Family Reunion @ Karolinenhof

Karolinenhof: a family hotel ideal for family reunions .... like for the Petrovic Family who met their relatives and enjoyed the Jedleseer Kirtag, a weekend village fair near the hotel.

A spirited event

Wolfgang Höschele und Alexander Baltosee

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The author of "Economics of Abundance"


http://makewealthhistory.org/2010/07/19/the-economics-of-abundance-by-wolfgang-hoeschele/

and the author of "Jamilanda"
http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?Jamilanda

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Robert Ebhart and Annette Schlemm

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Robert is local online journalist

http://www.jedlersdorfer-rundschau.net/

Annette is philosopher

http://www.thur.de/philo/

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Alfred Morhammer and Ludwig Guttmann

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two critical visitors:

Alfred Morhammer
http://wiefunktioniertgeld.wordpress.com/

Ludwig Guttmann
http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?LudwigGuttmann

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Günter Hubmeier und Gabriel Kamin

another two critical visitors

Günter Hubmeier

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Gabriel Kamin

...... and Herbert Klima

Hermann Steinschaden (in deep thought) and Anton Winter

Herbert Klima

Bernhard Harrer

Bernhard Harrer  is paradise builder  

http://paradiesgestaltung.org

Rudolf Dangl arriving late ....

Artist in Residence

Finally, another post in this blog. We have an Artist in Residence since a few weeks, one day she came through the door because she lost her house nearby. She asked if she could stay and offered to use the hotel as the canvas of her self-realization.

We gave her a room and she gave us nice decorations:



In the end, she even created artful Jam from the Elderberries in our garden:



Christine Moser and receptionist Thomas Beinhofer. If you want one of these jams, she might still be here to sell it to you!

Its almost October and this blog has been sitting idle for a long time. Its a busy season now for the hotel and I am very happy that we have a group that reminds me of the two highlights of the current year: The Grundtvig Workshop I did myself in January and the wonderful meeting arranged by Renate Schnee in April

So the dream of a hotel that hosts living communities rather than simply isolated tourists becomes alive again and again, and it was just today that I visited Viennas Tourist Boards annual conference to hear that this is the next big trend after the wellness and design boom.

So to introduce the group that we are currently hosting, its called the Comenius Association, a network of 24 teacher training institutions from different European countries. They are hosted by the "kirchliche Pädagogische Hochschule" in Strebersdorf. They meet twice a year. In each autumn meeting they visit one of the member organisation, while the spring meeting is always in the Strassbuoug region (Klingenthal).




They use these meetings to organize a lot of projects, there are some lectures, but the meeting has manifold purposes. Besides the project organisation its also a good opportunity for getting acquainted with the partner organisation, their cultural backgrounds, the opportunities for student exchange in Erasmus programs. The focus of Comenius Association is to facilitate a host of different ways to share experience and internationalize teacher training.

Nice article about the Danube

Our friend Robert Moskowitz in Los Angeles sent me this link:

http://www.thenation.com/article/37475/black-black

many historical facts about the river running nearby!

Successful one year celebration of new tenant

I refrained from posting anything about new tenants in the hotel because the last ones were not able to sustain long to say the least. So I missed posting for a long tiome alltogether here. But now with joint effort we celebrate one year of the Jäger famiky running the Café Karolinenhof. On 8th of May we will have a celebration. At least a note here.

A summer story (in german)

People do come to Karolinenhof because in our immediate environment there are three mayor danubes: The old Danube, the new Danube and - the Danube. Listen to Mr. Bader from Hamburg: