Forest Peace (Bernau near Berlin)

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Forest peace
Coordinates: 52 ° 41 ′ 52 ″  N , 13 ° 32 ′ 46 ″  E
Height : 74 m
Area : 1.8 km²
Postal code : 16321
Area code : 03338
UNESCO World Heritage Site Hannes Meyer Campus ADGB School residential wing, part of Bernau-Waldfrieden
UNESCO World Heritage Site Hannes Meyer Campus ADGB School residential wing, part of Bernau-Waldfrieden

The Waldfrieden settlement area is part of the city of Bernau near Berlin . The city belongs to the district of Barnim in the state of Brandenburg . Officially, it got its name in the 21st century when the city area was reorganized; previously it was simply Bernau, but was called Waldfrieden early on because of its location . Waldfrieden is located about four kilometers northwest of the city center and is surrounded by forest areas all around. The settlement began with the construction of the Bernau trade union school in the 1920s. Other areas with restaurants, a forestry technical school, single-family houses for the officer's families of the Red Army and with weekend properties were added in the following decades. Since the late 1990s, the well-preserved and partially listed buildings of the union school have been gradually converted. New buildings complement the settlement. New owners move into the vacated officers' villas.

location

The scattered settlement is on both sides of Landesstraße 204, the Wandlitzer Chaussee. The crossing street Fritz-Heckert-Straße - Lanker Straße divides it into a southern and a northern area. The Bernau land use plan from 2007 shows the following basic uses:

  • Residential areas
  • Special construction areas
  • Special areas with living space
  • Mixed construction areas
  • a business park
  • several protected biotopes .

The Bernau-Waldfrieden district begins from the city center with the Bernau autobahn maintenance facility (which also includes the new rest areas on the A 11 Ladeburger Heide ). This is followed by the extensive school complex Hannes-Meyer-Campus and a small commercial area. The schools and commercial buildings are grouped around Hanns-Wittwer- and Franz-Mehring-Strasse.

To the south-west there is the building complex of a special-use unit created as a forest work school - accessible via Lanker Straße from Wandlitzer Chaussee - and a residential area with residential villas and access roads. The excursion restaurant Waldkater directly on the Wandlitzer Chaussee in this district is known nationwide . The sub-area is roughly 1.8 km²; it cannot be specified precisely, as there are green spaces between the areas mentioned, which belong to the Barnim Nature Park and the Bernauer Forest.

Hannes Meyer Campus

The Bauhaus architects Hannes Meyer and Hans Wittwer built the trade union (ADGB) training facility between 1928 and 1930 according to their plans on a previously undeveloped area near the German capital . The Bernau trade union school was created, which was expanded structurally in the 1950s and then functioned as a trade union university. The building ensemble, which was gradually built, has been a listed building since 1977 . The current name of the entire area took place with the total renovation and the change of ownership of the facility at the end of the 20th century.

Important educational institutions are the Barnim Grammar School in Bernau , which opened on September 7, 1998 , and where around 700 students study in the 2010s, and the Barnim I Upper School , which has provided training in various social and commercial professions since 2004.

On July 9, 2017, the UNESCO committee in Krakow decided to include the former university of the trade unions in Waldfrieden on the list of world cultural heritage . That was the reward for 27 years of sustained work by those involved in this project. In 2003, Brenne Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH began with reconstruction and renovation work to restore the monument. The Meyer-Wittwer-Bau or Bundesschule of the General German Trade Union Confederation is known today as the Bauhaus Monument Bundesschule Bernau near Berlin.

Outdoor swimming pool in winter 2012, filled with water

In addition to the numerous school and social buildings, there is a little-known outdoor pool on campus (Fritz-Heckert-Straße) with a 50-meter swimming pool, a 3-meter diving tower, a separate non-swimmer pool and a changing building. This sports facility was gradually renovated between 2009 and 2013. The renovation cost 3.9 million euros , of which the city of Bernau contributed 650,000 euros itself, the rest was subsidies from the EU and the state of Brandenburg. The ceremonial reopening took place on May 30, 2014 by the Mayor of Bernau.

In connection with the students and pupils of the union college, the University Sports Association Science Bernau was formed in 1951 , from which later the Sports Association (SV) Bernau Waldfrieden 1951 eV emerged. He has his coordination office in the former ADGB guard house. As of the end of 2011, it offered its members twelve popular sports, including volleyball, soccer, gymnastics, billiard bowling and winter swimming .

The forest work school

eh. Forest work school (in the foreground old new building; on the left in the background: extension from the 1980s)

The school with associated social buildings (canteen, boarding school) was built in 1952/1953 and opened in 1954. It was dedicated to the intensive and natural training of forest and forest workers . In the late 1970s, a separate extension was built. On the occasion of the anniversary (2004) it was announced that more than 3800 people had graduated here since 1954. After decisions by the state of Brandenburg as the landowner, the training of forest specialists was discontinued here.Instead, some administrations (such as the Barnim nature park administration temporarily, after the completion of the new building from the Wandlitz Agricultural Museum moved out again), a forest sauna , the Liepnitz chief forester and the Forest school "Kienappel" established. Some design elements from the time of the forestry school have been preserved inside.

By the end of 2014, all users had apparently moved out, because the city of Bernau set up an asylum seeker home for 150 refugees there from late summer 2015 .

Further facilities in Bernau-Waldfrieden

Other buildings and areas house a sawmill, a timber shop and restaurants.

