Southwest:
Teltow
After years of renovation, the former farming town and then industrial city with global companies presents itself again as a real gem, to which a short trip is certainly worthwhile.
Upswing of a village
From farmer to industrialist
Teltow canal as a driver of development
Although most of the southwest of Berlin once belonged to Teltow, it was still not a rich town due to its village structure. It was not until the construction of the Teltow Canal that the agrarian town experienced a major boom. Industrial companies in Berlin relied on the favorable location on the waterway and the proximity to the capital.
From the accommodation in west-southwest direction is Teltow (6 km). The place is mentioned for the first time in a document in 1265, although ground finds point to settlements in 300 BC. In the course of the migration of peoples in the 4th and 5th century the Suebi had left the settlement at the – later drained for the Teltow Canal – Schönower See. Slavic tribes occupied the presumably settlement-empty area. This dominance ended with the land expansion to the east by the Ascanian Albrecht I from 1157. The Ascanians sold the town together with surrounding villages to the Bishop of Brandenburg in 1299. It remained in his possession until the Hochstift Brandenburg was absorbed into the Kurfürstenhut Brandenburg after the Reformation in 1571. However, the burghers did not get off on the right foot away from the main trade routes. Shingles or thatched wooden huts dominated the townscape, so that several devastating fires required multiple reconstruction. The Thirty Years’ War did the rest, and by 1652 the settlement was largely depopulated.
After the Schwanebeck and Wilmersdorf families had determined the fate of the town for several centuries, the citizens took their lot into their own hands after the Stein-Hardenberg reforms in 1808. However, it was not until the construction of the Teltow Canal in 1906 together with the Kleinmachnow lock (see below) that industrialization and prosperity were initiated. The steam tram line from Groß-Lichterfelde and the train station on the Anhalter Bahn, inaugurated in 1901, had not yet been able to do this. In addition to land and water, the city even gained another element in 1910: an airfield operated by Nordflug-Werke, where the Berlin letter carrier Gustav Witte opened a flying school in 1912 and the prize-winning Union-Pfeil biplane was produced. However, the Treaty of Versailles ended this era. During World War II, bombs and artillery destroyed large parts of Teltow; bridges were deliberately blown up. Only the old town center was preserved.
After the war, Askania Feinmechanik und Optik GmbH became the main engine of Teltow’s development from 1946 onwards, alongside the Drawolid plant (see below monument “Die Forderung”). Nationalized as early as 1948 and renamed VEB Geräte- und Reglerwerke Teltow (GRW Teltow) in 1954, the plant with 12,000 employees formed the center of automation technology in the GDR. Today, most of the GRW Teltow buildings at Oderstrasse 74-76 have been demolished and new companies have moved in. After the fall of the Wall, the old town was declared a redevelopment area in 1994. The urban renewal was not completed until 2011. Since then, Teltow has been a gem in Berlin’s Speckgürtel. For a sightseeing tour, here is a city map of Teltow.
It is not possible to name the city without mentioning the Teltow turnip: Brassica Papa teltowiensis is a special form of turnip, which is distinguished by its size of about five centimeters in length with a diameter of 1.5 to three centimeters, as well as slender conical shape and transverse stripes. Originally it comes from the regions of Poland and Finland. Frederick the Great introduced it in 1770, mainly to make the sandy soils usable for livestock. Since then it has become a delicacy, appreciated also at the French court and also by Goethe and Kant. It is eaten raw in salads, cooked as a soup or side dish. A classic way of preparation is cooked whole or halved with butter in caramelized sugar, deglazed with meat broth, creating a dark sauce, which is bound with a little flour. In GDR times, it was hardly cultivated. But after reunification, cultivation and consumption increased again. The Förderverein für das Teltower Rübchen e.V. was finally founded in 1998.
The entire old town has been listed since reunification and redevelopment (1997). After all, Teltow is one of the few agricultural towns in the Mark Brandenburg that is still almost completely preserved. Restored houses and courtyards characterize the scenery with numerous details such as staircases, gateways and doors.
But already on the way to the center of Teltow we can make a stop or two, because we already pass various gems of history and architecture.
Arco-Villa
The Arco Villa (3.4 km from your accommodation; Kantstraße 53) belonged to the physicist Georg Graf von Arco (1869-1940), one of two managing directors of Telefunken-Werke, founded in 1903. In addition, evon Arcor was instrumental in the research and development of high-frequency technology. The architect Otto Laternser designed the two-story fieldstone and brick building with tiled roof and gatehouse in 1941. Like many of Laternser’s works, the entire complex including the enclosure is a listed building.
