Forester's House Entenfang

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Former forester's house Entenfang

The forester's house Entenfang , around 1840 also Entenfänger or Entenfängerei, was a residential area in the Golm district of the state capital Potsdam (State of Brandenburg). It was created in 1694 as an establishment for duck fishing in the area of ​​the Potsdam office . Around 1800 the establishment became a forestry and pheasantry. The homestead burned down in 1839, was rebuilt in 1841 and is still heavily remodeled. The name for the living space has disappeared. Today the Große Entenfängerberg and the Große Entenfänger See still remind of the former living space. The former Kleiner Entenfangsee has silted up, but is still recognizable in the area and is a listed building.

Explanation board at the Kleiner Entenfangsee
South-west corner of the Kleiner Entenfangsee with dams that are still clearly visible
Werder, Gallin and Entenfang on the Urmes table sheet 3643 Werder (Havel) from 1839

location

The establishment or the later forester's house Entenfang is located approx. 2.3 km south-southeast of the center of Golm and approx. 1.8 km northeast of Werder (Havel). About 300 meters west of the forester's house was the artificially created, square Kleine Entenfangsee or Kleiner Entenfänger , which has silted up today. The pheasantries were about 300 meters northeast and about 200 meters southeast of the forester's house. The homestead is now heavily modified on the premises of the Bundeswehr operations command. The construction of the Kleiner Entenfangsee with its dams is still clearly visible in the area, even if silted up and overgrown with trees. The facility is a listed building.

history

In 1694 an establishment for duck fishing was established on the territory of the Potsdam office . For this purpose, an artificial, small, almost rectangular lake with a side length of about 120 × 120 m was created, the Kleiner Entenfangsee, which has silted up again today. It had the shape of a bird's bunk , as can be seen from the illustration in the Urmes table sheet, sheet 3643 Werder (Havel). At the corners there were four so-called pipes , which were provided with pots. Wild ducks were attracted with the help of domestic ducks and then, often with the help of dogs, driven into the pots in the pipes and caught. How long this safety gear was actively operated is not known. According to the explanation board at the Kleiner Entenfangsee, duck fishing is said to have only been carried out until 1713/14. Duck hunting was resumed under Frederick the Great. In 1744, the head hunter, Count von Schlieben, leased the duck fishing and the Gallin farm for 223 thalers, 19 groschen and two pfennigs, of which 30 thalers were used for duck fishing. In 1746 he hired a duck catcher named Coswig. Duck fishing is said to have continued on the Großer Entenfangsee later on.

In 1773 duck fishing was a royal farm. Around 1800 duck fishing was a forestry and pheasantry. Friedrich Wilhelm August Bratring describes the settlement somewhat imprecisely as a forester's house, at Bornim an dem Forst with a fireplace and six residents. The settlement belonged to the Potsdam office. The residents were parish in Geltow. In 1817 four people lived in the forester's house. According to the illustration of the duck trap in the Urmes table sheet, sheet 3643 Werder (Havel), it was still very well preserved at the time. It is not known whether it was still in use. At least for 1829, a duck catcher named Johann Gottfried Coswig is named. However, it is not known whether he caught ducks on the Kleiner Entenfangsee or on the Großer Entenfangsee. The Entenfang forester's house burned down in 1839 and was rebuilt in 1841 according to a design by Ludwig Persius .

In 1839 six people lived in the forester's house. The locality statistics of the government district Potsdam with the city of Berlin by Richard Boeckh (data from 1858) describes the locality as follows: Wildpark bei Potsdam, Kgl. Duck hunting establishment. The homestead consisted of a public building and three farm buildings. At that time it had three residents. This included a little land, one acre of homestead, 11 acres of fields and 16 acres of meadows. The forester kept a horse and a head of cattle. The police administration on the area was held by the Royal Court Hunting Office. The residents were now in church in Bornim.

In 1871 the Entenfang forester's lodge in the Wildpark estate had five residents. With the formation of the administrative districts, the Wildpark and Gaisberg estate of the Potsdamer Forst became the administrative district 23 Bornstedt of the Osthavelland district. Bollmann became the head of the government secretariat , a deputy was not appointed. In 1894 a royal pheasant hunter lived in the Entenfang forest house, which was now part of the Potsdam-Forst Gaisberg estate. In the measuring table sheet 1: 25,000 sheet 3643 Werder (Havel) from 1901 two pheasantries are now drawn in at the Entenfang forest house. In 1928 the Wildpark-Gaisberg Forst estate was dissolved. The duck catching section, size 14.0970 ha of the manor district, was assigned to the municipality of Golm. In 1925 the forester's house had four residents.

From 1935 to 1939 the barracks of the "Luftkriegsschule 3" of the Wehrmacht were built to the east and south of the forester's house. From 1945 to 1956, the Soviet Army used the barracks as a school. From 1956 the National People's Army (NVA) moved into what is now called the "Kaserne Wildpark" facility. In 1992 it was renamed Henning von Tresckow-Kaserne. Since 2002 the "Einsatzführungkommando der Bundeswehr" has its headquarters in the barracks.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Schneider: Frederick the Great and the Hunt near Potsdam. Communications from the Association for the History of Potsdam, 1: 1–16, Potsdam, 1864 Online at Google Books
  2. ^ Heinrich Theodor Wagener: Werder and its relations to Potsdam. Mittheilungen des Verein für die Geschichte Potsdam, 2: 347–360, Potsdam, 1866, p. 354 online at Google Books
  3. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm August Bratring: Statistical-topographical description of the entire Mark Brandenburg. Second volume. Containing the Mittelmark and Ukermark. VIII, 583 p., Berlin, Maurer, 1805 Online at Google Books , p. 110.
  4. ↑ Ortschafts = directory of the government = district of Potsdam according to the latest district division from 1817, with a note of the district to which the place previously belonged, the quality, number of people, confession, ecclesiastical circumstances, owner and address, along with an alphabetical register . Georg Decker, Berlin 1817 (without pagination) online at Google Books
  5. ↑ State main archive online research: Duck catcher Coswig's license to hunt ducks. 1829
  6. ↑ August von Sellentin: Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Potsdam and the city of Berlin: Compiled from official sources. 292 p., Verlag der Sander'schen Buchhandlung, 1841 Central and State Library Berlin: Link to the digitized version (p. 117)
  7. ↑ Richard Boeckh: Local statistics of the government district Potsdam with the city of Berlin. 276 p., Verlag von Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, 1861 Online at Google Books , p. 188.
  8. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau: The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population. According to the original materials of the general census of December 1, 1871. II. The Province of Brandenburg. Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureau, Berlin 1873 Online at Google Books , p. 81 footnote under no. 142 Wildpark.
  9. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Potsdam and the City of Berlin, supplement to the 28th issue of the Official Journal, from July 10, 1874, p. 3 online at Google Books
  10. ↑ Official Journal for the Potsdam Administrative Region, special edition No. 7 of October 4, 1928, municipal district changes, pp. 317-340, here p. 325.
  11. ↑ Lieselott Enders : Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg. Part III Havelland. 452 p., Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1972, p. 86-87.

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 13.2 "  N , 12 ° 58 ′ 6.6"  E