Tiefwerder
Today, a significant portion of the historic houses lining the village street has been preserved and is recognized as the entire ensemble of the colonist settlement Tiefwerder.
This area, intersected by ancient arms of the Havel River, stands as Berlin's last preserved natural floodplain and a crucial spawning ground for pike, contributing significantly to species protection efforts.
It boasts a diverse landscape, featuring wet meadows, remnants of floodplain forests, and reed beds with natural land-water transitions.
The addition of 'Tief' to the field name 'Werder' served to distinguish it from the neighboring Pichelswerder to the south, which features an elevated eastern side as an extension of the Teltow plateau.
The concept of LOR was officially adopted on 1 August 2006 through a Senate resolution, marking a new spatial framework for planning, forecasting, and monitoring demographic and social developments in Berlin.
This broader definition encompassed not only the village and the Werder but also extended to the entire northern area, reaching up to the Ruhlebener Straße/Charlottenburger Chaussee street line within the Tiefwerder living space.
The LOR concept serves as an innovative spatial framework, facilitating the planning, forecasting, and monitoring of demographic and social developments in Berlin.
The central area of Tiefwerder, centered around the old village core, is primarily accessible from the north, with Dorfstraße being the sole street serving this region.
If the project proceeds, the state of Berlin intends to mitigate this impact by artificially irrigating the Tiefwerder Wiesen with Havel water and constructing fish ladders as a compensatory measure.
[6] On the eastern shore of the silting-up Faulen See, a remnant of an old arm of the Havel River, there existed an early Slavic settlement until the first half of the 13th century.
Archaeological findings from 1962, particularly vessel fragments of the Prague type identified by Adriaan von Müller, suggest a settlement dating back to the 6th to 8th centuries.
[7] After the founding of the Mark Brandenburg by the Ascanian Albrecht the Bear in 1157 and the medieval eastern settlement that began thereafter, the Slavic population of the Spandau area was largely assimilated by German immigrants.
In 1813, during the siege of Spandau by Russian troops in the Wars of liberation, the French division general and governor Bruny had the suburbs cleared and burned down, including the dwellings of the descendants of the Kietzers on the Burgwall.
[13] The evening edition of the Berliner Tageblatt reported somewhat differently on 3 March 1916, under the headline Hundertjahrfeier in Tiefwerder:[14] “Between 1560 and 1594, when the old castle was transformed into a citadel by Rochus zu Lynar, the Kietzers were forced to vacate their previous homes and were resettled on Pichelsdorfer Weg, across from the Burgwall, an ancient Wenden redoubt, separated from it by a navigable waterway.
[15] Fifteen colonist houses on Dorfstraße have been preserved and are listed as part of the entire ensemble known as Kolonistensiedlung Tiefwerder (settlement and village complex).
Additional monuments in the Tiefwerder area include two tenement houses built by machine manufacturer Wilhelm Beeken at Teltower Straße 16-18 in 1914.
This harbor primarily handled English gas coal from Hamburg, rolled iron, building materials, and sugar beets.
Since 1990, BEHALA has been involved in the partial dismantling of elevated and underground tanks, buildings, and sealants, as well as the remediation of the affected areas.
Starting in 1914, the extraction of drinking water from the waterworks caused a drop in the groundwater level, allowing for the construction of allotment garden colonies and weekend houses to the south of the village and along certain watercourses.
[26] In addition to the Großer and Kleiner Jürgengraben, this area also includes parts of the Tiefwerder Wiesen and their watercourses Hauptgraben and Hohler Weg.
[27] A portion of the Tiefwerder Wiesen, much like parts of the Eiskeller, constituted an enclave of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) within West Berlin.
However, they recognized the status in a limited manner by instructing the West Berlin authorities to maintain security and order within the area but refraining from official actions there.
Until its incorporation into Greater Berlin in 1920, Tiefwerder was an independent rural municipality in the Osthavelland district and at that time covered an area of 30 hectares.
