Havel River & Spandauer See View

The Havel and Spandauer See

The camera looks out over the Havel as it broadens into the Spandauer See, one of the generous lake-like stretches that thread through western Berlin. Rows of mooring posts march across the water and recreational boats glide between the shores.

A Green Riverside in Spandau

In the foreground a wooded peninsula of mature trees screens the bank, with a red-brick building and the slender Eiswerderbrücke footbridge anchoring the leafy, park-like left edge of the scene.

The Spandau Skyline

Across the lake, the flat, distant horizon of the Spandau district unfolds — apartment blocks, scattered towers and the silhouette of a power station mark the city's western edge beyond a continuous band of trees.

A Living Waterway

This stretch of the Havel is a busy yet tranquil artery for sailing, rowing and leisure boating, and the camera offers an ever-changing vantage on Berlin's western lakeland and the life that moves across it.