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Villa Erica
Villa Erica (Max-Sabersky-Allee 42) is also one of the first buildings in the Seehof villa colony. It is said to have been the second house built in the villa colony after Villa Salomon. After renovation, apartments are rented there today on booking.com and AirBnB.
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Villa Sabersky
The Sabersky Villa (3.7 km; Max-Sabersky-Allee 22/ corner Hauffstr. 2a) was built in the early 1880s in addition to the manor house of the estate park (see above). The industrialist Max Sabersky lived here. The now renovated house with its 574 sqm living space, twelve rooms and five bathrooms can be rented for 9,500 € cold/month (as of August 2022).
Villa Salomon
The Berlin banker Emil Salomon had a summer residence built for his family in Seehof, a district of Teltow, in 1873. The Villa Salomon (4 km; Max-Sabersky-Allee 2) was the first villa apart from the manor house of the Sabersky estate park and contributed to the development of the Seehof villa colony at Lake Teltow (no longer in existence due to the construction of the Teltow Canal); especially since Salomon participated financially in the steam tramway, called “Lahme Ente,” from Lichterfelde to Teltow to better develop this part of town. Salomon created an ideal world here with boat trips and bowling in what was then a rural part of Berlin; after all, he himself had been severely wounded as a reserve officer in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71.
His son Erich, who later became world-famous as a photographer and pioneer of photojournalism, also spent his childhood here. Dr. Erich Salomon, his wife and son Dirk were tracked down in 1942 in their Dutch exile, where they were hiding, after denunciation, deported and murdered in Auschwitz in July 1944.
He had already sold the villa in 1925 for lack of money. In GDR times, the building with 5,000 plots of land housed the kindergarten “Jenny Matern” (after the communist persecuted by Nazis and later social politician of the GDR, 1904-1960), renamed after the reunification in “Däumelinchen”. From 2000, the building stood empty until it was listed as a historical monument in 2007 and private investors took over the house with its “urban planning, personal and local historical significance” (Landesdenkmalamt).
Sabersky Park
The manor park, Sabersky Park (3.8 km), is located between Lichterfeld Allee and Rosegger Straße. In 1856, the Jewish merchant Herrmann Jacobson had bought this area from an agrarian and had a manor house built on it, which he called “Seehof” because of the Teltow Lake (disappeared by the construction of the Teltow Canal). At the beginning of the 1870s, the brothers Max and Albert Sabersky bought the house and land, parceled it out and thus gave the starting signal for the development of the Seehof villa colony, where artists, scientists and entrepreneurs soon settled. In 1890, a spa house was built and three bathing spots were designated on the lake. In winter, ice skating was practiced or the ice was broken out in blocks for butcher shops, restaurants and private households. Max Sabersky showed great interest in horticulture and the royal court gardener Theodor Carl Gustav Nietner (1823 – 1893) drafted a park plan for his 17,600 square meter garden in the mid-1870s and published it in a professional journal. That this plan was ever implemented, however, was disputed by the current community of heirs in their legal dispute with the State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments. The first community of heirs – the two brothers Max and Albert had died in the meantime – had fled from the National Socialists, who further fragmented the land, and in GDR times the former estate park became overgrown – it was borderland and the motor vehicle barrier ditch can still be recognized. After the reunification, the land was returned to the Sabersky descendants after one of the most controversial restitution processes, which lasted 20 years. However, the development became impossible, because on the one hand the park was put under monument protection in 2011, which was lifted again after a settlement in 2017, and on the other hand residents protested against a settlement afterwards. Now the city of Teltow wants to buy the park.
