A Playground Amongst Museums - The Bauspielplatz: from an Open-air Youth Centre to a History Experience Site - an Unusual Development

Abstract

Bauspielplatz Roter Hahn e.V. (registered association) was founded in 1998, and the playground opened in 1999 in a district of Lübeck called Roter Hahn. This district has a very mixed population. In the 20th century it could be called the district of the ‘working class’. Since industry and ship construction disappeared, things have changed. There are now many unemployed or low-paid people and many people with an immigrant background, so this is the right place for a Bauspielplatz.

Keywords

• education
• children
• experience
• iron age
• viking age
• early middle ages
• late middle ages
• germany