Cramoner See

The lake is a Cramoner -carrying of the Stepenitz lake in the municipality of Cramonshagen in the district of North West Mecklenburg.

The lake is located in the northwest of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern about five kilometers northwest of Schwerin city edge. On the east bank extend the places Cramon and Cramonshagen. The lined with a tree strip west bank borders the municipalities mills Eichsen and Dragun. The lake, whose water surface 43.1 m above sea level. NHN is located, has a maximum north - south distance of 2.4 kilometers in the south and a maximum width of 350 meters. However, in the north of the trough- shaped lake does not reach 200 meters in width. The river flows through the Stepenitz Cramoner lake from south to north, leading from the water of the River Trave in the Baltic Sea.

In contrast to the upper Stepenitzseen can form a thermal stratification of the lake Cramoner by its greater depth and shady riparian zones. The polytroph classified Lake is located in the conservation area Stepenitztal. He has stocks of eels, groupers, sinkers, gables, pike, crucian carp, carp, roach, tench and pike.

In connection with the impoundment of Stepenitz in the above and southerly memory septic mill, a pumping station was installed a weir for irrigation of agricultural land and at the outlet of the lake on Cramoner lake in the early 1980s. The latter should raise the maximum water level by about 60 cm. By following water use water level fluctuations were anticipated by up to 1.5 meters already in construction.