Nature conservation Malchow
The nature Malchow is an institution in the Berlin districts Lichtenberg and Marzahn-Hellersdorf , which was created in 1991 and has continued to expand. The organization is run by the Malchow Nature Conservation Station , the corresponding support association . This is an environmental education facility with three locations in the Berlin districts of Malchow , Hohenschönhausen and Hellersdorf . It conveys extensive knowledge about the local flora and fauna in various ways for all age groups . The headquarters and the facility with the largest number of employees is the Naturhof in Malchower Dorfstrasse.
history
The Malchow nature conservation area was opened on October 18, 1991 on the initiative of the Hohenschönhausen politician Heinz Nabrowski . For this purpose, the first commissioner, Christel Wagner, used three rooms in the local rehabilitation home, where she had set up a thematic exhibition. She also invited to guided tours in the Malchow Landscape Park and gave lectures in schools on the subject of nature and environmental protection. Together with two other environmental activists, she created a nature trail around Malchower See . In October 1991, the facility moved to Malchower Dorfstrasse 35, where there was a vehicle fleet with a vehicle workshop for the State Security during the GDR era . The employment office soon also sent ABM workers and the biologist Beate Kitzmann volunteered to support the project.
The district office provided a large part of the necessary financial resources for the further development of the Malchow nature reserve and created a job for a full-time manager. The biologist Arvid Goltz took over this function . Further areas adjacent to the former farm could be purchased and made arable. Many small, different types of biotopes were created as display areas and equipped with clear information boards.
On October 16, 1992, 21 Naturefriends, parallel to the development in Malchow, founded a support association for environmental protection in basement rooms in Wartenberger Weg . There they began with “environmental education for children and young people”. The district office brought both activities together in 1992/1993, from which the current Malchow nature conservation facility developed with practical activities and extensive educational offers on environmental protection.
In 1995 a concrete mast with nesting aid was erected on the north-facing outdoor area of the former farm for a family of storks breeding in Malchow, which the birds used for the first time in 2002. In the 1990s, the Malchow employees reactivated a first orchard meadow , created agricultural land and the first three robust cattle found space on a pasture on a large meadow .
The Lichtenberg environmental office (Passower Straße 35), which emerged from the Environment and Education working group established in 1994 , and the Schleipfuhl Nature Conservation Center ( Marzahn-Hellersdorf district , Hermsdorfer Strasse 11A, founded in 1996) joined the Malchow Nature Conservation Group in the late 1990s.
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During the renovation work on the Malchower Hof and the buildings, which took place between 2009 and October 2015, the historic cobblestones on the courtyard were exposed and the clinker brick facades were restored in accordance with the listed buildings. The architect Sabine Wachsmuth was responsible for planning these measures.
Between 2013 and 2017, a training center for landscape maintenance was set up. Around 1.2 million euros were available for the fundamental renovation of the building, mostly from EU funds and municipal contributions as well as donations.
Use / acceptance
In the first ten years, an average of more than 20,000 people visited the facilities of the Malchow nature reserve. In the meantime, up to the end of 2018, almost 100,000 people were counted each year.
The following excerpt report on a lesson in 2014 for four to five year old preschoolers from the Hohenschönhausen creative house Sonnenblume shows the interest in active engagement with nature . They were shown photos of trees in autumn, caves in the earth and many cute animals on a large projection screen. Beate Brandl, the event manager, included the little visitors in the presentation with a question and answer game, for example: “How do you recognize a mole under the ground?” “In the big pile.” “What happens when squirrels forgot where the acorns are buried? ”“ They ask the birds. ”When they went outside, the children also found numerous“ large piles ”, were able to see the two still empty stork nests on the mast, but they also liked to use the nature-related ones Opportunities for fun such as balancing on a log or climbing through oversized honeycombs .
The nature conservation institution publishes the free environmental newspaper Grünblick every quarter , in which a lot of background information and the environmental dates of the current year can be found. The newspaper can also be downloaded as a PDF file.
Nature Conservation Malchow organizes environmental education conferences or training on specific topics. The Lichtenberg hiking maps published in cooperation with the district office, such as The Ufer Tour , The Park Tour or the Malchow Tour, are well received .
description
Naturhof Malchow
The base station Naturhof Malchow is located on a historic three-sided farm built in 1898 directly on the main street (Dorfstraße) in the Lichtenberg district of Berlin-Malchow, which has been rebuilt several times over the years. Since 2013, the Naturhof has had the first Berlin natural barn with the permanent exhibition LebensRäume and a freshwater aquarium for local fish, named after the biologist and first head of the station Arvid Goltz. In the former stable buildings, seminar rooms and an event room (which was modernized in 2013) have been set up. There is also the stork café (to which the camera images from the stork's nest are transmitted) and a farm shop with regional and seasonal offers.
