Lichterfelde harbor

The inland port Berlin-Lichterfelde on the Teltow Canal with the former towbridge over the port entrance directly after its construction in 1906

View over the harbor to the south with the former unloading point for tankers

The port of Lichterfelde is an inland port on the Teltow Canal in the Lichterfelde district of the Berlin district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf .

history

When the Teltow Canal was built between 1900 and 1906 it was created as one of five larger ports on the canal (next to Steglitz, Tempelhof , Mariendorf and Britz-Ost). The structural separation of the port from the canal was necessary in order to be able to run the towing railway directly along the bank. It was led on a bridge over the port entrance. Hafenstraße was laid out on the eastern side of the harbor and renamed Am Hafen in 1921 and Barnackufer in 1961 . The towing operation, which was supposed to protect the canal bank and the canal bottom from damage by the suction and propeller effect of the tugs of the time, was not resumed after the Second World War . The embankment between the canal and the harbor, on which the towing locomotives drove, was later removed (after 1961, probably around 1970) so that the harbor basin has been directly on the Teltow Canal ever since. With the construction of the thermal power station, the space was required as a berth and discharge point for the tankers supplying heating oil. In 1950 the access to the Teltow Canal from the west was blocked by the GDR . Until 1981, the port was only accessible via a long detour from the east via the Havel , the Spree and the Britzer connecting canal, which made its use unattractive. The port regained economic importance when the Lichterfelde cogeneration plant , at that time Bewag's largest cogeneration plant in West Berlin , was built directly at the Lichterfelde port. The port and the Teltow Canal made it possible to transport heating oil, which was needed as fuel, and to supply the systems with cooling water. Since the last block of the power plant was converted to natural gas in 1998, the port has not been used by the power plant.

Today there is only one temporary scrap loading point and a few jetties in the port of Lichterfelde.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} History of the Teltow Canal (PDF; 1.3 MB) Wasser- und Schifffahrtsamt Berlin
2. ↑ At the port . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
3. ↑ Teltowkanalweg, stage 3 on berliner-stadtplan.com

Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 39.2 "  N , 13 ° 18 ′ 34.8"  E