Great Malchsee
The Große Malchsee ( ), often also referred to as the Große Malche , is the northernmost bay of the Tegeler See . It is located in the Berlin district of Tegel in the Reinickendorf district . The addition of large is used by the Malche to distinguish it from the Kleiner Malche , the southernmost bay of the lake. The shores of the bay are almost entirely covered with jetties for various water sports clubs.
Location, paths and surroundings
The Große Malchsee has an extension of around 530 meters in north-south direction and around 790 meters in east-west direction. The surface area is 156,837 m². It is located between the Tegel Forest , which extends to the west bank, and the center of Tegel. Its south-eastern limit is the Seglerkopf, a headland west of the Tegeler Hafenbrücke , the south-western limit is the Reiherwerder peninsula . The island of Hasselwerder is located in front of the lake . A pedestrian promenade - named “An der Malche” in the upper part - leads along the east and north banks, which continues the Greenwich promenade of the main lake. The promenade crosses the Malchseegraben, a tributary of the Tegeler See that is hardly water-bearing today. It is part of hiking trail 16 Humboldt-Spur of the 20 green Hauptwege ® in Berlin, in the eastern part also hiking trail 3 Heiligenseer Weg . The west bank has limited public access. The southern part of the west bank belongs to the premises of the Foreign Service Academy , which continues to Reiherwerder with the Villa Borsig .
Recreational facilities and water sports
The amusement park on the Malche, part of the Tegel amusement park, takes up a large part of the upper west bank. The tree-lined complex includes pedal boats and rowing boats for hire, playgrounds and tennis courts, badminton and volleyball fields and a garden chess field. There are shallow water pools for children. Part of the park is also known as the Tegel water playground.
On the water side, around three quarters of the bank is taken up by jetties for various water sports clubs. This includes the Tegeler Segel Club (TSC) from 1901, whose premises are in the middle of the west bank. The oldest sailing club in the north of Berlin organizes the annual Easter regatta “Preis der Malche” in the boat classes 420 and pirate . The entry-level model for keelboat yachts Varianta 18 also took part in the 2011 race for the first time .
Sculpture and English oak
In addition to the landscape and the leisure facilities, attractions at the Großer Malchsee include a sculpture in honor of the Dadaist Hannah Höch and a pedunculate oak named “Dicke Marie” by the Humboldt brothers.
The archaic archangel of Heiligensee
The sculpture "The Archaic Archangel of Heiligensee" by the artist Siegfried Kühl stands on the Seglerkopf, the southeastern headland . The sculpture was inaugurated on November 1st, 1989 to commemorate the 100th birthday of the graphic and collage artist Hannah Höch , who lived in Heiligensee .
"Kühl, who is known for his original use and amalgamation of past material, 'scrap' as it were, meets the artist, who is famous for her collages and photomontages, in terms of content and form: From real found objects such as wooden planks, planks, a gear train made of metal, He shapes the body, head and wings of a former boat hull into an archaic angel who is supposed to stand as a 'messenger of God' and for freedom. And this in the best possible place - on the peninsula-shaped bulge of the riverside path with a view over Lake Tegel. "
Kühl worked for six years on the monument made of bronze, metal and wood, which rests on a granite pedestal almost two meters high.
The allegedly oldest tree in Berlin
In the northern tip of the Große Malche, the Tegel Castle Park extends up to the bay, in which Dicke Marie stands a few meters inland. A little further into the park is the grave of the von Humboldt family . The fat Marie is a pedunculate oak and allegedly around 900 years old, the oldest tree in Berlin (it is more likely that it is 400 to 500 years old). The tree was named after the brothers Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt . The compact growth and the deep branching of the oak indicate that the tree once had a free location near the bank of a smaller foothill of the Great Malche, which is now separated from the lake by the road and hiking trail. The separated part is now subject to large, weather and season-dependent fluctuations in the water level and consists of a relatively young break forest, in which the black alder is the dominant tree species. A large part of this spur of the bay is already completely silted up and has dense vegetation with trees typical of the hardwood floodplain such as Norway maple and white elm .
