Amtssee (Chorin)
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| Amtssee and Chorin Monastery | ||
| Geographical location | Germany , Brandenburg , Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve | |
| Tributaries | Nettelgraben | |
| Drain | Ragöse → Finow Canal → Oder-Havel Canal → Oder | |
| Places on the shore | Chorin | |
| Location close to the shore | Eberswalde | |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 53 '43 " N , 13 ° 53' 15" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 41 m | |
| surface | 13 ha | |
| length | around 600 m | |
| width | around 400 m | |
| Maximum depth | 6.5 | |
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On the shore are the remains of the former Cistercian - Chorin Monastery
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The Amtssee (formerly Choriner See or Chorin-See , Kleiner Chorin-See ) is a small lake in the Brandenburg district of Barnim . It is located in the municipality of Chorin and is best known for the Chorin monastery , which monks of the Cistercian order built on its southern bank in the 13th century. The remains of the monastery are among the most important brick Gothic buildings in Brandenburg.
geography
The Amtssee has roughly the shape of a trapezoid with a maximum extension in west-east direction of around 600 meters and in north-south direction of around 400 meters. There is a small wooded island in the western area and a bathing area on the north bank. The former federal highway 2 runs along the east bank . The village center of Chorins is one kilometer away in a north-westerly direction.
Hydrographic conditions
The lake is part of the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve , a cultural landscape rich in water . The area by the lake is characterized by the Choriner terminal moraine arch of the Pomeranian season of the Weichseleis retreat. The lake lies in a depression with glacifluvial sands and gravels from the Sander -Angermünder Staffel. In this depression, meltwater has very likely broken the terminal moraine arch. The lake is stably stratified and has a trophic index of 3.0 (eutrophic).
history
The current name of Amtssee is given to the body of water after the Chorin office, which was formed in the 16th century after the monastery was secularized . The etymology of the name Chorin, which comes from Slavic , could indicate the historical condition of the lake . According to Reinhard E. Fischer , the term is ambiguous and means either the settlement of a man named Chora or sick (fish poor) water .
Until the 15th century, the natural runoff was formed by the upper reaches of the Ragöse (Mühlengraben), which led around the monastery on the east and south sides. Rising water levels prompted the monks to cut a straight 200 meter ditch from the lake directly to the Ragöse on the west side of the monastery. Later they filled up the bed of the Ragöse headwaters. The breakthrough formed the extension of the Nettelgraben , which the monastery brothers had already dug in the 13th century in order to supply more water to supply the mills and the monastery. The Nettelgraben led and still leads from the north bank of the Amtssee to the higher and now isolated White Lake, which formed a bay of the Parsteiner See when the moat was built.
See also
Remarks
- ^ Fritz Brose: Ice retreat in the Parstein Basin. In: Guide to the geology of Berlin and Brandenburg, ... , pp. 95-103
- ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer: The place names ... , p. 39
- ↑ Wolfgang Erdmann: Cistercian Abbey ... , pp. 10f, 48f
literature
- Wolfgang Erdmann: Cistercian Abbey Chorin. History, architecture, cult and piety, prince claims and self-portrayal, monastic economics and interactions with the medieval environment. With the collaboration of Gisela Gooß, Manfred Krause u. Gunther Nisch. Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche Successor Hans Köster Verlagsbuchhandlung KG , Königstein i. Ts. 1994 (series: The Blue Books). ISBN 3-7845-0352-7
- Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin , Volume 13 of the Brandenburg Historical Studies on behalf of the Brandenburg Historical Commission, be.bra Wissenschaft verlag, Berlin-Brandenburg 2005, ISBN 3-937233-30-X , ISSN 1860-2436
- Guide to the Geology of Berlin and Brandenburg, No. 2, Bad Freienwalde - Parsteiner See , Johannes H. Schroeder (Ed.), Geoscientist in Berlin and Brandenburg eV, Self-published Berlin, 2nd improved edition 1994, ISBN 3-928651-03- X , ISSN 0941-2980
- Olaf Mietz (project manager): The lakes in Brandenburg's young moraine region. Part 2. without pagination [245 pages], water cadastre and applied water ecology eV, LUA, public relations department, Potsdam, 1996
