Qualla: Bogensee https://qualla.com/bogensee en-us © 2026 Bendyline Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:49:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/3/s/bogensee-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Bogensee https://qualla.com/bogensee Bogensee: Introduction https://qualla.com/bogensee/ Photo credit Lutz Maertens (User:Trendy64), CC BY-SA 3.0. You could walk around the Bogensee in half an hour. It is a small oval of meltwater on the Barnim plateau north of Berlin, roughly three hundred metres long and a hundred and eighty across, nowhere deeper than about three metres, fed by spring-fed meadows along its western edge. There are no houses on the bank, no beach, no path along the water. Anglers take carp, pike, perch and tench out of it. The lake belongs to the state of Berlin, which is where the trouble begins, because Berlin also owns what stands a few hundred metres up the slope: the country house it built for Joseph Goebbels, and behind it a Stalinist campus where East Germany trained its youth cadres. The city has spent years trying to give the whole thing away.

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/3/s/bogensee-wp/u33s-bogensee-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bogensee: A Puddle Left by the Ice https://qualla.com/bogensee/ Photo credit Lukas Beck, CC BY-SA 4.0. The lake is a relic of the last glaciation, one of thousands of shallow basins the retreating ice scraped into the sandy Barnim upland and then filled. It sits inside the Barnim Nature Park, between the villages of Wandlitz, Prenden and Klosterfelde, about fifteen kilometres beyo...

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/3/s/bogensee-wp/u33s-bogensee-a-puddle-left-by-the-ice.mp3 0:06 2 full Bogensee: A Birthday Present of 496 Hectares https://qualla.com/bogensee/ Photo credit Ranofuchs, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1936 the Berlin city administration made Goebbels a present for his thirty-ninth birthday: lifetime use of the Bogensee and 496 hectares of forest around it. A blockhouse came first. Then, in 1939, the architects Juergen and Heinrich Schweitzer, working with Hugo Constantin Ba...

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/3/s/bogensee-wp/u33s-bogensee-a-birthday-present-of-496-hectares.mp3 0:06 3 full Bogensee: Eighteen Language Booths https://qualla.com/bogensee/ Photo credit A.Savin, FAL. The Soviet Military Administration took the property in 1945, and in April 1946 the Free German Youth opened a school there; in 1950 it was named for Wilhelm Pieck. From 1951 Hermann Henselmann, later East Berlin's chief architect, designed a lecture building and dormitories in t...

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/3/s/bogensee-wp/u33s-bogensee-eighteen-language-booths.mp3 0:06 4 full Bogensee: Free to a Good Home https://qualla.com/bogensee/ Photo credit Abraham Pisarek, CC BY-SA 3.0 de. After that, tenants came and went - an international social work association from 1991 to 1999, then Berlin's forestry administration - and since about 2005 most of the buildings have stood empty and deteriorating. They are listed monuments, so knocking them down is neither simpl...

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