“The living room of the community” – Liechtenstein
SCHELLENBERG – On Wednesday evening, the ELF association and the Schellenberg cultural commission invited to an exchange round on the Schellenberg village square under the title “Societal fringes and village centres”.
We would all like it: A center in the village where people know each other and can exchange ideas. The architecture journalist Köbi Gantenbein, who is connected in Fläsch, speaks of a “living room of the community” and thinks that time has to be turned back in order to promote a healthy community in which people like to spend time and meet people.
But what does this healthy living space look like, this center where people like to stay, linger and meet even without a village festival or religious ceremony? Is there still a need for it or is it a fact that the world is becoming more anonymous and social encounters are breaking away from spatial contexts such as places of residence?
Village square proves itself
The ELF association posed these questions yesterday evening at the Schellenberg village center under the title “Societal fringes and village centers”. In their input presentations, Father Josef Gehrer, parish building manager Martin Kaiser and the deputy Principal Caroline Goop from the Schellenberg primary school, how she perceives life in the Schellenberg village center and how this is shaped by her institutions. Basically, the village square proves to be very good, so the broad tenor. With the municipal administration, the school, the church and the cemetery, the post office and the village shop, a hairdressing salon, the Krone and various clubs such as the Harmoniemusik or the fire brigade, there is often something going on in the Schellenberger center.
Impressions of the open exchange of ideas about community centers yesterday on the Schellenberger village square.
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Impressions of the open exchange of ideas about community centers yesterday on the Schellenberger village square.
What are the ingredients with which your village centers still give the community a center in a society that is becoming increasingly anonymous? It used to be the alpine dairy in Schellenberg, after the church it is still the village square for some today. In Eschen it is the PAP, elsewhere the Marronihäuschen. And in the final round there were many more ideas about what it takes for a successful village center between trees, cafés and tolerant neighbors. In any case, it was clear that centers are rightly back in the discussion and encounters and public places that invite and are designed for them are a central need, both yesterday and today.