Canower See

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The Canower Lake is located in the Mecklenburg Lake District, 11 km southeast of Mirow and 10 kilometers south of Wesenberg in the south of Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania, on the border with Brandenburg; This runs along the south shore of the lake.

The water area is located entirely within the municipality of Wustrow. The district Canow which lies on the northwestern shore, is the namesake of the water body. The lake is approximately 1800 meters long and up to 800 meters wide. It is divided into a distinct west basin with a longer bay to the southwest and in a narrower elongated eastern half.

Inflows, the lake in the northwest of the Canower lock from Labussee and in the southwest of Narchowsee. He has drain eastward to the Little Pälitzsee.

The Canower lake is part of the 32 -kilometer-long federal waterway Müritz- Havel waterway waterway class I; responsible is the Waterways and Shipping Office Eberswalde.

On Canower lake was in the 1740s, a summer residence of the dukes of Strelitz, the Prince Frederick - who later became King of Prussia - visited. Frequently, this house is referred to in the literature as a hunting lodge. From the house there is a view over the water was possible. The site is still recognizable by the existing wooded hills.