Bethesda retirement home
The Bethesda Home for the Elderly, built in 1928/29, (Mahlower Str. 148) is today the Bethesda Evangelical Home for the Elderly. The name in Hebrew means “house of grace” and refers to a pond in Jerusalem from which people hoped for healing according to the Gospel of John. Founded in 1854, the “Christian Women’s Association for the Establishment of a Home for the Severely Handicapped, Initially for Female Severely Handicapped” expanded its activities from its original location in Schöneberg, then Plötzensee, by acquiring a plot of land in Teltow in 1901, when plans for the West Harbor became known. However, it was not until 1928 that the foundation stone was laid and finally the building was inaugurated in 1929. The clinker brick building was designed by Jürgen Bachmann and Julius Funk. The four-story building is considered an example of classical modernism and is protected as a historic monument, including the chapel. lafim.de/einrichtung/teltow-evangelisches-seniorenzentrum-bethesda
Settlement Church
The settlement church with community center (Mahlower Str. 150), designed by architect Prof. Winfried Wendland, was built in 1935, after the district synod had decided in 1928 to create the position of a “district pastor for settlements. Due to the emergence of Greater Berlin in 1920 and new settlements in the outlying areas, the parishes no longer saw themselves in a position to adequately care for the faithful there. Accordingly, the service agreement of the first district settlement pastor, Konrad Zipfel, on March 1, 1929, looked like this: He “has in general the task of locating and developing ways and means for church work in the settlements, deciduous colonies, weekend places, etc…. In particular, in consultation with the district synodal board, it will undertake pastoral work in certain settlements as the basis of its activity.” The settlement church included a kindergarten, meeting room for 120 people, nurses’ station, and workroom for the district pastor. The third settlement pastor, Dr. Hans Böhm, was an active adherent of the Confessing Church, whom National Socialist security agencies arrested four times during his tenure. Böhm played a leading role in the church struggle and was treasurer, spokesman and ecumenical advisor of the Confessing Church. And he actively pursued the planning and construction of the Settlement Church. Two years after its dedication, a freestanding wooden bell tower with two bronze bells (Hofglockengießerei Franz Schilling, Apolda) was added to the eastern side. However, both bells were given to the “Reichsstelle für Metalle” in 1942; in exchange, however, the church received two bells from Debno in Poland after the end of the war, which were returned in 2011. After 1948, the district settlement parish was dissolved and the parish was assigned to the local church congregation. Nevertheless, the settlement parish remained with its own church council. A gallery was also installed in 1964 and an organ from the Potsdam workshop Alexander Schule . with leading opposition figures in the GDR such as Pastor Rainer Eppelmann, Stephan Krawczyk or Bettina Wagner attended the concerts and events there. During the reunification period, Pastor Ute Bindemann organized a round table for the city of Teltow, from which the municipal citizens’ initiative Teltow (B.I.T.) was established as a free voters’ association. A two-story addition was added in 1994/95. Service Sun 10:30kirche-teltow.ekbo.de/information/kirchen/siedlungskirche.html
Bird Park Teltow
The private bird park and petting zoo Teltow (6km, Feldstr. ) has been popular for decades, especially with children, but not only. The park, which has existed since 1968, was opened to visitors by the Lübeck couple in the 1980s. More than 300 animals can be admired and partly stroked: In addition to domestic and exotic birds, children love to feed sheep, goats, rabbits and donkeys.
In addition, the little ones switch back and forth between the playground, animals and the many free companions such as BobbyCar, scooter, running bike, etc.. On some days in summer, a hip castle also invites them to romp around. Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00, wintertime 10:00-17:00. +49 171 / 3 86 17 63. vogelpark-streichelzoo-teltow.de
Sanctissima Eucaristia
The Catholic Church Sanctissima Eucharistia (5.9 km; Ruhsldorfer Str. 28) was built from 1954 to 1957. But already in1916 the parish priest of Lichterfelde, Maximilian Beyer, had farsightedly acquired a plot of land here. After all, he already had one thousand Catholics to care for in the up-and-coming industrial city. From 1920, he first made do with a military barracks from Würzburg as a makeshift church. Until the general ban on building in 1938, the congregation made efforts to build a church, not least because more and more Catholics with many children were joining the congregation. Finally, in 1957, Teltow received its church with donations from the Federal Republic. The plaster building with the windowless apse and 28 m high, southern tower was designed by the architect Johannes Robert Reuter (1897-1975). Inside we find a box-shaped hall with wooden beam ceiling. The apse is decorated with an apocalyptic lamb, a mosaic by the painter and sculptor Rudolf Brückner-Fuhlrott (1908-84). Since 1969 an organ of the Jehmlich company from Dresden with 21 stops has been in use. Two relics are buried under the altar: one of the early Christian martyr St. Gaudentius and one of the virgin and martyr from Rome, St. Prospera. Services: Sun 09:00, Mon 08:00 Tue 08:45, Fri 18:30. sanctissima-eucharistia.com.
Marketplace
With the granting of the town charter in 1265, Teltow was able to trade on its own market square. This was originally laid out triangularly, but received a pond in the 19th century to beautify. In the 1930s, however, it was paved over. In the GDR era, many small stores dominated the scene. The Stubenrauch monument gave way in 1974 to the Monument to the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime. Today, flowers, trees and benches line the square and the Stubenrauch fountain is once again in the center of the area.
