Tornow (Oberbarnim)

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Tornow is a residential area in the village of Pritzhagen , a district of the municipality of Oberbarnim in the Brandenburg district of Märkisch-Oderland .

The former manor house with aristocratic families from Brandenburg is located on the north bank of the Great Tornowsee in the Märkische Schweiz nature park . During the GDR era , the ten-part building ensemble was used as a children's home. In the 1980s there were several documented cases of physical child abuse in the special children's home “Wilhelm Pieck” . Today, part of the area is home to the “Schule am Tornowsee”, an institution of the State of Brandenburg with a special educational focus on emotional and social development or autism . The mansion was converted and expanded by a psycho-social institution from Berlin into the Tornow am See guest house, in which the institution carries out work training and rehabilitation measures for people with mental illnesses, among other things .

From Oppensches mansion from 1912, today "Haus Tornow am See"

Location, transport links and natural space

Tornow is located in the southeast corner of the Pritzhagens district , the village is around one kilometer to the north. In the road network , the place can only be reached via a cul-de-sac that leads from Tornow via the village center of Pritzhagen to the north to Landesstraße 34 . The state road connects Pritzhagen across the Märkische Schweiz nature park to the west via Bollersdorf to the federal highway 168 and to the northeast via Reichenberg , Ringenwalde and Karlsdorf to the federal highway 167 near Altfriedland . Local public transport does not run to Tornow; The village of Pritzhagen can only be reached on both weekends and public holidays with the Märkische Schweiz A930 excursion line from the Strausberg and Seelow train stations . Hiking trails lead in all directions, including the European long-distance hiking trail E11 on a direct route through the Stobbertal to Buckow or in the opposite direction to Neuhardenberg . About three hundred meters east of Tornow follows the Pritzhagener Mühle on the Stobber. Mentioned for the first time in 1375 and rebuilt in 1650 after its destruction in the Thirty Years' War, the mill was granted a royal liquor license as early as 1827 and is considered the oldest restaurant in Märkische Schweiz . The Stobber also forms the boundary of Pritzhagen, the area south and east of the river belongs to Buckow. The old Pritzhagener mill is already on Buckower, while the restaurant is still on Pritzhagener territory. The Oberbarnimer Feldstein route, which opened on April 22, 2012, also leads through Tornow .

View over the Großer Tornowsee to Tornow
Older building of today's school

→ For natural space, geomorphology, flora and fauna, see main article Großer Tornowsee

The place is located on the southeastern Barnimhang on the edge of the Buckower Kessel, part of the Vistula glacial Buckower Rinne (also: Löcknitz - Stobber Rinne ). The Barnimhang above the Stobberniederung to the south is formed as a compression moraine in the area of ​​the Tornowseen , which is traversed by deep throats such as the Wolfsschlucht , narrow erosion gorges, in the area of relatively high relief for Brandenburg conditions . The Tornow buildings stretch along the central north bank of the Great Tornowsee; the Großer Tornowsee and the neighboring Kleine Tornowsee to the west are typical dead ponds . Tornow is located in the FFH area "Tornowseen-Pritzhagener Berge" in the coherent European ecological network of special protection areas Natura 2000 .

history

Theodor Fontane wrote in the walks through the Mark Brandenburg (Volume 2, Oderland, 1863) in the chapter The Great and Small Tornow See :

“A villa, a Swiss house, rises on the banks of the large Tornowsee. The builder, in homage to the place where he built the graceful building, gave it the name 'Haus Tornow'. "

- Theodor Fontane : Walks through Mark Brandenburg, Volume Oderland, 1863

When this mansion was built is unclear. What is certain is that the name Haus Tornow was transferred from the Tornowseen to the later estate. Today there are around ten buildings on the north shore of the lake. The digital topographic map of the state survey and geographic base information Brandenburg describes the building ensemble as "Tornow".

First mentions and etymology

As far as is known, the waters were first mentioned in a document in 1300 in the regesta of the Margraves of Brandenburg from the Ascan family, edited by Hermann Krabbo and Georg Winter and reissued in 1955 , under stagna ... magnum Tornow et paruum Tornow as property the Cistercian nuns - monastery Friedland mentioned. In 1804 there was an entry as kl. Tornowsee, great Tornow . The Brandenburg name book refers the name to the old Polish basic form Tornov- = lake, place where the thorn bush grows to torn = thorn, thorn bush . As Bronze Age urn finds from 1913 show, the area on the Tornow Lakes was settled long before the Slavic period.

