Schmollensee

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Schmollensee
Benz Usedom.jpg
View from the Benz windmill to the Schmollensee
Geographical location Usedom island , Vorpommern-Greifswald district
Tributaries various small inlets
Drain over the Große Beek into the backwater
Places on the shore Pudagla , Benz
Data
Coordinates 53 ° 57 '51 "  N , 14 ° 5' 15"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 57 '51 "  N , 14 ° 5' 15"  E
Schmollensee (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
Schmollensee
Altitude above sea level 0  m above sea level HN
surface 5.03 km²
length 3,692 km
width 2.024 km
volume 13.62 million m³dep1
Maximum depth 5.7 m
Middle deep 2.7 m
PH value 9.0
Catchment area 17.9 km²
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The Schmollensee is an inland lake located on the island of Usedom in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is located in the east of the municipality of Pudagla . The eastern bank belongs to the municipality of Heringsdorf , the southern to Benz . The lake has an approximate length of around 3.7 kilometers, a width of 2.0 km and an average depth of 2.7 meters. With an area of ​​five square kilometers, the Schmollensee is the second largest lake on Usedom after the Gothensee and one of the larger lakes in Western Pomerania . The lake has a larger and deeper north basin and a smaller, shallower south basin. There is a connection with the backwaters via the Groote Beek .

Mixed deciduous forest borders the east bank of the lake, the north bank merges into a moor landscape. The bank is mostly overgrown with reeds . The lake is located in the Usedom Island Nature Park . Due to the shallow depth of the lake, it is weakly eutrophic . The lakeshore is an ideal breeding and resting area for many sea birds. Due to its charming landscape, it is a magnet for tourism .

Like most of the Pomeranian lakes, the lake was formed during the Vistula Ice Age. The regions adjoining the eastern and southern banks are upsetting moraines , between which the meltwater created the two basins of the lake when the inland ice retreated . Sediment studies showed that the Schmollensee to the Jungholozän one with brackish water filled lagoon was. It was not until around 1000 that permanent freshwater conditions developed with the change in the course of the coast . Its proximity to the Baltic Sea , there were repeated in storm floods to the info and salt water in the lake.

A station on the Ducherow – Heringsdorf – Wolgaster ferry , which runs close by, is named after Schmollensee .

See also

Web links

Commons : Schmollensee  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 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)
  2. ^ Wilhelm H. Pantenius, Claus Schöbert: Between Haff and Heringsdorf. The Thurbruch on Usedom. Neuendorf Verlag 1999, pp. 8-10.
  3. ^ Gösta Hoffmann, Reinhard lamp: The island of Usedom - late Pleistocene and Holocene landscape development. In: Reinhard Lampe, Sebastian Lorenz (Ed.): Ice Age Landscapes in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Geozon Science Media, ISBN 978-3-941971-05-9 , doi : 10.3285 / g0005 , p. 105. ( Online at Google Books ).