Officer's Casino Döberitz
The Officers Casino Döberitz was located in Dallgow-Döberitz in Brandenburg and was built in 1895 as part of the construction of the Döberitz military training area . Use was limited to the summer months, when the troops were training. This explains the lightness of the standard construction, which was also used on other military training areas. After the casinos in Altengrabow, Hohenlockstedt and Munster had to be given up and demolished years ago, the demolition permit for the Döberitz casino has now been granted. The demolition took place in April 2014.
architecture
The building was constructed in half-timbered construction on a brick base. A few years later, external wooden cladding was added, as was the case with the casino in Munsterlager, for example. This change is said to go back to an initiative of Kaiser Wilhelm II , who admired wooden buildings on a trip to Norway. The roof construction consisted of a flat pitched gable roof or pent roofs with bitumen cardboard covering . In the middle of the building was the approx. 390 m², nine meter high dining and ballroom with a view of the open roof structure.
The hall was illuminated like a basilica through skylight windows, the arrangement of which corresponded to the arcade design of the wooden veranda. The skylight sides were connected by tie rods . Parts of the walls were paneled. Across the great hall was a smaller hall, also with an open wooden roof structure.
To the north, the hall opened onto the ornate open veranda. A flight of stairs led into the casino park. There was a wine room in the basement below the veranda . In the east, on the steep slope of the Schwanengraben, a closed veranda was added.
In 1906, Kaiser Wilhelm II transferred a large chandelier , which he had received from the chief foresters of his districts for the silver wedding anniversary , to the large dining room.
While the other buildings of the Döberitz troop camp (tents, corrugated iron barracks) were replaced by solid stone structures (accommodation buildings, military hospitals, non-commissioned officers 'mess), the officers' mess remained in its original state until the end. This lightweight construction and the inadequate care for over 70 years made the poor state of preservation understandable.
Usage history after 1945
The building was used as an officers' mess by the Soviet armed forces until around 1970. Afterwards it served as a sales hall for about twenty years as part of the troop supply ("Magazin", "Russenmagazin", "HO-Spezialhandel"). Since the casino was outside of the fenced-in military camp, shopping for the German population was also tolerated. After the withdrawal of the Red Army, the property initially became the property of the Federal Property Office , which carried out an initial clearing and securing in 1993. The transfer for a symbolic purchase price to the community of Dallgow-Döberitz took place in 1996. At the same time, the building was placed under monument protection. In 1999/2000 the roof was repaired for 20,000 DM. The casino, which could not be heated economically, was not used until the end. Since 1993 the condition of the building had deteriorated drastically due to vandalism, graffiti, weather influences and destroyed windows. Parts of the building were infected with the sponge. For years there was a threat of collapse.
Monument value of the building
In their report of May 2, 1996, the monument protection authority determined the fundamental monument value of the officers' mess, which was part of a building ensemble with military and local historical significance. The group of buildings documented the extensive military site on today's Bundesstraße 5 , the tradition of which goes back to the 18th century. While the two massive buildings ( water tower and barrack 34) could be restored in accordance with the monument, the casino fell into disrepair.
After the unreasonableness of the preservation (§ 7 Brandenburg Monument Protection Act - BbgDSchG) was officially established, the municipal council decided after years of discussions in favor of the demolition, the procedure according to § 19 BbgDSchG was started by the highest monument protection authority in Brandenburg, the Ministry of Science, Research and culture, ended with permission to demolish. Ancillary provisions for the salvage, preservation and reuse of components were not made. The demolition took place in March / April 2014.
Environment of the location
From the veranda of the officers' casino one looked into a 4000 m² park. To the east, the terrain drops steeply to the Schwanengraben, which is seven meters lower. In the park there was a music pavilion (music shell), a tea house and a tennis court. Another pavilion with a view of the Schwanengraben was also no longer available . There was a bowling alley on the bank, which was later expanded into a cinema and shooting range. To the north of the site there are still three representative, listed buildings in the country house style on Wilhelmstrasse. While the building at Wilhelmstrasse 4 was the post office (built in 1916/18), the houses at Wilhelmstrasse 2, built in 1897 and 1913, served as garrison administration. They have been restored and converted for residential use. In 1913 five buildings with officers' apartments were built at the north gate opposite the Casino Park. They are used civilly today.
The 30.8 m high water tower, built in 1898 and a clinker brick building in the Wilhelmine style, was completely renovated in 1998 and has become a landmark that defines the townscape. The former barracks, the only accommodation building to be preserved, was integrated into the neighboring St. Martin daycare center as a playhouse in 1999 . Another daycare center was opened in 2013 in the former casino park.
literature
- Marie-Luise Buchinger: Expert opinion on the monument value
- Paul Deickert: Döberitz - reflections and images from the past and present of the Döberitz military training area , Döberitz 1930
- Jürgen Tietz: Two barracks buildings by Walter and Johannes Krüger in Brandenburg (ie Löwen-Adler barracks Döberitz and cyclist barracks Fürstenwalde / Rauen) , Brandenburgische Denkmalpflege, vol. 6, Berlin 1997, issue 2, p. 5 ff.
- Kai Biermann / Erhard Cielewicz: Döberitz airfield, birthplace of military aviation in Germany , Berlin 2005
- Wolfgang Cilleßen: The Olympic Village 1936 , Berlin 1996
- Susanne Dost: The Olympic Village 1936, through the ages , Berlin 2003
- The Olympic Village Accommodation for the Infantry School and the 1st Battalion of the Infantry Training Regiment Berlin 1938 2nd edition of the official documentation The Olympic Village , 1936
- Margrit Kühl, Wolfgang Schächen, Christian Schwan, Hans Joachim Teichler: Forgotten Place Olympic Village 1936. , Berlin 2009
- Lutz Münchhoff: Dallgow-Döberitz in flight , Dallgow-Döberitz 2007
- Wilhelm Doegen: POWs Peoples, Volume 1 , Berlin 1919
- Alexander Backhaus: The prisoners of war in Germany, Around 250 photos of reality from German prison camps , Siegen, Leipzig, Berlin 1915
- Ed. Erika Stix, with contributions by Ruth Öhlenschläger, Dietrich von Creytz, Michael Knuth, Stefan Lindemann and others. a .: On the history of the Döberitzer Heide , Berlin, Volumes 1–9, 1999–2011
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Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '27.1 " N , 13 ° 3' 18.2" E