Wolontariat EVS w RUMUNII – Felmer, region Brasov (od 1 sierpnia, 4 miesiące) – Asociatia Villa Wellmer Pomóż przy odbudowie XII-wiecznego zamku w Felmer! Poznaj historię zamku i regionu! Stowarzyszenie „Porozumienie Wschód – Zachód” (organizacja wysyłająca EVS – Wolontariatu Europejskiego) poszukuje wolontariusza na ZATWIERDZONY projekt EVS w partnerskiej organizacji w Rumunii (wiek wolontariusza 18-30 lat). Mamy miejsca dla 2 wolontariuszy z Polski! Wszystkim zainteresowanym prześlemy mailem pełną prezentację projektu, zamku i organizacji wraz ze zdjęciami! Zgłoszenia osób zainteresowanych prosimy przesyłać pilnie na adres: [email protected] Istotne znaczenie przy rekrutacji będzie miała kolejność zgłoszeń. W tytule maila proszę wpisać: „EVS Rumunia Villa Welmer”. Zgłoszenia powinny zawierać: 1. CV ze zdjęciem. 2. Dane osobowe: data urodzenia, adres zamieszkania, telefon, e-mail. Zgodnie z zasadami programu, wolontariusz będzie miał zapewnione: zakwaterowanie, wyżywienie, dodatkowe kieszonkowe na własne wydatki (60 EUR/miesiąc), ubezpieczenie, wsparcie językowe, a także zwrot 90% kosztów podróży w obie strony. Wolontariusz opłaci sam 10% kosztów podróży. Miejscowość: Felmer (Şoarş commune, Braşov County), Rumunia Organizacja goszcząca: Asociaţia Villa Wellmer (Villa Wellmer Association) Rozpoczęcie wolontariatu: 01.08.2013 Zakończenie wolontariatu: 30.11.2013 Czas przebywania wolontariusza za granicą – 4 miesiące Szczegółowe informacje o organizacji goszczącej i zadaniach wolontariuszy znajdują się poniżej. The Coordinating & Hosting Organization: Expression of older common ideas, Villa Wellmer Association (VWA) was set in 2011 by six founding members, with the intent to circumscribe its activity on four pillars: proposing of ethical principles, imposing of authentic values, respect for competencies and mobilization of chivalric spirit. In order to fulfill its mission, to raise public awareness on a small region of Europe rich in history but economically poor, VWA offers an ambitious project that joins past with present. We consider that restoration of the historical moments by participatory events is serving local community goals, because they arise emotion, interest and visibility. Awareness and exploitation, even touristic, of crucial moments from the local past is creating a beneficial effervescence and leads to a rise in the community self-esteem. For this purpose, an appropriate visual framework is required to draw attention and intensify the generous natural environment from Felmer. The cornerstone of our endeavour is the building of an architectural complex having as historical model a fortified manor dating from the border of XIIth and XIIIth centuries, using as much of Middle Age’s technique, materials and working methods as possible. The planned building interval will last from 2013 to 2020. Finally, “Casa Greavului” will be the scene of an open-air museum dedicated to Transylvanian Saxon settlers, a place for historical reenactment and meeting spot for young fans of European medieval life. VWA is affiliated with EXARC, the European network of archeological open-air museums and experimental archeology, aiming subsequently to enter into a cultural-historical touristic circuit. For the first stage of the project, Villa Wellmer tied strong partnerships with 4 (four) EVS Sending Organizations across Europe. Together, the five partners will act as promoters of the project. Our vision: Building a XII-th century fortified manor as center of gravity for medieval reenactment, rural tourism and outdoor museum of Transylvanian Saxon colonists, to emphasize the uninterrupted existence for over 800 years of Saxon village Felmer. Historical background: After the erection and fortification of several royal border castles (Földvár, Holm, Ugrona, Rákos, Belavár) on the line of Olt river and Perşani Mountains to contain incursions of Petcheneg and Cuman tribes, the Hungarian kingdom felt strongly enough for methodical occupation of central and southern Transylvania. Lacking in population, they adopted a method successfully applied in Saxony and Bohemia: agricultural settlement. They invited here farmers from the Western Europe, promising them land, protection and low taxation. This big project started during the reign of king Geza II (1141- 1162). The popularization of the initiative, transmission of the message itself, followed by the successful relocation of several thousand people (about 2500, according to certain estimates), was an undertaking of a complexity and scale comparable to the recruitment of a Crusader army. Thus were attracted people from the feudal estates of the most advanced western agricultural regions: Flanders, Lotharingia (Moselle), Frisia, Westphalia, Franconia. Settlers traveled with their wagons and livestock a journey of several months along the Danube river to Gran/Strigonium, capital of the Hungarian kings, then being directed to Féhérvár/Alba Iulia, the largest