House Tornow am See

The "Haus Tornow" was probably already in existence by 1670 at the latest. The then squire von Reutz (the family is also known under the name of Reutzen) signed a letter of lease with: Pritzhagen, November 26th, 1670. Anthon Gideon von Reutz (now Haus Tornow) . It is possible that the Tornow estate is connected to the hop cultivation between the Wolfsschlucht and the Kleiner Tornowsee, which began after extensive renovation measures at that time. The house was also mentioned in the official journal of the Potsdam government in 1857. "Haus Tornow" is also listed in a list of the Pritzhagener houses, estates and residents from 1860. In 1875, the Pritzhagen landlord, Count von Itzenplitz , sat on the house , according to a report from the forester to House Tornow.

From mansion to children's home

The graceful Swiss house mentioned by Theodor Fontane in 1863 was taken over in 1908 by Wilhelm von Oppen's great-aunt Countess Luise von Itzenplitz with the Bollersdorf and Pritzhagen estates. Since the 1860s, the Brandenburg noble family von Oppen had been living on the Friedland estate (today Altfriedland), which had emerged from the Friedland monastery after secularization . Wilhelm von Oppen, married to Marie-Luise geb. von Arnim and advocate of the permanent forest concept , had a manor house built right next to the old villa, which was demolished in the 1960s due to dilapidation, and which he moved into with his family in 1912. In the Weimar Republic , the family lost their property, which went to the "German Association of Small Traders". In World War II, used as a military hospital, it was drafted in 1945 by the Soviet army in 1946 and, together with the site and its associated buildings of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany  (SMAD) in a children's home converted. The first two hundred war orphans moved into the home that same year . The forest provided the firewood, the nursery supplemented the meager rations and so many potatoes from the surrounding farmers found their way into the stomachs of the eternally hungry.

Special children's home "Wilhelm Pieck"

Today's "School at Tornowee"

In one of the few documents available from this period, the home is listed in 1973 as the “Pritzhagen Special Children's Home”. After Wilhelm Pieck , the co-founder of the SED and the only GDR president , it was also referred to as the “ Wilhelm Pieck Special Children's Home ”. Statistics are available for the years 1973 to 1989. According to this, the capacity in the home fluctuated between 64 and 91 places during this period; in fact, between 46 and 70 children were housed, divided into four or five groups. The number of teachers was mostly seven, in 1979 five. In most years between nine and thirteen educators were available, in the two last recorded years 1987 and 1989 fourteen. There was also one or two night watch and since 1983 a carer .

For example, children with “ behavioral problems ” were admitted . The political scientist and theologian Christian Sachse, author of the book Active Youth, Well-educated and Disciplined, published in 2000 - Defense Education in the GDR as an Instrument of Socialization and Rule (1960–1973) , describes in a study on special homes in Brandenburg , which has been available so far as a working version, with an example of what it was:

“In a three-page letter from a family in February 1988 about an admission to the special children's home in Pritzhagen, the“ ways to the home ”can be traced: The eleven-year-old C. was admitted to the home because of“ behavioral problems ”. C. had an average performance of 1.5, but extremely bad grades in terms of amounts. This combination actually indicates discipline difficulties due to insufficient demand. The school initiated the process. In this case, an in-patient examination took place in advance in a psychiatric clinic, which produced a negative result, ie “no particular psychological abnormalities were found.” The youth welfare service neither examined the parental home nor looked for options for the controversial abnormalities on an outpatient basis to treat."

- Christian Sachse : Information on Brandenburg special homes, working version of May 23, 2012

In addition, Sachse documents several cases of physical child abuse in the 1980s. The parents' complaints were trivialized both by the home and by the responsible ministry for public education (the home manager dismissed them with the remark that the educator had just forgotten himself ) and ultimately covered up, the parents in some cases intimidated. The well-known, abusive educator was admonished, but neither dismissed nor transferred.

After German reunification , Tornow was split between two porters.

Special Education School at Tornowsee (since 1991)

"Struwwelpetertreff" of the "Schule am Tornowee"

In 1991 the "School at Tornowsee", which has since been named, was spun off from the home operation. The institution is subordinate to the State Education Authority in Frankfurt / Oder and has the addition in its name: “School with special educational focus on emotional and social development”. The aim is to support elementary school children who suffer from attention or hyperactivity disorders , contact disorders or aggressiveness , autism , anxiety or another emotional disorder in a cross-system and technically competent manner. Reintegration into regular school operations should take place in the 5th grade at the latest, with the special school offering follow-up care.

