Lobetal

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Lobetal
Coordinates : 52 ° 44 '  N , 13 ° 36'  E
Height : 57 m
Area : 7.96 km²
Residents : 730  (Jan. 4, 2016)
Population density : 92 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 2002
Postal code : 16321
Area code : 03338
District of Bernau Lobetal Alte Schmiede built in 1926 for the agriculture of the Hope Valley Institutions.
District of Bernau Lobetal Alte Schmiede built in 1926 for the agriculture of the Hope Valley Institutions.

Lobetal is a district of the city of Bernau near Berlin in the Barnim district in Brandenburg .

geography

Lobetal is about four kilometers north of Bernau near Berlin and about five kilometers southwest of Biesenthal in the Barnim Nature Park . Around 700 inhabitants live in the village (December 31, 2002) and the area is 796 hectares.

In terms of landscape, Lobetal is integrated into the flat, undulating Barnim landscape on the Märkische Eiszeitstraße , which can be ridden on the "Ice Age Road Tour". The Berlin – Usedom long-distance cycle route runs right past the village and continues north through the Biesenthal basin , which is partially designated as a nature reserve.

Meeting center of the Hope Valley Foundation Lobetal

history

Lobetal was founded in 1905 by Pastor Friedrich von Bodelschwingh on a leased property as a workers' colony under the motto “Work instead of alms” to meet the misery of the homeless and unemployed in Berlin . As early as the spring of 1905, he had started building the first home in the “Hoffnungstal” in the neighboring town of Rüdnitz . This was not up to the onslaught from the Berlin asylums, which is why von Bodelschwingh turned two kilometers west to the "green meadow" in 1906 and built Lobetal there. Pastor Paul Gerhard Braune , who also headed the institution during the Nazi era , spoke to the Reich Chancellery for the protection of “non-Aryan” Christians, but could not prevent numerous residents of Jewish origin from being abandoned. A memorial stone on Bodelschwinghstrasse in the Friedenshöhe district has been commemorating the victims since 1997 . During the GDR era, politically persecuted people in the "East-West area of ​​conflict" found help and acceptance in Lobetal. Today, the Hope Valley Foundation Lobetal is located here , a center with homes and workshops for the disabled , senior citizens , epilepsy and addicts , which is part of the Diakonisches Werk of the Evangelical Church in Germany.

Forest Church

After German reunification , streets and squares were redesigned to make them suitable for the disabled, and numerous new buildings were added. The original park-like overall design was largely preserved. The Mechesee lies on the northern edge of the village . There is a sandbank in the middle of the lake. This comes to the fore more and more through silting up of the underground inflow. The reason for the falling groundwater level are the underground bunkers of the NVA , which were built one kilometer southeast of the town in 1985 and were used for radar monitoring of the northern Berlin airspace. Today an animal boarding house is housed here.

The then still independent municipality of Lobetal acquired a few hectares of land from the Hope Valley Establishments in Lobetal in the mid-1990s. In the residential area "An der einsamen Kiefer" there are now 42 mostly long-term leased homes.

Two kilometers south of the village is the site of a former GDR border dog training facility. Two kilometers to the north there was a hermetically sealed area - Langerönner Mühle - which was used partly by the NVA and partly by the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR. Local residents report regular transports by Ikarus buses in the second half of the 1980s. Most of the people arriving were male between the ages of 20 and 40 from Africa and Latin America . It remains to be seen whether the area was partially used for the military training of guerrilla troops in this context .

Since the end of 1939, the "Koralle" marine bunker, including the associated facilities, was located two kilometers west of the village . During the Second World War (since January 30, 1943) , Karl Dönitz was partly in command of the submarine fleet from here. After the war, the bunkers were used by the Soviet Army . A former team building of the Navy on the edge of the military area was given to the Hope Valley Institutions in Lobetal in 1949 for use as a residence. Most of the facilities were blown up after the end of the war, but the underground bunker and the former home of the Dönitz family have been preserved to this day.

The place also became known because Erich Honecker and his wife Margot stayed with the family of the Lobetal pastor Uwe Holmer from the end of January to the beginning of April 1990 .

In the course of the regional reform on December 31, 2002 it was incorporated into Bernau near Berlin.

Culture and sights

  • In addition to the Hope Valley Lobetal Foundation, there are three other associations in the village: The Alte Schmiede Lobetal Association for Integration and Tourism e. V. , who runs the old smithy used as a tourist meeting point and village community center. There is also a small library here.

With the help of mobile cinemas of the film clubs Güstrow and the National Association Cinema Communication Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is regularly cinema made. One focus is film work for and with people with disabilities.

There is also the SV Rüdnitz / Lobetal 97 sports club with around 300 members. The focus is on football, as well as table tennis, recreational volleyball and a dedicated sports section for the disabled. Furthermore, the Ukraine-Aid Lobetal (supporting association cura hominum e.V.) has been working in Lobetal since 1994 . She collects donations in kind and clothing and organizes regular aid transports to parishes and social projects in Ukraine.

  • Even from the GDR times, the place is known to many Berliners as a green oasis. The place and the immediate surroundings are still used for long walks.
  • There is a memorial in the cemetery to commemorate the more than 600 people who died of malnutrition and illness in the first post-war years (1945–1947) in Lobetal. In addition to villagers, there were also a large number of refugees who were staying in the village among the victims.
  • A memorial stone on the main street opposite the church commemorates 13 people of Jewish origin who could not be protected from attack by Nazi terror in Lobetal and were deported to various extermination camps.
  • In Alt-Lobetal there is a memorial stone that was erected in memory of four homosexual men with disabilities who were executed there in the so-called Plötzensee Blood Nights .

Son of the place

  • Fritz Onnasch (1911–1945), Protestant theologian and close collaborator of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Web links

Commons : Lobetal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Alte Schmiede Lobetal e. V .: Lobetal. In: City portrait - Bernau today - districts. At Bernau-bei-Berlin.de, accessed on September 1, 2019.
  2. ↑ Karl Pagel : The trail in the dark behind me. Testimony of a life. Verbum, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3-928918-62-6 , p. 137.
  3. ↑ Data from the municipality register: Area changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2002. July 1, 2007. Federal Statistical Office (Ed.) On DeStatis.de ( XLS ; 204 kB), accessed on September 1, 2019.