Pichelswerder

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Location of Pichelswerder on a map from 1899

Pichelswerder is a river island of the Havel in the Berlin district of Wilhelmstadt in the Spandau district .

geography

The island of Pichelswerder lies between the Pichelssee, through which the Havel flows, and the Stößensee . In the north of the island are the Tiefwerder meadows ; it is bounded to the north by the Kleiner Jürgengraben and to the northeast by the Hauptgraben. The interior of the island consists of a wooded nature reserve with old oaks and pines . The banks are mainly used by rowing and sailing clubs. On Pichelswerder is one of the twelve dog run areas in Berlin - on both sides of Heerstrasse .

history

Pichelswerder on a postcard from 1906

Pichelswerder was discovered by the Spandau residents and Berliners as a popular excursion destination in the middle of the 19th century. Several well-known excursion restaurants arose, including the “Wilhelmshöhe”, the “Königgrätzer Garten” (today: “Siemenswerder”), the “Wirtshaus zum Freund” and the “Wirtshaus Rackwitz”. The large hall of this restaurant was used as a film and television studio after the Second World War .

On the island of Pichelswerder, a boulder was discovered in 1879 in a longitudinal depression running from north to south near the western restaurants on the Havel . The vernacular baptized the stone with the name Wendish sacrificial altar . The boulder on a wall plinth has been missing since around 1950.

In 1882 a pontoon bridge was laid over the Stößensee, over which one could get to the restaurants for a " six ". In addition, several ferries served the traffic to and from Pichelswerder. With the construction of Heerstraße between 1903 and 1911, Pichelswerder was connected to neighboring Pichelsdorf in the west by the Frey Bridge and to Charlottenburg in the east by the Stößenseebrücke .

Until it was incorporated into Greater Berlin in 1920, Pichelswerder was an independent manor district in the Osthavelland district . In the 1910 census , the manor district had 39 inhabitants. Plans from the 1920s for a "Reich memorial Pichelswerder" were not implemented, as were the buildings for a world exhibition that the National Socialists had planned for 1950 on the site.

Pichelswerder in the legend

In some versions of the Schildhorn saga , Pichelswerder is the starting point for the flight of the Slav prince Jaxa von Köpenick from Albrecht the Bear through the Havel to the Schildhorn in 1157, the year Brandenburg was founded.

Web links

Commons : Pichelswerder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günter Dröscher in Spandauer Notes , 1988, p. 39
  2. ↑ Friedel in Prehistoric Finds from Berlin and Surroundings , 1880
  3. ^ Uli Schubert: Osthavelland district. In: Register of municipalities in Germany. Retrieved June 22, 2008 .
  4. ↑ Pichelswerder Memorial. Architekturmuseum der TU Berlin, 1926, accessed on June 22, 2008 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '  N , 13 ° 12'  E