Storkower Canal

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Drawbridge in Storkow over the Storkower Canal

The Storkower Canal (SkK) connects the Great Storkower See in the Oder-Spree district with the Wolziger See in the Dahme-Spreewald district in Brandenburg as part of the federal waterway Storkower Gewässer (SkG) . It begins in Storkow and ends in Wolzig , is 9 kilometers long and belongs to waterway class  I. The Berlin Waterways and Shipping Office is responsible .

course

The canal runs essentially from east to west with a slight curve to the northwest. After its start at the western end of the Großer Storkower See, it crosses under the Landesstrasse L 23 (Burgstrasse Bridge). At the beginning of the 1970s, the prestressed concrete bridge replaced a steel bascule bridge that was built around 1920 instead of a wooden bascule bridge. The historic wooden bridge came from the middle of the 18th century and was constructed according to the Dutch model. Shortly afterwards, the canal passes the historic town center of Storkow and the new Storkow drawbridge from 2000/2001 with a wooden pedestrian bridge next to it. In this area, it is protected by statute as part of the historic city center monument area . About a hundred meters down the canal is the Storkow lock , which was built in 2003 to replace the old lock from 1863/65 and relocated from the old location. Lined with allotment garden colonies , it reaches the Luchwiesen nature reserve below the 53-meter-high Turkic Mountains and crosses under the steel truss bridge of the single- track Königs Wusterhausen – Grunow railway in the reserve .

Kummersdorf lock , built in 1862
The canal in the Storkower Canal nature reserve

Shortly after the railway bridge, it leaves the district of the core city and now runs through the district of Storkow, Philadelphia . North of the core of the village first mentioned in 1713 under the name Hammelstall , the county road K 6747 bridges the waterway to Alt Stahnsdorf . The canal bulge that followed shortly after the bridge was a landing stage for barges, which were loaded with bricks for Berlin by wheelbarrow. From this point, the canal is accompanied on the south side to Kummersdorf by a hiking and cycling path that was laid out on the former towpath . After a few hundred meters, the canal reaches the area of ​​the Storkow district of Kummersdorf, where the outflow of a small lake flows into it shortly after the boundary. In the village first mentioned in 1442, the Kummersdorf lock , built in 1862, and the lock bridge follow . After crossing under the state road L 40 ( Kummersdorfer Hauptstraße ), the Stahnsdorfer Fließ flows in from the east , which, together with the rest of the canal , is designated as the Storkower Canal nature reserve until shortly before it flows into Lake Wolziger . In the protected area, the water leaves Storkow or Kummersdorf and runs in the last small section in the Wolzigs district , a district of the Heidesee municipality in the Dahme-Spreewald district . The confluence with the lake is north of the Wolziger village center.

history

The canal emerged from the Storkower Flößerkanal , which was laid out in 1732 and which was expanded into a canal during the reign of Frederick II in the middle of the 18th century. Used over centuries to supply Berlin with timber and bricks in particular , its significance in terms of transport today lies largely in the leisure and tourism industries . As a rule, it is only used by passenger ships , pleasure boats and for water hikes .

In the 1730s, parallel to or in front of the Storkower Canal, a raftsman canal was built over the Stahnsdorfer Fließ , Rieploser Fließ and the Lebbiner See into the Kolpiner Forest, although it only existed for a short time. This so-called "Upper Connection" was supposed to establish a connection from the Kolpiner Forest to the Storkower See, but failed due to the adverse terrain conditions at the Storkower Weinberg, a slope of today's Binnendüne Waltersberge nature reserve .

Natural space and ecology

The canal is located south of the Berlin glacial valley through which the Spree flows and west of the Storkower Platte in East Brandenburg's heath and lake area , which is listed as No. 82 in the main natural areas of Germany . The numerous lakes in the area are a relic of the Brandenburg stage (24,000 to 22,000) of the Vistula Ice Age .

The two nature reserves through which the canal passes are also designated as FFH areas in the Natura 2000 network . The Luchwiesen nature reserve covers 109.57  hectares and, according to the FFH profile of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), is the largest and most valuable inland salt station in Brandenburg . The area is characterized by a thin, muddy valley sand channel, halophilic flood and creeping lawns and step societies , salt grassland , large sedge reeds and reeds . The western, 96.18 hectare nature reserve Storkower Kanal is intended to preserve wild plant communities, broken forest communities and animal species in the moored lowland between the Wolziger and Stahnsdorfer See. These include tall herbaceous corridors and crab claw corridors and endangered species such as otters , asp and bitterling .

literature

  • Klaus Rattemeyer: The Storkow waters - from raftsman canal to tourist magnet. In: Storkow (Mark). Insights into the history of an 800-year-old small town. Ed .: Mayor of the city of Storkow (Mark) in connection with the historical advisory board of the city. Complete production: Schlaubetal-Druck Kühl OHG, Müllrose 2009 ISBN 978-3-941085-72-5 , pp. 54-65.
  • Hans-J. Uhlemann: Berlin and the Märkische waterways. transpress VEB publishing house for transport, Berlin 1987. See chapter 9.11 .: The Storkower waters , p. 175.

Web links

Commons : Storkower Kanal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guide on the German shipping routes 4. Part, published by the Reich Ministry of Transport, Berlin 1940
  2. ^ Directory of the federal inland waterways serving general traffic. Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration, accessed on February 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Statute for the protection of the monument area in the historic city center of Storkow in the Oder-Spree district of August 15, 1996  ( 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. (PDF; 3.0 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.storkow-mark.de  
  4. ↑ Brandenburg viewer, digital topographic maps 1: 10,000 (menu - "More data" - click and select accordingly; switch to the district boundaries "real estate cadastre" and there "districts".)
  5. ↑ History of the Storkower Canal on the website of the Waterways and Shipping Office Berlin.
  6. ↑ Brigitte Nixdorf, Mike Hemm u. a .: Documentation of the condition and development of the most important lakes in Germany. Part 5: Brandenburg. Environmental research plan of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety , final report on R&D project FKZ 299 24 274, on behalf of the Federal Environment Agency at the Chair of Water Protection at the Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus , 2004. Chapter 1.37 Wolziger See p. 155. ( docs.tu-cottbus.de PDF ).
  7. ↑ 3749-302 Luchwiesen.  (FFH area) Profiles of the Natura 2000 areas. Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  8. ^ Minister for Agriculture, Environmental Protection and Regional Planning of the State of Brandenburg: Ordinance on the nature reserve “Storkower Canal” of May 24, 2004. (GVBl.II / 04, No. 13, p. 338). Potsdam, May 24, 2004.
  9. ↑ 3749-306 Storkower Canal.  (FFH area) Profiles of the Natura 2000 areas. Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved March 13, 2017.