Breeze (river)

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Breeze
Erlenbruchwald in Birkenwerder, living space at the Briese colony

Erlenbruchwald in Birkenwerder , living space at the Briese colony

Data
Water code DE : 58192
location Brandenburg , Germany
River system Elbe
Drain over Havel  → Elbe  → North Sea
source Wandlitzer See
52 ° 44 ′ 57 ″  N , 13 ° 26 ′ 6 ″  E
Source height 48.3  m above sea level NHN
muzzle in the Havel in Birkenwerder Coordinates: 52 ° 41 ′ 17 ″  N , 13 ° 15 ′ 15 ″  E 52 ° 41 ′ 17 ″  N , 13 ° 15 ′ 15 ″  E
Mouth height 31  m above sea level NHN
Height difference 17.3 m
Bottom slope 1 ‰
length 17.1 km
Flowing lakes Rahmersee, Lubowsee, Briesesee, Boddensee
Communities Wandlitz, Mühlenbecker Land, Oranienburg, Birkenwerder

The Briese is a small, non-navigable tributary of the Havel . The breeze rises on the western Barnim in the Wandlitzer See and then flows through the Rahmer See and the Lubowsee . Its course is largely determined by a glacial channel . It continues through the Briesewald, an alder forest that used to be called "Der Briesen" and gave the river its name ( Slavic breza = birch). Here the Briese also touches the first settlement, the living space Kolonie Briese von Birkenwerder , which is a popular destination with the Briesesee as the entrance gate to the Briesetal nature reserve . The Briese then crosses the center of Birkenwerder and flows into the Havel near the western border with Hohen Neuendorf . The river was of economic importance in the past when peat was cut in its area and it drove three water mills between Zühlsdorf and Birkenwerder-Untermühle .

The upper course of the Briese is natural and its surroundings are popular with day trippers. Beaver dams or gnawed trees can be found again and again as a sign of the presence of this animal.

photos

  • Briese in
    February 2007

  • Beaver burrow near the estuary in 2010

Web links

Commons : Briese  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ River directory gewnet25 (Version 4.0, April 24, 2014) from the Ministry for Rural Development, Environment and Agriculture of the State of Brandenburg, accessed on May 4, 2015.