citadel in Transylvania, hometown of the Voyvode and the Bishop. The first wave of settlement has grouped on neighboring valleys around the city. After 1190, with the second wave of colonization, when the settlement’s center of gravity shifted towards south and southeast, the intermediate destination became Villa Hermani/Cibinium, today Sibiu. Here people were organized and distributed. Groups of 5-10 families proceeded then to their final destination, where they received a housing plot and farming land. The chronicles say that the location was indicated by a royal official familiar with the area, the so-called “locator”. Also we know that the settlement was made on land called in annals “fundus regius” or “ad retinendam coronam”, meaning they were granted royal land, being dependent only to the Hungarian throne, with legal and fiscal autonomy from the local authorities. Each group of settlers was lead by an individual named by chronicles “scultetus” (lat.), “schulthei” (germ.) or “soltész” (hun.), meaning “administrator”. Interesting enough, settlers themselves named their leaders “gräv” (germ.), “gerebus” (lat.) or “gróf” (hun.), with the meaning of “supreme chief”, showing a slightly different perception of themselves in relation with their authority representative, which was not just an administrator, but their unchallenged feudal leader in all civil, military and judicial matters. This medieval term derived from the Old German “gravo” crosses from the XII-th century onwards the Transylvanian history until today in names, both for people and places. Names like Greavu, Greab, Gref, Gereb are still in use today in southern Transylvania. Felmer valley constituted shelter and welcoming home for humans since the mists of prehistory, on both sides of the valley being found traces of civil habitation in no less than six different archaeological sites, showing a historical continuity over 5000 years, from the Paleolithic to the Age of Migrations. Towards the end of the XII-th century in the Felmer valley arrived farmers coming from Lower Lotharingia (Flanders, Brabant, Hainaut), being preserved into later chronicler’s memory as “hospites flandrenses”. The donation chart of September 6th, 1206, signed by King Andrew II the Jerosolimitan (1205-1235) mentioning “villa Wellmer”, is the first and only source of information regarding Felmer village earlier to the great Mongol invasion of 1241. During this havoc, Felmer sustained catastrophic destruction, no building previous the invasion being preserved. Also, the archaeology shows that the village location situated on the right bank of the valley was abandoned and moved to the left bank, where a new village, the one existing today, was erected. We can presume that at least a fraction of the settlers survived the attack, this people putting the foundation stone of the current church sometimes after year 1250. Nonetheless, we cannot exclude the hypothesis of a resettlement. Description of the project: Several construction projects of experimental archeology which evokes the European Middle Ages and being to-date at various stages of completion, encourages us to begin our own journey. We have a perfect location on a hill above this multisecular village, a solid project, clear reenactment ideas and the courage which very likely animated the Western settlers who arrived in the valley of Felmer more than 800 years ago. It remains to gather around this vision those willing to the adventure of their lives. The construction is to be, as far as we know, the first XII-th century architectural reconstruction in Romania, using materials and some technical methods of the time. We intend to build in Felmer one medium-sized fortification that constitutes the possible image of the manor raised by the mythical villagefounder Wellem. Villa Wellmer Association has insufficient own resources, so the project completion is mainly based on volunteer’s involvement. Our target groups are coming from the studious Transylvanian, Romanian and European environment, superior grades high school pupils and college students with focus on history, archeology and medieval reenactment. The site activities will be seasonal, shaped as a seasonal outdoors work camp. We shall try to gather around this endeavor experts in archaeology and medievalism from the „Valer Literat” Museum of Făgăraş and master trainers in stone carving, masonry and carpentry. Graef’s Manor (Casa Greavului) Project states the realization of an architectural complex for housing and specific domestic activities, with a final built area of 4000 m2, conducted in 4 successive stages. The first stage is the „greenfield”, or the”kick-off” stage. In this part of the project they are two main activities to perform, both linked with the extensive use of wood as building material. First action is the building of a fence surrounding the camp, with two primitive corner wachtowers and a simple gate. Second action is the erection