Nymphenburg Canal

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Ice stock sport on the Nymphenburg Palace Canal

The Nymphenburger channel in Munich supplied as part of the North Munich canal system in its western also Pasinger channel or Pasing-channel Nymphenburger said portion of the lock Nymphenburg with water from the Wuerm . Its eastern part, also known as the Castle Canal , serves representative purposes.

course

The Nymphenburg Canal begins under the name Pasing-Nymphenburg Canal as a branch of the Würm in the Pasing district . The amount of water taken from the worm can be regulated here by a weir. Initially, the canal runs a short distance in a north-northeast direction parallel to the river. After a few hundred meters, both bodies of water are once again connected to each other by an ice drainage channel. At Pipping the canal bends and leads past Obermenzing in an easterly direction straight to the Nymphenburg Palace . It originally formed the line of sight between the terrace of the castle and the church of St. Wolfgang in Pipping, which is overgrown and blocked. From the junction from the Würm to the entrance gate to the castle park, the canal is around 2.8 km long and has a gradient of four meters on this stretch. The Würm loses about a third of its water (approx. 2 m³ / s) through the runoff.

After entering the castle park, the canal feeds the cascade at its western end as well as the entire water system of the park, including the large and small lakes ( 48 ° 9 ′ 25 ″  N , 11 ° 27 ′ 48 ″  E, coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 25 "  N , 11 ° 27 '48"  E ). The water in the canal also drives the pumping stations of Nymphenburg Palace , which pressurize the water for the fountains in the palace gardens.

View from the Ludwig-Ferdinand-Brücke to the Nymphenburg Palace

The canal continues its straight course through the palace park, but divides into two arms in front of the large ground floor , which flow under the two side wings of the palace to unite again in front of the palace to form a pond with a fountain. Each of the two arms is about 750 m long.

From there the canal flows under the name Schlosskanal , continuing its original axis, is also dead straight towards Neuhausen , where it ends after around 1.5 km in the Hubertusbrunnen basin ( 48 ° 9 ′ 31 ″  N , 11 ° 31 ′ 43 ″  E ). The Grünwaldpark adjoins it in the southeast .

In front of the palace, next to the basin with the fountain, the Nymphenburg-Biedersteiner Kanal branches off diagonally from the Nymphenburg Canal in an east-northeast direction, runs towards the Olympic Park and ends after a total of around 8 km in the Schwabinger Bach in the English Garden .

history

The Pasing-Nymphenburg Canal was created in 1701–1703 by Elector Max Emanuel in connection with the expansion of Nymphenburg Palace to supply the palace and park with water. For this purpose, farmers from the villages of Obermenzing and Pipping were forced to surrender land without compensation. To drain the water, the Nymphenburg-Biederstein Canal was built immediately afterwards in 1702/04. The canal east of the castle, which is accompanied by the two access avenues , was only built by Elector Karl Albrecht in the years 1728-30. His ambitious project to create a Karlstadt around the canal, however, failed. Due to the growth of the city and the associated increase in traffic, the Ludwig Ferdinand Bridge , which was not originally planned in the visual axis of the castle canal, had to be built in 1892 , followed by the Gerner Bridge in 1897 .

Todays situation

The Nymphenburg Canal is one of the most distinctive lines of sight in Munich. The area on both sides of the eastern section of the canal flanked by the access avenues is now one of the city's upscale residential areas. In winter, the frozen Nymphenburg Canal is often used for ice stock sport . In the 1990s, the ecological balance of the canal came under pressure, which manifested itself among other things in a considerable spread of algae and excessive fish stocks.

  • Pasing-Nymphenburg Canal

  • Overview of the arms of the Nymphenburg Canal (blue) in the area of ​​the palace gardens

  • Aerial view

  • Ludwig-Ferdinand-Brücke and Hubertusbrunnen in the background

literature

  • Peter Klimesch: Isar lust. Discoveries in Munich . MünchenVerlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-937090-47-4 .
  • Christine Rädlinger : History of the Munich city streams . Published by the Munich City Archives. Verlag Franz Schiermeier, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-9809147-2-0 .
  • Franz Schiermeier: Munich city streams. Travel guide to the lifelines of a city . Verlag Franz Schiermeier, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813190-9-5 .

Web links

Commons : Nymphenburger Kanal  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

swell

  1. ^ Judith Ammon, Almuth David: Kulturlandschaft Würm: from Pasing to Allach, building department of the state capital Munich