Crooked lank

Crooked lank
Geographical location	Berlin-Zehlendorf
Data
Coordinates	52 ° 27 '0 "  N , 13 ° 13' 52"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '0 "  N , 13 ° 13' 52"  E
surface	15.4 ha
length	1.1 km
width	180 m
Maximum depth	6.6 m

Bathing area at the north end, 2018

Memorial plaque on Argentinische Allee / Teschener Weg in Berlin-Zehlendorf

Krumme Lanke, April 2009

The Krumme Lanke is a lake in the southwest of Berlin in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district on the edge of the Grunewald .

geography

The Krumme Lanke is the third southernmost lake in the Grunewaldseenkette after the Nikolassee and the neighboring Schlachtensee . To the northeast follow the silted “Riemeistersee” in the nature reserve Riemeisterfenn , the nature reserve Langes Luch , the Grunewaldsee and the Hundekehlesee . The tubular "Krumme Lanke" has a length of 1100 meters, a circumference of about 2.5 kilometers, is up to 6.60 meters deep and has an area of ​​about 154,000 m². The lake is connected to the Schlachtensee underground.

About a kilometer from the lake is named after the lake underground station Krumme Lanke the underground line U3 .

fauna

In addition to the eels , tench , pike , carp , catfish and pikeperch typical of the Grunewaldsee chain , asp from the carp family are native to the Krummen Lanke .

Function as a recreation area

A two and a half kilometer long riverside path is used for walking and by many joggers . You can swim in several places on the Krumme Lanke. There were also fatal swimming accidents in 2005 and 2006. Especially the bathing area at the north end with its flat sandy beach is a popular meeting place for young and old in summer. A lawn on Fischerhüttenstraße is also used for nudists . The north bank belongs to the Grunewald dog run area. The south bank is part of the green area, where dogs must be leashed and kept away from lawns and bathing areas. Protected reed plantations could be established on the north bank.

history

Crumense village

After the influential Lehnin Monastery of the Cistercian Order had already bought the former village of Zehlendorf with the neighboring Schlachtensee and Nikolassee in 1242 , the monks extended their property a little further into northern Teltow nine years later . In 1251 they bought the village “Crumense” on the Krummen Lanke for 150 marks from the Ascanian margraves, Johann I and Otto III, who ruled together . : … In his villis Celendorpe, Crumense… Since the village is no longer recorded in Charles IV's land register from 1375, it very likely fell in desolation soon after it was bought .

Since excavations in the desert unearthed Slavic pottery , it can be assumed that the village was originally a Slavic foundation. The name "Crumense" refers to Gerhard Schlimpert in Middle Low German a place on a crooked lake , so that the lake gave the place its name. Documents from 1543 and 1591 contain evidence of the lake itself, which is also called "Krummensee" here. The part of the name Lanke is also derived from a regional Polish name for water, cf. Lanke (toponym) .

SS functionaries' settlement

Between 1938 and 1940, the GAGFAH established an SS comradeship settlement here. According to Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, “a closed settlement complex for the SS main offices in Berlin” was to be created in cooperation with the main office for race and settlement . The streets were nearly all renamed in 1945: Thus, for example, from Sigstraße the Bürstadter way , the loyalty path became Alsbacher way and from the ancestors line was the Jugenheimer way (after Seeheim-Jugenheim in Hesse Darmstadt-Dieburg ). The street in Kinderland is still called that today. The name was suggested by the wife of an SS officer, in the sense that "the men who represent racially a selection of the German people, pass on their high-quality genetic material to a large number of genetically healthy offspring".

Recovery of a crashed bomber

On December 4, 1970, the recovery of a crashed plane began in the western part of the Krumme Lanke. The British bomber crashed in an air raid on Berlin in 1944 and sank in the lake. Bombs, fuel tanks and oil on board were suspected by the company commissioned with the recovery. Eyewitness reports said the bomber exploded shortly before the crash. It was therefore assumed that the wreckage was scattered within a radius of 50 meters and some of it was under a five-meter layer of mud. Due to the high recovery costs, the authorities had often delayed the recovery.

Other historical data

There is a memorial stone ( 52 ° 27 ′ 16.5 ″  N , 13 ° 14 ′ 23.5 ″  E ) for the sergeant Fritz Göhrs, who perished there in 1928, at the level of the northern bathing area . His service horse shied away during a patrol ride , and Goehrs then fell into the Krumme Lanke. His horse fell on him, he could no longer free himself and drowned.

On June 5, 1974, Ulrich Schmücker , an undercover agent for the protection of the Constitution , was found dying by US soldiers near the bank .

music

• Fredy Sieg , a Berlin lecturer, wrote Das Lied von der Krummen Lanke in 1923   .
• In 1973 the Quartet Insterburg & Co. sang Krumme Lanke in the song of the same name on their album Die Hohe Schule der Musik .
• The Berlin band Gebrüder Blattuß brought out the song Krumme Lanke in 1980 .
• The American indie pop group Ducktails released a piece called Krumme Lanke on their 2015 album St. Catherine .

literature

• Gerhard Schlimpert : Brandenburg name book, part 3, The place names of the Teltow . Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., Weimar 1972 (quote: p. 117, Slavic ceramics: p. 20).
• Stephan Warnatsch: History of the Lehnin Monastery 1180–1542 . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-45-2 (Studies on the history, art and culture of the Cistercians 12.1, also: Dissertation , Free University of Berlin, 1999) for purchase “Krummensee” p. 169, 239.
• Stephan Warnatsch: Regestenverzeichnis Vol. 12.2, ISBN 3-931836-46-0 (purchase certificate “Krummensee” No. 100).

Web links

Commons : Krumme Lanke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Krumme Lanke In: The Grunewald in the mirror of the times

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Krumme Lanke at www.seen.de
2. ↑ Swimmer drowned in Krumme Lanke . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 18, 2005
3. ↑ Eight -year-old drowns in the Krumme Lanke . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 21, 2006
4. ↑ Joachim Schildt, Hartmut Schmidt: Berlinisch. Historical introduction to the language of a city. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-05-000157-7 , p. 315 ( digitized version ).
5. ↑ 25 years ago . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 4, 1995
6. ↑ Head shot in the Grunewald . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 1, 2004
7. ↑ The Song of the Crooked Lanke. On: ingeb.org ; last accessed on February 21, 2018.
8. ↑ Michael Happe: Krumme Lanke . On: insterburg-und-co.de , accessed on February 21, 2018.
9. ^ Gebrüder Blatt Schuss - Krumme Lanke Entry at discogs , accessed on May 29, 2019.
10. ↑ Harley Brown: Review: Ducktails, 'St. Catherine . In: spin.com . Retrieved March 22, 2017.