Potsdam Havel
The Potsdam Havel (PHv) is a section of the Havel River in the German state of Brandenburg . The length of the waterway is 28.79 kilometers. It is a federal waterway of waterway class IV with restrictions and belongs to the Lower Havel waterway , for which the Brandenburg Waterways and Shipping Office is responsible. The Potsdam Havel is a series of large, often shallow lakes, repeatedly connected by narrower sections of the river.
history
The Potsdamer Havel, which stretches from the Jungfernsee between Potsdam and Berlin to the Göttinsee , with its length of almost 29 kilometers, was until 1876 part of the main route of the Lower Havel waterway, the connection between the rivers Spree and Elbe . When the Sacrow-Paretz Canal was opened to traffic in 1876, it became a waterway of minor importance for cargo shipping. Since the German reunification and the resulting discontinuation of the closure of the Babelsberger Enge for shipping and the shutdown of several companies in Potsdam for reasons of economy and environmental protection, there is no longer any cargo shipping on the Potsdam Havel.
River course
The name Potsdamer Havel begins at the southern end of the Jungfernsee, at the Glienicker bridge at kilometer 28.61. South of the Glienicker bridge at km 28.37, the Teltow Canal branches off to the southeast with the Glienicker Lake . As an artificial waterway, it has been connecting the Havel, Dahme and Spree with each other for more than a hundred years . At the Babelsberger Enge the deep lake begins between Potsdam and its district Babelsberg . In the center of Potsdam, the Havel flows around the Friendship Island , a small inner-city park, as an old and new journey . It passes the port of the White Fleet , a railway bridge on the Berlin – Magdeburg railway line and widens like a lake. After the two Planitz Islands, an entrance to the Neustädter Havel Bay in the center of Potsdam opens up on the right bank. This railway line also runs through this entrance. Between the island of Hermannswerder and the Potsdamer Ufer A cable ferry for passenger transport runs on the Kiewitt . The following Templiner See is divided by a railway embankment with a railway bridge built in the mid-1950s. The forest pool Templin is located on the east bank of the southern part of Lake Templin . There is also a small park with the Caputh Castle on the shore of the lake . Upon reaching the community of Schwielowsee , the Potsdam Havel flows through Caputher Gemünd to Schwielowsee . The Caputh ferry , another cable ferry and the railway bridge of the bypass run across the Caputher Gemünd . The Petziensee, a small bulge of the Templiner See, is connected to the Schwielowsee by the artificial Wentorfgraben. On reaching the Schwielowsee, the river turns to the northwest and passes the Baumgartenbrücke between Geltow and Petzow . On the left bank of the lake-like broadening of the river in front of Werder , the Glindowsee has a connection through the Strenggraben with the Havel. The Strengbrücke leads over this small canal-like waterway . After passing the island town of Werder, it crosses again under the Berlin-Magdeburg railway line and then flows as the Großer and Kleiner Zernsee past the Havel floodplains and under the Phöben motorway bridge of the BAB 10 , meandering again towards the Göttinsee . As a right tributary, the Wublitz flows into the Great Zernsee . The last 1000 meters or so of the Potsdam Havel are called Bacherelle . The name Potsdamer Havel ends at kilometer minus 0.18, at kilometer 32.59 of the actual Lower Havel waterway.
Special
A specialty is the kilometering of the Potsdam Havel. Usually rivers or river sections are kilometered continuously in the direction of flow, that is, towards the valley . The kilometers of the Potsdamer Havel are opposite, uphill , against the direction of flow. It starts with the kilometer 0.00 at the UHW at the Göttinsee and ends at the UHW at the Jungfernsee with the kilometer 28.61.
Hydrology
Since the Havel north of Potsdam is short-circuited by the Sacrow-Paretz Canal , only 30 to 45% of the Havel water takes the natural course. When it is dry, even half of the water that has flowed through Spandau reaches the Potsdam Havel, but the less of it flows on to Ketzin and Brandenburg. On the one hand, much more service water is withdrawn than usual; on the other hand, there is considerable evaporation on the large bodies of water in the lakes. A comparison of the water flow of the Sacrow-Paretz Canal with the upstream and downstream sections of the Havel provides a reference point.
| Flows | Havel: Spandau– Jungfernsee |
difference | Canal: Jungfernsee– Schlänitzsee |
Canal: Schlänitzsee– Göttinsee |
difference | Havel: Göttinsee - Ketzin |
|
| Medium flood | 107 m³ / s | 37.1 m³ / s | 72.9 m³ / s | 74.6 m³ / s | 60.4 m³ / s | 135 m³ / s | |
| Mean water | 35.1 m³ / s | 6.5 m³ / s | 28.6 m³ / s | 32.4 m³ / s | 18.3 m³ / s | 50.7 m³ / s | |
| Medium low water | 6.33 m³ / s | 3.13 m³ / s | 3.20 m³ / s | 3.00 m³ / s | 0.47 m³ / s | 3.47 m³ / s |
The bridges
A total of 19 bridges cross the Potsdamer Havel and its side waters:
- See main article: List of bridges over the Potsdamer Havel
The ferries
The Potsdamer Havel is crossed by two cable ferries . The Kiewitt ferry only transports people and bicycles between the Hermannswerder peninsula and the shore of Auf dem Kiewitt. The Caputh ferry , called Tussy II , over the Caputher Gemünd, transports not only people and bicycles but also motor vehicles.
Tourism and the river
Since the Potsdamer Havel is no longer used by cargo ships and is only used by a few passenger ships, it developed into a popular area for sports boats of all sizes and classes.
literature
- Hans-J. Uhlemann: Berlin and the Märkische Wasserstraßen transpress Verlag Berlin various years ISBN 3-344-00115-9
- Writings of the Association for European Inland Shipping and Waterways e. V. various years. WESKA (Western European Shipping and Port Calendar), Binnenschifffahrts-Verlag GmbH Duisburg-Ruhrort, OCLC 48960431
cards
- Folke Stender: Editorial team Sportschifffahrtskarten Binnen 1 Nautical publication Verlagsgesellschaft ISBN 3-926376-10-4 .
- Collective of authors: W. Ciesla, H. Czesienski, W. Schlomm, K. Senzel, D. Weidner, shipping maps of the inland waterways of the German Democratic Republic 1: 10,000, Volume 3 Publisher: Wasserstraßenaufsichtsamt der DDR, Berlin 1988 OCLC 830889996
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Lengths (in km) of the main shipping lanes (main routes and certain secondary routes) of the federal inland waterways ( memento of the original from January 21, 2016 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. , Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration
- ↑ Directory E, serial no. 60 der Chronik ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2016 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. , Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration
- ↑ The construction of the railway embankment ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Brandenburg Waterways and Shipping Office: gradient, flow velocity and flow rate of the Havel waterway ( 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. (3 tables, PDF). The Potsdam – Marquardt and Marquardt – Ketzin sections together form the Sacrow-Paretz Canal between Jungfernsee and Göttinsee.
