Lanke (Lankwitz)

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Boulder at the source of the Lanke in Berlin-Lankwitz

The Lanke was a creek about three kilometers long in the Berlin district of Lankwitz in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district .

The source of the Lanke has not dried up. Your water is led underground to the port of Lankwitz, where it flows into the Teltow Canal .

meaning

The word Lanka comes from the Polabischen meaning meadow or marsh (see. Polish łąka , Sorbian Luka ), sh. also Lanke (toponym) . The name Lankwitz comes from the Slavic word Lankowica , which means something like place on the riverbank .

source

The Lanke rises at the corner of Charlottenstrasse and Elisabethstrasse , in the green area next to the Lankwitz council scale . Since the 750th anniversary of Lankwitz in 1989, the spring has been marked with a boulder donated by the sculptor Franz Merk with the inscription Lanke Quelle ( Lage ).

Stream

Hospital trench at the Peter Frankenfeld School

The Lanke as Wiesenbach with its marshy banks flowed northwards, along Lankwitzer Elisabethstraße, crossed Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße at the Dreifaltigkeitskirche and expanded in the area of ​​Mühlenstraße to a pond that the population called Karpfenteich . It enclosed the village of Lankwitz in an eastern arch and ended at the old Upstall in the Lankwitz main ditch (which opened up in the Teltow Canal in 1906). The trench ran the water in the muddy Birkbusch (Birkbuschstrasse) for the former and also largely risen in the Teltow Canal Bäke that the water over the Griebnitzsee the Havel charging thereto.

In the area between Alt-Lankwitz, Wedellstraße, Kamenzer Damm, Malteserstraße and Mühlenstraße, traces of the former stream can still be seen: the Hospitalgraben ( Lage ) and the Lankegraben with the Lankegrabenteich ( Lage ) in the course. A continuous stream no longer exists.

Web links

Commons : Lanke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Hiller: Chronik Lankwitz (= preprint . Volume No. 5/6). Word & Image Specials, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-926578-19-X , p. 10.
  2. ↑ The history of the Ratswaage Lankwitz. (PDF; 523 kB) (No longer available online.) District Office Steglitz-Zehlendorf, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 19, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.berlin.de  

Coordinates: 52 ° 25 '54.9 "  N , 13 ° 20' 2.3"  E