While there were many famous von Stubenrauchs, this Stubenrauch Monument (6.2 km) with fountain is dedicated to Ernst Leberecht Hugo Georg Colmar von Stubenrauch. This most important district administrator of Teltow initiated in his term of office 1885-1908 the construction of the Teltow Canal, which meant an incomparable upswing from an arable to an industry. The sculptor Prof. Lepcke created the stone memorial to the visionary official. Unfortunately, two bronze reliefs in the shape of women on the sides, which symbolized the two rivers Havel and Spree, are missing. Instead, today two benches complement the ensemble with fountain and invite to linger.
The “Schwarzer Adler” inn (Marktplatz 1, 3) is now the “New Town Hall” on the market square. The listed building from 1806 was extensively renovated and is now the contact point for citizens’ affairs.
St. Andrew’s Church
The town’s landmark is St. Andrew’s Church (5.9 km; Breite Str.), which dates back to a first fieldstone church from the 12th century. However, only the ground plan and outer walls remain from the 13th century. Due to fires (1515, 1573, 1711, 1801), new buildings were constructed with corresponding contemporary changes. Most recently, in 1810, the Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel gave the church a neo-Gothic form with a classicist orientation, including a crown as a spire. It symbolizes the secular patronage of the Margraves of Brandenburg over the church. Structural deficiencies led to a redesign of the interior in 1910. Since then, a painted barrel vault floats above the visitors instead of a coffered ceiling. An organ loft was also added. The Tyrolean woodcarver Franz Tavella was responsible for the large crucifix in the chancel. The sculptor August Mattausch adapted the wood carvings on the pulpit, baptismal font, gallery and pews to this. The Berlin artist Prof. August Öttken was responsible for the painting and color design.
Die Orgel stammt aus der Potsdamer Werkstatt von Alexander Schule und 2011 erhielt die Kirche bei einer Sanierung zusätzlich drei neue Glocken. Der ursprünglich zur Kirche gehörende Friedhof wurde 1805 am Weinsbergweg neu angelegt. Der Maler Lyonel Feininger verewigte die Kirche übrigens in seinem Bild „Teltow II“, das nun in der Nationalgalerie in Berlin hängt, jedoch als Kopie im Heimatmuseum bewundert werden kann. Gottesdienst Sonntags 10:30. kirche-teltow.ekbo.de
War memorial
The war memorial at Zickenplatz (6 km) from 1913 commemorates the Battle of Großbeeren (1813, see above). The Teltow sculptor August Mattausch (see below) used stone boulders from the Mark Brandenburg and the Harz Mountains. A Greek helmet covers the highest boulder and a round shield with Medusa’s head decorates the pedestal. As an attribute of the goddess Athena, it stands for the orderly struggle to defend the homeland. Originally, behind the shield still crossed the sword and lance, but they were lost. The bronze plaque lists Teltow citizens who died in the wars of liberation (1813-1815), the German-Danish War (1864), the German-Austrian War (1866) and the German-French War (1870/71). Directly behind the monument you can discover a bronze goat dedicated to the unofficial names of the square and the “little man’s cows”. The local craftsmen once kept them to supplement income and nutrition.
Old rectory
The Old Rectory (Ritterstr. 11) with symmetrical arrangement of the facade and classicistic details was extensively renovated in 2001/02. Teltow must have existed as early as 1545, because a church visitation recorded: “And at all times a parson allhier shall have and keep the vicarage for his dwelling.” However, it burned down twice in the 17th century, and when the pastor Andreas Macher moved in in 1737, he did not like the 1673 building. Macher demanded a new one – much to the chagrin of the farmers and craftsmen, who were not only financially challenged, but also obliged to perform cartage and labor services. They consequently demanded Macher’s replacement. When Macher left the town in 1747, the new building was not finished until 1749. However, this building also burned down in 1801. Two years later, the present parsonage was built. The baroque building and the cellar vault can be visited. Mon/Thu 09:00-12:00, Tue 09:00-18:00.
