Schlangengraben (Beetzsee)
| Snake trench | ||
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| Water code | DE : 585696 | |
| location | Potsdam-Mittelmark district , Brandenburg , Germany | |
| River system | Elbe | |
| Drain over | Beetzsee → Havel → Elbe → North Sea | |
| source | In Butter Laake in the municipality of Beetzsee 52 ° 27 ′ 14 ″ N , 12 ° 31 ′ 16 ″ E |
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| muzzle | Southeast of the village of Brielow in the Beetzsee . Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '2 " N , 12 ° 33' 39" E 52 ° 27 '2 " N , 12 ° 33' 39" E
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| length | 3.5 km [1] | |
| Catchment area | 3.58 km² [2] | |
 The snake ditch in the Butter Laake |
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The Schlangengraben is an artificially created flowing body of water in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district . It drains some wet meadows and a lake into the Beetzsee .
course
The nearly three and a half kilometer long ditch begins as a drainage ditch in a wet meadow called Butter Laake south of the village Brielow , which today belongs to the municipality of Beetzsee , and northeast of the Butterlake residential area , which belongs to the city of Brandenburg an der Havel . It begins about a hundred meters from the Eisengraben and flows in an easterly direction. While the ditch flows through the wet meadows, it absorbs the drainage of smaller drainage ditches on the right and left . In the course of the trench, south of the village of Brielow, there is a weir that regulates the runoff and, if necessary, prevents water from flowing back in the event of flooding in the Havel. The weir is located about 300 meters west of State Road 98. State Road 98 is the only road worth mentioning that crosses the course of the ditch. After the water of another trench has been taken in from the left, the Schlangengraben flows through a small anthropogenic lake, which used to be a clay pit for adjacent brickworks, and flows into the Beetzsee shortly afterwards.
Animals native to the snake pit include the grass snake , which gave the pit its name, otters , various frog and tailed amphibians , smaller fish and beavers .
Iron moat and snake moat
In many maps and books the assumption is made that the Eisengraben is the Schlangengraben in its upper reaches up to the city limits of the Havelsee and forms its extension to the west. According to this assumption, the snake trench, which actually begins about a hundred meters east of the iron trench, also in the Butter Laake, would absorb the water of the Bohnenländer See and flow off east and west. According to these representations, there would be a continuous connection between the Beetzsee and the Havel south of Tieckow via both trenches, but this does not correspond to reality.
Protected areas
In whole course of Schlangengraben in lies the conservation area and Westhavelland Nature Park . In addition, the anthropogenic lake through which the ditch flows is designated as a protected biotope.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historical map of the area north of the city of Brandenburg from 1882 ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed December 26, 2013
- ^ Partial sheet Northwest Surface Waters. In: Landkreis Potsdam-Mittelmark landscape framework plan. Office for Environmental and Landscape Planning, archived from the original on August 7, 2011 ; Retrieved October 16, 2013 .
- ^ Sebastian children (ed.): Brandenburg an der Havel and surroundings. 2006, p. 102.
- ↑ PortalU maps with official waterway maps ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed December 26, 2013
- ↑ Part sheet Northwest Protected Areas. In: Landkreis Potsdam-Mittelmark landscape framework plan. Office for Environmental and Landscape Planning, archived from the original on August 7, 2011 ; Retrieved October 16, 2013 .
