Gollenberg

Goll mountain is an official community without belonging to the eponymous capital of the north- western part of the Havel country. It belongs to the Official Rhinow. Since September 2013, the community leads to resolution of the Municipal the additional designation " Lilienthal community," made ​​for the October 21, 2013, the official approval from the Ministry of the Interior of Brandenburg and must therefore be placed on the entrance signs.

• 4.1 Municipal Council
• 4.2 Mayor

• 5.1 Museum
• 5.2 Sports
• 5.3 Regular events

• 6.1 traffic

Geography

Goll mountain lies between Friesack and Rhinow, 35 km north of Brandenburg an der Havel and 45 km west of Berlin.

Community structure

When quarters are recognized:

• Neuwerder
• No joke
• Schönholz
• Stölln

As a residential courses in the community include the following:

• Horst

History

Since Easter 1894, the glider pioneer Otto Lilienthal used the Gollenberg regularly as a starting point for its test flights. Even after his crash on August 9, 1896 Gollenberg always remained popular base for sail and power planes. In 1936, at the foot of Mount Goll built a flying school, which was, inter alia, also visited by Charles Lindbergh. Early as 1940, burned down the building of the gliding school. The gliding operations and the training of glider pilots, however, was continued until 1945.

The community Goll mountain arose in the course of Brandenburg municipal reform on 31 December 2002 from the merger of the municipalities Schönholz - Neuwerder and Stölln. The name derives from the Goll mountain was located between the districts of Stölln and Neuwerder. He is with 109.6 meters, the highest peak in the western Havel country.

Demographics

Policy

Municipal council

The local council Goll mountain is next to the honorary Mayor of 8 additional members. The seats are distributed as follows:

• SPD 3 seats
• FDP 3 seats
• Single nominations:

(As at municipal election on 28 September 2008)

Local councils are elected in Schönholz - Neuwerder and Stölln.

Mayoress

Mayor 's Iris Hoffmann ( FDP). It has been directly elected on 28 September 2008.

Culture and sights

In the list of monuments in Goll mountain ( Havel country) are registered in the list of monuments of the country Brandenburg monuments.

Museum

In the center of the new Stölln Lilienthal Center was inaugurated on April 1, 2011 in the renovated distillery and opened a day later. This center is reported with a stage-like exhibition covering an area of ​​almost 500 m² on the life and work of Otto Lilienthal and the beginnings of aviation. Funding for the project was including through the EU funding instrument " Integrated Rural Development ( ILE ) ". A special attraction is located on the airfield Stöllner a baptized after Lilienthal's wife "Lady Agnes " IL 62 of the Inter flight. The pilot Heinz -Dieter Kallbach landed the plane, together with the co-pilot Peter Bley, the flight engineer Ulli Müller and the navigator Rudolf Döge there in honor of Otto Lilienthal in October 1989. These first planned landing of a long-haul jets on a 900 -meter grass runway went into Guinness Book of World Records a.

In the plane, a 20- minute film about the spectacular landing is shown, and also the aircraft also serves as a registry office. At the top of Goll mountain located since 14 September 2007, a 4 -meter-high sculpture of aviation pioneer (wind harp), the artist Ernst builder has created. Other monuments commemorate the crash site of the aviation pioneer Lilienthal and his glider mechanic Paul Beylich.

The Lilienthal Center, the Lady Agnes on the Goll mountain are for visitors from April 1 to October 31 each open Tuesdays to Sundays. At other times, there is the possibility to visit on Sundays.

Sports

The Flying Club "Otto Lilienthal " Stölln / Rhinow eV continues the tradition of recreational flying at Goll mountain. The Air sports Brandenburg Land Association held here annually from 1997-2006 compared with the youth flying, which is a necessary qualification for the Federal goers. 2007 took these federal goers, the National Youth comparison flies, rather than on the Stöllner airfield. 2009, the Brandenburg state championship, 2011, a qualifying competition for the German Junior Championship and 2012, the highlight of the club's history, the German Junior Championship was held in Streckensegelflug from FSV Stölln / Rhinow.

Regular events

Every year there is the Lilienthal festival in Goll mountain Stölln on the first weekend in August.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

In each 15 km railway stations Neustadt (Dosse ) or Friesack (Mark). The nearest motorway junction, the junction of the A24 Neuruppin Hamburg-Berlin, is about 40 km away. The bus 687 to the Havelbus public transport company runs between Friesack (Mark) and Rathenow. The airfield Stölln / Rhinow has regular flight operations on weekends from early April to late October. As a special airfield a coupled approach of the course is available on request during the week.

Conservation

Located in the natural park Westhavelland Goll mountain stands with an area of ​​58.14 hectares since 1996 under nature protection. As a protective purpose in particular the location of rare and endangered plant communities, moths, small birds and reptiles is called. Another special characteristic is the glacially influenced Moränenabbruchkante.

Personalities

• Otto Lilienthal (1848-1896), gliding pioneer