The Internationalpark Lower Oder Valley GmbH was founded in 1997 as a wholly owned subsidiary of National Park Foundation Lower Oder Valley founded. Your tasks are particularly in environmental education, especially in the Wilderness School and in the National Park Laboratory Teerofenbrücke and in the Brandenburg Academy Schloss Criewen — German-Polish environmental education and meeting center.
Brandenburg Academy
The Brandenburg Academy Schloss Criewen offers an extensive conference and congress program on all questions relating to rural areas. In addition to numerous in-house events, the von Arnim family’s 200-year-old manor house also offers a suitable setting for external events of all kinds, located in a beautifully restored park by Peter Joseph Lenné, right next to the national park, not far from the Schwedt border crossing and with an hourly bus connection to the train stations Schwedt and Angermünde (RE3).
Wilderness School Teerofenbrücke
The Teerofenbrücke National Park Laboratory and Wilderness School offer, especially schoolchildren, from elementary school to advanced courses in upper levels, sustainable nature experiences and high-quality environmental education. There are also children’s holiday camps, and on the weekends families and nature conservation enthusiasts have the opportunity to rent the rustic log cabins, located in the heart of the national park, surrounded by wilderness areas. The focus is on enjoying nature and the corresponding knowledge and experience. The current programs can be found on the homepage.
Contact
International Park
Lower Oder Valley GmbH
Park 3
D‑16303 Schwedt
Phone: +49 3332 838840
Fax: +49 3332 838848
Contact
Wilderness School Teerofenbrücke
Teerofenbrücke 2
D‑16303 Schwedt
Phone: +49 3332 517166
Fax: +49 3332 839814
The Wilderness School and Brandenburg Academy are also dependent on volunteer work and financial support. Anyone who would like to help the company is welcome.
Employees
Dr. Ansgar Vössing
Managing Director
Born in Berlin in 1957, studied biology, theology and philosophy in Berlin and Münster, did his doctorate on the social learning of primates in the zoo. Worked as a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin, as a teacher and journalist. In 1988 he became speechwriter for the Governing Mayor of Berlin, worked from 1988–1991 in the scientific advisory service for the parliamentary groups in the Berlin House of Representatives.
Uta Böhme
Head of Studies
Training as a chemical laboratory assistant and studying process engineering with a degree in engineering. After several years in the mineral oil research of a chemical company, responsible for conference preparation and organization at the Brandenburg Academy since 2000. Since 2009 director of studies at the academy.
