
• the distribution of our products and those of the Bruderhof communities
all over Germany
• the biological farming co-operating with a neighbour farmer
• maintenance, administration, kitchen and our own kindergarten
Especially in a time of increasing unemployment, neoliberal orientation
and social disintegration, there is a need for alternatives. We believe that
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