The sea battle in the Malche
In Volume 3 "Havelland" of the walks through the Mark Brandenburg , Theodor Fontane describes a skirmish between Spandau and Berlin / Cölln citizens under the chapter heading The Sea Battle in the Malche , which, for his pleasure, staged by Elector Joachim II on August 8, 1567 took place. According to Fontane, the Malche was in the chain of lakes of the Havel . He called it a basin that "pretty much fills the entire space between the Eiswerder and the citadel". This section of the Havel between the island of Eiswerder and the Spandau Citadel is known as Krienicke, at least today.
Fontane refers to the description of the Brandenburg chronicler Nicolaus Leuthinger in his long-missed Scriptorum de rebus Marchiae Brandenburgensis… , which was published in 1729 by Johann Christoph Müller and Georg Gottfried Krause. Fontane gives Leuthinger's account of the events in German translation. According to Leuthinger, the "entire area of water that forms the 'Big and Small Malchesee' 'between the fortress and the Eiswerder was covered with ships". Following today's geographical names, would have this as a stick war in the Spandau , so play received history like battle between the northern and southern Seebucht on Lake Tegel. If there are no translation or assignment errors, it is much more likely that the battle actually took place between the fortress and the Eiswerder, i.e. in today's Krienicke Bay on the Havel. That would mean that this body of water was once called Malchesee, also divided into Large and Small Malchesee. This is also supported by Leuthinger's description, according to which the Berlin / Cöllner fleet (thirty ships) was lying on the Tegelschen See and then, leaving the Eiswerder on the right, the Havel was steered down to the Kleine Malche, while the Spandauer fleet was on the left at the fortress anchored at the local lock . Another indication of this location is that the elector and his court were able to watch the battle from the fortress bastion. The subsequent land skirmish, which Joachim II broke off before blood flowed in the increasingly heated mood , also took place within sight of the citadel.
literature
- Theodor Fontane : The sea battle in the Malche. In: Walks through the Mark Brandenburg in 8 volumes , Volume 3 Havelland . Edited by Gotthard Erler u. Rudolf Mingau. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1997, pp. 176-182, ISBN 978-3-7466-5703-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Digital map display, river map. Senate Department for Urban Development, FIS broker
- ^ Humboldt trace. Senate Department for Urban Development.
- ↑ The leisure park on the Malche in Tegel . ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2011 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. Berlin.de
- ↑ Homepage. Tegeler Segel Club
- ^ Price of the Malche. Tegeler Segel Club
- ↑ The Hannah Höch Memorial in Reinickendorf. ( Memento of the original dated November 30, 2011 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. Berlin.de
- ↑ a b The archaic archangel of Heiligensee. Culture guide Berlin
- ↑ Fat Marie . ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2010 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. Berlin.de
- ↑ Hainer Weißpflug: The "Fat Marie" . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 5, 1996, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 62-65 ( luise-berlin.de ).
- ↑ Theodor Fontane: The sea battle in the Malche. [...] p. 176
- ↑ Nicolaus Leuthinger , after: Theodor Fontane: The sea battle in the Malche. [...] p. 180
- ↑ Felix Escher : Spandau in the shadow of the fortress . In: Slavic castle, state fortress, industrial center. Studies on the history of the city and district of Spandau. Wolfgang Ribbe (Ed.), Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1983, p. 176 ISBN 3-7678-0593-6 .
- ↑ Nicolaus Leuthinger, after: Theodor Fontane: The sea battle in the Malche. [...] p. 178 f.
- ↑ Nicolaus Leuthinger, after: Theodor Fontane: The sea battle in the Malche. [...] p. 182
Coordinates: 52 ° 35 ′ 24 ″ N , 13 ° 15 ′ 51 ″ E