Kupfergraben (Spree)

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With Kupfergraben is the 400 meter long northern part of the channel-developed left Spree arms, the Spree canal , along the Museum Island from the Iron Bridge to the River Spree at kilometer 16.31 in the Berlin district of Mitte referred. The Spree Canal (SpK) with a length of two kilometers belongs to the federal waterway Spree-Oder-Wasserstraße , for which the Berlin Waterways and Shipping Office is responsible. Am Kupfergraben is the name of a street that runs parallel to the west bank of the Kupfergraben and faces the Museum Island .

Spree island and course of the Spree Canal, from the Zeughaus to the north called Kupfergraben
Kupfergraben between the Pergamon and Bode museums

History of the Spreearms

The name Kupfergraben probably refers to a foundry that existed here from the 16th century to 1875 and in which, among other things, copper was processed. From the middle of the 16th century, the Kupfergraben, then called the Cöllnischer Stadtgraben , formed part of the lower canal of the Berlin city ​​lock . When this engineering structure was rebuilt in 1885, the Kupfergraben was widened. The lock has been unusable since 2000, there is a weir next to it .

The Monbijou Bridge , a high-rise railway bridge, a nameless footbridge to the Museum Island and the Iron Bridge lead across the Kupfergraben .

Design idea

The design by the Berlin architects and artists group realities: united for the establishment of the Flussbad Berlin am Kupfergraben won the main prize for the Europe region in the 2011 regional competition for sustainable architecture and infrastructure projects by the Holcim Foundation. In 2012, the same design received the bronze prize in the global competition of the Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction . It has not yet been determined when it can be implemented.

literature

  • H.-J. Uhlemann: Berlin and the Märkische waterways . DSV-Verlag Hamburg, 1994

Web links

Commons : Kupfergraben (Berlin)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lengths (in kilometers) of the main shipping lanes (main routes and certain secondary routes) of the federal inland waterways ( memento of the original of January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wsv.de
  2. ↑ Directory E, Ser. No. 55 of the Chronicle ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wsv.de
  3. ↑ Project 110.1 on realities-united.de; Retrieved July 6, 2012
  4. ^ Rolf Lautenschläger: Wellness fun with Nefertiti . In: taz . 4th October 2011.
  5. ↑ Bronze Prize for Flussbad on holcimfoundation.org; Retrieved July 6, 2012

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '5.5 "  N , 13 ° 23' 53.7"  E