Wolgastsee
| Wolgastsee | ||
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| The Wolgastsee in October | ||
| Geographical location | Usedom Island | |
| Tributaries | no above-ground inlets | |
| Drain | over the lake bed | |
| Places on the shore | Korswandt | |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 55 '1 " N , 14 ° 10' 36" E | |
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| Depth below sea level | 0.6 m below HN | |
| surface | 47 ha | |
| length | 1.428 km | |
| width | 453 m | |
| volume | 1.89 million m³ | |
| Maximum depth | 7.5 m | |
| Middle deep | 4.1 m | |
| PH value | 8.4 | |
| Catchment area | 4.3 km² | |
The Wolgastsee is on the island of Usedom lying lake in the Vorpommern-Greifswald , Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , on the border with Poland .
The lake is located south of the seaside resort Ahlbeck in the area of the municipality of Korswandt . It has a length of around 1.4 kilometers, a width of 0.45 km and an average depth of 4.1 meters. The lake was formed in the last ice age . The shore is an ideal breeding and resting area for many sea birds. The water is almost completely surrounded by beech forest. It is an attraction for tourism because of its charming landscape. A signposted cycling and hiking trail leads around the lake.
Duke Barnim I donated the lake and the village of Korswandt to the Stolpe Monastery in 1243 . During the settlement of the border dispute between the monastery and Reimar von Neuenkirchen, the lake remained with the monastery.
On the map of the Swedish land survey from the end of the 17th century and the Schmettauschen map from 1780, the lake extended over a larger area than at present and also encompassed the Black Heart to the southeast .
The name Wolgast could be a altpolabischer personal name Voligost have been, the second part of the name gość the meaning guest , even a friend has. The name thus denotes someone who has a bigger / better friend . Wilhelm Ferdinand Gadebusch also assumed “great” as the meaning of the first syllable (“woly”), but “gast” should be interpreted as “ thicket ” or “ grove ”, from which he derived “large grove”.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Hermann Hoogeweg : The founders and monasteries of the province of Pomerania. Vol. 2. Leon Saunier, Stettin 1925, pp. 704-705.
- ^ Wilhelm H. Pantenius, Claus Schönert: Between Haff and Heringsdorf - The Thurbruch on Usedom . Neuendorf Verlag, Neubrandenburg 1999, ISBN 3-931897-11-7 , pp. 32-33.
- ^ Oskar Beyersdorf: About the Slavic city names in Pomerania . In: Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology (Ed.): Baltic Studies , Volume 25, Issue 1, Stettin 1874, p. 100
- ^ Wilhelm Ferdinand Gadebusch: Chronicle of the island of Usedom. W. Dietze, Anklam 1863, p. 243. ( digitized version )