Goldbek Canal

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The Goldbek Canal is a canal in Hamburg-Winterhude .

In order to promote the industrial development of Winterhude, the Goldbek was made navigable in the 1860s over a section, the "lower Goldbek Canal", and expanded in 1914. It stretches from the Rondeel Canal, which is connected to the northern part of the Outer Alster , to the City Park , where it connects to the Barmbeker Stich Canal and via this to the Osterbek Canal .

history

Café Seeterrasse on the southern pier in the Stadtparkhafen
Stadthallenbrücke - south side, view of the northern pier

The Goldbek Canal, a slowly flowing body of water up to 135 cm deep, which was originally fed from the brook, the Goldbek, from the moor at Fuhlsbüttler Strasse and from the Winterhuder Heights . According to Hans Bahlow , the word meaning of the Goldbek is not based on the word gold , but " Gol " for dirty water and morass. The Alster canals originally served primarily as an overflow for the old sewer system. When it rained heavily, the water flowed over it into the Alster.

In order to develop Winterhude , the streets, bridges and canals were expanded by Adolph Sierich in the 1860s . The waters include the Leinpfadkanal , Rondeelteich , Rondeelkanal, Mühlenkampkanal and the "lower Goldbekkanal". The latter, which was originally called Winterhuder Canal , was excavated in 1888 from Moorfuhrtweg to Barmbeker Straße in a width of 15 m. The streets, bridges and canals, which were originally privately owned, became the property of the Hamburg state for their expansion and maintenance. The canals were primarily used as transport routes, on which inland ships brought the raw materials to the factories and transported the finished goods away. This includes the Rieck & Melzian metal goods factory built in 1908 on the Goldbek Canal / Goldbekplatz , whose buildings are now a listed building ( 29604 ).

In 1914, the Goldbek Canal was expanded to the city park in order to supply other factories in Winterhude, such as the disinfectant manufacturer Schülke & Mayr , whose headquarters are now the Goldbekhaus district culture center . In 1915 the canal was connected to the Barmbeker branch canal , which was used to transport coal for the Hamburg Hochbahn power station built in 1907 .

Around 1924, a shuttle service between Mühlenkamp and the city ​​hall was set up on the Goldbek Canal for the transport of people for major events in the city ​​hall at the city park . Spacious footbridges were built in the canal on both sides of the Stadthallenbrücke and still exist today. One jetty was intended for boarding and the other for disembarking, since cash was not collected on board but at the jetty. To turn the launch, the canal was widened in this area and given the name Stadtparkhafen . With the beginning of the Second World War , the barge traffic was stopped. After the war, when the town hall was burned out and later demolished, the launch was only started again in 1965 for a few months.

On the banks of the canal there are still a few shipyards that also operate boat storage and rental.

Canal bridges

The Goldbek Canal is spanned by 8 road bridges and 1 underground bridge (with information on the year of construction / No. of the Hamburg-Winterhude cultural monument list / No. of the works of Fritz Schumacher ):

  • Saarland Bridge (1916/21970)
  • Stadthallenbrücke (1916/22022/183)
  • Underground bridge U3 (1911)
  • Wiesendamm Bridge (1928/22108/308)
  • Barmbeker road bridge
  • Moorfuhrtbrücke (1912/20448)
  • Dorotheenstrasse Bridge
  • Sierichstrasse Bridge
  • Bellevue Bridge (1929/21516/262)

The Moorfuhrt, Dorotheenstrasse, Sierichstrasse and Bellevuebrücke were built with the construction of the "lower Goldbek Canal" around 1860, as can be seen in the Hamburg city plans of 1887 and 1895. With the expansion of the Goldbek Canal up to the city park around 1914, a further bridge to the city park with the street name "Feldweg" was built next to the above mentioned bridges, which no longer exists today.

