Schloss Freudenberg

WELCOME TO
IT'S GREAT TO HAVE YOU HERE!

A castle where destinies intersect and "worlds" meet. It all started like this: Two lovers who had this castle built. They invite their friends over and organize readings, exhibitions and concerts. Then the castle became a hotel, a children's recreation home, then soldiers moved in and in the end the castle and castle park were on the verge of collapse. Vacancy, decay and neglect. Thirty years ago, we found our home here with our traveling circus, despite water in the cellar and a lack of electricity. The traveling circus became an institution: the field of experience for the development of the senses and the mind.

What is the castle? The people who are here, you and all the others.
What does the castle have? Bees, a forest of the future, seminar rooms and a children's garden, a waterworks, a castle kitchen, workshops, building sites, theater stages, 120 experience stations, a forest kiosk, compost... Open spaces.

"The whole enterprise has the character of a complete theater, in which the visitor is simultaneously and in one person, author, director, actor and spectator = Utopia" -Hugo Kükelhaus

Everyone who comes leaves impressions, traces, ideas, praise and criticism and protects, enables and transforms this place. Are you there?