Usedom Lake
| Usedom Lake | ||
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 East bank of the Usedomer See |
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| Waters | Szczecin Lagoon | |
| Land mass | Usedom | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 51 '28 " N , 13 ° 56' 15" E | |
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| width | 2 km | |
| depth | 3 km | |
| surface | 3.6 km² | |
| Greatest water depth | 2 m | |
| Medium water depth | 1 m | |
 Transition from the throat to Lake Usedom |
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The Usedomer See is a bay of the Szczecin Lagoon and is located in the southwest of the island of Usedom .
geography
The Usedomer See has an area of approximately 360 hectares . It is about 2 kilometers wide and up to 3 kilometers long. To the north it tapers to a narrow tongue of water on which the town of Usedom is to the west and the Paske district of Usedom to the east. The average depth is 1 meter and the maximum depth is around 2 meters. Most of the seabed is covered with digested sludge. The Usedomer See is almost completely enclosed by the island of Usedom . In the southwest there is a connection to the lagoon, at its narrowest point about 50 meters wide, the 600 meter long Usedom throat . The Westklüne district of Usedom is located on the west bank, and Ostklüne opposite it on a 2-kilometer-long and between 400 and 600-meter-wide, rampart headland of the same name.
The area around Lake Usedom was already settled in the Neolithic as well as in the late Bronze and early Iron Ages. Since the 10th century, an economically and politically important center has emerged at the northwest end of the lake, from which the city of Usedom later developed.
In the 12th century, the Grobe monastery was founded on the western bank, to which Lake Usedom soon also belonged. In 1368, the city of Usedom acquired the lake, then known as Klosterwater , from the monastery, which was moved to Pudagla at the beginning of the 14th century . As early as 1381 the monastery bought Lake Usedom back for 70 Sundian marks .
Access to the Usedom harbor is possible via an approx. 2 meter deep fairway in the western part of the Usedom lake, which tends to silt up. Here, dredging is required at longer intervals so that ships with a corresponding draft can pass the approach.
literature
- Top 50 MV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anselm Dumke: Substrate mapping in the Little Stettiner Haff. P. 34; ( PDF ; 1.62 MB)
- ↑ Multicultural Usedom; Archaeological investigations in the town of Usedom, Kr. Ostvorpommern ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Gustav Kratz: The cities of the province of Pomerania. Outline of their history, mostly based on documents. Bath, Berlin 1865; Sendet Reprint Verlag, unchanged reprint 1991; P. 536
