Tempelhof harbor
The port of Tempelhof (also: Tempelhofer Hafen ) is an inland port of the Teltow Canal (TeK) at kilometer TeK km 23.40 in the Berlin district of Tempelhof in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district .
The port facility with warehouse and cranes dates from 1901 to 1908 and is a listed building as a whole . The port made a significant contribution to Tempelhof's economic upswing and, with its huge storage building, was the most important goods transshipment point for the Tempelhof-Ost industrial area.
History and port
The then still independent village Tempelhof belonged to the former Teltow district until 1920 . The rapid development of Berlin prompted the district to create docks for Groß-Lichterfelde , Steglitz , Tempelhof and Britz with the construction of the Teltow Canal . The planning and drafts for the Tempelhofer Hafen came from the engineering office Havestadt & Contag , the construction was carried out by the company Held & Francke AG and the client was the Teltow Canal Building Authority Wilmersdorf.
Twenty years before the Ullsteinhaus , a harbor basin measuring around 170 × 70 meters with a diving depth of 2.10 meters was built on the opposite side . To the then usual Treidelbetrieb on the Schienenleinpfad, so hauling Oder and Finowmaßkähne means Treidellokomotiven to ensure continuous at these random ports, the port entrance was with an iron Leinpfadbrücke spans. The barges could enter and exit in any direction. In addition, the Port of Tempelhof was given a ship waiting area in the canal profile outside the thoroughfare.
The District Canal Commission enforced that a large storage facility was built at the port with funds from the Teltow district. The plans outline both the connection via an access road to the former Berliner Straße (today: Tempelhofer Damm ) and a siding. Unloading and loading took place on all three sides of the harbor, but above all on the 170-meter-long northern quay wall. Grain, flour, sugar, tobacco, oils and general cargo were handled primarily . There was a customs station and a rail connection that was operated from the Teltow Canal station of the Neukölln-Mittenwalder Railway (NME). During the Second World War , the warehouse served as a warehouse for large quantities of food. During the Berlin blockade , the port served as a distribution station for goods from the airlift. After the end of the blockade, supplies from the city of West Berlin were still stored there in order to be prepared against a renewed constriction of the traffic routes.
Warehouse, administration, connection
The storage building was completed in 1908. The structure is one of the first reinforced concrete structures in Germany. At that time it was one of the most modern warehouses of its time. The multi-storey and fire-proof storage building is 120 meters long, 25 meters wide and had a storage area of 12,000 m². In front of the warehouse were cranes with a load capacity of six tons, four of which are still preserved today. Right next to it, tracks of the Neukölln-Mittenwalder Railway (former Rixdorf-Mittenwalder Railway) ran through Teilestraße and its industrial areas to the east until the start of the new construction in 2007 and established the connection to the Ringbahn and Teltowkanal station via the Hermannstraße freight station. From Tempelhofer Damm, the former Berliner Straße , there was also an access via Ordensmeisterstraße until 2007.
Before the Soviet Army marched in in the spring of 1945, SS troops set the granary on fire. After the reconstruction, it served the Berlin Senate as a reserve warehouse. After the fall of the Berlin Wall , the Senate reserves were dissolved in 1990. Until 2006 the warehouse, open space and harbor were managed by Lagerhaus Hafen Tempelhof GmbH, which rented large parts of the warehouse to companies and rented berths for pleasure craft.
Ownership and renovation from 2007
The port belongs to the so-called "Teltow assets", the assets of the former Teltow district. The district was one of the richest in Germany at the time and did not join the amalgamation of many communities to form Greater Berlin in 1920 . Teltow's successors in the GDR were the districts of Königs Wusterhausen , Lübben , Luckenwalde , Zossen and Potsdam-Land . With the district reform in 1993 , the new districts of Dahme-Spreewald and Teltow-Fläming each received 40%, Potsdam-Mittelmark 20% of the Teltow property. The cash holdings have been paid out, shares from the assets were sold in 1999. Properties such as the port area are still managed jointly.
With an appraisal procedure carried out by the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district office in 2006, an attempt was made to obtain implementable design and usage proposals for the outdoor facilities and the harbor basin, which do justice to the importance of the location for the city and attract the population in the near and far Exercise living environment. The first prize went to West 8 landscape architects bv , Rotterdam .
Since 2007 the new Tempelhofer Hafen has been built on the approximately 30,000 m² site at the southern end of Tempelhofer Damm. The property company Objekt Tempelhofer Hafen mbH & Co. KG , a joint venture of HLG Münster / Berlin and IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG , Düsseldorf, is investing more than 100 million euros in the development of the previously fallow area. The previous warehouse will be almost completely gutted in the course of the construction and renovation work by Hochtief Solutions AG , and many other businesses were also removed.
On the right the building of the former C. Lorenz AG (from 1958: Standard Elektrik Lorenz ).
Tempelhofer Hafen shopping center
On April 29, 2009 the Tempelhofer Hafen shopping center opened as the 59th shopping center in Berlin. Around 20,000 m² of retail space was rented to more than 70 shops. A multi-storey car park with 600 parking spaces was built along Ordensmeisterstraße. The Center is located on the north exit of the subway station Ullsteinstraße the underground line U6 of Alt-Tegel to Alt-Mariendorf .
At the beginning of July 2012, a free passenger ferry was put into operation, which connects the east pier with the west pier.
literature
- 100 years of the Teltow Canal, 1906–2006 . Commemorative publication of the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration. Ed .: Wasser- und Schifffahrtsdirektion Ost, Magdeburg 2006.
- Gerhard Birk and Mario Stutzki: The Teltow Canal. A building of the century . Sutton Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-89702-245-1 .
- Peter Hahn, Jürgen Stich: Teltow Canal. Stations. Ways. Stories . Oase Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-88922-059-2 .
- Horst Köhler: The Teltow Canal. A lifeline in the south of Berlin . Stapp Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-87776-036-8 .
- Horst Köhler: The Teltow Canal - From Desire to Idea . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 5, 2000, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 24–31 ( luise-berlin.de ).
- Michael Thiele: Tempelhof am Wasser - Teltow Canal, harbor and warehouse . In: District Office Tempelhof of Berlin (ed.): From iron to pralines, Tempelhof and its industry . Book accompanying the exhibition, p. 65 f. No year given; the exhibition took place in November 2000.
- Wilg: Teltow Canal Storage at Tempelhofer Hafen . In: Journal of Construction . Volume 58 (1908), col. 649–674, plates 68–70. Digitized in the holdings of the Central and State Library Berlin .
Web links
- Tempelhofer Hafen - shopping center
- Port of Tempelhof expert assessment
- Building permit for the Tempelhofer Hafen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- ↑ Michael Thiele: Tempelhof am Wasser - Teltow Canal, port and warehouse . In: District Office Tempelhof of Berlin (ed.): From iron to pralines, Tempelhof and its industry . P. 66
- ↑ New ferry at Tempelhofer Hafen goes into operation . In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 5, 2012.
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 18 ″ N , 13 ° 23 ′ 10 ″ E