Hellsee
| Hellsee | ||
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| The Hellsee seen from the north bank | ||
| Geographical location | Lanke , Barnim District , Brandenburg | |
| Tributaries | from Obersee and Krumme Lanke | |
| Drain | Towards Finow | |
| Islands | artificial island | |
| Places on the shore | Lanke | |
| Location close to the shore | Biesenthal | |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 45 '4 " N , 13 ° 34' 46" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 40 m above sea level NN | |
| surface | 42.9 ha | |
| length | approx. 2,200 m | |
| width | between 40 and 300 m | |
| Maximum depth | 11 m | |
| Middle deep | 3 m | |
The Hellsee is a natural body of water in the southeast of the town of Lanke in the Brandenburg district of Barnim . The lake is part of a chain of lakes located between Wandlitz and Biesenthal in a channel that was last formed by the Vistula Ice Age and which merges into the Biesenthal Basin nature reserve in the east . Other lakes in this channel are the Rahmer See and the Wandlitzsee , which both drain to the Havel, the Regenbogensee , the three holy puddles and the Liepnitz and Obersee (Lanke) .
geography
Hellsee is an approx. Two kilometer long channel lake surrounded by mixed forest. It has an area of 42.91 hectares. The width varies between 40 and 300 meters. The average depth is 3 meters, the maximum depth should be 11 meters. The average depth of view is almost 2 meters.
At the northern tip of the lake, due to the tributaries from the Obersee and the Krummen Lanke, there is a swamp area that is crossed by a footbridge . Another swamp area can be found in the southeast of the lake. The lake drains at Hellmühle via the Hellmühler Fließ , which runs northwards, into the Finow and further towards the Oder .
Surroundings
The Hellsee, as a name passed down as Hellen Sehe from around 1600 , is a popular destination. A hiking trail leads around the lake which, within the local area of Lanke, passes through a park of Lanke Castle that was laid out in the 19th century according to plans by Peter Joseph Lenné and is now overgrown . Until shortly before the end of the Second World War, there was the Red Bridge at the narrowest point of the lake, about 500 meters west of the mouth of the Hellmühler River , over which the north and south banks were connected.
island
The north-east bank of the lake is particularly attractive, where the circular route runs as part of the 66-lake hiking trail in the immediate vicinity of the lake. Here it leads past an artificial island, only separated from the shore by a ditch, on which there is a tomb of the Wülknitz family, former owners of Lanke Castle, which was destroyed by vandalism. The island was originally accessible via a bridge that no longer exists today.
The moat through which the former peninsula became an island was created in the 18th century. In 1796, Major Hans Heinrich Otto von Wülknitz had the tomb erected on the island for his deceased wife. The couple von Wülknitz and his grandson were buried in the crypt. Preserved until after the end of the Second World War, the tomb was gradually destroyed in the following years, as was the bridge over the moat.
Hellmühle
The former Hellmühle is located on the east side of the lake. It was mentioned in a document as early as 1347, when Margrave Ludwig transferred the mill, which was then owned by Arnold von Bredow, together with the mill ditch to the provost of Bernau . In 1539, with Elector Joachim II 's relocation of the Bernau provost to Berlin, the Hellmühle came to the Cölln Cathedral Monastery . During the Thirty Years' War the mill became deserted, but was later put back into operation. It was not until the 1920s that the mill was finally stopped. Until 1945 the mill complex belonged to the Lanke castle and estate. In the GDR, the Hellmühle was then assigned to the state-owned Gut Lanke. The building served as a country school home from 1950 and later as a youth hostel. The building has been empty since 1989, but is currently (2012) being restored.
In the immediate vicinity of the Hellmühle is the Uli-Schmidt-Hütte , the house of the local group Biesenthal-Hellmühle of the Friends of Nature Brandenburg, and the holiday park at Hellsee.
On the west bank, the path runs over a steep bank that offers beautiful views of the lake.
Recreational value
Hellsee and the surrounding landscape, formed by the Ice Age, are not only very popular as a hiking area. The Hellsee is a designated fishing water (F 03-124). Two fishing clubs have their domicile at the lake. Pike , pikeperch , catfish , carp , eel , tench and various white fish are among the species found in the lake. For those who love to swim, there are various ways to access the water on the northeastern shore of the lake. Not far from Hellmühle, in a westerly direction below the former holiday complex, there was an official swimming area with a jetty until shortly after the fall of the Wall .
See also
literature
- Manfred Reschke: 66 lakes hike . Trescher Verlag, 2011
- Manfred Schmid-Myszka: Around Berlin. From Ruppin Switzerland to the Spreewald . Bergverlag Rother GmbH, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7633-4343-0
- Gerd Koischwitz: Märkische history and stories. Between the Havel and the Oder . Müller Druck und Verlag, Berlin undated , ISBN 3-9801001-6-2
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Sieglinde Thürling: The Hellsee . In: Märkischer Markt . Weekly free advertising paper of the Märkische Oderzeitung . Frankfurt (Oder) August 5, 2009, p. 4 .
- ↑ Otto Wüllenweber (Ed.): Festschrift for the 700th anniversary of the city of Bernau and for the 500th Hussite Festival 11-13. June 1932 . Verlag A. Höhne, Bernau near Berlin 1932, p. 85
- ↑ Tips for trips. Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment
- ↑ NaturFreunde OG Biesenthal-Hellmühle e. V.
- ↑ Holiday park at Hellsee