Wendsee

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The Wendsee
"Murmuring" Wendsee (see section Name )

The Wendsee is located west of the Havelknee, in which the Brandenburg main river, the Havel , coming from the Plauer See , bends to the north. The lake covers an area of ​​around 80 hectares and has a maximum water depth of 4.9 meters.

Surname

Sunset over the Wendsee in May 2007
Morning mood over the southern Wendsee

The name "Wendsee" can be traced back to the German name for the local Slavic population, which the German colonists have grouped under the collective term " Wenden " since the eastward expansion . The old, original name of the lake was Kiausee . It is called Coione in a document from 1294 . In 1692, the corresponding corridor was referred to as the Kiegaue . The word Kiau is assigned to the old Polish word * kujava , which still occurs today in Ukrainian and Polish water names and is translated as "hum, murmur". In the Brandenburg district of Plaue , bordering the northern bank of the Wendsee, the Kiaustraße still reminds of the old name of the lake.

Distinction

The Wendsee is divided into the Großer Wendsee and the Kleiner Wendsee . The latter connects to the Great Wendsee in the south and goes under the railway bridge of the Berlin - Magdeburg railway line into the "journey" that connects the Wendsee with the Wusterwitzer See .

function

The Große Wendsee separates the districts of the city of Brandenburg an der Havel Plaue and Kirchmöser West. It is part of the federal waterway Elbe-Havel-Kanal with the waterway class IV. The small Wendsee is part of the so-called other inland waterway of the federal small Wendsee-Wusterwitzer See. The Brandenburg Waterways and Shipping Office is responsible .

Ecological situation

Misuse by the German and Soviet armed forces during the 20th century caused serious ecological damage to the water . A contaminated and oily layer of mud still lies at the bottom . Regardless, swimming in Wendsee is harmless.

The Wendsee from the Plauer Ufer

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See also

Web links

Commons : Wendsee  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Brandenburg an der Havel and its surroundings - a landscape inventory in the area of ​​Brandenburg an der Havel, Pritzerbe, Reckahn and Wusterwitz, ed. Sebastian Kinder and Haik Thomas Porada, in the series Landscapes in Germany - Values ​​of the German Home of the Leibniz Institute for regional studies and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Volume 69, published by Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar Vienna, 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-09103-3 , p. 265
  2. Directory E, Ser. No. 10 of the Chronicle ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2016 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. , Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wsv.de
  3. Directory F of the Chronicle ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2016 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. , Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wsv.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 49.3 "  N , 12 ° 23 ′ 49.2"  E