Kochsee

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Bathing establishment at Kochsee - photographed by Heinrich Zille
City map from 1719, north, the name "Kochs See" already appears here

The Kochsee , filled in in 1911, was in Charlottenburg , today a district of Berlin , north of Sophie-Charlotten-Straße, in the outer northwest corner of the area within the Berlin Ringbahn .

The Kochsee was as part of a Altarmes the Spree emerged of a body of water in the back of the palace park at today Charlottenburg Palace is. Its name origin is unknown. On a plan from 1719, it was significantly larger than later. With the construction of the Berlin – Hamburg railway in 1846, the ring line in 1877 and the Westend freight station in 1879, it was reduced in size and lost its connection to the west. The royal basket house stood on its east bank from around 1790 to 1865.

The bathing establishment at Kochsee was built in 1886 by the entrepreneur Wilhelm Görgs with the help of municipal finances as an artificial bathing lake and bordered directly to the south of the Kochsee, on some city maps it was shown as part of the lake.

  • In the front area for men there was a 100-meter swimming lane with two non-swimmer pools. The German Swimming Championships in 1890 , 1894 , 1896 , 1899 and 1905 were held there. Walter Brack from Charlottenburg swam there on June 20, 1904, a world record over 100 m back in 1: 29.0 minutes.
  • In addition, a women's pool with a 50-meter swimming lane and a non-swimmer pool was built. There, in 1893, with the support of the wife of the bathing establishment owner, the women's swimming club "Nixe" was founded. The founding of the association also marked the birth of women's swimming, including the first swimming competitions for women, which have only been admitted to the German Swimming Association since 1907 . The association still exists today.
  • When it opened, the bathing establishment at Kochsee was the only public bathing facility in Charlottenburg, as bathing outside of bathing establishments was forbidden in Prussia until 1907. Former bathing establishments in the Spree were closed in the 1870s due to increasing water pollution, the outdoor swimming pool in Halensee was dismantled in 1880, and the Charlottenburg public baths only opened in 1898.

In 1903 the Kochsee was sold by the forestry treasury to the entrepreneur Görgs, who at that time already owned the bathing establishment. In 1909 Görgs sold the Kochsee, this time including the bathing establishment, to the Reichsbahn, which needed it to expand its freight yard, which had been renamed "Charlottenburg" since 1901. The last bathing season was in 1911. In September 1911, despite many protests, the lake and the bathing establishment were filled in, and additional loading tracks were laid on the site. At the beginning of the 1990s, the freight yard was closed and converted into an industrial area.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Kochsee in the city map from 1907 on www.blocksignal.de
  2. ↑ a b c Clemens Alexander Wimmer: From washing the body by means of bathing - The long struggle for bathing places in the city of Charlottenburg. In: Schöbel, Sören (Ed.): Aufhebungen - Urban landscape architecture as a task (PDF), pp. 138–147
  3. ↑ a b c d Uta Maria Bräuer, Jost Lehne: Bäderbau in Berlin. Architectural water worlds from 1800 to today. Lukas Verlag for Art and Spiritual History, Berlin 2013, pp. 93/94
  4. ↑ The Kochsee in the city map from 1909, in: Historical plans of the Charlottenburg Palace Garden Street and Green Area Office
  5. ↑ The Kochsee in the city map from 1893 (supplement to the 1893 address book)
  6. ↑ a b Streets and squares: Badeanstalt am Kochsee on blog.klausenerplatz-kiez.de
  7. ^ History of the Charlottenburg Ladies Swimming Club Nixe eV since 1893 on schwimmverein-nixe.de
  8. ↑ a b c Streets and squares: Former freight yard Charlottenburg at Sophie-Charlotten-Straße 1-4 on blog.klausenerplatz-kiez.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 34.5 "  N , 13 ° 17 ′ 7"  E