In the school year 2011/2012 there were 56 students / -Innen that in the open all-day operation were divided into six classes in five grades and were cared for by eleven teachers. The main focus was on weekly behavior training, music therapy , hippotherapy , student-centered and differentiated lessons, small classes, behavior control using token systems , learning of conflict resolution strategies and strategies for solving tasks. In addition, there were individual offers from speech therapists to support language-impaired children and support for children with difficulties in reading and writing as well as separately in arithmetic by appropriate specialist staff. There is also a qualified social pedagogue employed by the Caritas Association and two educators for integrative leisure activities after class. In addition to a PC cabinet, the school is equipped with a sports hall and a sports field. The children are usually transported by minibuses.

Guesthouse Tornow am See (since 2000)

Lake terrace of the guest house

In 1993 the Great Orphanage Foundation in Potsdam took over the ensemble of houses (including the manor house) and the grounds of the children's home that remained after the school was outsourced. In 2000 the time of the children's home ended. In that year, the management of the house began by Prenzlkomm, a psycho-social agency from Berlin for seriously and chronically mentally ill people in the non-profit legal form gGmbH e. V. ( non-profit GmbH and registered association ). The von Oppensche manor house from 1912 was gradually expanded into a guest house / hotel with sauna, fireplace hall, billiard room, bar and book gallery, which provides the basis for occupational therapy , work training and professional rehabilitation at various levels . Prenzlkomm sees what is now the "Gästehaus Tornow am See" as a guest house on the one hand, and as an integrative treatment center on the other. In the catering sector, mentally ill people are to be professionally rehabilitated and reintegrated. The house has 20 rooms with 60 beds and is also rented out completely for weddings, family celebrations, conferences and seminars. In 2013, Haus Tornow and the surrounding area served as the backdrop for the television film With Burnout Through the Forest .

literature

Web links

Commons : Tornow (Pritzhagen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (VBB): By and bus train to the Oder-Spree lake district. ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 6.7 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / images.vbb.de
  2. ↑ Between fins and wings: 4) Pritzhagener Mühle. Flyer of the visitor center Drei Eichen , Buckow, undated (received 2011).
  3. ↑ a b Brandenburg-Viewer, digital topographic maps 1: 10,000 (click on the menu)
  4. ↑ Oberbarnimer Feldsteinroute.
  5. ↑ Claus Dalchow, Joachim Kiesel: The Oder reaches into the Elbe region - tension and predetermined breaking points between two river regions (PDF; 2.9 MB). In: Brandenburg Geoscientific Contributions , Ed .: State Office for Mining, Geology and Raw Materials Brandenburg, Kleinmachnow Issue 1/2 2005, p. 81, ISSN  0947-1995 .
  6. ↑ Nature Park Administration Märkische Schweiz: Origin of the landscape .
  7. ^ LAG Märkische Schweiz e. V .: Natural area Märkische Schweiz.
  8. ^ Theodor Fontane, p. 114.
  9. ↑ Brandenburg name book. Part 10. The names of the waters of Brandenburg . Founded by Gerhard Schlimpert , edited by Reinhard E. Fischer . Edited by K. Gutschmidt, H. Schmidt, T. Witkowski. Berlin contributions to name research on behalf of the Humanities Center for History and Culture of East Central Europe. V. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1996 ISBN 3-7400-1001-0 , p. 289f; the certificate number at Krabbo / Winter is 1797.
  10. ↑ Rudolf Schmidt, p. 211.
  11. ↑ quoted from: Rudolf Schmidt, p. 216.
  12. ↑ Information board for the Oberbarnimer Feldstein route in front of the Pritzhagen village church ; set up in 2012.
  13. ^ Rudolf Schmidt, p. 222.
  14. ↑ a b House Tornow am See: History
  15. ↑ a b c Christian Sachse: 1. Pritzhagen . Excerpt from Christian Sachse: Information on Brandenburg special homes, working version: May 23, 2012 .
  16. ↑ Christian Sachse: Active youth, well-educated and disciplined - military education in the GDR as an instrument of socialization and rule (1960–1973) . LIT Verlag, Münster 2000, ISBN 3-8258-5036-6 .
  17. ↑ a b Schule am Tornowsee: About us .
  18. ^ Education server Berlin-Brandenburg. School portraits in the state of Brandenburg: School at Tornowsee - School with the special pedagogue. Funding focus on emotional and social development Pritzhagen .
  19. ^ Education server Berlin-Brandenburg. School portraits in the state of Brandenburg: School at Tornowsee. Overall dossier of the school for the school year 2011/2012. (As of July 18, 2012). ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bildung-brandenburg.de
  20. ↑ Homepage Prenzlkomm.
  21. ^ House Tornow am See. Home page.

Coordinates: 52 ° 35 '  N , 14 ° 6'  E