Flottbek (river)

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Flottbek
The estuary in Teufelsbrück at low tide

The estuary in Teufelsbrück at low tide

Data
location Altona district ( Elbe suburbs ), Hamburg
River system Elbe
Drain over Elbe  → North Sea
muzzle at Teufelsbrück in the Elbe Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '52 "  N , 9 ° 52' 2"  E 53 ° 32 '52 "  N , 9 ° 52' 2"  E

Left tributaries Teufelsbek (piped), Röbbek (piped)

The Flottbek is a small body of water flowing southwards in Hamburg-Osdorf , Hamburg-Groß Flottbek and Hamburg-Othmarschen . In terms of the type of flowing water , it is a gravel-shaped lowland stream (type 16).

Origin of name

The name of the water is given in the oldest documents handed down as Vlotbeke . This name has developed into today's "Flottbek" in different spellings. As with other brooks, the name has now been spelled with "ck" as "Flottbeck", which is an elongation-c , which means / e / is spoken long.

The name is of Low German origin (basic word bek and defining word mnd. Vlot, nnd. Flott) and means "flat, shallow stream".

The Flottbek gave its name to the surrounding villages: the Klein Flottbek district and today's Groß Flottbek district .

course

Large parts of the Flottbek are piped or are mostly dry. It rises at the polo square ( location ) of the Hamburg Polo Club and flows through pipes under the Botanical Garden to the street "An der Flottbek". Here the Flottbek is visible over a length of about 10 m. In the triangle between Hölderlinstrasse, Müllenhoffweg and Papenkamp, ​​it forms a pond into which the Röbbek also flows. Behind the embankment it crosses Otto-Ernst-Straße, where it finally comes to light. On the golf course of the Großflottbeker THGC , it forms a natural water hazard; In the south-west corner of the latter, coming from Walderseestrasse, there is the Teufelsbek, which earlier originated south of the Bahrenfelder See. The Flottbek then flows through the Flottbektal nature reserve in Jenischpark , where it feeds two small ponds and serves as an overflow for the Hamburg rainwater sewer system, and flows into the Elbe next to the Teufelsbrück sports boat harbor .

The Flottbektal runs largely parallel to the northern approach lane for the Airbus aircraft yard in Hamburg-Finkenwerder .

literature

  • Martin Wendt: 700 years of Flottbek. 1305-2005. A chronicle. SPD Flottbek-Othmarschen, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-00-016459-6 .
  • Klaus Beplat: The last act in the Röbbek plot. The tragic story of a brook in Hamburg. Self-published, Hamburg 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Document dated August 31, 1301, in which Adolph von Schauenburg transfers rights to the valley to the citizen Hartwig Löwe. In: Schleswig-Holstein Regesta and Documents , Vol. 3.
  2. Wolfgang Laur : The names of places and waters of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , Neumünster 2012, p. 109.