Dommelwall
| Dommelwall | ||
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| Waters | Seddinsee | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 24 ' N , 13 ° 42' E | |
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The Dommelwall is an island in the Seddinsee , near the south-eastern city limits of Berlin .
location
The island is located in the northeast of the lake near the village of Gosen between the islands of Nixenwall and Berg .
history
The island was leased in 1931 by Leberecht Migge from the Köpenick district . The lease was renewed and extended in 1933. In terms of landscape, the island belongs to the Gosener Graben, it is mostly swampy. Leberecht had the northern part of the island filled with rubbish in 1932/33. To this end, he has signed a contract with a Berlin waste disposal company. In the northern part of the island a small footbridge was created, on the west side there is a small lawn for sunbathing. Also in the north-eastern part is the house built by Migge.
Migge lived with Liesel Elsässer on the "sun island" - named after the Sonnenhof in Worpswede. Later on, a number of people from Liesel Elsässer’s circle of friends and family lived in order to avoid the bombing raids of World War II, as there was a high probability that this remote area would not be affected. Liesel Elsässer lived there until 1946. Migge had died in 1935. From September 1945 the island was plundered several times by Soviet soldiers and finally abandoned by the residents in 1946. The house and the lease were sold to a West Berlin family who used the island as a weekend and holiday resort until the Wall was built in 1961 .
For the film scholar Thomas Elsaesser , the island of Dommelwall in Seddinsee is an example of “a Berlin memorial. The garden architect Leberecht Migge , who, among other things, designed the green spaces for the Berlin large housing estate 'Onkel Toms Hütte', tried to put his ideas of getting out and self-sufficiency into practice here in the early 1930s. Migge was an ancestor of the green movement, Elsaesser said, but his ideas could also be easily incorporated into the blood-and-soil and public health ideology of the Nazis ”.
Under the title Die Sonneninsel , a documentary film directed by Thomas Elsaesser was released in 2017, which illuminates this part of the island and family history primarily based on amateur film recordings of his father, which he shot with his camera between 1940 and 1956. The sunny island was broadcast on April 16, 2018 on 3Sat and has since been presented at numerous festivals and scientific congresses.
literature
- Martin Blank, Astrid Schmid: The sunny island in Seddinsee. Kassel 1994 (diploma thesis)
- David Haney: When Modern was Green: Life and Work of Landscape Architect Leberecht Migge . London 2010.
- Manfred Wischnewski: Dommelwall Island - a place of refuge in the Nazi era , Berliner Zeitung, April 16, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Islands of Image Evidence. Die Sonneninsel am Seddinsee 1935–44 “ In: bildevidenz.de , accessed on February 14, 2018.
- ↑ Markus Hesselmann: Culture of Remembrance: A Weird Story In: tagesspiegel.de , July 18, 2007, accessed on February 14, 2018.
- ↑ dokfest program 2017 - Die Sonneninsel (film) In: freiraumundvegetation.de , accessed on February 14, 2018.
- ↑ Die Sonneninsel In: 3sat.de , accessed on February 13, 2019.