Kunststoffe Bernau's workshops and warehouses

A larger company is also located here, Kunststoffe Bernau GmbH (Wandlitzer Chaussee 54), which emerged from the VEB Laminate Plant Bernau , which was bought by Degussa / Hüls after the fall of the Wall and after its end as a management buy-out by two former employees was acquired.

Stadtwerke Bernau operates the block-type thermal power station (BHKW) II for the heat and energy supply of the facilities on site .

Since the end of the 1990s, three state institutions have been using a completely renovated former boarding school. The three-part building houses the motorway police station (since 2007), which was previously stationed in Eberswalde. The western wing of the building is used by the state youth welfare office and the eastern wing by the Brandenburg State Office for Properties.

'House Waldfrieden'

In a building from 1960 at Lanker Straße 26, the 'Waldfrieden House' of the “Regine Hildebrandt” retirement home can be found, making it the oldest nursing home in the city. A new building was added to this facility in the Bernau Center after the fall of the Wall.

Directly on Wandlitzer Chaussee (No. 41), the Waldfrieden Education and Innovation Center (BIZWA), operated by the Berlin Chamber of Crafts, was set up in earlier buildings on a separate area. There is a training facility for the Bernau technical college for automotive technology.

Forest tomcat with terrace, year 2012

The Waldkater restaurant is also located on Wandlitzer Chaussee (No. 10) . This restaurant began in 1893 when a Berlin master butcher bought the property and received permission to build a house with a restaurant and dance hall. A beer garden was also built directly on the country road, and in the rear part of the property there was an animal enclosure and play facilities for the guests' children. The restaurant remained privately owned for several generations until it was sold to the HO in 1954 . The original name Waldkater was not changed. As early as 1979, after extensive renovation and modernization, there was again a private owner who moved here with his family and successfully continued to operate the Waldkater as an Asian specialty restaurant from 1982. After the fall of the Wall , the owners switched the offer to German cuisine. In addition to residents and motorists, hikers and cyclists came here. In the first few years, the operators drew attention to themselves with interesting campaigns: They sponsored benches on the bike path that read: “Don't eat anywhere, you are not just anyone. Restaurant Waldkater ”and their guests they offered a menu designed as a daily newspaper, in which the history of the property could also be found out. Since the 2010s, food has only been prepared in the summer months; in the winter months, the rooms are mainly used for various cultural events such as readings, talks with artists and painting exhibitions during the winter months.

Development and traffic

Twelve officially dedicated streets and one unnamed street open up the Waldfrieden area. The streets in the residential area are based on the name of the district, for example Am Hasensprung, Am Amselhorst, Am Wildwechsel, Am Falkensteg, Dohlensteg, Am Finkenhain, Am Rehpfad, An der Wildbahn.

Via the state road 204 and the federal road 273 , the district can be reached via the federal highway 11 with two connections. The bus lines 894 and 903 connect Waldfrieden with Wandlitz or with Bernau and via the S-Bahn or regional train with Berlin.

A roundabout set up at the beginning of the 21st century marks the access to the campus and the special-use area.

literature

  • Rudolf Lange, Siegfried Zegenhagen, Birgit Großmann: 50 years of forestry vocational training - history and development of the Bernau-Waldfrieden training center ; 2004

Web links

Commons : Bernau-Waldfrieden, part campus  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Bernau-Waldfrieden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Page no longer available , search in web archives: FNP Bernau for the forest peace area (PDF document), as of December 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.info-bernau.de
  2. List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg, page 21; Status as of December 31, 2010 ( Memento of September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 230 kB)
  3. Auf bauhaus-denkmal-bernau.de Bauhaus Monument Bernau
  4. Website with a brief description of the Bernau-Waldfrieden outdoor pool , accessed on December 18, 2011.
  5. ↑ Open air swimming pool . In: Märkischer Markt from 28./29. May 2014.
  6. A gem: the Waldfrieden outdoor pool officially opened , article (online) by the city of Bernau from May 26, 2014 , accessed on February 5, 2016.
  7. ^ Website of the SV Grün-Weiß
  8. Page no longer available , search in web archives: 50 years of forest work school Bernau-Waldfrieden ; Report in Brandenburgische Forstnachrichten, issue 113, volume 13, September / October 2004 (PDF), accessed on December 18, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.mil.brandenburg.de
  9. The users of the former forestry school were noted during an on-site inspection on January 18, 2012.
  10. ^ Olaf Schröder: Forest work school becomes dormitory for refugees , In: Märkische Oderzeitung , July 5, 2015.
  11. Telephone directory of Bernau-Waldfrieden ( memento from July 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), as of December 19, 2011
  12. ↑ Handover of the baton at "Bernauer Kunststoffen". Wolf Grünberg and Gerd Latka are retiring . In: Stadtinformation Bernau from January 29, 2010 , retrieved on February 5, 2016.
  13. ^ Homepage of the company Bernauer Kunststoffe GmbH
  14. Motorway police station now in Bernau . In: Stadtinformation Bernau from December 27, 2007 (online) , newly accessed on February 5, 2016.
  15. "Waldfrieden" senior care home celebrates its 50th anniversary . In: Stadtinformation Bernau (online) , accessed on February 5, 2016.
  16. Website of the nursing home in Bernau-Waldfrieden ( Memento from September 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  17. a b Restaurant Waldfrieden Homepage , accessed on June 21, 2016.
  18. User experience : 44 penguins