Pommritz manor

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Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 40 ″  N , 14 ° 34 ′ 7.4 ″  E The Pommritz manor in Pommritz in the Bautzen district in Saxony is an agricultural property from the 17th century and a cultural monument registered as a manor and manor park Pommritz. From 1863 until the middle of the 20th century it was run as an agricultural research institute. In the GDR era it housed a training center with a boarding school for 60 apprentices. From 1993 onwards, as “LebensGut Pommritz”, it offered space for various projects in the field of ecological agriculture, philosophy and social ecology. A seminar house was set up from 2014.

The cultural-historical ensemble consists of the castle and three farm buildings, plus a house and several barns, the enclosure wall, an estate park and the southern avenue (garden monument).

history

17th to 19th century

The place itself was first mentioned in a document in 1359, the manor probably founded afterwards and first mentioned in 1653 as "Rittergut Pommritz". After that, the estate passed through the hands of several noble families.

In 1863, the “Directorate of the Agricultural Bank of the Royal Margraviate of Bautzen” bought the manor and in the following years dedicated it to the “Agricultural Chemical Research Institute Pommritz”. Until then it was owned by the estates of the Margraviate of Oberlausitz.

In 1921 two fields with fish ponds were created in the park by Gerda von Krauss (born von Zenker zu Pommritz) in order to meet the increasing demand for carp during this period; At that time, the relatively small estate had specialized in the cultivation of medicinal herbs and supplied pharmacies "from Dresden to Berlin". Carp farming was given up after a particularly hard summer, continued again in GDR times and finally given up in the late 1960s due to overfertilization of the fields. The fields silted up.

Research institute for agricultural labor apprenticeship Pommritz

When Georg Derlitzki took over the management in 1919, the age of the "Pommritz Research Institute for Agricultural Work" began, which revolutionized agricultural research and teaching and made Pommritz the most important research center and model of German agriculture of its time. The main focus of Derlitzki's work was the optimization and easing of work in agricultural practice, primarily through mechanization, but also hygiene, accident prevention, use of electricity, farm management, variety testing and fertilizers were focused. One of his achievements is the technology of "Pommritz", a special form of beet harvest, which is still used today. Derlitzki is considered to be the founder of the "agricultural business theory" and under his direction the research institute in 1931 consisted of a total of 3 agricultural properties with a total of 500 hectares, more than 130 employees and a vocational school for agricultural work.

time of the nationalsocialism

With the outbreak of the Second World War , the profile was changed. Derlitzki's research was a thorn in the side of the National Socialists, as they wanted to focus on rural handicraft again. He was released in 1934. During the war, the “State Research Institute for Farm Work” in Pommritz provided the basic food for the army and the population.

GDR time

Volksgut Pommritz 1951

In 1945 the research institute was relocated to Leipzig and the entire inventory of the research institute was divided among various facilities in Saxony. The experimental estate was declared a "national estate". Despite the establishment of a training center with boarding school for 60 apprentices and the expansion of the area to almost 1000 hectares in 1964, the successes of the 1920s and 30s under Derlitzki could never be repeated.

"LebensGut Pommritz"

On the basis of a guest lecture by the Saxon Prime Minister Kurt Biedenkopf as part of the “socio-ecological” lectures by Rudolf Bahro and a concept developed by him, the state of Saxony and the Treuhandanstalt provided the estate and 80 hectares of land for an initiative for “sustainable business and village life” in 1991 in the 21st century ”. The Verein Neue Lebensformen eV was founded in 1992 as a project sponsor. In 1993 the practical project of the "LebensGut Pommritz" started. In cooperation with regional initiatives, authorities, companies and universities, an ecological farm , an adventure world for philosophy and ethics and an institute for cultural and social ecology were created .

The LebensGut Pommritz was a project of the World Exhibition Expo 2000 and this year comprised around 80 participants in the various areas. The philosopher and futurologist Maik Hosang was chairman of the sponsoring association for many years. In connection with an investment in a solar system, the sponsoring association and LebensGut Pommritz ran into difficulties in the 2000s.

Seminar house and other users

In 2014, the training provider WBS Training took over the estate. Today it is an "organic seminar house".

The "Institute for Cultural and Social Ecology" located in the estate and the "Philosophical Institute for Co-Creativity" organize projects and conferences on future issues. Some buildings and fields on the property are rented to the Saxon State Institute for Agriculture, which conducts plant cultivation experiments in its Pommritz research station . The philosophy adventure world “Sophia”, created from the year 2000, uses interactive, artistically designed objects to provide a playful insight into around 70 philosophies in human history.

The Förderverein Pro Gröditz has restored the fish ponds that were abandoned in the GDR era. They are used by amphibians as spawning waters. Further renovations and maintenance work were also financed.

literature

  • The research institute for agricultural labor apprenticeship Pommritz i. Sa incl. The experimental estates: Rittergut Pommritz, Rittergut Drehsa, Georgenhof. Monse & Rasch, 1931

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hochkirch: Rittergut Pommritz Entry at www.sachsens-schlösser.de
  2. ↑ On the development of pig breeding and production in the state of Saxony 1850–2000. Series of publications by the Saxon State Agency for Agriculture 2003. Accessed on December 8, 2017
  3. ↑ a b Gröditzer Skala on the website of the Pro Gröditz association
  4. ↑ a b Madeleine Siegl-Mickisch: The inventor of the Pommritzens. In: Sächsische Zeitung, May 7, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b Frank Fiedler , Uwe Fiedler: Life pictures from Upper Lusatia. Bischofswerda 2017. BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt. ISBN 978-3-7448-7197-6 .
  6. ↑ a b Thomas Gerlach: From hand to mouth. In: taz.de. August 31, 2014; accessed on December 7, 2017.
  7. ↑ "The millionaire and the search for happiness" In: sz-online.de. April 15, 2015. Retrieved December 7, 2017.
  8. ↑ LebensGut Pommritz
  9. ↑ Website of the Institute for Social-Ecological Cultural Research. Accessed April 1, 2019
  10. ^ Website of the Philosophical Institute for Co-Creativity. Accessed April 1, 2019
  11. ↑ Pommritz experimental station - description of the location.Retrieved December 8, 2017
  12. ^ Sophia - Science Center for Philosophy.Retrieved January 3, 2018
  13. ↑ a b History ("Achievements") on the website of the friends' association