“Now we would like to share what we have here with other people.”

By chance they came across the empty farm in the village of Mosigkau in Saxony-Anhalt on the web. It was the perfect place for them. They wanted to be near the children’s grandparents either in Dresden or Dessau, which is where Franziska Rumberg lived when she was a child. On the first day after they moved in, they met most of the village at a neighbour’s barbecue. They rolled up their sleeves, renovated the house and the farmyard and Franziska, who is a doctor, was welcomed with open arms into a practice near their home, where medical staff are in great demand.

Sebastian Rumberg continued with what he had been successfully doing for years, which was founding start-ups in his office and developing campaigns for tech companies such as Samsung and Stack Overflow. He just needs to open his laptop and switch on his smartphone, sometimes in the garden under the trees, but mostly in his office, which has a view of the church tower and is surrounded by Mosigkau Castle and three riding stables. Meetings have become almost entirely a thing of the past. He says: “You can get everything done without them.”

Echtzeit - Online Magazin - Leaving the city for Mosigkau