Zülow Canal
The Zülow Canal is a left tributary of the Notte Canal in the districts of Teltow-Fläming and Dahme-Spreewald in the state of Brandenburg (Germany). Over a length of 11.7 km, it drains Lake Rangsdorf towards the Dahme . Its catchment area covers an area of 123 km².
The Zülow Canal was built in 1856/1857 to drain the surrounding swamp meadows. The client was Karl Magnus von Zülow , owner of the Dahlewitz estate and namesake of the body of water. When it went into operation on April 25, 1857, the level of the Rangsdorf lake was lowered by 65 cm. Another deepening followed in the 1970s, which also increased the sole slope. Since then it has a mean width of 4 meters and is 50 to 80 cm deep. The 2 km long canal branch west of Mittenwald, which already leads the majority of the water volume into the Notte Canal at the Mittenwald lock, was also created in these years. If you calculate the length of the canal over this “new” section, the Zülow Canal is only 9.3 km long. Never navigable, the Zülow Canal today forms the receiving water of the lowland between Rangsdorf , Dabendorf and Mittenwalde . He carries four weirs, plus one in the shortcut channel.
Until 1990, the water quality was very poor due to sewage discharged from the adjacent Rangsdorf sewage treatment plant and only improved when sewage treatment plants were commissioned. However, the water of the Rangsdorf lake, which is used as a fish farm, continues to provide high nutrient content on the route. The Zülow Canal is a popular fishing spot (white fish, perch, pike, eel).
The meadows between Mittenwalde and Telz were up in the 1980s one of the Brandenburg cost areas of the Great Bustard . The wide, open landscape offered the birds optimal living conditions. Before the Second World War about 190 bustards still lived in the meadows, their population decreased to 36 birds (1970) with the intensification of agriculture. In 1995 only two roosters and three hens lived in the canal meadows; the increasing development of the landscape as part of the "upswing east" finally collapsed the existing structure. In 2018 there were no more bustards living here, their sanctuary was lifted.
The Zülowgrabenniederung nature reserve lies further north in the meadows between Rangsdorf and Klein Kienitz and has nothing to do with the canal.
Web links
- Landscape of the canal near Mittenwalde , website of the Ragow fishing club, accessed on October 5, 2018
- Image of the confluence with the Notte Canal , website of the Ragow fishing club, accessed on October 5, 2018
- [1] Supplementary plan resolution of the Zülow Lower Saxony on the expansion of the Berlin-Schönefeld Airport 44-6441 / 1/105 (PDF; 1.1 MB) from August 4, 2011, compensatory measures through landscaping along the Zülow Canal
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Heinelt, Willi: The Zülow Canal. A contribution to the history and perspective of this watercourse. In: Home calendar for the district of Zossen 1965, ed. from the council of the district of Zossen, pp. 57–62
- ↑ Hirrle, Hermann: Walk through the district of Zossen, 1st episode. In: Home calendar for the district of Zossen 1972, ed. from the council of the district of Zossen, pp. 119–128
- ↑ Rudolph, Horst E .: fishing guide GDR. Sportverlag Berlin (East) 1982, p. 108 f.
- ^ Uhlemann, Hans-Joachim: Berlin and the Märkische Wasserstraßen. DSV Verlag Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-88412-204-5
- ↑ Rudolph, Horst E .: fishing guide GDR. Sportverlag Berlin (East) 1982, p. 108 f.
- ↑ Walter, Karl: Our great bustard around Zossen, threatened with extinction! In: Home calendar for the district of Zossen 1972, ed. from the council of the district of Zossen, pp. 101-107
- ↑ Black, Rose: There is only a tiny chance for the Great Bustard. Approval for concrete plant canceled - the Higher Administrative Court now has the final say. In: "Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung" from September 9, 1995
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 15 ″ N , 13 ° 25 ′ 35 ″ E