Ruppersdorfer See

Ruppersdorfer See
	The Ruppersdorfer See from the south
Geographical location	Ostholstein district
Drain	Aalbek
Location close to the shore	Ratekau , Lübeck
	Data
Coordinates	53 ° 57 '18 " N , 10 ° 44' 24" E Coordinates: 53 ° 57 '18 " N , 10 ° 44' 24" E
surface	24.3 ha
scope	2.59 km

The Ruppersdorfer See (sometimes incorrectly referred to as Ratekauer See ) is a lake northeast of Ratekau , near Ruppersdorf in the Ostholstein district in Schleswig-Holstein .

The Ruppersdorfer See is approx. 25 hectares in size and very shallow with a depth of 1 to 2.5 m. In 1999 it was designated as a nature reserve Ruppersdorfer See with its bank areas and some adjoining areas because it is important for breeding and moulting , as a source of food and as a resting place for around 60 species of birds.

The Ruppersdorfer See drains (over the Aalbek ) northeast into the nearby Hemmelsdorfer See .

fauna

The black-necked grebes, mallards, tufted ducks, gypsies, black-headed gulls, common terns and gray herons breed regularly on the lake.

Waders such as ringed plover, little ringed plover, ruff, wood sandpiper, wood sandpiper, lapwing, curlew and dark water strider come during migration times.

History and regeneration

The Ruppersdorfer See had a size of approx. 45 hectares until the 19th century , when it was drained for the production of grassland. Even before that, over the centuries the lake had become increasingly peaty and silted up.

From the 1980s, the area of the former lake was bought up by the Ratekau community , supported by the state of Schleswig-Holstein and third parties. From 1989 the lake was dammed again until it regained its present size in 1992.

Information board about the nature reserve Ruppersdorfer See

Remains of a castle

The island with the remains of a castle in Ruppersdorfer See

Information board about the castle in Ruppersdorfer See

On the eastern edge of the Ruppersdorfer See there is an island on which the remains of a medieval castle (a motte ) from the 12th / 13th centuries are located. Century. Remains of the tower hill 55 m long and 30 m wide as well as the remains of two ditches in the northeast and the remains of a ditch in the southwest.

At the time the castle was built, the lake at the site of today's island was only moored.

swell

http://www.ornitho.de
The lake at Umweltdaten.landsh.de: Ruppersdorfer See
http://www.stranddorf.de/Kursbuch/Ratekau/Ratekau%204.htm (information about the lake)
http://www.burgeninventar.de/html/sh/OSTH_big.html#260 (information about the castle in the lake)
Sign of the State Office for Prehistory and Early History on the lake
Harald Gerhardt - The archaeological monuments in the large community Ratekau - in: Yearbook for local history ( Heimatverband Eutin ), Eutin 1994 (p. 28–35)

literature

Kurt Rühe: The Ruppersdorfer (Ratekauer) lake . In: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde Eutin 1984, ISSN 1866-2730 , pp. 182-185.
Herwart Bansemer: The Ruppersdorfer See - a bird paradise . In: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde Eutin 1991, ISSN 1866-2730 , pp. 187–191.
Herwart Bansemer: NSG Ruppersdorfer See - a success story . In: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde Eutin 2001, ISSN 1866-2730 , pp. 213-220.
Herwart Bansemer: From a recipe block to a nature reserve. The long path of the renaturation of the Ruppersdorfer See, a shallow water lake that has become a bird's paradise north of the historic Ratekau field stone church . In: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde Eutin 2001, ISSN 1866-2730 , pp. 202–212.

Web links

Nature Conservation Ordinance "Ruppersdorfer See"