Gribnitze ( German: Griebnitzsee ) is a lake in Germany on the border of Berlin and Brandenburg as part of the federal waterway Telt Canal . The name of the lake is of Slavic origin.
| Lake | |
| Gribnitsze | |
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| him. Griebnitzsee | |
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| Swimming pool | |
| Flowing river | Telt channel |
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| Of the earth | Brandenburg , Berlin |
Gribnitze Lake has an inverted L-shaped, its length is about 3 km. In the western part of the lake, a 400-meter canal connects it with Lake Glienicki . The telt canal flows into the eastern part of Gribnitsze in the Berlin district of Kolkhazenbrück , in the northeast the lake is connected to the Gribnits canal . Depending on the current, both the Hafel waters from the north and the Spree waters from the Telts-Canal fall into the Gribnitsy Canal , the latter prevailing. The northern shore of the lake is the Wannsee district of Berlin , and the southern coast of the Potsdam district of Babelsberg . The border between the lands of Brandenburg and Berlin runs in the middle of the lake along almost its entire length. A small area in the western part of the lake, as well as the connecting channel between Gribnitse and Gliniksky lake, are completely owned by Brandenburg. The northeastern part of the lake with the mouths of the Gribnits Canal and the Telt Canal belong to Berlin.
To the south-west of the lake is the residential village of Neubabelsberg and the station of the Berlin city train Gribnitsze . A park bridge across the lake connects Neubabelsberg with the Potsdam district Klein-Glienicke in the north, which is surrounded by the Wannsee district of Berlin from the west, north and east. In the area adjacent to the lake are the buildings of the University of Potsdam , as well as a number of recently restored celebrity-owned villas. One of the most famous inhabitants near the lake Gribnitse is Volker Schlöndorf . Villa Truman is the headquarters of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation . Near the lake there is a section of the railway from Berlin to Magdeburg , the line of the Berlin city train , as well as the regional railway in the direction of the center of Potsdam, the Potsdam district of Holm and Worstermark .
After World War II and the division of Berlin into sectors of occupation , the state border between the German Democratic Republic and West Berlin passed along the lake, Gribnitsze became a kind of section of the Berlin Wall . In Babelsberg, access to the lake was closed. In 1962, Gunter Wiedenhöft drowned in Gribnitsze while trying to escape from the Republic . After the dismantling of border facilities in 1989, a patrol road specially laid during the time of the GDR was found along the coast in Babelsberg. At the insistence of the population, the Potsdam authorities tried to legitimize the road and put it into general use, but faced opposition from local landowners. The lawsuit continues to the present.