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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.
The Havelland is very sparsely populated. The larger towns developed by the crossings over the River Havel: Spandau (today part of Berlin), Potsdam, Brandenburg and Rathenow. Other central settlements in the Havelland are Rhinow, Premnitz, Nauen and Friesack. The town of Falkensee and its surrounding villages have grown rapidly.
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 navigable River Havel flows the length of the Großer Priepertsee, entering it directly from the connecting Wangnitzsee to the north, and leaving it at Priepert via a 0.6-kilometre (0.37 mi) long channel to the Ellbogensee to the south. Navigation is administered as part of the Obere–Havel–Wasserstraße. [1] [2]
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) ... Direct and indirect tributaries of the river Havel
Wannsee (German pronunciation: [ˈvanˌzeː] ⓘ) is a locality in the southwestern Berlin borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Germany.It is the westernmost locality of Berlin. In the quarter there are two lakes, the larger Großer Wannsee (Greater Wannsee, "See" means lake) and the Kleiner Wannsee (Little Wannsee), located on the River Havel and separated only by the Wannsee Bridge.
Havel river in Grunewald at Schildhorn Locator map of the forest (shown in orange) in Berliner territory. Grunewald (German pronunciation: [ˈɡʁuːnəˌvalt] ⓘ) is a German forest located in the western side of Berlin on the east side of the Havel, mainly in the Grunewald locality. At 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres) it is the largest green ...
The Sacrow–Paretz Canal Map showing alternative routes via the Sacrow–Paretz Canal (centre-left) and River Havel (lower-left). The Sacrow–Paretz Canal, or Sacrow-Paretzer-Kanal in German (pronounced [ˈzakʁoː ˈpaːʁɛt͡sɐ kaˈnaːl] ⓘ), is a canal in the northeastern German state of Brandenburg.