Community center
The community center (Ritterstrasse 10) is housed in the old fire station, which was built on the site of the former Teltow school. After two years of renovation, it can be used by the population, especially by senior citizens and Teltow associations, while the youth art school on the upper floor is intended to stimulate the creativity of young citizens. Changing exhibitions, courses and the venue for 60 people enliven the cultural life of the place. kultur.teltow.de/kunst-kultur/kultureinrichtungen/buergerhaus.html kultur.teltow.de/kunst-kultur/kultureinrichtungen/buergerhaus.html
Museum of local history
The museum of local history (Hoher Steinweg 13) has been housed in the so-called “oldest house” from 1711 since 1997. The exhibits give a detailed account of the town, crafts and agriculture. They paint a picture of the arduous life and work of the Teltow farmers. Above the entrance to the house is a plaque that tells the story of the house: “After the town of Teltow on June 16, 1711 in the afternoon at 6 o’clock in the time of about 4 hours to 4 houses completely in ashes, has Mr. Johann Christoph citizen this house with the help of good people from the reason new built, which God will long bless. Sundays 14:00-18:00. heimatverein-teltow.de
The exhibition Historical Washing Technology (6.1 km; Ritterstraße 14) belongs to the local history museum (see below) and is also run by the local history society. It illustrates what washing once meant and what effort was necessary without electricity and running water. Exhibits such as washboards, root brushes and boilers can be tried out for themselves. An extensive washing powder assembly and also more modern equipment such as the first “Schwarzenberg” of the VEB Wachgerätewerk of the same name complete the impression. Visit on request: +49 175 /5 59 46 12 or rolltuch @web.de
August Mattausch House
The August Mattausch House (Alte Potsdamer Str. 5)is actually a colonist house dating from 1731, but it is so named because of its temporary occupant: The sculptor and graphic artist August Mattausch (1877-1945) moved in here in 1906.
The city of Teltow also renamed its largest park, 0.7 hectares, August-Mattausch-Park in 2010. The sculptor and graphic artist, who came from Lake Constance, not only designed the new interior of the parish church of St. Andreas in 1910 (see above), the new city coat of arms (1912), but also the war memorial on Zickenplatz (see above). As a 29-year-old, the newly married had come to the emerging Teltow, designed porcelain in the new porcelain factory, then at the company Lohse Falcons, powder box and pill boxes, etc.. Grave in the cemetery was transformed into a memorial in 2011.
Memorial Victims of Fascism
The Memorial Stone for the Victims of Fascism (6.1 km; Potsdamer Straße / Sandstraße in the park). It is on the list of monuments.
Diana light shows
The Diana-Lichtspiele cinema (Potsdamer Str. 54) was built in 1935 for propaganda purposes. The cinema with the then address Adolf-Hitler-Str. 53 originally had 511 seats (after reconstruction in 1997 then 295 and finally 228 after renovation in 2006) and a stage for events. During the GDR era, the HO restaurant “Diana Klause” was operated there. After the reunification, film operations started again in 2006, but only for a short time. Then the building stood empty and demolition was threatened until the city of Teltow acquired it and placed it under a preservation order. An entrepreneur took it over in 2014 and renovated it into a hotel with regional and German cuisine, the “Landhotel Diana.” The cinema hall is now an event space +49 3328 / 3 35 38 00, landhotel-diana.de
Teltow cemetery
The Teltow cemetery (6.5 km; Weinsbergweg 1) was established in 1805. Previously, the dead had been buried around St. Andrew’s Church (see above). New Prussian burial regulations and the devastation of the churchyard by building and fire debris after the great church fire in 1801 made the development of a new cemetery necessary. Expanded several times (1850, 1867 and three more times in the 20th century), a mortuary was added in 1867, which today houses the cemetery administration. The sculptor Joachim Karsch, married to the daughter of the industrialist Friedrich Correns (see above), created the relief on the entrance portal in 1934. Close to the Wendland Chapel (see below) is the memorial plaque for Czech forced laborers. There is also a Soviet memorial and mass graves with memorial plaque in the cemetery. In addition, the Teltow mayors Max Liebig and Viktor Palleske (1860-1935), formerly mayor in Höchst, are buried in the cemetery.
The Wendland Chapel (6.5 km; Weinsbergweg 1) in the center of the Teltow cemetery, made of clinker brick with a cruciform ground plan, was built from 1933/34. The architect Prof. Winfried Wendland, who also designed the settlement church (see above), planned the building. Light enters through smaller and larger round windows and additionally through grouped small rectangular windows. The floor is covered with Solnhofen tiles. A mosaic cross is placed behind the altar made of tuff. The bell is a permanent loan from the Bethesda Foundation, cast in 1929 by the Bochumer Verein.
