Adlerwarte Berlebeck

Adlerwarte Berlebeck
place	Hangsteinstrasse (parking lot) 32760 Detmold
opening	1939
Animal species	Approx. 46
Individuals	Approx. 200
Species focus	Birds of prey
Visitor numbers	62,600 (2015)
organization
management	Klaus Hansen (team leader)
Sponsorship	City of Detmold
Funding organizations	Friends of the Adlerwarte Berlebeck e. V.
Member of	DTG
Entrance area
www.detmold-adlerwarte.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 53 ′ 30 ″  N , 8 ° 52 ′ 24 ″  E

The Adlerwarte Berlebeck is a bird park in the Berlebeck district of Detmold . It was founded in 1939 by the couple Kati and Adolf Deppe and is now an institution of the city of Detmold.

With a beautiful landscape and convenient location on a ridge for birds to fly, the Berlebeck Eagle Observatory houses 46 different species of birds of prey with a total of over 200 specimens. Free flight demonstrations take place several times a day during the season . A grandstand with 160 seats was set up for this purpose. In a teaching and information center interesting facts about birds of prey, the history of falconry and the tasks of the eagle observatory in species protection are imparted.

History of the Adlerwarte

Adolf Deppe, who came from Milse , came to Detmold in 1938 looking for a location for the facility. The Hermannsdenkmal and the Externsteine were already popular excursion destinations back then and Deppe was hoping for synergies . After the Grotenburg had been rejected as a location by the Lippe state government, the choice fell on Berlebeck. He referred to the rocky hilltop covered with heather, then called Hitlerhöhe , as if made for the free flight of birds of prey . The facility was opened at Pentecost 1939. In World War II (1939-1945) only a few visitors. The facility was destroyed in April 1945, but rebuilt after the currency reform in 1948.

During the 1950s, the Adlerwarte also served as a backdrop for a number of contemporary homeland films . So there were, for example, films like The Blood Demon , Geierwally and Valley of the Eagles ( Valley of the Eagles turned).

In 1971 the Deppes handed over the Adlerwarte to the city of Detmold. The facility grew and developed. In 1975 a sanctuary for sick and injured birds of prey and owls was set up. The Adlerwarte Berlebeck works actively to protect endangered birds of prey. She not only deals with the adaptation of domestic injured birds of prey, but also helps abroad. For example, rescue and reintroduction stations have been set up in Ecuador and Kenya . In 1981 a harpy chick hatched in captivity for the first time in the world in the Berlin Zoo . It emerged from a breeding community of a female Berlin bird with a male from Berlebeck. In 1989 an Andean condor pair brooded in Berlebeck for the first time in Europe .

In the sanctuary for injured wild birds, up to 230 injured birds are taken in each year and later released back into the wild. With funding from the NRW Foundation  , a new rescue station with an area of ​​330 square meters was built in 2020.

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  Red kite

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  Male
  snowy owl

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  Woolly vulture

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  Desert buzzard
  on a visitor's head
  (during a flight demonstration,
  August 2017)

literature

• David Motadel : Adler on the "Hitlerhöhe". The emergence of the Adlerwarte Berlebeck at the time of National Socialism . Panorama, Detmold 2008, ISBN 978-3-928806-77-0 .
• Klaus Hansen: Adlerwarte Berlebeck (=  Lippe cultural landscapes . Issue 13). Lippischer Heimatbund , Detmold 2009, ISBN 978-3-941726-10-9 .

Web links

Commons : Adlerwarte Berlebeck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the Adlerwarte Berlebeck

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sven Koch: lz.de: Day tourism in Detmold is booming - Adlerwarte is being renovated. Lippische Landes-Zeitung, May 19, 2016. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
2. ↑ Jana Beckmann: Free-flying eagles were a sensation . In: Lippische Landeszeitung from April 18, 2014.
3. ↑ New house for the unlucky ones. NRW - Natur Heimat Kultur 2020 / No. 1: 4