Nature protection tower

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The nature protection tower in Bergfelde (2012)

The nature protection tower is a facility of the SDW in the Bergfelde district of the city of Hohen Neuendorf . It is the former Bergfelde command post of the GDR border troops on the Berlin Wall . The nature protection tower is one of four surviving former command posts of the Berlin Wall and is protected as a monument .

history

The former border between the Potsdam district of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and West Berlin ran through a forest in the area between Bergfelde and Berlin-Frohnau . This section was closed as part of the border between the four-power city of Berlin and the GDR in 1952. From 1961 the border strip was expanded with technical barriers as part of the Berlin Wall. Today's nature protection tower was built as the Bergfelde command post for the GDR border troops in the 1980s. It was used for border surveillance and as a command center for the surrounding observation towers . Management posts were structured according to the following scheme:

  • Basement with technical systems
  • Ground floor with a detention cell for GDR refugees
  • first floor as a lounge
  • second floor as an observation post with a view to all sides and a large searchlight on the roof

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , the Bergfelde command post was handed over to representatives of the German Forest Youth on June 25, 1990 and set up as a nature protection tower for nature conservation purposes. Of the former 31 command posts on the Berlin Wall (as of spring 1989), only four have been preserved. The nature tower stands as a monument at the end of 2009 monument .

Todays use

The operator of the nature protection tower is the German Forest Protection Association . It is used as a basis for various activities such as annual maintenance campaigns in the nearby Herthamoor .

The tower has a height of 8.50 m and a floor area of ​​around 16 m². The second floor serves as a group room and meeting point. Materials for nature conservation work are stored on the first floor. On the first floor there is a mini kitchen, boiler room and compost toilet; the wastewater is cleaned in a reed treatment plant . In the basement there is a storage room, the water supply and a well .

The approximately 4000 m² area around the nature protection tower is managed ecologically . The open space is used as a classroom in the countryside.

Web links

Commons : Guidance Office Bergfelde  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From the border tower to the nature protection tower. naturschutzturm.de, accessed on May 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Projects in and around the nature protection tower. naturschutzturm.de, accessed on May 3, 2018 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 39 ′ 36.1 ″  N , 13 ° 17 ′ 59.3 ″  E