Brick Lake
| Brick Lake | ||
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| Lübars outdoor pool at the Ziegeleisee | ||
| Geographical location | Berlin | |
| Places on the shore | Berlin-Lübars | |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ N , 13 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| surface | 4.7 hectares | |
| length | approx. 350 m | |
| width | approx. 200 m | |
| volume | 294,650 m³ | |
| scope | 912 m | |
| Maximum depth | 14.1 m | |
| Middle deep | 6.28 m | |
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particularities |
former Tonstich |
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The Ziegeleisee is a brick pond in the northwest of Berlin . It is located in the district Lübars the district Reinickendorf .
history
Already in the Bronze Age - a good 3,000 years ago - loam and clay were mined in this area to make pots and jugs. From 1840 the Kühn brickworks was built , which was expanded to include a clay and cement factory in the 1860s . After the bankruptcy in 1880, the factory building was used from 1883 to the 1960s as an excursion and garden bar "Seeschloß" with a dance hall and bowling alley . Today there are no more traces of the factory to be found.
Another, larger brick factory was built in 1854. It was more modern and had a more effective ring kiln in which up to 12,000 bricks were burned daily. The brick factory was in operation until 1924. Its 72 m high chimney was blown up in 1932. A building that belonged to the factory at that time is still located at Benekendorffstrasse 115, which is named after the former factory owner Franz Ulrich von Benekendorff.
Famous buildings that were built from bricks from the local brickworks are the Red Town Hall and the Reinickendorfer Town Hall .
The lake was finally formed around 1912 by the slow inflow of groundwater . As a clay stitch it was even 30 to 40 m deep. Further contemporary witnesses are the two flooded former clay pits (approx. 50 × 50 m and 50 × 150 m). You are to the west, 500 m away. Several surrounding street names are also reminiscent of the clay mining.
Sea use
You can swim and fish at the lake .
The shape of the lake resembles a trapezoid from the 300 m long south-south-east bank, to which a 150 m long bank adjoins at a right angle to the east and a bank less than 200 m long lies parallel to it. In the north-northeast, a 200 m long bank forms the final sloping side of the "trapezoid".
In the southern part, the banks are overgrown with reeds and trees, inaccessible, steep and you are not allowed to swim. In the northern part the banks are flat and are occupied by the Lübars open-air swimming pool (Strandbad Lübars) , which was built in 1926 . There are sunbathing lawns, a well-tended sandy beach and a few artificially paved sections. The managed outdoor pool offers the usual facilities up to gastronomy, beach chair rentals and various sports and play facilities as well as a demarcated nudist area. The lake is only accessible via the outdoor pool.
Inflows and outflows
It is stagnant water with no natural inflow and outflow. On the west side of the lake there is a connection line to the Hermsdorfer See and thus to the Tegeler Fließ , with which the water level is regulated.
Web links
- Bathing water profile Ziegeleisee - EU bathing area open-air swimming pool Lübars , description of the State Office for Health and Social Affairs
- Berlin.de Results of the hydrographic survey of the Ziegeleisee in the water atlas of Berlin (PDF; 5.4 MB)
- Schule am Vierrutenberg - project group clay, water, sand - history of the Lübarser Ziegelei and the Ziegeleisees ( Memento from February 23, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- Berliner Kurier (July 4, 1999) - Refreshment at the Ziegeleisee (bricks for the Red City Hall)
Individual evidence
- ↑ EU bathing area for the Lübars public health and social affairs office; Retrieved July 12, 2013