Flyberg
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 View of the Fliegeberg |
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| height | 59.4 m | |
| location | Berlin ( Germany ) | |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 24 '51 " N , 13 ° 19' 44" E | |
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The Fliegeberg , also known as Lilienthalberg , is an approximately twelve meter high embankment in the Berlin district of Lichterfelde in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district . The foot of the Fliegeberg is at 47.2 meters ( sea level ) and the highest point at 59.4 meters (sea level). The Fliegeberg was created in 1894 by Otto Lilienthal , who used it for gliding flights . The Lilienthalpark was built around the hill between 1928 and 1932 . The park on Schütte-Lanz-Straße is designated as a garden monument .
location
The Fliegeberg is located in the south of today's Berlin district of Lichterfelde , around 600 meters north of the Berlin city limits, around two kilometers east of the Lichterfelde Süd S-Bahn station . The area of the Lilienthalpark around the mountain borders on Scheelestrasse in the northwest and Schütte-Lanz-Strasse in the southwest. The mountain was originally located near a brick factory in an open field, but the park is now surrounded by residential buildings on all sides.
history
Lilienthal in Groß-Lichterfelde
Otto Lilienthal lived in Groß-Lichterfelde since 1886 , as today's Berlin district of Lichterfelde was then called. After researching the theoretical foundations of aviation for several years, he began in 1891 with flight tests with self-made aircraft. First he used a hill in Derwitz near Werder / Havel , later the Rauhen Berge in Steglitz , not far from his residence, another hill in Steglitz and some mountains outside Berlin for his experiments.
Flyberg
In 1894 he had a 15-meter-high hill built up from the overburden of the company on the site of a brickworks in Groß-Lichterfelde, from which he carried out thousands of gliding flights with flight distances of up to 80 meters with a normal glider. After an accident while attempting a flight near Rhinow , Lilienthal died on August 10, 1896. The brick factory closed a year later. The clay pit on the site filled with water. Part of the brickworks was sold to a rubber factory. The remaining area of the brickworks around the mountain was converted into a park around 1900 and the clay pit was used as a carp pond. A former home of the brickworkers became a restaurant for excursions. Instead of the Lilienthal shed on the summit, a viewing pavilion was built. In the restaurant there was an exhibition on Lilienthal's work.
Around 1930, the park was redesigned under the direction of Fritz Freymüller , who was then Steglitz City Planning Officer . This was preceded by years of disputes about financing between the city of Berlin and the restaurant owner.
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From 1928 to 1932 Freymüller built the Lilienthal memorial. The hill was freed from wood and terraced, on the summit a circular columned hall with a monument made of a bronze ball on a basalt block was built as a memorial based on Freymüller's design. During the Second World War , the ball was melted down and replaced by a stone ball when the park, which had become overgrown by the effects of the war, was renovated in 1955. In 1990 this was exchanged for a bronze ball again.
In 1961 a museum on the history of aviation was reopened on the mountain, in 1967 it was expanded and renamed the Museum of World Aviation . In 1972 the restaurant burned down and the museum was closed on January 1, 1975.
Fliegeberg in Lilienthalpark
The Fliegeberg is located in the Lilienthalpark that surrounds it. A circular path leads around the Fliegeberg, which begins between the stairs and the water basin and is lined with trees. The Fliegeberg itself is laid out in steps, with grass and no trees.
The fly festival has been held on the mountain every year since 2006 . At the 2010 fly festival, an information stele on the work of Lilienthal and the fly mountain was inaugurated.
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See also
Web links
- History of the Fliegeberg and the memorial ( Memento from January 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- Landscape architecture today. Flyberg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Senate Department for Urban Development: Digital Topographical Map 1: 10,000 from December 31, 2006.
- ↑ Lilienthalpark in the Berlin monument database
- ^ Lilienthal normal sailing apparatus in the Deutsches Museum
- ^ Steglitzer Heimatverein: Flyer to Lilienthalpark
- ↑ Location of the rubber factory on a city map from 1907, the park was connected to the north.
- ↑ Lilienthal memorial . Roads and Green Spaces Department, Green Spaces Department on the website of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf District Office, accessed on March 11, 2018.
- ↑ Schütte-Lanz-Straße in Berlin-Lichterfelde: Plaque on the history of Lilienthal's fly mountain.
- ↑ Lilienthalpark, Berlin-Lichterfelde
- ↑ Lilienthal and Fliegeberg on the red memorial stele of the memorial plaques in Berlin