Dradenau

The Dradenau was a Stromarm and a river island in the Elbe in Hamburg.

The Stromarm Dradenau (meaning " fast Aue " ) was originally a part of the still existing flood plain near Finkenwerder, taking its course across broke through storm surges in the 13th century by the dismembered Gorieswerder of the Southern Elbe to the North Elbe. It formed from a Stromarm the Elbe Finkenwerder and separated from the rest Gorieswerder. At times he was a much -traveled shipping lanes. He partially silted up around 1800.

The Elbinsel Dradenau, also written in the 19th century " Tradenau ", has received the name of this Stromarm. It was encircled by the Köhlfleet, the floodplain and the Dradenauer hook and was dammed in two sections, which have been referred to as small and large Dradenau. The island Dradenau was sold in 1445 by Count Otto von Holstein Hamburg. By 1840 it was leasehold with two tenant farms and 66 residents. As part of the Port of Hamburg extensions the Köhlfleet was north of the Elbe island Dradenau filled to Köhlbrand and added to the Dradenau the port area of Hamburg- Waltershof. The island lay between the present and the Dradenaustraße Dradenauhafen.