Part of the economical structure of Sieben Linden is that we are common owners of the land through the Settlement Co-operative. There is quite a bit of solidarity around money, for example when someone cannot pay the shares of the co-operative right away, people lend each other money without interest.
Together we are organised in an Association which provides us with all the food we need. To this association we pay a fixed amount of money per day spent in Sieben Linden. For this money each of us can consume according to their needs. Children below 12 are financed by all of us.
Apart from this, everyone is responsible for their own economy and thus for how to live in Sieben Linden. Quite a few people have a small job with social insurance in the ecovillage (working in the kindergarden, the seminar center, information office,...), only a handfull of people have a job in the surrounding area (youth center, hospital).
A lot of people are selfemployed and earn money inside the ecovillage and outside of it, of course quite a few of these work on the built sites. This is also the main area where we have a lot of guests and also craftsmen coming from other places to help as we do not have enough people skilled in the necessary crafts.
As enterprises there is the seminar-centre, a jewellery-shop, a small publisher, artists, counsellors, organic vegetable-growers, a horse trainer, a fruit tree nursery, a wild herbs delivery, body therapists and craftsmen.