Black Lake (Usedom)
The Black Lake is a former lake on the island of Usedom . Today it is a lowland moor with two former residual lakes and is located north-east of the city of Usedom for the most part in its municipality. The northern part, also known as Borkscher See , is partly in the municipality of Rankwitz .
Duke Barnim I of Pomerania gave the lake to the Grobe monastery in 1270 and allowed a ditch to be dug from the northern lake to the “Flehne” (Latin “Vileniza”), the widened southern Peenestrom . The old ditch was confirmed to the monastery in 1421 and 1422. On the register card of the Swedish Land Survey of Western Pomerania , two bodies of water called Swart See are shown, which are separated from each other by marshland in a narrow isthmus.
With the drainage of the lowland open to the Peene River through a system of ditches for the purpose of agricultural use, the groundwater level was lowered and the lake gradually silted up. Peat was extracted in places . In the eastern part, which was not used as grassland, a break forest developed . The southern, actual Black Lake remained largely free of trees, while birch break forest with isolated alders settled on Bork Lake . The area was proposed for designation as a nature reserve.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Hoogeweg : The founders and monasteries of the province of Pomerania. Vol. 2, Leon Saunier, Stettin 1924, pp. 358-359.
- ↑ Map CIb22 ( DjVu , 2 MB) at Geogreif : Matriculation cards of the Swedish Land Survey of Western Pomerania 1692 - 1709
- ↑ Bruchwald about 1 km north of Usedom on the B110 ( PDF , 20 kB)
- ↑ Alder-birch quarry forest about 1.3 km north of Usedom ( PDF , 18 kB)
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Coordinates: 53 ° 53 ′ 18.9 " N , 13 ° 56 ′ 42.7" E