Gardening school and outdoor laboratory Tempelhof-Schöneberg

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The Tempelhof-Schöneberg gardening school and outdoor laboratory , mostly Schöneberg gardening school , originally Schöneberg student gardens, is a gardening school in the Schöneberg southern area in Berlin. It was founded by Friedrich Haak in the course of the reform school movement in 1922 . It is mainly attended by schoolchildren and elementary school students from schools in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district of Berlin , who are supposed to familiarize themselves with gardening and nature on the 25,000 m² site.

In the gardening school there are school gardens, an outdoor laboratory , a large rabbit enclosure, greenhouses, two heated classrooms and a small vineyard. After the gardening schools in Charlottenburg and Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Schöneberger is the third largest of the 14 Berlin gardening schools. It was one of the first gardening schools in Berlin and thus served as a model for all of Prussia . Maintaining the school and the grounds costs around 170,000 euros a year.

history

As early as 1912, the secondary school teacher Friedrich Haak converted a total of 1000 m² of space on the grounds of the Hohenzollern School into a school garden. Haak was inspired by the kitchen and delivery garden at his school, which at that time only served to supply the school. Haak demanded that students and teachers have to look after and work on the garden together. In addition, the plants should be shown in a natural environment, i.e. with ponds, a stream, meadows, a swamp, with real fruit trees, etc.

Initiated by the reform pedagogue Haak and largely supported by the Schöneberg district councilor and senior lycéal director Hannemann, the district acquired land for a gardening school in the then undeveloped southern area in 1922. Hannemann himself had founded a school garden in his Friedenau lyceum at the end of the 19th century. The former arable land of the southern area was settled by allotment gardeners at the time and has been intended to accommodate large settlements in the south of Berlin since the turn of the century. Thanks to the adoption of the allotment garden and small leasehold land ordinance by the Weimar National Assembly in 1919, the Schönebergers succeeded in preserving the land as a garden and thus making it usable for the school gardens.

From 1922 onwards, the students from all of the Friedenauers and from two Schöneberg schools began to prepare the grounds. The actual construction of the gardening school took place from 1924 with the preparation of the floor, the construction of fences and an equipment hall. Together with the schools in Neukölln and Wilmersdorf, Schöneberger was one of the first gardening schools in Berlin.

In 1926, the Schöneberg school gardens covered an area of ​​50,000 m², on which a good 1,300 Schöneberg and Friedenau students work. In 1934, part of the beds was converted into community beds, as this should better correspond to the blood-and-soil ideology of National Socialism.

In the post-war period, the school gardens mainly supplied the Schöneberg hospitals with fresh products. In the 1960s, teaching began to be scientifically oriented, and now aimed less at direct experience and more at a more abstract theoretical understanding. The direction of teaching changed again in the 1980s. The environmental movement brought about a stronger turn towards practical and direct contact with nature in the gardening school.

In 1988 , an outdoor laboratory with a vineyard was added to the gardening school - also with the help of job creation measures. This was the first outdoor laboratory in Berlin. The first harvest took place in 1991, but the wine was stolen. In 2000 the gardening school was expanded to include an animal and playground.

Facilities

The garden section includes 15 fields for students and an old fruit tree population of 10,000 m². The classes usually come to gardening once a week. In their gardening work, the students can fall back on plants that are grown in the school's own greenhouses . The plants that are most popular with school classes are tomatoes , potatoes , lettuce and pumpkins .

The outdoor laboratory houses facilities that should be closer to nature, such as ponds, a wild meadow, a bog bed, forest nature trail, herb spiral , apiary, a butterfly department and the like.

The animal and play area mainly includes a large rabbit enclosure and soccer fields.

Employees at the gardening school look after the school children professionally.

The vineyard covers an area of ​​500 m² with around 200 Riesling vines that were donated by winegrowers from Bad Kreuznach . Every spring, winemakers from Bad Kreuznach come to look after the vineyard. The vineyard is looked after by a support association. The harvest is carried out by employees of the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district office, the grapes are pressed in the Schöneberg partner district Bad Kreuznach at the Rheingrafenberg winegrowers' cooperative in Meddersheim . After processing, the yield is around 70 to 100 bottles of "Schöneberger Nahe-Freund" Riesling per year. The wine is used exclusively by the district for representative purposes.

literature

  • Friedrich Haak (ed.): The working class in the Schöneberg school gardens , Berlin 1925
  • Fernande Walder: The school garden in its importance for teaching and education Julius Klinkhardt, 2002 ISBN 3-7815-1242-8 pp. 284-290

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Interest group of the Berlin gardening schools: Tempelhof Schöneberg
  2. ^ Stiftung Naturschutz Berlin: Gardening school and outdoor laboratory Tempelhof-Schöneberg
  3. ↑ Martin Kröger: Künast presents their ideals , new Germany March 30, 2011
  4. ↑ a b Fernande Walder: The school garden in its meaning for teaching and education Julius Klinkhardt, 2002 ISBN 3-7815-1242-8 p. 285
  5. ↑ a b Fernande Walder: The school garden in its meaning for teaching and education Julius Klinkhardt, 2002 ISBN 3-7815-1242-8 p. 287
  6. ↑ Interest group of the Berlin gardening schools: A brief historical overview of the founding of the Tempelhof-Schöneberg gardening school (pdf; 179 kB)
  7. ↑ a b c The gardening school turns 75 Berliner Zeitung April 28, 1997
  8. ↑ a b c Berlin.de: Schöneberger Nahe-Freund ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlin.de
  9. ↑ Interest group of the Berlin gardening schools: Der Weinberg (pdf; 343 kB)