Sieben Linden

Siebenlinden is an intentional community/village of people committed to self-sufficiency and a low-emission lifestyle. Different organizational and legal relationships are organized in various cooperatives.

The Sieben Linden ecovillage is a social and ecological establishment in Altmark in the region of Saxony-Anhalt (formerly East Germany). The concept of this Ecovillage was created around 1989. After 4 years, in 1993, a group of people came together to purchase a "project center" in order to more effectively search for land to settle on - and promote the concept with politicians and others. In 1997, they found the land on which they built (and continue to build) the Sieben Linden ecovillage.

Here, adults and children live together on 100 hectares of land and build the large eco-village with a small ecological footprint. Ecology, social issues, culture and economics go hand in hand. Sustainable gardens, energy concepts and straw bale houses are important for the eco-village, but the real heart of Sieben Linden is friendliness.

"At Sieben Linden, our goal is to provide a model for a future way of life in which work, leisure, economy, ecology, urban and rural culture can find a balance. We seek the answers to the problems pressing issues of our time; seeking human-centered solutions in a place of creativity and learning. This model aims to show how humans can live more responsibly with nature; than human communities have no need to exploit or destroy nature but can make a positive contribution to the quality and diversity of the environment. The many decisions that accompany the creation of a new community are organized at different levels, i.e. the scale of the village, or on the scale of a house."

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