The combination of living community and educational centre makes ZEGG a special place. In the midst of our social and ecological model project, living and learning are interwoven.
Our educational programmes impart lived knowledge and offer experiential spaces that combine self-responsibility, touchability and open communication. In this way, we promote social change - towards more awareness, cooperation and sustainability. Our seminars focus on topics such as communication and social competence, art and ecology, love and relationships and community building.
ZEGG gGmbH is owned by ZEGG Trägerverein e.V. and run by the ZEGG community. For over 30 years, the ZEGG community has been developing a way of life based on love - among people, with nature and the greater whole. More than 100 people bring the education centre together and shape a sustainable living space. With ZEGG as a place to live and learn, they put cooperative and creative living into practice.
ZEGG was founded in 1991 as a "research and seminar place for a non-violent earth". 13 years of intensive community life in the "Bauhütte" were the preparation for this. In the social experiment led by Dieter Duhm, foundations were laid for a new culture. To develop this further, the community bought the ZEGG site in 1991 and moved there. Dieter Duhm and Sabine Lichtenfels and half of the ZEGG residents at the time created Tamera in Portugal in 1995. Over the years, important new influences, inspirations and residents came to ZEGG.