About us · Schlatkow, Western Pomerania
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Schlatkow
After the family moved from Berlin to Schlatkow, they asked about a baker's van for two weeks, finally lay in wait one morning, and chased the van to the next village to arrange a stop in Schlatkow.
Collect all of it, and suddenly every village has something on every day. All we have to do is make it visible.
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Municipality of Schmatzin
From 2019 to 2024 Jan-Henrik Hempel was the volunteer mayor of Schmatzin, which Schlatkow is part of. The name Schafe vorm Fenster recalls that time.
Vorpommern-Greifswald
What others say about us
eu:react final report · 2022
When it mattered, the village calendar carried part of the public service: every vaccination and testing offer in the county stood in it, day-current and place-precise. The county could not hand the data over in a structured form, so it was copied in by hand.
eu:react final report · 2022
When the war began in 2022, refugees often arrived directly in the county's villages. The calendar made it easier for them to find village life, events, club meetings and mobile traders. It led to an edition in several languages: German, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian, and English.
eu:react final report · 2022
Search Google for a baker in the village and you find the bakery van with its weekday instead of the nearest branch in town. That way people who do not know the area, tourists and newcomers, find everyday supplies too.
eu:react final report · 2022
When more people in the county worked from home during the pandemic, we heard from them: through the calendars they noticed mobile traders for the first time, and some became regular customers.
Photo: Jan-Henrik Hempel
Who is behind it
Founder, technical lead, and software architecture.
I moved to Schlatkow in 2011, co-founded the cultural association here, and still sit on the municipal council. Professionally I have done IT for 25 years. Schafe vorm Fenster is where the two meet: I know how volunteering in a village really works — and I know what a platform like this needs.
A village needs a simple way for everyone who volunteers to get a date out quickly — and for everyone else to hear what is coming up.
As a village or a municipality you do not want to shop for an app or build a complicated website nobody looks at. You need something finished, something people enjoy using, something you can start with.
That is why the village calendar is free, and stays that way. The licence for your own calendar costs €480 a year instead of a project budget.
NØRD Award 2026 · Smart Community
Presented on 28 May 2026 under Bitkom patronage, at the NØRD digital convention.
NØRD digital convention / digitales MV, May 2026
Press and awardsOpens the booking calendar at Google.
