They seemed to have started an anti-authoritarian rebellion against German society at large, with their focus on the youth values opposing adult ones. The movement was born in a middle-class residential neighborhood of Berlin, Steglitz. Far from the agitation of the city center and the working-class districts, young students wanted to escape the social constraints of their environment, built on the hierarchy of social ranks even in the relations with their parents, rather than poor material conditions. The Wandervogel was not a revolutionary movement in the real sense of the term, as they simply withdrew from society in order to carry out their activities in isolation during a few days or a whole summer, before returning to their usual life. Although it could be anarchist or nihilistic at the margins, especially in the "Jung-Wandervogel", they essentially sought to be seen as a respectable movement in wider society.