Neustadt inland water
Neustadt inland water | ||
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View from the embankment over the Neustadt inland water to Neustadt. | ||
Geographical location | northwest Neustadt in Holstein | |
Tributaries | Kremper Au, Lachsau, Mühlenbach | |
Drain | Neustädter Hafen ( Neustädter Bucht ) | |
Places on the shore | Neustadt in Holstein | |
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Coordinates | 54 ° 6 '25 " N , 10 ° 48' 35" E | |
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particularities |
The Neustadt inland water is located northwest of Neustadt ( Schleswig-Holstein ). Part of the water area and the adjacent salt marshes , a total of 285 hectares, have been a nature reserve since December 31, 1984 .
description
The inland water has an average depth of about 90 centimeters. In the mostly shallower areas it is only about 50 centimeters, in the few deeper areas it is up to three meters deep. Although the water is fed by freshwater rivers ( Kremper Au , Lachsau and Mühlenbach), it is a brackish lake , as the Baltic Sea water penetrates the basin through the Neustadt harbor at irregular intervals. The salinity of the inland water is only slightly below that of the nearby Baltic Sea . This allows sea creatures such as glass crabs and moon jellyfish to live there.
A peninsula overgrown with salt marshes protrudes into the northwestern part of the lake. This biotope , which has become rare on the Schleswig-Holstein Baltic Sea coast, is a breeding and resting place as well as a food reservoir for a number of waders and water birds , including the curlew , the black godwit , the common snipe and the common tern .
There is a footpath on the south bank of the lake and next to the railway embankment that runs across the western part of the lake.
In warm weather, the inland water begins to bloom quickly , which is a result of the high nutrient input from the freshwater rivers and the municipal sewage treatment plant. On the northeast bank, hidden under a school forest, is the former municipal waste dump. This is always visible on the edge of the bank. This dump is monitored with the help of control holes.
See also
literature
- Dorothea Diehl, Manfred Diehl: Nature reserves on the Baltic coast of Schleswig-Holstein (= reports of the Nature and Homeland Association and the Natural History Museum in Lübeck . Issue 19/20). 1986, ISSN 0067-5806 (164 pages, numerous illustrations).