Open Monument Day® 2022

The otherwise closed, empty hall can be visited on 11 September 2022 from 10 am to 1 pm. Students will show those interested in monuments around and explain their findings from the intensive work with the object. Under this year's Open Monument Day® motto - "KulturSpur. A Case for Monument Protection" - they show:

• how traces of construction and use can be detected on the building fabric, with the help of historical research and with scientific-restorative examinations,
• why this monument is a special site of historical events, and
• which ideas can be used to rehabilitate and convert it in a way that is appropriate for a listed building.

The results of the 16th student workshop of the German National Committee for Monument Protection (DNK) will be presented, for which 20 students from all over Germany come together every year to try out the tasks of monument conservation in a real laboratory on a monument. In interdisciplinary teams, they research the building fabric, work out the monument values and design utilisation concepts for the properties affected by vacancy. This year they will be accompanied by professors from the BTU and FH Potsdam, experts from the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the city of Cottbus/Chóśebuz. The workshop will take place from 4 to 10 September 2022 in Hangar 1 of the former Cottbus-Nord airfield.

The area was used for private aviation from 1910 and was a military site from 1933. The Aircraft Pilot School established here as early as 1933 trained pilots for the planned and, from 1935, officially existing air force of the Wehrmacht in the National Socialist German Reich. After the Second World War, the airfield remained in operation as a military airfield until 2003.

The monument ensemble has a high value in terms of military history, building technology, science, urban planning and architecture. As a testimony to the systematic preparation for the Second World War and the Cold War, it is one of the so-called inconvenient monuments.

The five hangars built in 1932/33 - out of the former seven - are of particular importance for the history of technology. They represent a unique ensemble of different hangar designs from the early 1930s.

Hangar 1 was built in 1933 according to the system of the Berlin steel construction company G.E. Dellschau. The arched hangar with steel trusses spans an area of 45 by 30 metres. In 1955/57, the hangar was extended by lateral annexes.

Programme

10 a.m.
Greetings at the opening of the Open Monument Day® 2022 in Cottbus/Chóśebuz and the exhibition of the student workshop:

    Brigitte Faber-Schmidt, Head of Department for Culture, MWFK of the State of Brandenburg).
    Marietta Tzschoppe, Mayor of the City of Cottbus
    Prof. Dr. h. p. habil. Gesine Grande, President of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
    Dr. Ulrike Wendland, Managing Director DNK

10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Exhibition of workshop results and dialogue with students

The event is free of charge. Registration is requested at www.dnk/events

Pressekontakt DNK:
Corinna Tell, Geschäftsstelle des Deutschen Nationalkomitees für Denkmalschutz
bei der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien – K54
Corinna.Tell(at)bkm.bund.de
T (030) 18 681 - 43132