Great Storkower See

Great Storkower See / Dolgensee
	Storkow and Großer Storkower See (2020)
Geographical location	Germany, Brandenburg , Oder-Spree district
Tributaries	Wendisch Rietzer Fließ from Scharmützelsee , trenches
Drain	Storkower Canal to Wolziger See , Mühlenfließ
Places on the shore	Storkow (Mark)
	Data
Coordinates	52 ° 14 '38 " N , 13 ° 58' 7" E Coordinates: 52 ° 14 '38 " N , 13 ° 58' 7" E
Altitude above sea level	36.6 m above sea level NHN
surface	3.7 km²
length	5.24 km
width	Max. 1.17 km
volume	17,337,919 m³
Maximum depth	12 m
Catchment area	17,102 km²

The Große Storkower See (also Dolgensee or Storkower See ) is a lake in the Oder-Spree district in Brandenburg about 60 kilometers south-east of Berlin. It is part of the 33 kilometer long federal waterway Storkower Gewässer (SkG) with waterway class I; The Berlin Waterways and Shipping Office is responsible .

geography

The 3.7 km² large body of water is located within the city limits of Storkow (Mark) . It consists of the northern, smaller and an elongated southern basin, which are connected by an approximately 200 meter wide strait. The place Storkow extends on the north and west bank, the district Wolfswinkel on the wooded east bank of the round northern basin. On the west bank of the southern basin, which is largely surrounded by forest, lies the Storkow district of Hubertushöhe with the former hunting seat located there . The district of Dahmsdorf of the municipality of Reichenwalde is located on the east bank . Shortly behind the north bank, the inland dune Waltersberge rises up to 32 meters above the surface of the lake.

The lake receives its inflow in the south via the Wendisch Rietzer Fließ from the Scharmützelsee. The Storkower Canal and the other parts of the Storkower waters drain the lake over the Dahme towards the Spree . The navigable canal connects the lake with Lake Wolziger in the west. The water level is regulated in the south by the Wendisch Rietz barrage (weir and sluice) and in the northwest by the Storkow canal stage. Other tributaries are rather insignificant ditches with little water. Another outflow is the Mühlenfließ in the north.

The water has dimensions of about 5.2 × a maximum of 1.2 kilometers. The deepest point, about 12 meters, is roughly in the middle of the north basin.

Origin and history

The Große Storkower See is the remainder of a larger body of water that formed during the Brandenburg stage of the Vistula Ice Age due to the accumulation of melt water south of the Berlin glacial valley, the water level of which sank over time. Terraced valley sand deposits are evidence of this .

The water runoff between the Scharmützelsee and the Wolziger See due to the natural gradient was originally not navigable. The inflow was the Wendisch Rietzer Fließ , the outflows the Alte Fliess (also called Flößergraben ) and the Mühlenfließ . Under Frederick the Great , the waterway was expanded from 1745, creating the Wendisch Rietz barrage and the Storkow canal step. Low water levels continued to cause problems during dry seasons. Further extensions took place between 1862 and 1865, 1892 and 1896 and 1904.

Surname

The name Dolgensee comes from the Slavic settlement period and describes the shape of the lake. The Brandenburg name book refers the name to the old Polish basic form Dolg - = Langer (lake) to dolg = long . Das -en is a German inflected ending .

Web links

Commons : Großer Storkower See - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Lake profile (PDF; 248 kB) on luis.brandenburg.de

Individual evidence

^ Sophie Wauer: Brandenburgisches Namenbuch. Part 12 The place names of the Beeskow-Storkow district , Steiner-Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-515-08664-6
^ Directory of the federal inland waterways serving general traffic. Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration, accessed on February 10, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c History of the Storkower Canal on the website of the Berlin Water and Shipping Office
↑ ^a ^b Großer Storkower See in: Documentation of the condition and development of the most important lakes in Germany, Part 5: Brandenburg , TU Cottbus
↑ Brandenburg name book. Part 10. The names of the waters of Brandenburg . Founded by Gerhard Schlimpert , edited by Reinhard E. Fischer . Edited by K. Gutschmidt, H. Schmidt, T. Witkowski. Berlin contributions to research on names on behalf of the humanities center for history and culture of East Central Europe eV Verlag Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1996, p. 54f ISBN 3-7400-1001-0 .

[BBNa-1] Sophie Wauer: Brandenburgisches Namenbuch. Part 12 The place names of the Beeskow-Storkow district , Steiner-Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-515-08664-6

[2] Directory of the federal inland waterways serving general traffic. Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration, accessed on February 10, 2020 .

[WSV-3] History of the Storkower Canal on the website of the Berlin Water and Shipping Office

[TUCB-4] Großer Storkower See in: Documentation of the condition and development of the most important lakes in Germany, Part 5: Brandenburg , TU Cottbus

[5] Brandenburg name book. Part 10. The names of the waters of Brandenburg . Founded by Gerhard Schlimpert , edited by Reinhard E. Fischer . Edited by K. Gutschmidt, H. Schmidt, T. Witkowski. Berlin contributions to research on names on behalf of the humanities center for history and culture of East Central Europe eV Verlag Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1996, p. 54f ISBN 3-7400-1001-0 .