Steinberg Park
The Steinberg Park is around 35 hectares of parkland in the Berlin district of Reinickendorf .
location
The forest park is bordered to the north by Waidmannsluster Damm and the Freie Scholle estate, which is largely a listed building , and to the south by the route of the former Tegel – Friedrichsfelde industrial railway . The Packereigraben , which also forms the border between the districts of Waidmannslust and Wittenau , runs through the park , while the westernmost tip of the park belongs to the district of Tegel . The Packereigraben widens in the middle of the park to the Steinbergsee. On its northern bank, the eponymous Steinberg rises around 60 meters above sea level. From its top, a waterfall pours south into the Steinbergsee, while a toboggan run extends to the Waidmannsluster Damm on the northern slope.
history
Between Waidmannslust, Wittenau and Tegel there was originally a forest area that was significantly more extensive than today's park - it stretched from the Packereigraben on both sides of today's Waidmannsluster Damm (then: Tegeler Weg ) to the Tegeler Fließ . The traditional field name Tegeler Steinberg was interpreted in the past as a reference to prehistoric stone graves, but there is no archaeological evidence for this. The dolmen monument that can be seen in the park today is just a modern reconstruction. In the middle of the 19th century the forest area was owned by the farmer Knobbe from Lübars . After his death, his widow sold 64 acres of the property in 1875 to the forester Bondick, who worked for the local landowner Leopold Lessing in Hermsdorf . Bondick built an inn adorned with antlers on today's Waidmannsluster Damm, which he called Waidmannslust , based on the forest character of the area . As a result, the villa colony of the same name and a train stop on the Berlin Nordbahn were built nearby , so that Berlin day trippers also used the forest area for recreation.
With the formation of Greater Berlin in 1920, the forest on Steinberg was henceforth in the Berlin urban area. The conversion of the forest into a well-tended city park then took place as a job creation measure from 1924, with the Reinickendorf city councilor Wilhelm Klempin advocating the creation of the park. The Reinickendorf district acquired the site for 290,000 marks , i.e. for around 1.10 marks per square meter. They began with the construction of hiking and cycling paths, boulders were erected and existing fallow land was greened. One of the paths was known in Berlin as the “soup slap path ” because the workers who created it each received a slap of soup per day. In around 1928, F. Kurth and K. Loewenhagen finally designed the waterfall and between 1924 and 1930 the dolmens mentioned were erected, so that the forest park has essentially had its current appearance since then.
investment
The park is characterized by a dense tree population, which mainly consists of pines , as well as birches , oaks and locusts . In the east, towards the Packereigraben, the forest becomes a little lighter, while a wild meadow adjoins the Steinbergpark on the east bank of the Packereigraben. Otherwise there are unwooded open spaces in the toboggan run , which overcomes a height difference of around 15 meters over a length of around 200 meters, as well as an exercise area in the west and a dog training course near the old industrial railway line . This route, which forms a cut in the terrain, is surmounted by a modern pedestrian bridge.
Because of the dense forest, there is no view of the surroundings from the top of the Steinberg. The waterfall is designed as a scenic gem with over 200 boulders and nine rapids , as well as a wooden bridge that crosses the stream. In 1988 the waterfall was restored under the direction of the Nature and Green Space Office of the Reinickendorf district, but due to financial shortages, it was threatened with renewed decline from the mid-1990s. In 1998, however, two housing and building cooperatives agreed to provide funds for the maintenance of the waterfall.
The waterfall is fed by pumps from the Steinbergsee, which is approx. 200 meters long and 50 meters wide and on the north bank of which there is a lake terrace at the mouth of the waterfall.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Reena Perschke: The dolmen in Steinbergpark (Berlin-Reinickendorf). In: Jonas Beran, Ralph Einicke, Volker Schimpff, Karin Wagner, Thomas Weber (eds.): Teaching - Collecting - Publishing. Dedicated to the university professor, museum man and publisher Hans-Jürgen Beier on the occasion of his 60th birthday by friends and colleagues. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-86583-980-0 , p. 463-479 ( academia.edu ).
Coordinates: 52 ° 35 ′ 55 ″ N , 13 ° 18 ′ 30 ″ E