Arendsee, a community of some 6700 inhabitants in Germany, was home to a singular architecture and sculpture garden that was single-handedly built in the first decades of the 20th century by Gustaf Nagel, a preacher and naturopath.

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Gustav Nagel – The First Hippie?

Gustav Nagel was born on 28 Born in March 1874 as the eighth child of a family of innkeepers in advertising. He began teaching in 1888 to a merchant in Arendsee in the north of the Altmark , but this had to because of a chronic catarrh cancel and various allergies. He then built himself a hole in the ground near the city, and devoted himself, influenced by the teachings of the pastor and hydrotherapists Sebastian Kneipp , of Naturopathy . 1892 he was a vegetarian and began to “like Jesus “to dress: he wore his hair long, ran barefoot in the winter and was in the gown or with only a loincloth wearing.

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