of two lodging huts (pithouse = Grubenhaus), half burried into the ground, as in XII-th century style. This phase will presume and underline the first settlement of the colonists arrived in the valley of Felmer around 1180-1190. The second stage consists in building of one gate tower and a crenellated stone wall who will pave the southern side of the site. This curtain wall, surfacing of about 700 m2, shall be built of shaped stone locally collected, binded with mortar of sand and lime. It will have two rows of arrow loops, battlements on top and oak hoardings. The gate tower will act when ready as peel tower, the first housing place of the complex. It shall have rectangular footprint and about 15 m height, built of shaped stone and oak wood, on two storey above one main access zone towards the inner courtyard. Access is through a Romanesque arched 3,5 m high entrance, two wings gate and retractable portcullis, both oak, reinforced with cast iron. The first level of the tower, 3,5 m high, will be a technical and storage one („der Fallgatterraum”), and the second will be a living room („der Torwächterraum”) built on wooden frame, slightly bracket to the wall. Above shall reign a 4 m high four-sloped Germanic-style roof covered with woodden tiles. Behind the curtain wall, into a third stage, we shall dig deep into the slope made of sandstone a number of rectangular rooms in troglodytic style, reinforced with a wooden belt. Thus, the natural sandstone wall will act as inertial thermal mass, providing the manor a few degrees of natural heat in winter and cooling in summer. Here shall be the manorial house („maisonforte”), organized on three levels: basement, ground and first floor. The basement will be the sorage area. The ground floor will include a reception and manorial court hall („salle-basse”) and a kitchen. An outer stair house connects with the first floor, consisting of a reception hall for friends and notables („salle-haute”) and private bedrooms. Both reception halls will function as Saxon civilization museum. In the forth stage, at the southeastern end of the curtain wall it would be raised a polygonal tower with technical role, maintenance of the household. Also, the forth stage will consists in closing the courtain wall of the precinct, replacing the wooden fence and building utility rooms around this courtain wall: a blacksmith’s shop, a horse stable and a summer kitchen. The Venue: Villa Wellmer Association (VWA) is an established not-for-profit organization and it is operating in Felmer, Şoarş (Scharosch in German) commune, Braşov County. The village is located 15 km north from town Făgăraş and stretches in a gentle valley carved into the Hârtibaciu (Hartbach) Plateau, which guards from east to the west the middle course of the Olt River. Documentary attested since September 6th, 1206, Felmer was settled by western colonists arrived from the region of Lower Lotharingia and Flanders. Hardworking and entrepreneurial people, they cleared forests, drained marshes and created over time, despite historical setbacks, a flourishing community. Center point of the village was the present fortified evangelical church, whose foundation was laid around 1250. Until the union of Transylvania with the kingdom of Romania, Felmer counted over 1800 inhabitants and the German-speaking (Sachsen) population was in majority. Romanian people first were installed here to the XVIth century, and during the 1848-1849 revolution it was first documented the existence of Roma (Gipsy) community. Subsequently, as consequence of historical events after the WWII, Saxons began to immigrate, first to the city, then in Germany. Felmer became gradually mostly Romanian, also diminished by continuing migration to urban areas and natural aging of those left. Ties of resettled Sachsen with native lands were not permanently broken, a cultural association of former Felmer-people, Heimatsortgemeinschaft (HOG) Felmern operating in Germany. In 1981, at the celebration of 775 years since documentary attestation of the settlement, over 80 Felmerans coming from Germany took part to the festivities. VWA headquarters is located in the center village at no. 281, a five-room house built in 1809, restored and modernized by Frăţilă family, founding members of VWA. Headquarters will work as lodge, gathering point, club and personal hygiene space for all volunteers. Also it is fully equipped with office equipment (PC, printer, telephone, Internet), an LCD TV, musical instruments (piano, guitar, drums). We have access to construction materials and lodging opportunities. The operating environment is non-conflictual, peaceful and self-sufficent. Felmer is free of ethnic disputes or recent documented criminal activity. There is so quiet, that even was no need for a local police station. The Locals: Felmer has today about 400 residents. Citizens are welcoming, showing a civilized curiosity towards newcomers and interest to the contact with