Beetzsee-Riewendsee waterway

Beetzsee-Riewendsee waterway
Map of the waters of the Beetzseerinne; navigable as a waterway from the south to Riewendsee
abbreviation	BRW
length	21.54
class	IV
Beginning	Großer Beetzsee, Lower Havel waterway
The End	Riewendsee
Kilometrage	North
Ascent	North
Competent authority	Brandenburg Waterways and Shipping Office
The Beetzsee at the boat landing stage in the municipality of Beetzsee OT Radewege

The Beetzsee-Riewendsee-Wasserstraße (BRW) is a federal waterway below the Pählbrücke (waterway class IV), above a so-called other or unclassified inland waterway of the federal government in the German state of Brandenburg and belongs to the Lower Havel-Wasserstraße (UHW), the waterway is responsible - and Shipping Office Brandenburg . It is 21.54 kilometers long and consists of a series of four lake basins of the Beetzseerinne , three of which belong to the Beetzsee and one to the Riewendsee , which are connected by canal-like watercourses, the so-called Strenge . The kilometering is from the branch of the BRW from the UHW in a north to north-east direction to the end of the waterway at the end of the Riewendsee at kilometer 21.80.

history

The elongated bodies of water, ice-age channel lakes , flowing into the river Havel were already used in the early Middle Ages for rafting and for the transport of building and fuel materials. The first expansion for the coffee barges customary at the time took place between 1883 and 1885. As a result of an increased volume of cargo in the places on the water, the canal-like sections of the waterway were widened in 1899 and 1901. Mainly agricultural products such as grain and beets, but also peat, wood and coal were transported. At the end of the 1890s brickworks were built on the outskirts of the villages. The bricks produced there were transported in large quantities by ship to the Havel and further, among other things, to the former royal cities of Potsdam and Berlin . In return, large quantities of coal were brought to the brickworks for the burning process. Peat was also cut and shipped to developing cities as inexpensive fuel. The waterway was passable for Plauermaß ships . Since the decline in cargo shipping on the waterway in the 1960s, the waters have been used almost exclusively by passenger ships and pleasure boats.

Course of the waterway

The waterway begins in the underwater at the north mole of the suburban lock Brandenburg with the kilometer 0.26, in the Beetzsee branches off to the north from the Lower Havel waterway at kilometer 56.17. With the construction of the silo canal from 1907 to November 1910 and the tow lock from 1905 to June 1909 with its shipping pier, south of the old suburban lock, the southern tip of the lake was separated. This residual lake is now known as the Kleiner Beetzsee . At the beginning of the BRW, on the west bank of the Beetzsee, is the Beetzsee regatta course . The Beetzsee narrows between the villages of Radewege and Butzow and is crossed by the Pählbrücke. The Lünower Streng , a further narrowing of the Beetzsee, is reached at about 12.54 km . A dirt road bridge leads over the Lünower Streng . In the western part of the following third basin of the Beetzsee, the Upper Beetzsee, lies the seagull island Buhnenwerder , which has been designated as a nature reserve since 1930 . The island is the oldest nature reserve in the city of Brandenburg. The Päwesiner Streng is reached at 17.70 km . The Päwesiner road bridge leads over the canal-like section. After passing this narrow point and the southeastern village of Päwesin , the Riewendsee is reached, at the northeastern end of which the waterway ends, but where it begins in the direction of flow at the Klinkgraben.

The bridges

Three bridges cross the Beetzsee-Riewendsee waterway.

number	km	photography	Name of the bridge / place	Remarks	location
Map with all coordinates of the bridges: OSM | WikiMap
X	7.43		Pählbrücke Amt Beetzsee	Pählbrücke between Radewege / Butzow and Mötzow (L 911) as Butzower Straße over the Streng between the two basins of the Beetzsee of the Beetzsee-Riewendsee waterway.	cards
X	13.04		(Feldwegbrücke) Roskow Amt Beetzsee	Feldwegbrücke, only for pedestrians and cyclists (Storchenradweg) over the Lünower Streng, former railway bridge of the Westhavelländische Kreisbahnen .	cards
X	18.11		Päwesiner road bridge Päwesin Amt Beetzsee	Road bridge between Päwesin and Bagow of the L 912 over the Päwesiner Streng.	cards

literature

• Hans-J. Uhlemann: Berlin and the Märkische Wasserstraßen , transpress Verlag Berlin; various years, ISBN 3-344-00115-9
• Writings of the Association for European Inland Shipping and Waterways eV ; various years. Western European shipping and port calendar, Binnenschifffahrts-Verlag GmbH, Duisburg-Ruhrort OCLC 48960431
• Folke Stender: Editing of Sportschifffahrtskarten Binnen 1 , Nautical Publication Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 3-926376-10-4 .

Web links

Commons : Beetzsee-Riewendsee-Wasserstraße  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Directory E, serial no. 60 and directory F of the Chronicle ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Lengths (in km) of the main shipping routes (main routes and certain secondary routes) of the federal inland waterways ( memento of the original from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration 
3. ↑ Hans-J. Uhlemann: Berlin and the Märkische Wasserstraßen , transpress Verlag Berlin; Year 1987, ISBN 3-344-00115-9 , page 175
4. ↑ Pictures of a brick factory in Päwesin
5. ↑ Alfred Gierszewski: The Möveninsel groynes Werder in Beetzsee in nature in Berlin and Brandenburg ; 1976; Pages 89-90

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 40.4 "  N , 12 ° 39 ′ 49.6"  E