Jugendhof Dörnberg

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Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 53 "  N , 9 ° 20 ′ 41"  E

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Helfensteine, air camp and former youth center

The youth farm Dörnberg was a progressive youth education center supported by the state of Hesse on the northwest slope of the Hohen Dörnberg near Zierenberg in the north Hessian district of Kassel , which was operated from 1963 to December 2000. The today otherwise used and u. a. the Habichtswald Nature Park Center is located about 3 km east of the core town of Zierenberg on Kreisstraße  97, Dörnbergstraße, which branches off as a cul-de-sac about 600 m east of the city from Landesstraße  3214 (Zierenberg– Ehrsten ) to the southeast.

prehistory

The Helfensteine ​​at Dörnberg

The Hohe Dörnberg, located in the Habichtswald Nature Park , is 578.7  m above sea level. NHN Höhe the highest elevation of the natural area Dörnberg and Schreckenberge in the Habichtswälder Bergland . Since it is mostly free of fog and clouds and the updraft created on the slopes creates favorable conditions for gliding , the first gliding flights took place there as early as 1923. In 1924 , a first air camp was set up at the northwestern foot of the Helfensteine, a rock formation rising to 509.8  m in the northwestern apron of the Dörnberg, which was expanded between 1931 and 1935 and, after some modifications, still serves as a base for glider pilots today. From 1948 the first hiking trails were set up on and on the mountain, in the following years also parking spaces and in 1968 and 2004 even two excursion restaurants.

The youth farm

View from a glider on, v. l. n. r., Jugendhof, Fliegerlager, Helfensteine, NW take-off route

In the area of ​​the air camp, immediately north of today's home of the aviation association Kassel-Zierenberg, the Dörnberglager was built in the mid-1950s, a meeting place for school classes and hiking groups, which the state of Hesse had expanded into the so-called Jugendhof Dörnberg between 1961 and 1963 Released in 1963. Political education and trade union work took place there. Among the speakers invited over the years were Werner Nekes , Dore O. , Reimut Reiche , Bazon Brock , Hansjürgen Rosenbauer , Harun Farocki , Hartmut Bitomsky and the Hessian attorney general Fritz Bauer . Also, Gudrun Ensslin and Astrid Proll appeared, on its own initiative, on the Jugendhof whose orientation did not find agreement across the political spectrum. Gerhard Büttenbender was among the pedagogical staff from 1965 , who then founded the Kassel film collective , active until 1972 , in 1968 together with the twin sisters Jutta Schmidt and Gisela Schmidt and Adolf Winkelmann, who were also active there. Its aim was the “development of media forms of agitation”.

Conservative policies and austerity measures by the CDU state government under Roland Koch led to the closure of the Jugendhof on December 31, 2000.

Post-history

The approximately 4.85 hectare site with administration building, five accommodation houses and three single-family terraced houses was then for sale or lease, but without a permanently satisfactory use was found.

First of all, a sectarian self-marketer of the so-called “Medical Resonance Therapy Music” with his self-publisher “Aar Edition” received a temporary license until July 31, 2001, which he, however , extended without permission until eviction . From 2003 to mid-2005, the Fürstenwald specialist clinic for addicts , located in the village of Fürstenwald just a few kilometers to the north and supported by the Diakonisches Werk of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck , used the property on a temporary basis. After that, the buildings were again empty and for sale for a long time. In 2006, the still vacant property was bought by a private investor who ran the “Heil- und Seminar-Zentrum Helfensteine”, a holistic healing center , there from October 2007 to August 2015 , and who leased the Café Eden.

In August 2009 the Habichtswald Nature Park Center was opened in a building leased on a long-term basis by the Habichtswald Nature Park Association . On the lower floors there is the visitor and information center with changing natural and local history exhibitions as well as a small shop with regional products and books. There you can get information about natural, historical and geological conditions as well as leisure and event offers in the area of ​​the Habichtswald Nature Park . The upper floor contains a group floor that can be booked for groups of children and young people.

