Teaching and research institute for small animal breeding Unna-Königsborn
The teaching and research institute for small animal breeding Unna-Königsborn was an agricultural teaching and experimental operation of the Chamber of Agriculture Westphalia-Lippe , which was built from 1954 on the site of the former fiefdom of Brockhausen . The LVA Unna-Königsborn estate comprised a total of around 14 hectares, 8 of which were used for agricultural purposes. The official laying of the foundation stone took place on April 20, 1956, and the official inauguration in 1958. In 1983 the LVA was relocated from Unna-Königsborn to today's "Agricultural Center Haus Düsse " in Bad Sassendorf .
goals and tasks
With the establishment of the teaching and research institute (LVA) in Unna-Königsborn , the emerging changes in the consumption habits of consumers were met, which in particular made a modern orientation and intensification of poultry production necessary. From 1964, the LVA set new modern standards in the field of scientifically exact feed value performance testing . The “Königsborner test procedures” for poultry feed were also a model for other areas of animal production at home and abroad. In view of the social criticism of factory farming that arose in the 1970s , the LVA contributed to the objectification of public discussion through transparency and public relations work. The primary goal of the LVA as one of the leading institutions of this kind has always been the modernization of the Westphalian-Lippe poultry farming along with the promotion of direct marketing . Raising small animals as one of the other tasks of the LVA included keeping Angora rabbits in order to improve the quality of the wool.
The extensive pasture areas at the Königsborner Kurpark were used both for the seasonal cattle rearing on behalf of “Haus Düsse” and for straw, hay and silage production for personal use. For a while, Texel and Schwarzkopf sheep also shaped the public image of the LVA. However, to the delight of many passers-by, these were primarily kept as environmentally friendly “ lawn mowers ”.
At the same time, as a Westphalian training company, the LVA provided practical development aid with the training of young professionals from developing countries . Today's poultry industry in Ghana is likely to have benefited from the “know-how from Königsborn”.
The products produced by the LVA were sold in a separate shop on the ground floor of the administration building ( direct marketing ). The company's own products included eggs, poultry meat (as frozen products in the form of ready-to-grill chickens and turkeys or as sausage and braised products), sometimes also frozen rabbit meat and, depending on the season, fruit from the company's own plantations (apples, pears and plums).
Organization and structure
In terms of organizational law, the LVA in Unna-Königsborn was a unit. In the course of a reorganization of the Westphalia-Lippe Chamber of Agriculture under public law , the areas of responsibility of the LVA were transferred to the teaching and research institute for animal and plant production "Haus Düsse" in Bad Sassendorf, today's "Agricultural Center Haus Düsse ", So that with the complete relocation of the LVA tasks to" Haus Düsse "at the beginning of 1983, the entire Königsborn LVA site and buildings could be handed over to the city of Unna. The Westphalia-Lippe Chamber of Agriculture, based in Münster , finally merged with the Rhineland Chamber of Agriculture, which is based in Bonn , to form what is now the North Rhine-Westphalia Chamber of Agriculture .
Today's use of the former LVA site
Since 1983 the former LVA property has been used by the youth art school of the city of Unna , which is known beyond Unna , by the children's circus "Travados" (with a small zoo and a new construction of a winter- proof circus building), by a school for difficult-to-educate children and by non-profit associations, in particular pedigree poultry associations . In this way, almost all of the former LVA buildings have been preserved in good structural condition as today's urban properties. In the former sales room of the LVA, a bistro with beer garden was set up by the old pond, so that the historic LVA site, located in the middle of the Königsborn spa gardens, is now a popular destination (Luisenstraße, 59425 Unna).