Wolletzsee

Wolletzsee
	East bank of the Wolletzsee
Geographical location	Germany, Brandenburg, Uckermark district
Tributaries	Catfish
Drain	Catfish
Islands	3
Places on the shore	Wolletz, enclosure mill
Location close to the shore	Angermünde
	Data
Coordinates	53 ° 1 '19 " N , 13 ° 54' 37" E Coordinates: 53 ° 1 '19 " N , 13 ° 54' 37" E
Altitude above sea level	43 m above sea level HN
surface	3.3 km²
length	5.058 km
width	1.027 km
volume	28,600,000 m³
Maximum depth	17 m
Middle deep	8.7 m
Catchment area	172.89 km²

Aerial view

The Wolletzsee is a 330-hectare lake in Brandenburg immediately west of Angermünde and a popular local recreation area in the city. A 16.5-kilometer hiking trail leads around the lake.

description

The lake is long and narrow (a good 5 km by 1 km) and is traversed from west to east by the Welse , a tributary of the Oder . In the middle it has a narrowing only 150 meters wide, which divides the water into two areas. The lake is glacial and is located in the terminal moraine area of the Angermünder Staffel , which followed the Pomeranian ice edge position (see also Vistula Ice Age) and shaped it. It has three islands, which on the official map, from west to east, are only designated as Wolletzseeinsel 1 (smallest), Wolletzseeinsel 2 (largest) and Wolletzseeinsel 3 . The centrally located, largest Wolletzseeinsel 2 rises up to 18 meters above the water level.

The shores of the Wolletzsee, which is rich in fish, were settled as early as the Neolithic Age. The first mention of Wolletz on the north bank dates back to 1313. In 1826 Major General von Rohr built a hunting lodge near Wolletz, which was replaced in 1934 by a new building. This became the seat of the state-owned estate in 1945 and then became the Erich Mielkes hunting lodge in 1960 . Therefore, a large part of the north bank and the adjacent forest area was fenced in and not accessible to the public until the “ turn ”. The house served leading employees of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) as a rest home until 1989. In 1990 a cardiological rehabilitation center was established here.

In 1997, the entrepreneurial couple Fiege from North Rhine-Westphalia bought the manor including the clinic and built a new manor house next to the clinic. With the nature conservation foundation Schorfheide-Chorin , the couple is involved in a public-private partnership for environmental protection in the region. The interventions carried out by the foundation also include the controversial felling of 450 oaks that are over 160 years old on Redernswalder See in 2004/2005, which, according to official statements, served to reduce the artificially increased oak population and to free the growth area for the beech population. The Brandenburg State Association of the German Nature Conservation Union (NABU) filed a criminal complaint against the foundation. The NABU assumed that the oaks worth around 60,000 euros should be sold as parquet wood. It was later found that even 572 oaks had been felled, albeit by the state forest service, so that the state administration shares responsibility in this context.