Project presentation on Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 2:00 pm
at Coworking Oderbruch Letschin
A project presentation on Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 2:00 pm at Coworking Oderbruch Letschin
As a cultural heritage site, the Letschiner Heimatstuben are participating in the 2025 SUSTAINABILITY theme with the project "Neighborhood - rural community today".
Edgar Petrick, the director of the Heimatstuben, describes the project as follows: „Our Oderbruch is a veritable historical and contemporary treasure trove on this subject. Already during the draining of the Oderbruch and with the arrival of the colonist families recruited from half of Europe, new challenges arose for the colonists as a result of demographic changes, as well as from the perspective of the long-established inhabitants. Skepticism towards foreign cultural influences and views, ways of thinking, languages and dialects first had to be overcome. Even over 270 years ago, it was a question of mutual acceptance, tolerance and balanced coexistence. These prerequisites took time and mutual understanding and trust in order for peaceful coexistence to develop.
This is where the term „neighborhood“ comes into play, which is intended to narrow down this topic. All of them, whether we call them immigrants, newcomers or jokingly „new colonists“, have one thing in common: they are moving into a new, unfamiliar living environment. This is where the project idea „Neighborhood - rural community today“ in the municipality of Letschin would like to start.
It is sure to be an exciting, varied afternoon in Letschin on September 13.