  • Northern pier at the Stadthallenbrücke, in the background the Saarlandbrücke

  • Wiesendammbrücke, in the background the U3 underground bridge

  • Barmbeker Strasse Bridge in the background the Wiesendamm Bridge

  • Moorfuhrtbrücke

  • Goldbek Canal and Mühlenkamp Canal

  • Dorotheenstrasse Bridge

  • Sierichstrasse Bridge, in the background the Dorotheenstrasse Bridge

fauna

In Goldbekkanal come roach and bream often before and up to 50 cm wide ides . In the turning basin of the Alster steamers (often referred to as “ the U ” by residents ), carp and tench live between the pond rose fields . Small perch , pikeperch , pike and eel dominate the predatory fish . In the summer months, asp often come to the surface in groups. In the Stadtparksee area, you can see red- eared slider turtles on the water lily leaves and roots . Crayfish are also found during this time of year .

Alster steamer Goldbek on the Goldbek Canal, in the background the Wiesendamm Bridge

Todays use

The Goldbek Canal is used by Alster steamers as part of the canal trips . This includes regular routes of the ATG Alster-Touristik GmbH with the Alster steamer "Goldbek". The canal is also a popular leisure destination with rowing and paddle boats, for which the narrower Mühlenkamp Canal is also navigable, and there is another connection between the Goldbek and Osterbek canals.

The Goldbekhaus cultural center as well as the allotment garden association Goldbek eV and the allotment garden colony Borgweg eV are located on the Goldbek Canal . The Goldbekmarkt , a larger weekly market, takes place three times a week on the Goldbekufer .

Web links

Commons : Goldbekkanal  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Saarlandbrücke  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Stadtparkhafen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Joachim Györffy: Hamburg. Polyglott on tour with Cityflip, Polyglott-Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3493566116 , p. 86
  2. ^ A b Melhop, Wilhelm: Historical Topography of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 1880 to 1895, Hamburg, 1895 (pp. 307 - 316) , Hamburg State and University Library, http://resolver.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ goobi / PPN670034223 (CC BY-SA 4.0 [1] ) (accessed February 5, 2017).
  3. ↑ Pure idyll on the Goldbek Canal , Hamburger Abendblatt, August 14, 2006.
  4. ↑ Lifelines of the big city: Hamburg's canals , NDR.de, September 16, 2015 (accessed on February 3, 2017).
  5. ↑ a b map from 1895, Hamburg and surroundings, Sect. Eppendorf , Wilhelm Melhop (ed.): Maps on the topography of Hamburg 1880 - 1895 (accessed on February 3, 2017).
  6. ↑ Object no .: 176 Goldbekkanal , Authority for Urban Development and the Environment (accessed on February 3, 2017).
  7. ↑ The highlight of the new building is in the ensemble , Die Welt, July 28, 2001 (accessed on February 2, 2017).
  8. ↑ Goldbekhaus .
  9. ↑ a b The history of the Hamburger Hochbahn - The years 1891 - 1912 ( Memento from March 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Historical pictures of the Stadtparkhafen from 1925 and 1930 , Bildarchiv-Hamburg.
  11. ↑ Jürgen Blunck, History of the Alster Shipping , Husum Verlag, ISBN 978-3-88042-256-8 , 272 pages.
  12. ^ Hamburg map from 1887 , German Association of Gas and Water Experts, Hamburg, 1887 (accessed on February 3, 2017).
  13. ^ Hamburg map from 1913 (Feldweg-Brücke) , Association for the Promotion of Tourism, 1913 (accessed on February 3, 2017).
  14. ↑ Freie und Angelstadt Hamburg , Hamburger Abendblatt, October 15, 2005 (accessed on February 2, 2017).
  15. ↑ Udo Schroeter: The fishing guide Hamburg - Free waters. The best 150 fishing spots in town, published by Die Rapsbande, Fehmarn, 2005, pp. 21–25, ISBN 978-3937868110
  16. ↑ Nature in Hamburg , Welt am Sonntag, September 16, 2001 (accessed on February 2, 2017).
  17. ↑ Alster tourism

Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 28 ″  N , 10 ° 1 ′ 50 ″  E