If necessary, Berlin’s Senator for Finance Stefan Evers wants to give away an area on Lake Bogensee with a former villa of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels in Wandlitz. “I offer anyone who wants to take over the site to take it over as a gift from the state of Berlin,” the CDU politician said in the House of Representatives on Thursday. So far, neither the municipality of Wandlitz, nor the state of Brandenburg, nor the federal government are interested in such a “generous gift”.
The approximately 17 hectare site on which Goebbels had a country house built has been unused since 2000 and has fallen into disrepair. After the end of the Nazi dictatorship, the Allies briefly used the site as a military hospital. In 1946, the Soviets transferred the site to the Free German Youth (FDJ), which founded a youth school there.
Building could be demolished
For some time now, there has been increasing discussion about ideas for the use of the area, which belongs to the state of Berlin. Berlin is considering demolishing the buildings and renaturalizing the areas, as annual security and maintenance costs run into millions.
Evers assured that the capital would not turn away from useful conceptual considerations if they were in the interest of the city and would do justice to the complex historical significance of the area. Against this background, he looks forward to proposals from the federal government or from Brandenburg and to identifying possible sources of money, such as financing.
Berlin feels deserted
“But if this were to lead to nothing again, as it has done in recent decades, then the state of Berlin will have no choice but to carry out the demolition in the manner that has now been prepared and tackled by us,” the spokesperson said. Evers.
Berlin has been trying to secure a future for the area for decades. “But the truth is that this decades-long effort was very one-sided.” We depend on partners at the federal level and in Brandenburg, with whom no progress has been possible so far.
Source: Krone
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