The Helfenstein Center was put up for sale again in 2013, and in August 2015 the Trias Foundation from Hattingen , founded in 2002, became the new owner of the site. The buildings were bought by the Lebensbogen community, to which the Trias Foundation transferred the land on a heritable basis . The community ultimately wants to move into the facility with around 50 members and also an education center for sustainable development there - i. H. ecological balance, social justice and economic security - establish. In addition to offering your own seminars, there should still be the possibility of renting rooms for meetings and congresses as well as for seminars and workshops. Towards the end of 2015, the first two dozen members of the community moved in. The Lebensbogen conference center and the Helfensteine guest house and excursion restaurant (former Café Eden ) are now also in operation.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ a b Since the abandonment of use as a state youth center, usage concepts have been regularly submitted by various institutions and private individuals , from December 5, 2005, accessed on August 14, 2017, on juramagazin.de
  3. ↑ a b Small question from MPs Hofmeyer (SPD) of October 23, 2001 regarding concrete measures for the re-management of the Landesjugendhof Dörnberg or for the preservation of the value of the corresponding buildings, facilities and areas and answer from the Minister of Finance , printed matter 15/3026, of February 12 2002, accessed on August 14, 2017, from starweb.hessen.de (PDF; 26.7 KB)
  4. ↑ Information about sects, cults and the psychomarket , Bundesverband Sekten- und Psychomarktberatung e. V., Bonn, as of March 9, 2007, accessed on August 14, 2017, at agpf.de
  5. ↑ Like a woman when she gives birth ( Der Spiegel ), October 20, 1997, accessed on August 14, 2017, on spiegel.de
  6. ↑ Tanja Losch: Review of the Effects of Medical Resonance Therapy Music according to P. Hübner in patients with neurodermatitis, psoriasis vulgaris or vitiligo , dissertation, Giessen, 2002, accessed on August 14, 2017, on uni-giessen.de (PDF; 11, 24 MB)
  7. ↑ Small request from the Abg. Hofmeyer (SPD) dated July 14, 2005 regarding the Dörnberg youth hostel, district of Kassel and answer from the Minister of Finance - preliminary note by the questioner , dated September 2, 2005, accessed on August 14, 2017, on juramagazin.de
  8. ↑ Helfensteine ​​- Elfensteine. Nature, geology and history of a place of power of memory and healing , first published in: Journal Lachesis , No. 41 “Rooms of Memory”, February 2012, accessed on August 14, 2017, on Kreistanzen
  9. ↑ Habichtswald Nature Park Center , accessed on August 14, 2017, at naturpark-habichtswald.de
  10. ↑ Dörnberg nature reserve - a worthwhile excursion destination , accessed on August 14, 2017, at tourist-info-zierenberg.de (PDF; 312 KB)
  11. ↑ Center Helfensteine ​​is for sale , March 1, 2013, accessed on August 14, 2017, at hna.de.
  12. ^ Stiftung Trias , accessed on August 14, 2017, from stiftung-trias.de
  13. ↑ The foundation buys the Center Helfensteine ​​on the Dörnberg , from June 4, 2015, accessed on August 14, 2017, on hna.de.
  14. ↑ Zierenberger Zentrum Helfensteine ​​was sold for 1.18 million euros , from June 23, 2015, accessed on August 14, 2017, on hna.de.

literature

  • Wilfried Maier (ed.): Jugendhof Dörnberg: Political education work in the shadow of the scandal. Hessian Youth Ring, Wiesbaden, 1970
  • Michael Kelbling: Dörnberg youth farm and Dietzenbach youth education center; Review of the former youth education centers of the State of Hesse with special consideration of theater work. In: Benno Hafeneger, Benedikt Widmaier, Horst-Dieter Zahn (eds.): Political youth education in Hessen; Reviews and insights. Extracurricular political youth education - a success story after 1945. Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach / Ts., 2001, ISBN 978-3-89974-755-3 , pp. 35–41