Schoolhouse Bruno H. Bürgel
The Bruno H. Bürgel school building (6.4 km; Potsdamer Str. 51) was inaugurated in 1870, after the school on the site of today’s Bürgerhaus (formerly Feuerwehrgerätehaus as successor building to the school) had become too small; for about 80 children were taught in one room – by a single teacher (!), later two. Accordingly, in 1868 the magistrate received plans from the building inspector Vogel from Charlottenburg for a new building.
Completed in 1870, 370 children moved into the new building on August 15 for its inauguration. In 1904, an extension with central heating and sanitary facilities was added. Although there had been a privy on the premises, and later a second one for girls, hand washing had not been possible. During World War I, classes were cancelled because many teachers were drafted, and from 1919 electric light replaced gas lighting. School meals financed by foreign donations and the administration of cod liver oil mitigated the effects of the economic crisis on the children from 1924.
For the girls, the subject of home economics was introduced in 1925, and for all, from 1931, “Lebenskunde” was introduced instead of religious education. The National Socialist administration abolished this again in 1934. Also, some teachers had to leave the school and the rector changed several times until a politically more favorable one was found. The school day began with standing up and the Hitler salute. Apart from that, another extension was built in 1934, because there were only twelve rooms available for 18 classes. Partly the staff taught in Nazi uniform . Bomb hits towards the end of the war were makeshift repairs. On April 22, 1945, the Red Army occupied Teltow and old teaching materials were banned, new curricula were developed, which included civics and Russian. The “Friendship Pioneer Leader” is given his own study, as Junge Pioniere and Feie Deutsche Jugend are firmly anchored with the school.
In the early 1950s, the city school was named after the writer and science publicist Bruno Hans Bürgel (1875-1948). From 1978/79, military instruction is added as a school subject. Renovations in 1965 1981 and 1985 change the building structure, as toilets, for example, are placed indoors. Further reconstruction and renovation measures take place in 2020/21, after the continued existence was temporarily in question. Today, the state secondary school offers Hauptschule and Realschule.
Cadastral office
The Stadthaus (6.6 km; Potsdamer Str. 49) was originally a land registry office. Built in 1927/28 according to plans by the Berlin architect Ernst Paulus (1868-1936), who was known primarily for his church buildings in addition to residential buildings, the building was used primarily by the mayor and city administration from 1935. From 1940/41 it was officially called the “Stadthaus der Stadt Teltow”. After a renovation after 2010 by a Berlin real estate company in accordance with the preservation order, 18 private apartments on 1,000 square meters are now housed there.
Lohse factory
The Lohse factory (7 km; Elbestr. 2) was built in 1913 with its own water supply and siding. The son of a hairdresser and wigmaker, August Robert Gustav Lohse (1801-1881), had already founded his perfume and soap factory in Jägerstrasse in Berlin in 1831, still importing mainly French and English products. Due to his success – Lohse became a purveyor to the court of numerous aristocrats in Germany, Austria, Hungary and built up a staff of representatives as well as branches in all countries – he moved production to Möckernstrasse 69 in 1872. The first address then served only as a sales station, to which stores at Leipziger Str. 123a and Unter den Linden 16 were added. After Gustav Lohse’s death, his third son Oscar continued to run the business.
In 1910, the artist August Mattausch (see above) designed the green spherical bottle of the Eau de Cologne “Uralt Lavendel,” a bestseller alongside the best-known product, “Eau de Lys. The commercial artist and poster designer Jupp Wiertz, one of the most important representatives of German advertising art, designed the advertising poster for it in 1925. The company overcame the difficulties of production during the First World War, but the Petersburg branch had to be closed down in 1918. The family-owned private company was transformed into a joint-stock company in 1922. Then, in 1929, G.A. Pfeiffer acquired the family-owned shares and merged them with Gödecke & CO, Chemische Fabrik AG. Pfeiffer also housed other companies in the Teltow building, such as Richard Hutnut Kosmetische Präparate and Warner GmbH Pharmazeutische Präparate. Predominantly women made up the workforce of about 300 employees.
From 1923 to 1927, the pharmacist Dr. Phil. Carl Blumenreuter (1881-1969) as head of department, who later made a career under the Nazis and supplied the concentration camps with poison as SS group leader, lieutenant general of the Waffen-SS and sanitary witness master at the Reichsarzt SS. Due to a shortage of personnel and raw materials, production suffered during World War II. The Group escaped the “enemy assets clause” through transfers, donations and an “enemy assets administrator”, whereby the original circumstances were restored after the war. Towards the end of the war, bombing raids led to destruction.
