Griebnitzsee
| Griebnitzsee | ||
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| Geographical location | Central Europe , Germany , Brandenburg | |
| Tributaries | (Spree) Teltow Canal , at times also partly (Havel) Griebnitz Canal | |
| Drain | Havel over Glienicker Lake , at times also partly over Griebnitz Canal | |
| Places on the shore | Berlin , Potsdam | |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 23 '55 " N , 13 ° 7' 55" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 29.4 m above sea level NN | |
| surface | approx. 0.592 km² | |
| length | 3.0 km | |
| width | up to 265 m | |
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particularities |
End point of the Teltow Canal |
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| Chain of lakes south of Wannsee | ||
The narrow, L-shaped Griebnitzsee (from Slavic grib = 'mushroom' and (n) ica = 'place') lies in an ice age channel and is around three kilometers long. It borders in the north on the Berlin district of Wannsee and in the south on the Potsdam district of Babelsberg . There, at the southernmost point of the lake, is the Griebnitzsee train station at the eastern end of Neubabelsberg . The Griebnitzsee is part of the federal waterway Teltow Canal ; The Berlin Waterways and Shipping Office is responsible .
location
At the western end of the Griebnitzsee, a 400 meter long canal connects to the Glienicker Lake . At the east end at Kohlhasenbrück the canal stretch of the Teltow Canal joins and the Griebnitz Canal branches off to the northeast. Via the Griebnitz Canal, the Havel and Spree can either flow in from the north or the Spree water from the Teltow Canal can flow north , depending on the water flow, with the latter predominating.
The park bridge at the northwest end of the lake connects Neubabelsberg, located southwest of the lake, with the Potsdam district Klein Glienicke , located north of the lake, which is enclosed in the west, north and east by the Berlin district of Wannsee. The Babelsberg and Park Babelsberg locations of the University of Potsdam are in the immediate vicinity, as are a number of newly restored villas of prominent personalities.
Not far south of the lake run the Berlin – Magdeburg railway line and the S-Bahn with the Griebnitzsee station as a stop of the same name for the S-Bahn and regional trains in the direction of Potsdamer Zentrum or Golm and Wustermark .
The border between the states of Brandenburg and Berlin runs through almost the entire lake . A small part at the western end of the lake belongs entirely to Brandenburg, as does the connecting canal between Griebnitzsee and Glienicker Lake , and the northeastern part with the confluences of the Griebnitz and Teltow canals lies entirely in Berlin.
The forest area on the north bank of the Griebnitzsee belongs to the EU bird sanctuary Westlicher Düppeler Forst .
history
During the division of Berlin , the border between the GDR and West Berlin , and thus part of the Berlin Wall , was in the middle of the lake. The lake was not accessible from the Babelsberg bank. In 1962, the refugee Günter Wiedenhöft drowned while trying to flee the GDR through the lake.
The best known neighbor of the Griebnitzsee is Volker Schlöndorff ; The federal office of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom , which bought and renovated the Truman villa , is also located there.
Controversy over the riverside path
As a result of the political change in 1989, after the demolition of the border security system on the Babelsberger Ufer, a path was created that uses the former Kolonnenweg. Until 1989 the path was never open to the public, neither in GDR times nor before, when the land on the banks belonged to the mostly Jewish villa owners before they were illegally expropriated by the National Socialists after 1933 or by the GDR after 1949 .
In 2004, 7000 citizens of Potsdam and Berlin voted in a signature campaign for the preservation of the riverside path and public accessibility of the riverside areas to the water. On November 7th, 2007, the Potsdam city council unanimously decided on a development plan that ensures a public path along the riverbank and that the riverbank areas can be accessed up to the water. Several land-owning lakeside residents successfully sued this development plan. Dedication of the path as a public path was rejected by the Potsdam Administrative Court on February 5, 2009. There is also no right of access under nature conservation law, as the Higher Administrative Court of Berlin-Brandenburg ruled on April 2, 2009. Some residents then closed the riverside path on April 18, 2009. To keep the riverside path open, the citizens' initiative “Griebnitzsee für Alle” was founded, which aims to establish a riverside park with references to the history of the last undeveloped Wall Trail around West Berlin . The city of Potsdam passed a new development plan in 2012, which was changed due to formal problems and was finally decided in April 2016. The plan provides for a continuous public riverside path on Griebnitzsee for pedestrians and cyclists. It already served as the basis for the approval and construction of private boathouses and jetties. Against the plan to run 23 judicial review complaints by opponents of a public bank way, the same part persons who boathouses and bridges have already been approved on the basis of the development plan. A mediation process between the city and the residents of the lake has been running since the beginning of the 2010s , which has not yet led to any result (status: autumn 2016).
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Directory E, Ser. No. 57 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
- ^ University of Potsdam: site plans and building overviews. Retrieved March 5, 2011 .
- ↑ Published in the Official Gazette of the City of Potsdam 14/2007
- ^ VG Potsdam, judgment of February 5, 2009 - 10 K 3724/04
- ↑ OVG Berlin-Brandenburg, judgment of April 2, 2009 - 11 B 08/14
- ↑ What do you think of the closure at Griebnitzsee? Reader debate. In: Der Tagesspiegel . April 18, 2009, accessed March 5, 2011 .
- ↑ Lukas Heilmann: Welcome. In: Welcome. Retrieved September 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Stefan Engelbrecht: Uferweg Griebnitzsee is delayed further. In: Potsdam Latest News , February 25, 2015
