Evangelic Parsonages are places where people meet eachother, this is well known in German literature. That these parsonages have been such places untill the recent past, can be confirmed by plenty of former DDR citizens who discovered them during the commmunist decades in which they migrated to Romania. Did they discover Romania due to a lack of other accessible holiday destinations ? At least they travelled through the country as "Backpack-Tourists" and discovered the "Siebenbürgische" villages, with their castles called "Kirchenburgen" and their inhabitants, the "Siebenbürger Sachsen". Although it was forbidden by the local government, they have found board and lodging in the Evangelic parsonages, the opportunity to participate to interesting converstations, share experiences, create interpersonal relationships, which has endured 1989.

Times have changed dough. New holiday destinations are now reachable. In the new "german states" (neue Bundesländer), the travelling freedom has arrived. But there are people, who didn't forget the past. They can be found in the former DDR, in the Romanian region "Siebenbürgen" and also in western european countries, who discovered, that new experiences and opportunities are opened for them in Eastern Europe, where they should not and cannot "get around"

In Siebenbürgen, the emigration of the germans has breached the regions' friendly and hospitable Parsonages, which are now mostly abandonned. But not all of them. Some former DDR citizens, guests in the beautiful parsonage of Dacia (Stein) have found a new mission as "hosts": young Christians form East Germany have set their goal to bring the "European Children" together. Next to local social projects, they have restored the emtpy parsonage of this attractive municipality, into an inviting center for meetings and encounters in connection to the German-Evangelic(siebenbürgisch-sächsisch) Church-community, in which groups of East and West come together, get to know and undertand eachother, discover togetherness, accept differences, learn to love and make the first steps to live together collectively. The environment of the near villages and communes, with their own language and culture, the charming nature of "the country at the other side of the mountains", which is actually not far away, all of this makes the journey an exiting meeting with questions and answers, which we all need to live together in harmony in the Europe of tomorrow.