diff --git a/packages/provider/src/dbp-provider-demo.js b/packages/provider/src/dbp-provider-demo.js
index 9db89214d60ac3d3f9fa910e203c7d5ad9fe9c41..da88f580780dfb1bd0950ba3df1136089de7e942 100644
--- a/packages/provider/src/dbp-provider-demo.js
+++ b/packages/provider/src/dbp-provider-demo.js
@@ -52,13 +52,14 @@ class ProviderDemo extends ScopedElementsMixin(LitElement) {
     render() {
         return html`
             <dbp-provider id="root"
+                          root="1"
                           blah="777"
                           availability="global"
                           lang="de"
             ><section class="section">
                 <p>Provider <em>"root"</em> is the top most in hierarchy:</p>
 <pre>
-&lt;dbp-provider  id="root"  availability="global" >&lt;/dbp-provider&gt;
+&lt;dbp-provider  id="root"  root="1" availability="global" >&lt;/dbp-provider&gt;
 </pre>
                 <div class="container">
                     <h1 class="title">Provider-Demo</h1>
diff --git a/packages/provider/src/provider.js b/packages/provider/src/provider.js
index d8d0f932265c9d44c28d14679d6f7b645a234064..7df12452c2fc0c6c56cdcea527825f83864364e3 100644
--- a/packages/provider/src/provider.js
+++ b/packages/provider/src/provider.js
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ export class Provider extends HTMLElement {
     constructor() {
         super();
         this.callbackStore = [];
+        this.root = false;
 
         console.log('Provider constructor()');
     }
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@ export class Provider extends HTMLElement {
 
         const that = this;
         this.addEventListener('inherit', function (e) {
-            if (that[e.detail.name]) {
+            if (that[e.detail.name] || that.root) {
                 console.log('Provider(' + that.id() + ') eventListener("inherit",..) name "' + e.detail.name + '" found.');
                 //console.dir(e.detail);
                 e.detail.callback(that[e.detail.name]);
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@ export class Provider extends HTMLElement {
 
         this.addEventListener('subscribe', function (e) {
             const name = e.detail.name;
-            if (that[name]) {
+            if (that[name] || that.root) {
                 console.log('Provider(' + that.id() + ') eventListener("subscribe",..) name "' + name + '" found.');
                 that.callbackStore.push({name: name, callback: e.detail.callback, sender: e.detail.sender});
 
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ export class Provider extends HTMLElement {
         this.addEventListener('unsubscribe', function (e) {
             const name = e.detail.name;
             const sender = e.detail.sender;
-            if (that[name]) {
+            if (that[name] || that.root) {
                 console.log('Provider(' + that.id() + ') eventListener("unsubscribe",..) name "' + name + '" found.');
                 that.callbackStore.forEach(item => {
                     if (item.sender === sender && item.name === name) {
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ export class Provider extends HTMLElement {
             const name = e.detail.name;
             const value = e.detail.value;
 
-            if (that[name]) {
+            if (that[name] || that.root) {
                 console.log('Provider(' + that.id() + ') eventListener("set-property",..) name "' + name + '" found.');
                 that[name] = value;