Kummerower See
| Kummerower See | ||
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| The Kummerower See near Salem | ||
| GKZ | DE: 9663 | |
| Geographical location | District of Mecklenburg Lake District | |
| Tributaries | (West) Peene , Teterower Peene | |
| Drain | Peene | |
| Places on the shore | Kummerow , Sommersdorf , Verchen , Meesiger (with Gravelotte) | |
| Location close to the shore | Dargun , Demmin , Malchin , Neukalen | |
| Data | ||
| Coordinates | 53 ° 48 ' N , 12 ° 52' E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 0.2 m above sea level NHN | |
| surface | 32.55 km² | |
| length | 10.86 km | |
| width | 4.18 km | |
| volume | 262.96 million m³ | |
| Maximum depth | 23.3 m | |
| Middle deep | 8.1 m | |
| PH value | 8.3 | |
| Catchment area | 1155 km² | |
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particularities |
Bottom of the lake and from it to the sea below sea level |
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The Kummerower See in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is located between the towns of Malchin , Dargun and Demmin in the Mecklenburg Lake District , about 50 kilometers northwest of Neubrandenburg and 70 kilometers south of Stralsund . The Kummerower See is the fourth largest lake in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and at the same time the largest in the state of Western Pomerania , as well as the eighth largest German lake .
Location in the water network
- See the river systems of Peene and Zarow -
The source rivers of the Peene come together in the Kummerower See . The largest source river, the Westpeene, flows into the southwest end of the lake. Its section from Malchiner See is largely canalised. At Malchin it takes up the longer and more watery southern peene. The common lower course was simply referred to as the Peene River in the 18th century. The (Teterower) Peene flowing through the Neukalener Peene Canal into the lake is shorter and less watery than the South Peene. Its northern spring water, known as Peene (without name affix) in the 20th century, is smaller than the western one, called Kleine Peene above Lake Teterower . It did not have the name Peene in the land survey of 1888.
From the Kummerower See to the confluence with the Peenestrom, the bottom of the water is at least one and a half (outflow of the lake), but mostly several meters below sea level. The level of the Kummerower See is mostly between 20 and 30 cm above it. Therefore, the flow values and flow direction of the lower Peene and the water level of the Kummerower See are influenced by fluctuations in the water level of the Oder , Stettiner Haff and Pomeranian Bay .
Geographical shape
The western shore of the lake belongs to Mecklenburg , the eastern and southern with the towns of Verchen, Sommersdorf and Kummerow to Western Pomerania. The lake is around eleven kilometers long, an average of four kilometers wide and an average of 8.1 meters deep. The maximum depth is about 23.3 meters. The western bank is heavily reed and swampy. Only in the village of Salem can you get directly to the lake. This is also where the lake bottom drops off the steepest. Its gradient is lowest at the southwest end of the lake and northeast of the mouth of the Neukalener Peene Canal. The eastern bank zone, on the other hand, is not nearly as reeded.
Emergence
From a geological point of view, the Kummerower See is located together with the Malchiner See in the approximately 30-kilometer-long Malchiner Basin, a glacial channel that was given its current shape during the Pomeranian stage of the Vistula Ice Age through meltwater below the ice.
Usage history
In the 13th century, the fishing rights on the Kummerower See were the subject of disputes between the town of Demmin and the monasteries Dargun and Verchen . Both monasteries made use of forged documents with which they backdated their rights. The city of Demmin was finally compelled to buy the fishing rights from the Verchen monastery. Demmin's dispute with Dargun monastery was settled in 1292 by the Pomeranian dukes, who allowed the monastery to generally practice fishing and to operate a fishing weir in the Peene. The city of Demmin was guaranteed free shipping on the lake and the Peene, although fishing on the lake was only allowed using smaller nets and fishing rods.
tourism
The lake is embedded in meadows and fields. Northwest of the lake are the wooded mountains of Mecklenburg Switzerland . The Kummerower See belongs to the nature park Mecklenburgische Schweiz and Kummerower See north of the Müritz . It is a center of attraction for tourism in the region, and excursion boats take place on it. A section of the Mecklenburg Lake District Ice Age route runs east of the lake from Malchin to Demmin .
See also
Web links
- Documentation of the condition and development of the most important lakes in Germany, part 2 MV - TU Cottbus (PDF; 3.35 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.pegelonline.wsv.de/webservices/zeitreihe/visualisierung?parameter=WASSERSTAND%20ROHDATEN&pegelnummer=9660009&start=2016-04-15T12:00 /www.pegelonline.wsv.de Mean water in Aalbude 0.17 m above sea level HN (with the same height reference, the mean water in Anklam is 0.0 above sea level)
- ↑ a b c d e f g Documentation of the condition and development of the most important lakes in Germany: Part 2 Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (PDF; 3.5 MB)
- ↑ Geosite database Greifswald: Lake Kummerow ( Memento of 26 July 2010 at the Internet Archive )
- ^ Karl Goetze: History of the city of Demmin edited on the basis of the Demminer Ratsarchiv, the Stollesche Chronik and other sources . Page 238–240. Demmin 1903, reprint 1997, ISBN 3-89557-077-X