Island of youth
| Island of youth | ||
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 the Treptowers in the background on the right |
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| Waters | Spree | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 29 ′ N , 13 ° 29 ′ E | |
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The Insel der Jugend , abbey island until 1949 , is an island in the Berlin Spree in the Treptow-Köpenick district and belongs to the Alt-Treptow district . It is located between Treptower Park and the Plänterwald forest across from the Stralau peninsula .
History up to 1945 (trade and gastronomy)
In 1860, the acquired Rixdorfer citizens Emil Heinicke previously abandoned island, the pipe-island , from the city. On old maps it is called the Treppbruch or Treptower Bruch . At that time it was nothing more than a small elevation overgrown with reeds . With the help of street garbage and earth, an area of around 1.8 hectares was gradually created. Heinicke died on a trip with a sailing boat on the Müggelsee . His son-in-law took over the island and started raising rabbits . But he was also unsuccessful, so that the island changed hands several times in the following years. Among them was the restaurateur des Zenner , who had a retaining wall built around the island as a bulwark .
The island was included in the Berlin trade exhibition in Treptower Park in 1896 and appears on maps from this time as Neu-Spreeland . It was later called the Abbey Island , named after the restaurant that was built there in 1896 for the industrial exhibition in the style of a Scottish monastery ruin ( abbey ) and burned down in 1914. At that time the island could be reached by ferry. In 1904 there were first plans to open up the island with the help of a bridge. However, this generated considerable resistance from the Treptower restaurateurs, who feared competition. But the residents of Stralau also resisted building a bridge, because from their point of view the island belonged to Stralau. Income from the trade tax of a catering establishment should therefore be paid to them. The dispute between Treptow and Stralau was finally decided by Neukölln , who acquired the island in 1913 for half a million marks (adjusted for inflation in today's currency: around 2,714,000 euros). Now nothing stood in the way of building the first composite steel bridge in Germany, the Abbey Bridge . With the incorporation of Treptow and Neukölln into Greater Berlin , created in 1920 , the competition between the previously independent municipalities ended.
History from 1945 as a cultural site
In 1949 the island was officially named the Island of Youth .
In the 1950s, the East Berlin magistrate had a girls' dormitory built on the island. In the 1970s, there was a converted barge on the right bank of the island, on which regular dance events were held. Concerts were held on the island itself in the summer. The INSEL youth club has had its domicile here in the Brückenhaus since 1984 . The events were well attended, the black-painted walls, black light and strobes popular disco feeling .
After the turn
In April 2010, the Kulturalarm e. V. running the youth club. The interior has been redesigned, including laminate and parquet floors, and the walls have been painted light. The club manager regularly organizes cultural events on the island, including concerts, parties, theater performances, children's parties and cinema evenings. The girls' dormitory was retained and continues to be used. There is room for ten girls as well as space for babies and toddlers. The immediate vicinity of the youth club, however, led to requirements such as compliance with noise levels (no more than 75 dB ), which are constantly monitored by means of a measuring device.
literature
- Kulturbund Treptow (ed.): Families can make coffee here: Treptow through the ages . 1st edition. be.bra, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-930863-14-6 , pp. 184 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Anne Lena Mösken: Island of Youth: How the Island of Youth was kissed awake . In: Berliner Zeitung . August 14, 2014, p. 3 ( berliner-zeitung.de ).