Kiebitzberg® donates 4,650 euros for flood victims in the Elbe-Havel region
September 02, 2013, Kiebitzberg® Group, Havelberg
Text & Photo: Wolfgang Masur
June of this year, the „Spider singers“ at the Havelberg ArtHotel Kiebitzberg®for a benefit concert after the flood. The „Spinnesänger“ - Thomas Riede, Harald Hohmann, Tilo Brensing, Torsten Michel and Thomas Baldovski - delighted the visitors to the benefit concert and waived their fee. The managing directors of the Havelberg Kiebitzberg® Group and hoteliers of the ArtHotel Kiebitzberg®, Renate and Andreas Lewerken, also wanted to help. They then called for a Germany-wide fundraising campaign among their colleagues in the joinery trade and suppliers. And an impressive sum was raised.
This week, hotelier Renate Lewerken set out to distribute donations in the flood area. Her journey took her to the Kamern municipal office. Here she was welcomed by Mayor Klaus Beck and Jürgen and Arno Brandt from the local fire department association. „We wanted to help quickly, unbureaucratically and in a targeted manner here in the Elb-Havel-Winkel. In consultation with Christoph von Katte, the fire department association and the mayor, we decided on three of the many severely affected citizens,“ says Renate Lewerken. The flood victims Sylvia Liban, Sigrid Butcher and Willi Teschner each received a cheque for 1,550 euros.
They all thanked her warmly and Sylvia Liban said: „I think it's great that you're doing something like this for us, as you were actually affected by the floods yourselves, for example by the many cancellations at the ArtHotel.“ Sigrid Butcher lives at the lowest point in the village and was at home alone with her son when the water came. Like many others affected, she had to flee. „I was able to put up with that, the terrible sight after the flood and a lot more, but the bureaucracy afterwards is what gets me down,“ said the senior citizen. Klaus Beck also expressed his thanks and praised people's willingness to help in general. „It's admirable to see the solidarity throughout Germany. We receive donations from places we don't even know,“ he said happily. A donation committee has been set up to ensure fair distribution. „The cohesion of the people in the Elb-Havel-Winkel is important,“ Renate Lewerken concluded.
Kiebitzberg® - A strong piece of Altmark
With courage and entrepreneurial spirit, Andreas and Renate Lewerken have been continuously developing the family business on the Havel since 1985. Now with three locations in Havelberg and a total of almost 100 employees, Kiebitzberg® provides important impetus for economic development in the structurally weak Altmark region and strengthens the local labor market.
The products in all areas of the company are recognizable and the „everything from a single source“ strategy is successful. Thanks to short lines of communication, customer wishes are responded to quickly. All with head, heart and mind. More precisely, the vision of the perfect product in the head, the passion for craftsmanship in the heart and the entrepreneurial mind. Kiebitzberg® quality is trusted by customers and partners from all over Germany and beyond.
In this way, large and small furnishing ideas for private and business customers are reliably transformed into practicable, economically viable projects. Customized quality products are created as one-offs and also in series on modern production lines / CNC machines.
At three locations in Havelberg, Kiebitzberg® currently combines a total of 60,000 square meters of operating space (as of August 2013) Furniture construction, Shipbuilding, Raft manufacture, Jetty construction, metal processing and Solid surface design. In August 2011, the ArtHotel Kiebitzberg® at Schönberger Weg 6, Havelberg, has added another important pillar.
Location Havelberg
The cathedral and Hanseatic town of Havelberg lies halfway along the route between Hamburg and Berlin, 80 km north of Magdeburg, directly at the confluence of the Havel and Elbe rivers. Ships have been built here for 300 years. The Kiebitzberg® Group has been building on this long shipbuilding tradition as a second important mainstay since 1998. The former bishop's seat is part of the „Blue Ribbon“ water tourism project and part of the BUGA region 2015. Do you need accommodation? The ArtHotel Kiebitzberg® is looking forward to your visit!