Wolfstein, Rhineland-Palatinate
Wolfstein was founded in 1275 on Habsburg King Rudolph I's orders, which called for a “fortified and free” town near his castle, “Woluisstein”, now known as the "Alt-Wolfstein" (“Old Wolfstein”) ruin. Rudolph forthwith granted the new town the same town rights and freedoms as the town of Speyer. As an “everlasting marketplace”, it was to be a sanctuary for commerce, trade and dealing. The first townsmen and -women came from the surrounding, much older villages.
Wolfstein, Rhineland-Palatinate
The "Christliches Jugenddorf Wolfstein" (CJD; founded in 1972) is a member if the "Diakonisches Werk der Pfalz" (a Christian youth charity) and is one of the institutions of professional training and clinical social work of the "Christliches Jugenddorfwerk Deutschlands" (likewise abbreviated CJD). In their vocational preparation year, boys and girls aged 14 to 16 who have no "Hauptschulabschluss" are taken towards the professional training level. In the CJD's own workshops and external businesses, the CJD leads to a qualification in one of 15 different occupations in the industrial-technical, agricultural, gastronomical and sales fields. While in the "Jugenddorf" (“Youth Village”), a broad spectrum of tended lodgings is available to the youths. The administrative seat is the former town mill.