Sandkrug (Berlin)

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The Gasthof Sandkrug at the foot of the Hohen Weinberg was a popular excursion destination in the 18th and 19th centuries just outside Berlin's
drawing by Friedrich August Calau , 1795

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Sandkrug Inn was a popular excursion destination at the gates of the Prussian capital and residence city of Berlin . At this point there is an undeveloped area north of the Humboldthafen on the western side of the Sandkrug Bridge .

Location of the sand pitcher

The Sandkrug inn (in the background on the left) was located on Schönhauser Graben not far from the Royal Invalid House (in the foreground)
Detail from a graphic by G. B. Probst, 1748

The sand pitcher was on the western side of the Schönhauser Graben at the foot of the Hohen Weinberg , not far from the extensive grounds of the former Royal Invalidenhaus ( Invalidenpark north of Invalidenstrasse ). In the 18th century this area - the Jungfernheide - did not yet belong to the city of Berlin, but to the Niederbarnim district of the Brandenburg Mittelmark . Graphics by Friedrich August Calau give an impression of how the area looked at that time.

Excursion destination

The sand jug belonged to the Finance Department (Treasury) of Berlin. The inn had a garden where customers could enjoy outdoor dining. From the Sandkrug, a hike to the neighboring Hohen Weinberg could be undertaken, from whose summit the walker was able to enjoy a wide panoramic view of the entire area. Above all, the Tiergarten and the cityscape of the residential city of Berlin were clearly visible across the Spree . In addition, the powder magazine could be overlooked, which extended on the southern side of the Hohen Weinberg to the Spree .

The female waitresses suggested poetic thoughts and even literary works to some visitors . With a view of the inn, Carl August Görner wrote a solo joke for a lady with singing and dancing in one act as a comedy Gustchen vom Sandkrug.

The Sandkrug Bridge

Immediately at the Sandkrug, the Sandkrug Bridge led over the Schönhauser Graben. In the background: on the left the Royal Invalid House, on the right the plume of smoke from the Royal Iron Foundry.
Graphic by Friedrich August Calau, 1815

The Prussian King Friedrich I had the Schönhauser Graben (completed in 1713) built in order to be able to travel by ship from his palace in Schönhausen to Charlottenburg Palace . At the Sandkrug the stone Sandkrug Bridge led across the canal. In summer young people could take a bath in the water of the Schönhauser Graben.

The Sandkrugbrücke is a steel road bridge over the Berlin-Spandauer Schifffahrtskanal , which forms the border between the former Berlin districts of Mitte and Tiergarten along Invalidenstrasse . During the time of the division of Berlin in the years 1961–1990 there was a transition from the British to the Soviet sector at the Sandkrugbrücke . A memorial plaque at the southwestern end of the bridge commemorates Günter Litfin , the first to die on the Berlin Wall , who died near the Sandkrug Bridge.

The Humboldthafen

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Sandkrug inn was still outside the Berlin city limits,
excerpt from Selter's Berlin plan, 1809

Due to the commercial and industrial development of Moabit, the idyllic landscape in the Jungfernheide gradually disappeared . The first industrial plants were built in and near Moabit as early as the beginning of the 19th century. In 1804, for example, the royal iron foundry was built in Invalidenstrasse (at that time still part of Moabit) according to plans by Minister Count Reden . In the 1840s, the entire area was redesigned through far-reaching infrastructure measures. From 1846 to 1847, the Hamburger Bahnhof of the Berlin-Hamburger Eisenbahngesellschaft was built north of the Sandkrug . In 1848 the Hohe Weinberg was completely removed and the soil for the Humboldthafen dug in its place. The Sandkrug Inn also fell victim to these urban development measures.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm August Bratring: Statistical-topographical description of the entire mark (Volume 2). P. 214.
  2. ^ Sheets for literary entertainment. Born in 1854 (Volume 2). Verlag FA Brockhaus, Leipzig, pp. 786 and 793 f. The piece is printed as issue No. 63 of the Dilettanten-Bühne.
  3. ↑ Friedrich Nicolai : Description of the royal royal cities of Berlin and Potsdam , all the peculiarities located there, and the surrounding area (Volume 1). Berlin 1786, p. 57.
  4. ↑ Rosemarie Baudisch, Michael S. Cullen : Tiergarten. Colloquium Verlag, 1991, p. 39.

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 38.7 "  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 24.8"  E