Berkhöpen

Berkhöpen municipality Edemissen Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 50 " N , 10 ° 14 ′ 44" E
Height :	75 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	1928
Incorporated into:	Oedesse
Postal code :	31234
Area code :	05176
Location of Berkhöpen in Lower Saxony
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Berkhöpen is a district in the municipality of Edemissen in the Peine district in Lower Saxony .

geography

The district of Berkhöpen is located north of the district town of Peine between the two regional centers of Hanover and Braunschweig on the edge of the Südheide and 1.5 km northwest of Edemissen. The place is surrounded by the forest area of the state forest Berkhöpen.

history

The wood "Berkhopen" was first mentioned in 1717 as a "manorial" forest. The "Berkhöpen" area had belonged to the Gografschaft Edemissen in the Meinersen district since 1532 and was incorporated into the Peine district in 1885.

It was not until 1907 that the “Berkhöpen” residential area was created through the construction of a rest home for the employees of the Peiner rolling mill and the Ilseder Hütte . In 1928 that part of the village in which Preussag's plants were built was incorporated into Oedesse . The other part came to Edemissen.

In 1965, the independent communities of Edemissen, Alvesse , Blumenhagen , Mödesse , Voigtholz-Ahlemissen and, since 1971, Oedesse were merged to form the joint community of Edemissen. In the course of the territorial reform in Lower Saxony in 1974 the unified community of Edemissen was formed from the localities of the integrated community of Edemissen and eight other independent communities.

Recreation home Berkhöpen

In 1905, the Peiner Walzwerk acquired a piece of land in the Berkhöpen forest to build a rest home. The industrialist Gerhard Lucas Meyer (1830–1916), co-founder of the rolling mill in Peine , made 75,000 marks available from his private fortune (around 478,000 euros today). In the spring of 1907 the rest home for the employees of the Peiner rolling mill and the blast furnace works of the Ilseder Hütte was inaugurated.

The generously built house had 15 rooms and 32 beds. The workers were able to recover from the heavy physical work here for 14 days and even received pocket money of three marks per day for the loss of earnings. The workers found distraction and relaxation by exercising and playing on the bowling alley and walking in the woods. There was also a library.

In autumn 1914, after the outbreak of the First World War, the management of the Peiner Walzwerk made the rest home available to the Patriotic Women's Association for " convalescents " (i.e. as a hospital for wounded soldiers).

In 1959 Preussag (Prussian Mining and Hütten-Aktiengesellschaft) acquired the Peiner Walzwerk convalescent home and converted it into an apprentice home and dormitory for employees. At the end of 1967 Preussag AG sold the rest home to the Peine district. The district of Peine leased the area from 1968 for 50 years to “Lebenshilfe Berkhöpen” . Lebenshilfe Berkhöpen remained the only tenant for around 30 years. During this time, apart from urgent emergency repairs, the district of Peine did little to preserve the building, which was later listed as a historical monument . The repair backlog was correspondingly large. In 1998 Disabled Aid Berkhöpen announced plans to buy the Astrid Lindgren School, but it did not come to a conclusion.

In the middle of 1999, the local press reported for the first time that the former rest home was to be converted into a retirement home. However, the project did not materialize. Another investor with similar renovation plans wanted to keep the rest home, but most of the park's old trees were to give way to a planned new building. Resistance to these plans grew in the population and at the end of 2005 this investor also withdrew.

In the spring of 2006, the district of Peine, as the owner of the area, “accidentally” felled a hundred-year-old healthy oak in the park of the rest home. The convalescent home, which had been empty since 1999, continued to deteriorate. A contract was only signed at the end of 2007. The buyer, Rudolf Meyer GmbH, invested a large sum in the restoration of the former rest home, which was now officially known as "Villa Berkhöpen", as it has been known in the vernacular for decades. The administration of the Rudolf Meyer Group moved into the restored building in 2008. On the day of the open monument in September 2009, the now sizeable park with its more than one hundred year old trees could be visited. After the liquidation of the Rudolf Meyer Group, the building has been used by the Windstrom Group, an operator of wind turbines , since summer 2013 .

Preussag factory facilities

As early as 1928, Preussag , together with deep drilling technician and entrepreneur Anton Raky (1868–1943), carried out drilling for oil in Berkhöpen. After initial failures, Preussag got out of the project and gave Raky the right to speculate . Raky joined forces with the "Deutscher Michel" union and continued drilling. At the end of 1931, due to the global economic crisis , Raky was forced to sell his business to Preussag and Wintershall AG, despite good successes and full of oil stocks , in order to avoid his heavy debt. In 1933 Preussag founded the “Florentine” union . In the following years, more successful wells were sunk in and around Berkhöpen.

During an air raid on the city of Hanover in World War II, the Preussag administration in Hanover's Immengarten was bombed in autumn 1943. Then all employees moved from Hanover to Edemissen and the surrounding villages. The Preussag oil and drilling administration was housed in a " barrack town " in the Berkhöpen forest . With camouflage nets , the Preussag protected against discovery by the enemy aerial reconnaissance . From 1943 to around the beginning of 1945, a prisoner of war and foreign labor camp was set up in Berkhöpen on the southern edge of the forest (today Florentineweg) .

In June 1945 a part of the Preussag oil and drilling administration came from Schönebeck / Elbe to Berkhöpen and Dedenhausen . At the end of 1952, the administration of the Preußische Bergwerks- und Hütten AG moved into the new administration building in Hanover on Leibnizufer . The staff members who previously worked in the barracks administration in Berkhöpen have now moved back to Hanover.

religion

The Berkhöpen district belongs to the parish of the Martin Luther parish of Edemissen in the Peine parish.

Culture and sights

"Villa Berkhöpen"
Park of the "Villa Berkhöpen"

Association

Tennis club TC-Florentine eV from 1961 (founded by the employees and the financial support of Preussag AG in Berkhöpen and Hanover)

Economy and Infrastructure

The district road K 6 cuts through the Berkhöpen in a north-south direction. On the eastern side are the facilities of the tennis club TC Florentine eV from 1961, the administration of the Rudolf Meyer Group in the "Villa Berkhöpen" with the outbuildings, the forester's house of the former district forester's office in Berkhöpen and the Berkhöpen handicapped aid with the workshops and ancillary facilities.

On the western side there are eleven single-family and seven multi-family houses on Florentineweg. A car repair workshop, a truck repair workshop, a work platform rental, an engineering office, an analytics laboratory and a flight school have all settled in the former Preussag factory.

To the north of the “Berkhöpen” forest area is the site of the former Peine-Eddesse airfield .

education

In addition to kindergartens, there are now elementary schools in Edemissen (there are also reliable elementary schools in three districts ), secondary school and secondary school . Secondary schools such as grammar school and vocational school are located in the district town of Peine.

traffic

There is a local public transport bus to Edemissen and Peine. The Peine, Watenbüttel- Braunschweig and Hämelerwald junctions form the connections to the Federal Motorway 2 . The closest passenger stations are in Peine, Dedenhausen and Hämelerwald.

literature

Association of Homeland History Edemissen eV: The community of Edemissen. Sutton 2007, ISBN 978-3-86680-202-5 .
Jürgen Dieckhoff: Edemissen - feel-good community. Edemissen municipality 1999.
Karl Zeinart: Edemisser stories. Issue 3b, self-published 2000.

Web links

Internet presence of the municipality of Edemissen