Delvenau

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Delvenau
Delvenau at Witzeeze

Delvenau at Witzeeze

Data
location Schleswig-Holstein / Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania border , Germany
River system Elbe
Drain over Elbe-Lübeck Canal  → Elbe  → North Sea
source near Büchen -Dorf
53 ° 28 ′ 34 ″  N , 10 ° 38 ′ 5 ″  E
muzzle near Lauenburg / Elbe in the Elbe-Lübeck Canal Coordinates: 53 ° 22 '26 "  N , 10 ° 34' 51"  E 53 ° 22 '26 "  N , 10 ° 34' 51"  E

length approx. 50 km

The Delvenau (now incorrectly also: Stecknitz , although the Stecknitz flows into the Trave , in maps often: Stecknitz (Delvenau) ) is an approx. 50 km long river in the Duchy of Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein . It rises near Büchen and flows into the Elbe near Lauenburg / Elbe . From the Niebuhrschleuse to shortly before Lauenburg, the watercourse forms the border with Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

The name Delvenau goes back to the Middle Low German word delf for ditch and was later reinterpreted.

Stecknitz Canal

Dückerschleuse on the Stecknitz Canal near Witzeeze

The Delvenau was already regulated as the Stecknitz Canal in the Middle Ages and connected to the Stecknitz, which flows into the Trave . Since the renewed expansion at the end of the 19th century, the 62 km long shipping route between the Elbe and Trave has been called the Elbe-Lübeck Canal . While its upper course was cut off by the new canal, the lower course of the Delvenau with two of the old locks, the Dückerschleuse and the Palmschleuse , was preserved.

Since the name "Stecknitz" has also been used for the south-flowing Delvenau since the construction of the Stecknitz Canal , official maps use the designation "Stecknitz (Delvenau)".

Historical limit

Since 810 the Limes Saxoniae ran along the Delvenau and formed the border between the Saxons and the Abodritic branch of the Polabians . Later, the border between the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg and Mecklenburg ran along the Delvenau, and from 1945 to 1990 also the inner-German border .

natural reserve

The Mecklenburg shoreline has been legally protected since 1990 as a Stecknitz-Delvenau nature reserve . The aim is to protect and preserve the meandering Niederungsbach and the adjacent wet and humid meadows and the herbaceous vegetation.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Wolfgang Laur : Historisches Ortsnamelexikon von Schleswig-Holstein , 2nd edition, Neumünster 1992, p. 208.
  2. ^ Ministry of the Environment Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (ed.): Stecknitz-Delvenau. In: The nature reserves in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Demmler-Verlag, Schwerin 2003, ISBN 3-91-015052-7 , pp. 634f.