We hadn’t actually planned a Moorman lodge. However after the Moormann company acquired a plot of land adjacent to our base with the intention of building a warehouse, a dilapidated, listed historical building came as part and parcel. The construction – dating back to 1671 as home to the ‚Village bakery’, later became the Court bakery for the castle residents and delivered to the neighbouring castle on the mountain, and later still became a guest house and following that a youth hostel– was so in need of repair that it wouldn’t have survived the imminent, mountainous winter conditions without emergency roof repairs. This promised to be the start of a new project: A new roof only makes sense when the attic is in sound condition. An attic requires storeys, which can support its weight and so on and so on. Firstly the historical structure had to be ascertained and exposed, while ensuring that as much of the original substance of the building as possible remains intact. Since the beginning in 2006, we fiddled and worked on every detail and it was not out of the question that a wall was rebuilt three times just for a difference of a few centimetres. The tight cooperation with regional workmen, the support of different partners, and the work-in-progress, made berge a special project. The first guests slept in berge for special conditions inbetween the construction site!
As berge now is ready for living, we are still not completely satisfied and have many plans for berge. Wouldn´t a perfect place be boring?