Griebnitzsee

Endpoint of the Teltow Canal

The narrow, L- shaped Griebnitzsee (of Slavic grib =, mushroom ' and (n ) ica = ' place ' ) is located in a glacial trough in a south side over the Havel and is approximately three miles long. It is bordered on the north by the Berlin Wannsee district and on the south by the district of Potsdam Babelsberg. There lies at the southernmost point of Lake of Griebnitzsee station in the far west Neubabelsbergs. The Griebnitzsee is part of the federal waterway Teltowkanal; responsible is the Waterways and Shipping Office Berlin.

Location

At the western end of the Griebnitzsee a 400 -meter-long channel forms the connection to the Glienicker Lake. At the east end at Kohlhasenbrück the channel path of the Teltow Canal opens and branches of Griebnitzkanal to the northeast. About the Griebnitzkanal can vary depending on water levels in the Havel and the Spree Havel water either from north or flow to drain water from the Spree Teltow Canal to the north, the latter prevails.

The Park Bridge at the northwest end of the lake connects the south-west of the lake located Neubabelsberg to the north of the lake located district of Potsdam Kleinglienicke which is enclosed in the west, north and east by the Berlin district of Wannsee. The locations and Babelsberg Park Babelsberg Potsdam University are located in the immediate vicinity, as well as a slew of new restored mansions of celebrities.

Not far south of the lake extend the railway line between Berlin and Magdeburg and the S-Bahn station with the same name as Griebnitzsee stop the train and regional train towards Potsdamer center or Golm and Wustermark.

Through almost the entire lake approximately centrally the border between the states of Brandenburg and Berlin runs; a small part at the west end of the lake belongs completely to Brandenburg, as well as the connecting channel between Griebnitzsee and the Glienicke Lake.

History

So was the border between East Germany and West Berlin, thus virtually a part of the Berlin Wall in the middle of the lake during the division of Berlin. The lake was not accessible from the Babelsberg shore. 1962 drowned refugee Günter Wiedenhöft by the lake while trying to flee from the GDR.

The most famous residents of the Griebnitzsee is Volker Schlöndorff; also resides there, the federal office of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, who has bought and renovated the Truman villa.

The real estate investor Stofanel built on the edge of the nature reserve, a Condominium.

Controversy surrounding the riverside path

Due to the political changes of 1989 was created after the dismantling of border security facility at Babelsberg shore a way that uses the former Patrol. By 1989, the road was never open to the public, either in GDR times even earlier than the shore land belonged to the mostly Jewish home owners before they were dispossessed by the Nazis after 1933 or by the GDR after 1949 illegal.

In 2004, 7000 Potsdam and Berlin residents have spoken out in a signature campaign for the preservation of the shore road and public accessibility of the surrounding land to the water. The city council of the city of Potsdam has adopted in September 2004 a purchase decision for the surrounding land owned by the federal government, to be usable for the public can. A development plan that ensures a public riverside walk and the Foot traffic on the surrounding land to the water, it was decided unanimously by the Potsdam City Council on November 7, 2007. Several land -owning Seeanrainer complained against this development plan. The city of Potsdam supported the existence of the path to both a street legal as a natural law right of access. A dedication of the road as a public way was rejected by the Administrative Court in Potsdam on February 5, 2009. Also a natural law right of access is not, as the Higher Administrative Court of Berlin -Brandenburg ruled on April 2, 2009. Many residents locked then 18 April 2009 the riverside path. To keep open the shore path, the citizens' initiative founded " Griebnitzsee for All ", which aims at the establishment of a riverbank park with references to the history of the last undeveloped wall path to West Berlin.