Love Island (Spree)
| Love island | ||
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| Waters | Spree | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 29'26.7 " N , 13 ° 29'2" E | |
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| length | 60 m | |
| width | 50 m | |
| surface | 0.094 ha | |
The love island ( ) is an island in the Spree , which is located in the Friedrichshain part of the Berlin district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . It is located in the Rummelsburg Bay east of the southern tip of Alt-Stralau .
history
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The island was created during the last ice age as a valley sand island within the Berlin Spree landscape. The island appears as Entenwerder on old maps and shows no buildings. Other sources speak of the sea wall or the island of thieves . It was suspected that stolen property was hidden there.
In the years 1878 and 1879, on the initiative of the Stralau citizen Julius Tübbecke, archaeological excavations unearthed some stone axes , cobblestones and a millstone. Furthermore, early medieval pot shards that were of Wendish origin could be recovered . It is also known that the island was farmed in 1880 by a man with a goat. He paid three marks rent to the community. At the beginning of the 19th century the bay was used intensively by sailors ; one report even describes it as the “birthplace of German sailing ”. Several sailing clubs were founded to set up berths on the island of love, for example the sailing club 1919 Stralau e. V. From 1880 to 1908, Oswald Ernst ran an island restaurant, the Ernst'sche Haus . The community was very interested in the catering business, because this way the increased storage of stolen property could be prevented. A house servant picked up the guests on a ferry from the bank. There was also an anchorage for smaller motor and sailing boats. There was also a constant ferry connection from the Love Island to the Stralau peninsula, the Abbey Island and the Zenner Inn . The composer and theater bandmaster Paul Lincke was Ernst's guest and expressed his enthusiasm for the island in his song I know a quiet place in the chorus “Let's go to the island of love”. The island was also well visited in winter when the Rummelsburg Bay was frozen over and there was thus a connection to the neighboring communities or later districts. Until 1920, the island, like the neighboring Kratzbruch, was assigned to the municipality of Stralau . Gastronomy ended in World War II when the island was hit by the main battle line in April 1945.
The island and the ten meter wide strip of water surrounding it have been under nature protection since 1999 . It is a habitat for birds such as woodpeckers , nuthatches and tits , but is also used by swans , ducks and cormorants . It continues to provide a protected habitat for beavers and otters . Bats hibernate in an existing cellar on the island .
literature
- Georg Turk: Treptow's past splendor . Mercedes Druck, Berlin 2008, p. 198
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berlin city map around 1869. ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2015 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. alt-berlin.info; Retrieved February 8, 2014.
- ↑ Kulturbund Treptow (ed.): Families can make coffee here: Treptow in the course of history . 1st edition. be.bra, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-930863-14-6 , pp. 184 .
- ^ Kurt Laser: Gun shots in front of the island of love . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 8, 2000, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 36–41 ( luise-berlin.de ).
- ↑ Overview of protected landscape components and natural monuments (areas). Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment; Retrieved February 7, 2014.
- ↑ Love Island and Scratch Break . Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district; accessed on January 22, 2018.
- ↑ Liebesinsel und Kratzbruch , information board of NABU Berlin, accessed on February 9, 2014.
- ↑ Ordinance on the protection of the landscape components of the island of Kratzbruch and Liebesinsel in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin from September 29, 1999 (PDF; 34 kB). Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment, accessed on February 7, 2014.