other cultures. One general store and two other boutiques provides with all kind of goods. What’s in it for the volunteer? During the project, the five promoters will work together, having as their main goal to act in all circumstances in the sound interest and learning benefit of the volunteers. How will we do that? From the beginning to the end we will focus on participant’s two main needs: acquiring personal comfort in doing new things in a new environment, and improving personal competencies and skills in a non-formal learning process The sending organizations will strive to select the best suitable candidates for this project, in terms of matching their interest for mediaeval history of Europe with competencies they wish to practice and develop. Competencies adressed: Communication in a foreign language: The communication language in “Casa Greavului” work camp will be English. Besides this, the volunteers wil participate in Romanian language training courses twice a week. After two months of camp stage you will be able to read, write, understand and use conversationally basics of the language. Mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology: This a construction project, so you will operate with pieces, meters, kilograms practically in any activity you’ll have. Is this enough mathematics? Not yet. It is also about space vision like in geometry, about some basics of architecture, civil engineering and principles of experimental archaeology. The rest is about counting pocket money, bills and invoices for justifying expenses for the final report as EVS volunteer. Learning to learn: Don’t worry about previous specific competences, we will offer all data and resources for completing any task and activity. As long as the volunteer is finding himself within the requested candidate profile, he or she possess already the premises for succesfully carrying out all activities required by the project.Two days per week everyone could practice new-acquired skills in a place called “Apprentice’s corner”. Learning is much about practising, isn’t it? Social and civic competences: Personal and social well-being requires knowledge and understanding of how you and your teammates can maintain good physical and mental health. A great mentor will help you accomodate and insert within the new environment and community.You will find out how to relate with a different culture and how this culture interacts with European identity Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship: One strong particularity of “Casa Greavului” project is the volunteer’s involvement in every step taken in any activity, immediately after it was enounced. Planning, resource identification, design, execution, check and evaluation, all this will be performed by volunteers, so, no time for boredom and a lot of space for creativity, positive initiative, risk-taking, logical thinking, all of them ingredients of sound entrepreneurship. Cultural awareness and expression: On a weekly basis, the volunteer will interact on many levels, in an informal manner, with the village’s youth and elders. This is an opportunity to have a glimpse within an interesting popular culture from a very old and archaic corner of Europe, with its own concerns, habits, oral traditions and miths. Risks and prevention: In the forest next which the camp will be located do not live birds and animals dangerous to humans and camp’s premises are to be fenced. Tutors with experience in working with youth and a mentor with intense teaching activity will provide from the VWA prevention and early approach of any crises that may arise both between the volunteers and them in relation with the locals. Health problems can be resolved at the Şoarş dispensary, located 7 km away, or at the municipal hospital in Făgăraş, at 15 km. If such indesirable eventuality occurs, the volunteer in question will be removed from the daily program and will be fully assisted until the situation is resolved. Accomodation Volunteers will lodge in the Villa Wellmer Association headquarters, in a large Saxon house erected in the village center. You will sleep in bunk beds, you will have current cold and hot water, inside toilet, shower and internet facilities. Food will be prepared by local housewifes with specific flavors and local ecological materials: potatoes, cabbage, beans, onions, chicken and pork meat. A monthly sum of 60 euro will be provided as pocket money. You will have holiday 2 days per week and another 2 days per month vacancy. Sending Organisation: "East-West Mutual Understanding" Social-Cultural Association (EI 2012-PL-130), Poland. Contact person: Blazej Zajac, e-mail: [email protected] W razie pytań prosimy o pilny kontakt: [email protected] (Błażej Zając, Stowarzyszenie „Porozumienie Wschód – Zachód”). Wszystkim zainteresowanym prześlemy mailem pełną prezentację projektu, zamku i organizacji wraz ze zdjęciami!
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