Baumgarteninsel
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| Waters | Old Spree Koepenick | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 27 '0 " N , 13 ° 34' 39" E | |
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| length | 510 m | |
| width | 230 m | |
| surface | 8.4 ha | |
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The Baumgarteninsel is a small island in Berlin-Köpenick north of the old town of Köpenick and near the place of April 23rd .
history
The area was first mentioned in 1776 as Kietzer Wiesen. In the 19th century, the meadows served the Köpenick washerwomen as a bleaching and drying place. The Spree (today Alte Spree) flowed north of the meadows around the site. To the south there was only a small ditch that a cat could jump over, the cat ditch, which had been dug to drain the meadows. At the end of the 19th century, the Katzengraben was expanded as part of a river straightening of the Müggelspree to a width and depth necessary for shipping, so that the area became an island. She was later filled up , and allotments were created. The Baumgarteninsel allotment garden of the Gartenfreunde Köpenick association has been on the island since 1922 . In 1970, during the GDR era , the colony was connected to the electricity network and in 1980 to the water network.
description
Baumgarteninsel can only be reached by boat. On the island, a pillar of the Katzengrabensteg was erected between the north and south banks of the Spree in 2001 , but due to the protests of the residents, an access to the island was not implemented (see photo in the info box).
A silver willow in the south-eastern part of the island is a natural monument .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Carst: Bridge over Katzengraben. In: New Germany. August 3, 2001, accessed May 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Köpenick - Baumgarteninsel. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Berlin OT Köpenick from above - Baumgarteninsel in the district of Köpenick in Berlin. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Ordinance on the Protection of Natural Monuments in Berlin. P. 33 , accessed on May 15, 2020 .