However, documents and materials were able to be moved to Niederlausitz and Allgäu. After 1945, production was resumed.
However, the company gave up the Teltow site in 1952, as West Berlin employees were no longer allowed into the Soviet occupation zone and the plants came under state administration in accordance with the “Ordinance on the Administration and Protection of Foreign Property in the GDR” (1951). However, the GDR produced pharmaceuticals as well as perfumes and cosmetics, from the mid-1950s under the Ministry of Health, Head Office Pharmaceutical Industry, and from 1958 under the VVB Pharmaceutical Industry Berlin.
But in 1961 the factory was dissolved without a legal successor and the Carl von Ossietzky Geräte und Reglerwerk used the building. In the West, Oscar Lohse was able to rebuild his company, selling it to the cosmetics company L’Oreal in 1973. A senior citizens’ residence moved into the “Perfume and Toilet Soap Factory” in Teltow, which is a listed building, after a thorough renovation in 2000.
Directors Villa
The listed directors’ villa (6.6 km; Potsdamer Str. 16) belonged to the porcelain manufactory Conrad, Schomburg & Co. The company traces its origins back to Friedrich Adolph Schumann, who moved his father’s porcelain manufactory from the Kehnert manor near Wolmirstedt to Berlin-Moabit in 1834. Successful with everyday porcelain (tableware, chamber pots, bell handles, etc.), excellent in design, Schumann nevertheless imitated the Royal Porcelain Manufactory (KPM). After his death in 1851, the company was sold and renamed Berliner Porzellanmanufaktur (BPM), finally liquidated in 1880.
The porcelain painter Carl Schomburg, who had previously worked for Schumann, then founded his own manufactory there in 1853, but specialized primarily in industrial porcelain, which was particularly needed, among other things, in the form of insulators for the rapidly growing telegraph network. To expand the production facilities, Schomburg moved to Teltow in 1903, then there in 1908 as one of the first companies to the new Teltow Canal. In 1911, he completely abandoned the tableware division and focused purely on industrial products under the name Porzellanfabrik Teltow. Stealit-Magnesia AG buys the factory in 1930. For further information, see the monument “The Claim” below.
Monument “The demand”
The monument “The Demand” (7.3 km) has been purposefully placed at Hamburger Platz: At the gate of the Dralowid plant there, the workforce had gathered on June 17, 1953, to formulate a letter of demand to Otto Grothewohl, then prime minister of the GDR. Dralowid, an electroceramic company for – hence the name – wireless resistors had moved its production from 1932-1935 from Berlin-Pankow to the premises of Porzellanfabrik Teltow GmbH, with which it had merged. In the II: World War French prisoners of war and later also Polish and Soviet women produced armaments such as fuses for shells, bombs and the V1 and V2.
After war damage, dismantling by the Red Army and a new start, the plant was transferred to national ownership in 1948 and renamed VEB-Werk für Bauelemente der Nachrichtentechnik “Carl von Ossietzky” in 1953. On the day following the work stoppage and the protest against the poor supply situation, housing situation and constant increases in standards, the People’s Police arrested 25 workers after the plant had been converted. The remaining workers announced that they would not return to work until their colleagues were home safe and sound. The state power bowed down and the workers were released.
After the report of a contemporary witness in 2011 about this incident in the 10th grade of the Teltower Kant-Gymnasium, the students in cooperation with the history teacher Gregor Wilkening and the art smith Thorsten Theel worked out this sculpture, which is supposed to express strength through commonality by means of the bundled rods.
Organic Malt Factory
The Biomalt Factory (7.5 km; Iserstr. 8-10) is a red brick building from 1911, built by Myro Patermann and his brothers for malt products. It is one of the most significant industrial monuments of the region. Its origin can be traced to a tonic for pregnant women, developed in a pharmacy in Berlin-Schöneberg. The “rejuvenating cure” for anemia, pallor and nervous complaints was available in cans and later in brown bottles with yellow-blue labels.
The dietary supplement made from barley, patented in 1907 and touted as the “source of all beauty,” was then first produced in Friedenau, later in Steglitz.The Teltow Canal, however, offered a convenient location for transportation, so engineer J.J. Meyer designed a new factory facility for Patermann, including a siding with a turntable on the site that allowed trains to travel in a straight line through the plant – a principle that was used here for the first time anywhere in Germany. The factory buildings reproduced the production process in a space-saving manner: Barley was stored in the attic and milled to be processed into a boiling mash with water one floor below. Once filtered, vacuum pumps gently extracted the water and the juice could be bottled. For production, the factory supplied itself with its own steam engine with three boilers in the adjacent boiler house. The company made its breakthrough with event marketing at the Six-Day Race in Berlin and also with the slogan “My child, I advise you well: Take organic malt!”.
