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The Himmelbeet is a 1,700 m² community garden in the Berlin district of Berlin-Wedding . The garden serves to bring people together in the social hotspot of Wedding. A jointly managed part, individual leasehold beds for individuals and organizations as well as a program of events on the subject of gardens and the environment provide the framework for this.

development

First of all, the Himmelbeet was to be founded on the roof of the Schiller-Park-Center, a shopping center in Weddinger Müllerstrasse . The attic, which was originally planned as a parking deck, is not used, and the sky bed organizers saw it as the ideal location for a garden with urban flair. They founded a GmbH and had already agreed with the owner of the property. However, questions of statics and fire protection prevented a building permit for several years, so that the sky bed finally moved to a fallow area near Leopoldplatz - also a former parking lot. The garden has been under construction there since 2013. The space itself was made available by the Berlin Senate.

Today the gGmbh has 13 employees and around 100 volunteers regularly take part in the activities of the Himmelbeet.

future

The property on Ruheplatzstrasse is intended for an education center and sports facilities for the “Amandla Edu Football” association in cooperation with the Oliver Kahn Foundation , who want to open up better future prospects for disadvantaged children and young people in Wedding with the so-called Safe-Hub education center. To this end, three soccer fields are to be built on the corner between Schulstrasse and Ruheplatzstrasse. The first plans to take over the property came up in 2015.
The start of construction for the education center is planned for 2021 (as of April 2020). The location for the Himmelbeet on Ruheplatzstrasse is therefore still secured for the 2020 gardening season, but where the Himmelbeet can move to has not yet been determined. A promised alternative area has not yet been offered to the Himmelbeet, which is why the members are looking for alternative properties themselves (as of April 2020)

Garden beds

The garden has 50 communal beds which are tended by the residents and whose income is processed and sold in the garden café. In addition to the shared garden part, it is possible to obtain a single lease bed. A lease bed is a raised bed unit consisting of a pallet, attachments, garden fleece, rabbit wire, green and shrub cuttings, compost and soil. There are a total of around 150 lease beds that are used by both individuals and organizations such as day-care centers. The demand for leased beds clearly exceeds the supply.

Coffee shop

The café has existed since 2015 and should help finance the garden with its income. The actual building was built exclusively from recycled Euro pallets and clay. On the one hand, the building materials should follow the concept of the garden and be completely compostable; on the other hand, it should be possible for the building to be erected primarily by the unskilled volunteer helpers of the Himmelbeet. The components were put together in a kind of wooden stand construction. On the one hand, it includes the bar area of ​​the café and, on the other hand, a kitchen in which cooking classes are held.

Awards

The café planned by Raumstar Architekten won an award in 2015 at the Berlin Prize of the Association of German Architects , and it also won the audience award there.

Events

Himmelbeet organizes workshops on gardening and the environment. These are held in both German and English. There are also cooking and tango courses as well as catering and an inclusion project.

literature

  • Toni Karge: New Urban Agriculture. A theoretical positioning and analysis of the actors of the Himmelbeet initiative in Berlin's Wedding . Workbooks of the Institute for Urban and Regional Planning Technical University Berlin. Issue 79. Berlin, 2015. ISBN 978-3-7983-2754-2 .

Web links

Commons : Himmelbeet  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Tina Veihelmann: If you want to garden you have to sow the seeds , the daily newspaper June 11, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c Seeding yourself, harvesting yourself , tapping yourself , bundesregierung.de 29 September 2015
  3. ↑ Berlin21: Himmelbeet intercultural community garden , accessed November 19, 2015
  4. ↑ What happened so far. In: Himmelbeet. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Susanne Grautmann: Days of Action "Common Cause": The " Heavenly Bed" and the Expulsion from Paradise. In: tagesspiegel.de . September 4, 2018, accessed September 8, 2018 .
  6. ^ A b Johanna Sailer: Social gardening in the focus of Weddings , Der Tagesspiegel June 18, 2014
  7. ↑ Annika Schröck: Do- it-yourself kitchen: Urban Gardening Project by raumstar , detail.de November 11, 2014
  8. ↑ Association of German Architects: BDA Prize 2015: Projects and Prize Winners ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bda-preis-berlin.de archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved November 19, 2015
  9. ↑ Katharine Buess: Himmelbeet community garden: So that the snail does not find home , Berliner Zeitung July 30, 2014
  10. ↑ Himmelbeet - Catering ( Memento from September 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Berliner Wochenblatt Verlag GmbH: Gardening for everyone: Himmelbeet starts inclusion project. Retrieved September 2, 2016 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '52.2 "  N , 13 ° 21' 44.1"  E