Behind the courtyard buildings, practical examples in the field show what each individual can contribute to nature conservation. On the outdoor area, next to which a very large steel lattice mast of an electric overhead line is placed, the employees carry out stork observations and a board informs the visitors about the arrival of the birds, the number of hatched young animals and the time of departure. Unfortunately, it was also found that the young storks often had accidents on the steel parts of the mast - from breaks to fatal falls.
The Naturhof Malchow owns a total of 16 hectares of orchards with almost 900 fruit trees, including apples in 60 old and almost unknown varieties. In addition, around 100 Scottish Highland cattle graze the approximately 100 hectares of green space at the facility (as of 2017).
Environment office Lichtenberg and nature center Schleipfuhl
The other two facilities of the Malchow Nature Conservation Organization, the Lichtenberg Environment Office and the Hellersdorf Nature Conservation House (the Schleipfuhl Nature Center ), also take on educational tasks like the Malchowers.
However, the Hellersdorf branch can also provide information on questions relating to the modern energy industry. The building there itself is a low-energy house made of natural materials, which has a solar system on the roof. A natural garden with a pond, the management of spawning waters, practical information on species protection, orchards with around 70 trees and an accompanying educational trail - all of this is also part of the special offer at Schleipfuhl . Since 2009, the employees of the nature conservation center have been taking part in joint campaigns by the Marzahn-Hellersdorf environmental education network, such as the annual environmental festival .
The environmental office in the Lichtenberg district specializes more in theoretical questions about environmental protection. It establishes the connection between nature and environmental problems and the district office. On its behalf, however, an environmental calendar and the online newspaper Umwelt Online are regularly published free of charge. The employees also organize hikes and bike tours to well-known natural monuments in the district. After all, they have set up a network that aims to bring organic farmers from Berlin and Barnim together.
Goals and Perspectives
The extensive educational program offers around 60 fixed topics with a focus on native flora and fauna (as of the end of 2018). In addition, there are information events and guided tours for groups of children, school classes, senior citizens, as well as thematic tours. The already established apple festival and the regular Advent market in Malchow will be continued.
The management and the Friends of Nature Conservation are striving in the long term that Malchow will become an eco-village . Good conditions are the underlying their farms arable land Weissensee, the nature reserve Malchower Aue (leads along which a well-kept promenade with several game stations like a basket ball field or a stationary skateboard), the habitat around the Malchower lake and the Green Campus Malchow with Kita and school given.
There are already plans for new uses for other buildings, such as the former residential building along Dorfstrasse and the kitchen wing.
The two facilities in Hellersdorf and Lichtenberg are also constantly expanding their activities in order to further strengthen environmental protection in Berlin and to make decisions more central.
Web links
- Website of the Malchow Nature Conservation Station
- Details on the topics of storks, oak processionary moths and nature trails in Lichtenberg, on the occasion of a press conference in June 2018 in the Malchower Station.
- Website of the Lichtenberg environmental office
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Information on the number of visitors to the Malchow Nature Conservation Station ("Congratulations! The Friends of Malchow Nature Conservation Station is turning 10") in the Grünblick magazine , September 2002; P. 3 , accessed February 8, 2019.
- ↑ Article of the Berliner Woche online , 2012 on the 20th anniversary of the Förderverein Naturschutzstation Malchow.
- ↑ Schleipfuhl Nature Conservation Center , accessed on February 8, 2019.
- ↑ Katja Reichgardt: Bringing people and nature closer together ; in: Grünblick, 2014; accessed on February 9, 2019.
- ↑ a b Birgitt Eltzel: Malchow nature conservation station is 25 , on www.lichtenbergmarzahnplus.de; accessed on February 8, 2019.
- ↑ Monika Arnold: When children know more car brands than animal and plant species . Online in: Berliner Morgenpost , February 27, 2014.
- ↑ A Grünblick edition.
- ↑ Documentation of the Environmental Education Conference 2017 Back to the roots? (pdf), accessed on February 8, 2019.
- ↑ Overview of the Lichtenberg hiking maps , accessed on February 8, 2019.
- ↑ a b An overview of the institutions: Environmental education for everyone , in: Grünblick, No. 96, 2014; P. 4.
- ^ Network environmental education with details on the NZZ Schleipfuhl , accessed on March 23, 2019.
