Boize

Boize in Schwartow

The river rises west of the Schaalsees and Seedorfer kitchen lake in the east of Schleswig-Holstein, near the village Seedorf on a high level of about 40 m above sea level. NHN in a wooded area called Birkenort. From here on the Boize runs in a southerly direction initially very winding until it forms on a section east of Gudow the border between Schleswig -Holstein and Mecklenburg- Vorpommern.

On mecklenburgischem territory mostly straightened Boize crosses under at Lüttow - Valluhn the Federal Highway 24 and runs from here on in parallel to the main road 195 In Boizenburg / Elbe Boize fed a ring-shaped grave system around the city center with rampart. The last few meters of the river was extended as a port facility at which the old Elbewerft Boizenburgs was. Here on the northern tip of the Natural Park Mecklenburgisches Elbetal opens the Boize in the brews, the right side flows in the same even after a few meters.

The mouth of the brews was about 1983 moved from place Gothmann in the Boizenburger harbor entrance so that the Boize became a tributary of the brews. Previously led the Boize directly into the Elbe.

The source of Boize lies south of the North Sea - Baltic Sea watershed, because while the water on and Sude Elbe enters the North Sea, drained of only a few kilometers north of the source located on the Lake Ratzeburg Wakenitzrestaurant in the Baltic Sea. Tributaries of the Boize include the Grenzgraben small Zecher, the Gudower Grenzgraben, the forest Moorbach, the Färbergraben and numerous drainage ditches.

The Alliance Pro Boize committed to a gentle river maintenance, restoration and dismantling of weirs to allow fish to rise and to improve the ecological status of the water body.

2010 occurred between the Autobahn 24 and Greven an ecological restoration of Boize by the Water and Soil Association Boize - Schaale brews by EU.