Schoenefeld (Beelitz)

Schönefeld City of Beelitz
Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 20 ″  N , 13 ° 0 ′ 10 ″  E
Height :	41 m
Area :	7 km²
Residents :	115  (May 31, 2010)
Population density :	16 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1973
Postal code :	14547
Area code :	033204
Location of Schönefeld in Brandenburg
Listed village school

Schönefeld is part of the municipality of the city of Beelitz with 115 inhabitants. The characteristic street village has a green with the former village school in the center of the village.

Radio receiving center

In 1928, Telefunken built an "overseas receiving station" near what is now the Schönefeld district. It was used for telegraphic and telephone communication, initially mainly with the USA and South America. In association with the operations center at the main telegraph office in Berlin (HTA) and the overseas transmission station in Nauen, telegrams, radio calls and image telegrams (similar to today's FAX) between Germany and abroad were transmitted by radio on long or short waves.

Originally built for the Telefunken subsidiary Transradio (and as a replacement for the station in Geltow ), the radio receiving center (as well as the transmitting station in Nauen ) were subordinated to the Deutsche Post in 1930 .

The Telefunken architect Prof. Muthesius was already dead when the company building in Beelitz was being built, but you can tell from the buildings that they were designed in his architectural office.

Between 1929 and 1931, receivers and radio operators were gradually moved from Geltow to Beelitz. Telefunken had developed new large receivers which, together with the newly installed antenna systems, ensured reception from New York City , Cairo , Buenos Aires , Rio de Janeiro , Manila , Bangkok , Santiago de Chile , Osaka , Mexico , Tehran and Shanghai . Soon there were more stations.

The largest antenna systems included the four goniometer antennas for long-wave reception, the masts of which were furthest away on the meadows behind Krobs Hof in Beelitz and on the meadows between Rieben and Dobbrikow. Another Telefunken development was the so-called Christmas tree antenna , which consisted of an interconnection of 96 individual dipoles, which were suspended from 75 m high steel masts. All of this served to receive signals that were as interference-free as possible, which were then transmitted by cable to the HTA or the telephone exchange in Berlin.

The Beelitz radio reception center was thus part of the worldwide postal telecommunications network. Around 1930, the term that Beelitz was the (German) ear to the world arose around 1930 .

During the Second World War , the connections to many partner radio stations were interrupted.

After the Second World War, the Beelitz radio reception center established the radio links for the GDR post with Moscow, Beijing, Shanghai, Cairo, Helsinki, Budapest, Belgrade, Ulan Bator, Pyongyang and Havana, among others.

With the increased expansion of international cable connections using fiber optic cables, the transition from post-transmitted telegrams and long-distance calls to communication established directly by the subscriber took place step by step. Shortwave transmission became superfluous, and with it the radio reception center in Beelitz.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In the lowered, flattened, arched shield divided upwards, a golden sheaf of grain in green above, split gold-red below and divided 7 times."

Foundation of the coat of arms: The town of Schönefeld near Beelitz consists of 14 old four-sided courtyards, which are symbolically represented as fourteen bars alternately in red and gold, in the base of the shield and as a whole as a hill. Schönefeld is located on a hill or a hill and is characterized by agriculture. It was important for the residents to present the name Schönefeld in the coat of arms and a "beautiful field" on which grain is grown should also be included in the coat of arms. The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Ismet Salahor from Frankfurt and was included in the German local coat of arms at the HEROLD on February 9, 2018 under the number 57BR.

additional

Schönefeld was, among other things, the location for the film Sass , but also for an episode of the series In the Name of the Law ( RTL )

Web links

Commons : Schönefeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Beelitzer Nachrichten, Volume 21, No. 6, p. 9
2. ↑ Information on the local coat of arms received directly from the coat of arms designer