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District Administrator Dr. Jens Mischak (right), together with exercise coordinator Dominic Günther (left) and Hans-Jürgen Röhr, municipal disability representative of the Vogelsberg district, presents the poster for the Vogelsberg Sports Festival in the Stockhausen Castle Park and calls on the people of the region to take part. Photo: Vogelsbergkreis
Stockhausen (pm/cb) – Bringing the idea of inclusion to life with sport? All people from the region are invited to the Vogelsberg Sports Festival, which takes place on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Stockhausen Castle Park. “Inclusion thrives on being filled with content and on awareness of it continuing to grow,” stresses District Administrator Dr. Jens Mischak in a press release. Sport is the focus in many places – including on Saturday in Stockhausen.
“Whether in a team or an individual discipline: sport creates playful and low-threshold connections between people. Shared experiences in sport bond people together, and it is precisely this framework that makes it easy for people to meet on an equal footing,” says Mischak, inviting people to the inclusive sports festival in the Stockhausen castle park. There, numerous offers relating to the topics of inclusion, sport and exercise from the region will be presented, announces exercise coordinator Dominic Günther. There will be an information stand and exercise offers from Special Olympics Hessen. SV Nieder-Ohmen will offer inclusive archery and the Büßfeld table tennis community will offer inclusive table tennis. In addition, the ZirkuTopia participatory circus will set up its large circus tent in the castle park. The sports association will offer soccer billiards and provide information about the sports badge for people with and without disabilities. The DRK district association Lauterbach will have a dance event and an exercise course. Movement coordinator Günther will also introduce the trend sport “Cornhole”, in which several players take turns throwing small bags filled with granules or corn onto a raised platform with a hole in it. If a bag remains on the platform, one point is scored; if a bag falls into the hole, three points are scored.
The Vogelsberg Sports Festival program also includes an inclusive soccer match: the teams from the Altenschlirf community and Kompass Leben will compete against each other. There will also be offers from the Hessian Disabled and Rehabilitation Sports Association, the Family Alliance, the WIR coordination and the “Space for All” project. A highlight will of course be the multi-generational run 3.0. The sports festival is part of “Sport in the Park”, a project of the Hessian State Sports Association and the Vogelsberg Sports District, as well as part of the German Gymnastics Federation’s “European Week of Sports”.
