Schillingsbek
river in Germany
The Schillingsbek is a stream, about 1.9 kilometres (1.2 mi) long, in Lokstedt district in the German city of Hamburg. Between its source in the vicinity of Julius-Vosseler-Straße to its mouth on the Kollau the Lohbek is its only tributary. A pond in the Von Eicken Park acts as a retention basin and was originally flooded by the Schillingsbek. To improve its water quality the Schillingsbek has been diverted past this pond since 2009 so that only fresh water fills the retention basin when the water levels are medium to high.
The public source identifies “Schillingsbek” as river in Germany. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Schillingsbek, river and Germany.
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This entry incorporates text from “Schillingsbek” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.