Kolk Spandau
The Kolk is the oldest settlement area and site location in the Berlin district of Spandau , near the district Haselhorst located citadel . The Kolk borders directly on the old town of Spandau .
designation
Today the area is called Behnitz (formerly also Bähnitz ) and Kolk . Kolk is also the name of a street within this area (next to Möllentordamm, Hohen Steinweg and Behnitz). Nevertheless, the term 'Kolk' has become popular .
The Kolk street is located on the former island of Behnitz, one of the oldest settlement areas in the Spandau district . In the Kolk there are a number of remarkable old houses, for example a restaurant built around 1750, which has been called the Alte Kolkschenke since 1945 .
history
The old town of Spandau and the Kolk were separated by an arm of water until 1912, the so-called "German Rhine". Then it was filled in and the street Am Juliusturm was laid out. Until 1875 there was the independent village of Damm on the north side (today's Möllentordamm) , which was not subordinate to the city of Spandau, but to the district of Osthavelland . The residents lived mainly from fishing and, according to a certificate issued by Elector Joachim I , had the right to fish freely. This fishing law is still registered as a right in the land register of the respective properties.
Worth seeing
- Well known is the Roman Catholic Church of St. Marien am Behnitz , after the Hedwig's Cathedral, the second oldest surviving Catholic church in Berlin since the Reformation .
- At the beginning of the 14th century, Spandau was surrounded by a city wall, into which the Kolk was integrated. The city wall also shows the rest of a Wiekhaus .
- The house at Kolk 5 was reconstructed in 1974 by the architects Peter Heinrichs and Joachim Wermund . The extraordinary half-timbered facade from the early 18th century has been lovingly reconstructed and given a contemporary dormer window.
literature
- Jürgen Grothe: Spandau before Berlin . Haude & Spener Verlag, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-7759-0217-1 .
- Joachim Jauch: Signpost to Berlin's street names - Spandau . 2nd edition. Edition Luisenstadt. Berlin 1996, p. 67 u. 240, ISBN 3-89542-083-2 .
- Kurt Vogel: The firm Behns in Spandowe . In: Spandauer Notes. "Spandauer Heimatbrief" , Edition Circle of Friends and Patrons of the Heimatmuseum Spandau - Heimatkundliche Vereinigung 1954, annual edition 1996, p. 49-64.
Web links
- Kolk. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
Individual evidence
- ^ Rolf Rave, Hans-Joachim Knötel: Building in the 1970s in Berlin , Berlin (Kiepert) 1981, project number 387
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ' N , 13 ° 12' E