Neukölln shipping canal
| Neukölln connection channel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Lohmühlenbrücke, in the background the Landwehr Canal |
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| abbreviation | NK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| length | 4.0 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Built | 1902-1903 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Expanded | 1912-1913 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Beginning | Branch from the Landwehr Canal at the Lohmühlenbrücke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The End | Neukölln waterway intersection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Neuköllner Schifffahrtskanal (also: Neuköllner Connection Canal ) is a waterway in the northeast of the Berlin district of Neukölln .
It is about four kilometers long and connects the Landwehr Canal from the Lohmühlenbrücke in the north (km 0) to the Teltow and Britzer connecting canals at the Britz-Ost port in the south. The Neukölln lock , which connects the Oberhafen with the Unterhafen, is at km 3.3 . Responsible is the Berlin Senate Administration, Neukölln District Office.
history
In 1902/1903, under the planning and direction of Hermann Weigand , a 1.9 kilometer long connection between the Landwehr Canal and the then Rixdorf gas station was completed. They followed the centuries-old "Schlangengraben", called "Wiesengraben" or "Neuer Wiesengraben" in the 19th century, which already opened as a drainage ditch into the later Landwehr Canal. This section was called the Rixdorf branch canal . The southern Uferstrasse has been called Weigandufer since 1904 . In 1912/1913 the extension to the Teltow Canal took place . The water level in the Landwehr Canal is 22.10 meters and in the Teltow Canal is 26.60 meters. The water depth in the lower section (Landwehr Canal) is 2.50 meters, in the upper section (Teltow Canal) it is 3.50 meters.
Neukölln lock
The Neukölln lock was built in two construction phases between 1902 and 1914 and was primarily used to drain the area. It was built as a chamber lock with sloping walls with a length of 67 meters, a chamber width of 27.4 meters and a gate width of 8.5 meters. The mean difference between the upper and lower water is only 0.14 meters. The lock chamber was filled or emptied through openings below the water, which were operated manually by a lock keeper.
In the years 1959/1960 the lock was electrified so that the gates could be opened by motors. In 1968 a central control station was created in a newly built lock keeper's house. In the years 2000 and 2001 the lock was completely repaired and automated so that it can be operated by the boat operator himself. In addition, since then, filling and emptying has been done through the gate openings and no longer underground. Because of the small height difference, consideration was given to abandoning the lock completely. To do this, however, the water level of the Landwehr Canal would have had to be raised so that the passenger ships could no longer pass the bridges.
The Neukölln lock is the only one in the area of the Berlin Waterways and Shipping Office that is not administered by this federal authority , but by the City of Berlin.
Ports
The port of Neukölln is located between Grenzallee and Lahnstrasse. It consists of the upper harbor and the lower harbor below the Neukölln lock. Recycled materials are mainly handled there. A little further south, at the confluence with the Teltow Canal, is the Britz-Ost port.
Notation
According to the Neukölln District Office of Berlin, the official name of the canal is Neukölln Schifffahrtskanal . In current publications, including on the official maps of the Surveying and Geoinformation department, the new spelling after the spelling reform of 1996 is observed.
The Neukölln Shipping Canal flows into the Landwehr Canal , with the Lohmühlenbrücke in the background
Neukölln shipping canal on the bridge of the Neukölln – Baumschulenweg railway line , on both sides of the canal there are tracks of the Neukölln industrial railway
The Neukölln Shipping Canal flows into the Teltow Canal
literature
- Nikolai Roskamm, Sebastian Seelig (Eds.): Ships & Shifts - Rethinking Neukölln Harbor . ( ISR gray series issue 18). Institute for Urban and Regional Planning, TU Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-7983-2108-3 (full text)
- District Office Neukölln of Berlin, Dept. Construction (Ed.): 100 Years of Building for Neukölln - A Municipal Building History. Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-00-015848-0 .
- H.-J. Uhlemann: Berlin and the Märkische waterways. DSV-Verlag Hamburg 1994, p. 127/128.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map section from 1876 at alt-berlin.info ( 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. , accessed April 17, 2016.
- ↑ Map section from 1893 at alt-berlin.info ( 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. , accessed May 27, 2014.
- ↑ Neukölln lock can be passed around the clock again. Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment, Berlin, October 8, 2001, accessed on July 4, 2012 .
- ↑ berlin.de
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 39 ″ N , 13 ° 27 ′ 29 ″ E