Did you know youth club Josto is actually a small castle? The ‘Muggenberg’ is a place with a long history. In the city archives the first records date back to 1280. Throughout the years the building has provided numerous noble families with living quarters. Around the turn of the last century, a rich American rented the site and transformed the castle into a ‘kynodrome’; an organisation where people could gamble on dog races. During World War I the place kept on attracting mean spirited and vulgar individuals - and during World War II it served as a base camp for German officers.
Despite this dark episode in the history of the little castle, it was eventually used for good purpose, nuns used the building as a school after the war had ended. The last decades the building has been functioning as the meeting point of young people from the surrounding area – and this week it expanded its horizon again by opening its doors to host young people from all over Europe.
