Mümmelkensee
Mümmelkensee | ||
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Mümmelkensee on Usedom | ||
Geographical location | District of Vorpommern-Greifswald | |
Location close to the shore | Bansin | |
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Coordinates | 53 ° 58 '59 " N , 14 ° 6' 40.9" E | |
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surface | 0.33 ha | |
particularities |
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The Mümmelkensee is located about 2.3 kilometers northwest of Bansin in the municipality of Heringsdorf in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . The lake, surrounded by forest, is located about 1 kilometer northeast of the Schmollensee . The name goes back to the Mummel , the yellow pond rose ( Low German Mümmelken ).
This body of water is the scour of a boiler moor . The open water surface takes up about 3300 square meters, usually the size of the lake is given as about 1 hectare. The lake was created at the end of the Vistula Ice Age within a moraine from a block of dead ice . In the valley without drainage, a raised bog was created that was only fed by precipitation. A layer of peat formed , which is 4 meters thick at the edge and 15 meters in the interior of the depression. There is swinging lawn on the banks . The Mümmelkensee is one of the few uncultivated bogs in Pomerania , it has never been drained and not used for peat extraction.
natural reserve
In 1957 the Mümmelkensee with a 6 hectare surrounding area was placed under nature protection by the council of the Rostock district . Very rare liverworts , cotton grasses , swamp porosity , bladder rush and long and round-leaved sundew occur in the area. Breeding birds in the area are kingfisher , crane , greylag goose and little grebe . The state of the area is assessed as good. A hiking trail with explanatory information boards leads from Bansin into the protected area. There is also a refuge on the northeast slope and an observation tower on the edge of the moor. The Island of Usedom Nature Park offers regular guided tours in the area.
literature
- Environment Ministry Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Hrsg.): Mümmelkensee 33 in: The nature reserves in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Demmler-Verlag, Schwerin 2003, p. 170 f.
Web links
- Map portal environment of the State Office for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ( information ) with geodata
- Dirk Weichbrodt: Mümmelkensee - A lake in the forest. In: USEDOM exclusiv. nordlicht verlag, July 16, 2009, accessed on August 3, 2009 .