Aalemann Canal

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The Aalemann Canal at the mouth of the Havel

The Aalemann Canal ( listen ? / I ) is a branch canal of the Berlin Oberhavel . He is in the village hook field of Spandau . The Landesschifffahrtsverordnung Berlin lists the canal as a navigable state waterway . The watercraft must not exceed a length of 67 meters and a width of 8.20 meters. Audio file / audio sample

The 700 meter long body of water stretches from the bank of the Havel to the west as a dead straight line to Niederneuendorfer Allee in the Spandauer Forest . Both sides of the river are bordered by a narrow strip of green and are open to the public. Allotment garden colonies and a small green area adjoin the south bank. The street Aalemannufer runs parallel to the north bank, in the western part from the residential area Aalemannufer and in the eastern part from a settlement of the sports club Spandau Aalemann e. V. is accompanied. At the east end of the street or the canal, a car ferry leads to the opposite bank of the Havel in Tegelort .

History and etymology

The branch canal was excavated between 1919 and 1921 between the Rustwiesen, a former swamp area along the Havel, and the Spandau Forest southeast of the former Teufelssee and today 's Teufelsbruch and secondary moors for industrial settlement. Before that, the so-called “rust” with large masses of sand that was extracted from the excavation of the Hohenzollern Canal, which began in 1906, had been heaped up and drained. A concrete plant and a sawmill in particular shaped the industrial era of the canal. The works were largely dismantled in 2011 with the exception of a few bank reinforcements and piers.

The Aalemann Canal was named in 1922 by the Spandau district office after a Havel bay, where fishermen used to be responsible for catching eel . On a city map from 1897, this bay bears the name Aalemann and in the same year a newly founded fishing club named itself Aalemann . As early as 1590, an Alleman large yarn train was recorded. The often-mentioned connection with the eel belongs to the field of folk etymology according to the Brandenburg name book . Rather, the name belongs to the Middle Low German alleman = everyone and means that everyone was allowed to fish there.

Aalemannufer residential area

Between 1994 and 1997, the Aalemannufer residential area with 536 apartments was built on a site north of the canal. According to Benedikt Hotze, architecture critic and editor-in-chief of BauNetz , the quarter is characterized by a contemporary interpretation of traditional settlement architecture with a clear zoning of the public street space and semi-public courtyard , which in some cases clearly reminiscent of the villa architecture of the 1920s and which is largely based on the formal language of the classic Modern feel obliged.

View across the canal to the living cubes in the front of the settlement

In the Aalemannufer residential area, Hotze distinguishes between three building types:

  • Cubic city ​​villas on the canal side with a clear cubic structure, horizontal band structure and horizontal window formats that are stepped from the second to fourth floors , creating spacious south-facing terraces. The four-storey buildings were designed by the architects Büttner, Neumann, Braun with Martin and tenants.
  • Compact, cubic, five-storey building blocks by David Chipperfield , in which the third and fourth storeys are clad with gray fiber cement panels to form a circumferential “corset”. Hotze sees the facade material as an enrichment compared to the white plaster that otherwise predominates in the settlement.
  • Five-storey rows of living rooms by Darmstadt architects Kramm and Strigl, which stand out with an open balcony zone in front of the actual building block. The steel frame of the balcony zone, with individually movable grid systems, creates a very unique, constantly changing organizational logic. In combination with clear apartment floor plans and creative accessories such as roof structures and connecting bridges, an exemplary architecture was created here, which is characterized by an architectural conception that is far removed from the Berlin image of the “stone house” .

In contrast to the water town of Spandau to the south , which city planners consider to be too high and too densely built-up, the Aalemannufer district was specifically designed to be more individual and small-scale.

The street names in the residential district, Zum Teufelsbruch , Am Erlengrund and Zu den Fichtewiesen, take up the area names, the latter two of which are reminiscent of two nearby exclaves in Brandenburg , which were separated from what was then West Berlin from 1961 to 1988 .

Havel cycle path and Aalemann Canal Bridge

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The road and the road to the Aalemannkanal were until 2010 part of the Havel cycle path , which here again part of Radfernwegs Berlin-Copenhagen , the Queen Luise Route and Havelseen path - hiking trail  12 of the 20 green main routes of Berlin - is. On July 8, 2010, the Aalemann Canal Bridge was opened, which leads the bike and footpaths at the mouth of the Havel over the canal and shortens the route by around one kilometer. The cable-stayed bridge hangs from a 24 meter high A pylon and has a total length of 157 meters with all ramps.

Web links

Commons : Aalemannkanal  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ordinance regulating shipping traffic on the waters of the State of Berlin (Landesschifffahrtsverordnung Berlin - LandesSchiffVO Bln). From April 27, 1998 (GVB1. P. 91), amended by the ordinance of October 8, 1999 (GVB1. P. 558), p. 3, 7. (PDF; 41 kB)
  2. ↑ http://www.vdsfberlinbrandenburg.de/index.php?id=48 (link not available)
  3. ↑ The history of our “Aalemann settlement”. ( Memento from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Sportverein Spandau Aalemann e. V.
  4. ↑ a b Brandenburg name book. Part 10. The names of the waters of Brandenburg . Founded by Gerhard Schlimpert , edited by Reinhard E. Fischer . Edited by K. Gutschmidt, H. Schmidt, T. Witkowski. Berlin contributions to name research on behalf of the Humanities Center for History and Culture of East Central Europe. V. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1996, p. 16 ISBN 3-7400-1001-0
  5. ↑ Aalemannufer. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  6. ^ Lothar Münner: Small model settlement on the Aalemannufer. In: Berliner Zeitung , May 28, 1997.
  7. ↑ a b Benedikt Hotze: New dwellings and residential complexes in united Berlin (1989–1999). Part 2. Excursus 4: The Spruch and Aalemannufer settlements , 1998.
  8. ^ Lothar Münner: Small model settlement on the Aalemannufer. In: Berliner Zeitung , May 28, 1997.
  9. ↑ Havelseenweg. Senate Department for Urban Development.
  10. ↑ Pedestrian and cycle bridge over the Aalemann Canal in Berlin-Spandau 2009–2010. ( Memento from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Klähne Engineers.

Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 22 ″  N , 13 ° 13 ′ 4 ″  E