Thursee

Thursee
Geographical location	District of Vorpommern-Greifswald
Drain	northern rift system to the castle lake
Location close to the shore	Pampow
Data
Coordinates	53 ° 33 '6 "  N , 14 ° 16' 53"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '6 "  N , 14 ° 16' 53"  E
Altitude above sea level	16.8  m above sea level NHN
surface	3.37 hectares

The Thursee is a lake near Pampow in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

The approximately 3.4 hectare body of water is located in the municipality of Blankensee , two kilometers north of the center of Pampow. The lake has no natural inflow. However, it has a connection to the castle lake through a northern ditch system . The maximum extent of the Thursee is about 270 by 170 meters.

The sea name probably comes from the Slavic word turŭ for aurochs .

See also

• List of lakes in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

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1. ^ Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 46, 1881, ISSN  0259-7772 , pp. 3-168, here p. 13.