"Schulze Heil" manor

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Ecology station on the estate

Former Hof Schulze healing in Bergkamen home in joint ownership of the district of Unna and the Ruhr Regional Association , the Ecological Station of the district of Unna , headquartered various environmental organizations and agencies.

history

Towards the end of the 15th century, the farm , which had been managed by the friars of the nearby Cappenberg Monastery, was handed over to the Schulze Heil family as a long lease. This also includes a small chapel used for the religious services of the friars. The family used the Schulzenhof for several generations for around 500 years. She was also given the right to use the chapel for her own weddings, baptisms and burials. From 1585 there was a Catholic enclave in the otherwise Reformed parish. From 1802 the chapel fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1878, the reasons being the move of the court and the abolition of the Cappenberg monastery. The cooling tower of the Heil power plant is located at the former position of the chapel . After the Second World War, a new chapel was built at the site where an old tombstone slab from 1730 was found; it still has the rosette from the former chapel as the keystone. In 2003 this chapel was renovated.

Todays use

Courtyard building

In 1864 the courtyard was rebuilt at its current location with more contemporary furnishings. 1994-1995 the farm was under the IBA Emscher Park for Ecology station rebuilt. The main house and the milker house are under monument protection. In the following years other buildings were renovated and given other uses. The surroundings have been worked up, the old farm garden has been recultivated, an educational bee trail has been laid out, and the large pond has been secured. Rainwater is collected in cisterns and used to flush toilets. After the old three-chamber sewage treatment plant, the wastewater is fed to a plant-based clarifier with reeds before it is discharged into the Lippe via the Beverbach . All facilities are also used for demonstration purposes. The measures were largely financed from funds from the Ecology Program in the Emscher-Lippe Region (ÖPEL).

The ecology station is an environmental education center, a center for nature conservation work and a forum for voluntary nature conservation. In addition to the environmental protection organizations, natural and species-appropriate production and processing companies are located on the farm. Since 1999, the economically operating meat processing company for animals from environmentally friendly animal husbandry and since 2004 the model stable for animal welfare have been an integral part of environmental education. Own products (e.g. honey, apple juice, potatoes, canned fruit, fruit spreads, books) are sold in a gable store. Various rooms in the courtyard are used for events and can be rented. The northern part of the Emscher Park cycle path leads directly past the farm .

In 2011, the 'guest house ecology station' was added to the building complex, which was designed as a low-energy house and the shell of which was composed of two-storey prefabricated wooden elements.

In 2012, the former 'Ecology Station of the Unna District' as an ecology station managed by the Westphalia Environmental Center reached the maximum occupancy of the premises on the site. Up to one hundred employees worked in the existing buildings and had to move to the seminar rooms of the guest house at times. The creation of further work spaces by new buildings on the outside area was prohibited, as well as additions to the existing buildings as well as extensions by expanding the hayloft.

Associations and institutions

  • The Environmental Center Westphalia manages the ecology station, conducts public relations, issues the event program and various publications, carries out educational measures, is responsible for pilot projects and collaborations.
  • The biological station , formerly only responsible for the district of Unna, looks after the nature reserves in the districts of Unna and Dortmund, takes care of the maintenance and development plans, carries out nature conservation studies and issues opinions on intervention projects in nature reserves. In addition, it takes on nature conservation tasks for the city of Hamm.
  • The Society for the Promotion of Nature for the District of Unna eV as operator of the biological station and also with the forum "Voluntary Environmental Protection".
  • The Unna district association of Germany's Nature Conservation Union offers campaigns and information on practical environmental protection.
  • The RVR Ruhr Grün - Parkstation & Forststützpunkt Ost manages the large and small forest recreation and nature reserves owned by the Regionalverband Ruhr (RVR) in the eastern agglomeration of the Ruhr area.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Ecology Station - almost 900 years of prehistory. In: Ökologiestation.info. Environmental Center Westphalia, accessed on May 11, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Where it all began - 20 years of uncharted territory. Press release. (No longer available online.) Neuland-fleisch.de, 2008, archived from the original on January 16, 2016 ; accessed on January 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neuland-fleisch.de
  3. ↑ Burkhard Halfter: There's enough money: the guest house can be built. In: Westfälischer Anzeiger. September 2, 2010, accessed May 10, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Our house. gaestehaus-oekologiestation.de, accessed on May 10, 2015 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Claudia Behlau: The workforce has grown: the eco-station is bursting at the seams. under 'Local'> 'Unna and surrounding area'. In: Westfälische Rundschau. Funke Medien NRW (online presence of the WAZ Group), January 10, 2012, accessed on May 10, 2015 .
  6. ^ RVR Ruhr Grün - forest management in the conurbation. In: MetropoleRuhr.de. Regionalverband Ruhr, Karola Geiß-Netthöfel (editor-in-chief), accessed on May 10, 2015 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 38 '27.6 "  N , 7 ° 37' 17.2"  E