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The Havel (German: ⓘ) [1] is a river in northeastern Germany, flowing through the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Berlin and Saxony-Anhalt. The 325 kilometres (202 mi) long Havel is a right tributary of the Elbe .
Geographically, the Havelland is the region around which the River Havel flows in a U-shape between Oranienburg to the northeast and Rhinow to the northwest. The northern boundary of the Havelland is formed by the River Rhin and the Rhin Canal. In the history of Brandenburg, the Havelland represents a historic region.
A first wooden bridge across the Havel River at this location was built about 1660, in order to reach the hunting grounds around Stolpe. By the early 1800s, a new, non-wooden bridge was needed to accommodate the massive increase in traffic on the chaussee between the Prussian capital Berlin and the Hohenzollern residence in Potsdam.
The 174-meter-long Freybrücke crosses the Havel River, which was canalized in this area in 1880/1881, as well as the Havelseenweg, a pedestrian and bicycle path leading from Pichelswerder between the river and the Tiefwerder Wiesen to the village of Tiefwerder. While the most expensive variant for bridging the Havel lowlands involved the large ...
In 1879, an erratic boulder was discovered on Pichelswerder in a longitudinal depression running from north to south near the western locales on the Havel River. The local residents dubbed this stone the Wendischer Opferaltar (Wendish sacrificial altar). [1] [2] However, the erratic block on its wall base was lost around 1950.
Brandenburg an der Havel (German pronunciation: [ˈbʁandn̩bʊʁk ʔan deːɐ̯ ˈhaːfl̩] ⓘ; Polabian: Brenna) is a town in Brandenburg, Germany, which served as the capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg until it was replaced by Berlin in 1417. With a population of 72,040 (as of 2020), it is located on the banks of the River Havel.
The Tiefwerder Wiesen is located in the southern part of the Spree where it meets the Havel River. This region is part of the Weichselian glacial valley in Berlin, characterized by thick sands that reach depths of over 20 meters. The Havel River follows a glacial channel in this area and does not extensively utilize the glacial valley.
The lake is part of a federal waterway and one point where the Sacrow–Paretz Canal connects to the Havel. Until 1990, there was a border crossing for ships on the lake, at the end of the canal. On the lake's southern end at the outflow of the Havel is the Glienicke Bridge, also known as the Bridge of Spies.