{"id":15308,"date":"2019-12-02T05:41:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T03:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/?p=15308"},"modified":"2021-03-26T15:58:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T13:58:50","slug":"spandau-lock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/germany\/berlin\/spandau-lock\/","title":{"rendered":"Spandau Lock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Spandau Lock is in Berlin, in the district Spandau. It helps ships to cross from the Lower Havel (Untere Havel) into the Upper Havel (Obere Havel) despite their different water levels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The history of the lock in Spandau begins around 1258 when the first mills were built around here. With the help of a dam, different water levels were created on either side of it and the drop between them was used to run the mills.
Over the years an array of different mills sprung up in Spandau, flour and oil mills as well as boring and grinding mills for the production of weapons. The sawmill in Spandau was so cutting edge at the time that it was used as an example for other mills that were constructed in the area.
But keeping the shipping traffic running at the mill dam in Spandau was only possible by unloading the goods from one ship and then loading them back onto another<\/p>\n\n\n\n