Griebnitz Canal

The Griebnitzkanal ( GrK ) ( 1906 Prince Friedrich Leopold Canal until 1951 in the GDR until 1992 in the Federal Republic of Germany ) in the Berlin district of Steglitz- Zehlendorf. It combines the Griebnitzsee of the Teltow Canal with the Wannsee the Lower Havel waterway and runs through the Stolpchensee, the Pohlesee and the Kleiner Wannsee. The GrK has a total length of 3.61 km and is a federal waterway waterway class I in the jurisdiction of the Water and Shipping Authority Berlin.

The Griebnitzkanal originated with the construction of the Teltow Canal in the years 1901-1906 and should on the one hand the pleasure traffic, on the other hand serve to improve the water quality of the lakes. About the channel-like lines connecting the lakes lead three bridges: the Hubertus bridge Alsenbrücke and the Wannsee bridge as a bridge of B1 ( King Street ) directly at the Wannsee.

Despite the name of the channel character of the waterway is natural and comfortable. Large parts of the shore, in which numerous rowing clubs have settled, are not accessible to private ownership and the public.

The channel as a free compound, without barrage between Griebnitzsee and Wannsee acts as a communicant tube. Depending on water levels in the river Spree and the Havel River Spree water can flow out of the Teltow Canal to the north or to the south Havel water. At low water levels in the river Spree Spree water is primarily conducted through the Teltow Canal and less through Berlin and the River Spree mouth in Spandau. Then, for example, two -thirds of the Teltow canal water over the Griebnitzsee and Glienicker Lake drain into the Potsdamer Havel and third passes through the Griebnitzkanal in the Wannsee and may adversely affect mainly the water quality of the bathing beach Wannsee there in calm flow behavior of the Havel. Griebnitzsee with Glienicker Lake Griebnitzkanal and then provide additional estuaries of the River Spree in the Havel dar.

Traffic control

Is on the Griebnitzkanal between the Griebnitzsee and the Stolpchensee encounter a ban on vehicles that are wider than two meters. To the south of the channel section on the hour and the next 20 minutes may be driven, in the north on the half hour and the next 20 minutes. Thus, each time resulting in a buffer of ten minutes per direction in which the vehicle must be completed through the channel between the Griebnitzsee and the Stolpchensee. Further encounter prohibitions there are in the area of ​​Alsenbrücke between the Stolpchensee and the Pohlesee and in the area of the Wannsee bridge. The traffic control is carried out according inland waterways order.

Situation map and pictures

Entrance from the Griebnitzsee

Hubertus bridge

Church on Stolpchensee

Alsenbrücke

Seen Wannseebrücke from small to large Wannsee