Through government orders for distribution to the sick and children, the company survived the First World War; biomalt was also sent to the front in field post parcels. However, the previously established production facilities in Switzerland, London and Vilnius were lost. After Myro’s two brothers were killed in World War I, he took over sole management. In addition to organic malt candies, baking additives such as “Hellegold” (from 1926), a malt extract for bakeries, expanded the product range. And Paterman cleverly used advertising with women as the main target group for his “Concentrated Sunlight in Tins”: In addition to self-adhesive advertising stamps, beaming children were propagated (“Whoever loves his children gives them organic malt.”) and vanity was addressed (“Look younger than your peers”).
As a company important to the war effort “for the nourishment of the German people” and with orders for the army and air force, the company receives around 40 Russian forced laborers in 1942, who are housed in a barracks. Despite bomb damage and a major fire in April 1945, the factory was producing syrup again just one month after the end of the war, mainly from beets and partly from rhubarb, and nutritional products from flour and pearl barley. The GDR expropriated the factory in 1953. However, as VEB (K) Biomalz “Walter Schütz”, one hundred employees continued to produce biomalt products, which were available in all drugstores and pharmacies until the fall of the Wall, as well as the sandwich ice cream “Moskauer Sahneeis”. Paterman started the Vitaborn factories in Kim on the Nahe River after the expropriation. The family regained ownership in 1991 and also continued production with new products, with additional leasing to about 40 manufacturing, craft and cultural companies after the factory was renovated. Since 1994, the plant has been listed as a historical monument. biomalz-fabrik.de
Skipper Children’s Home
The “Schifferkinderheim” (6.8 km Oderstr. 28) was built in 1907 by the “Evangelische Schifferfürsorge” (Protestant Skipper Care). After all, the offspring of school-age inland waterway skippers needed an educational institution with accommodations. The location on the then new Teltow Canal was chosen to provide 30 children with a school that could be reached by water.pper . After all, the offspring of school-age inland waterway skippers needed an educational institution with accommodations. The location on the then new Teltow Canal was chosen to provide 30 children with a school that could be reached by water.
Today, there are only three such homes left in Germany, and the one in Teltow is not one of them; it was converted into a home for the elderly as early as 1926/27. The project group JOB (Youth – Orientation – Profession), founded in 1991, used the house, which had been cleared for demolition after reunification, as a youth center. The owners then donated it to the city of Teltow. The state and the EU financed the renovation, which was carried out by 26 hard-to-place young people who were trained in construction trades. Reopened in 1995, the former children’s home is now a listed building. The JOB Foundation now runs it as the “Schiffer” Teltow youth center.
Industrial Museum
The Industrial Museum Region Teltow e.V. (6.7 km; Oderstr. 23-25) was founded in 2005, initially to preserve a collection about the history of the region. Since then, it has continued to develop and offers young people information on career and study orientation. In 2012, it moved to its current location.
There they will present six areas under the motto “From the steam engine to the digital world – 150 years of industrial culture”: Electronics, Communication Technology, Automation Technology, Polymer Chemistry, Infrastructure and Digital World. Opening hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-16:00. +49 3328 / 3 36 90 88. imt-museum.de
Marina
The Teltow port (Zeppelinufer 1) was built in 1906 in the course of the construction of the Teltow Canal in Badstraße. Especially after rail connection to the railroad station three kilometers away in 1909, the port became the engine of industrialization, so that an expansion became necessary in 1928. An electric grab slewing crane was added to the existing steam cranes. And electric treidellokomotvien still pulled barges here until the Second World War. After that, bridges towpath tracks and overhead wires were too damaged and they were dismantled after the war. However, two approx. 60 cm high buffer stops can still be seen at the west end of the crane track and 40 m east of them remains of the rails of the industrial construction.
In May 2019, the Marina Teltow was inaugurated just a few meters to the west. After 15 million € construction costs, the city port mTeltow has 39 berths (6-17 m) at a depth of 3.20 m. Harbour master +49 170 / 7 30 46 68. In addition, the café-bistro “Kleine Freiheit” offers refreshments from May to October (11.00-20:00). kleine-freiheit-teltow.de