Radio and Telegraph House (Flensburg-Mürwik)

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The radio and telegraph house on Swinemünder Straße, a remnant of the Mürwik radio and telegraph school

The radio and telegraph house in Flensburg - Mürwik is a small building that was erected in 1902 on the edge of the torpedo station. The building, which is one of the city's cultural monuments , represents the essential remnant of the Mürwik Spark Telegraphy School .

background

At the end of the 19th century, the Imperial Navy recognized the tactical possibilities of spark telegraphy . The new technology, in conjunction with the Morse code , should soon enable communication over many kilometers . In 1901/1902, with the construction of the torpedo station, a radio telegraphy school with an associated test track was set up for training. In 1901 a first land station was apparently set up near the bay there. A second station was set up, obviously in a higher location, opposite the Parkhotel (at Mürwiker Park ). The said radio and telegraph house was built in 1902 as part of the torpedo station according to plans by government architect Schubert. The single-storey, square plastered building with half-timbered structure and pyramid roof was then, unlike today, covered with slate. Apparently around 1903 Kaiser Wilhelm II visited the torpedo station and also inspected the radio and telegraph house. Probably the oldest surviving photograph of the house, which was taken during the inspection visit, shows the emperor walking down the stairs of the front of the building, which was then somewhat differently designed. In addition to the shore stations, there were also two test ships in which radio stations were installed; the SMS Friedrich Carl and the SMS Blücher (or from 1908 the SMS Kaiser as a replacement for the Blücher). Incidentally, the practice traffic at that time initially turned out to be difficult. The connection between the Blücher and the two land stations mostly broke off from the Ochseninsel , whereby the connection could be re-established by means of a kite which was brought up on a 180-meter-long wire rope.

Seal of the Funken-Telegraphieschule Mürwik

With the establishment of the neighboring Mürwik Naval School in 1910, additional radio telegraph stations were set up there for training purposes. The Gorch-Fock-Haus also served as the radio station for the naval school . When the First World War began in 1914 , teaching at the Mürwik Naval School was discontinued. Their vacant premises were then partially used by the "radio school". In 1918 the Funken Telegraphieschule was finally relocated to Swinoujscie . The "Spark Telegraphy School Swinoujscie" only existed until 1920. On September 10th, the torpedo inspection department relocated back to Mürwik. The news school was set up there on the torpedo station. It is unclear whether the radio and telegraph house was used again. It was finally converted into a residential building in 1923 by the naval construction administration. During the Second World War it was used as a broadcasting house again for a time. The address of the building was originally Parkstrasse 16. When Parkstrasse was renamed Swinemünder Strasse in 1955 (from 1954 to 1956 Flensburg was the sponsor town of Swinoujscie), the house was given number 12. The former centerpiece of the Funken Telegraphy School Mürwik still serves as a residential building today.

Web links

Commons : Funk- und Telegraphenhaus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lutz Wilde : Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 550 f. (Cultural monument number: 20411)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Flensburger Tageblatt : 150 years of the Flensburger Tageblatt: When Flensburg set the tone , from: April 28, 2015; accessed on: September 23, 2019
  3. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Wireless Telegraphy , accessed on: September 23, 2019
  4. ↑ Circle of Friends. Speedboats and corvettes. The base in Flensburg , accessed on: September 23, 2019
  5. ↑ The radio station was probably called "Station Mürwik" because of its location.
  6. ↑ The radio station was probably called “Station Parkhotel” because of its location.
  7. ^ Lutz Wilde : Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, pp. 66 and 550 f.
  8. ↑ a b c d e f Lutz Wilde : Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 550
  9. ↑ Flensburg in old views . Volume 2, picture No. 96 as well as the German Marine Institute: The Mürwik Naval School 1910-1985 . 1985, p. 22; In the first of the two books mentioned, the house is classified as a guard building. As a military building, it was certainly also guarded and, due to its location, could possibly have had a guard function for the entire Mürwik military complex. It was obviously not a guard building in the strict sense. See also gate guard of the Naval School Mürwik and Schilderhaus
  10. ↑ 100 years of naval telecommunications training in Flensburg-Mürwik , accessed on: September 23, 2019
  11. ↑ a b The radio training at the ship engineering and marine machinist school in Flensburg , accessed on: 23 September 2019
  12. ^ Lutz Wilde : Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 536
  13. ↑ Telegraphists have also been trained at the Seemmachistenschule in Flensburg since around 1910. Cf. Navigation School (Flensburg) and Guttempler Logenhaus (Flensburg) ; Source: The radio training at the ship engineering and marine machinist school in Flensburg , accessed on: 23 September 2019
  14. ↑ a b Flensburger Tageblatt : 100 Years of the Naval School: History of the School , from: August 11, 2010; accessed on: September 23, 2019
  15. ↑ 100 years of naval telecommunications training in Flensburg-Mürwik. Historical review , accessed on: September 23, 2019
  16. ↑ 45 years of marine telecommunications school - 100 years of telecommunications training in Flensburg , accessed on: September 23, 2019
  17. ↑ The parade hall, not far from the radio and telegraph house, was later renamed the Morse Hall. See Lutz Wilde : Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 544 The same applies to the Morsewiese. Cf. Bundeswehr in Flensburg: From the Hindu Kush to the Fjord: The new one is here , from: March 2nd, 2017 and: Flensburg / Glücksburg site: 60 million euros for the reconnaissance team , from: April 22nd, 2015; Accessed on: September 23, 2019
  18. ↑ The street renaming was not justified with the relocation of the school to Swinoujscie.
  19. ^ Dieter Pust: Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN, article: Swinemünder Straße

Coordinates: 54 ° 48 ′ 28.5 ″  N , 9 ° 27 ′ 27.7 ″  E