Freesendorfer See

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Brackish lake

The Freesendorfer lake is about six kilometers northeast of the seaside resort Lubmin at the output of the Peenestrom. Greifswald is located 22 kilometers south-west and 13 km south Wolgast. The waters bounded together with its procedures, the ( semi-) Struck island to the west. West of the lake are the Freesendorfer salt marshes.

The lake has an area of ​​approximately 0.48 km ² and, together with the Peenemiinde and the island of Ruden since 1925 to the oldest nature reserve in Western Pomerania " Peenemiinde, Struck and Ruden ".

The lake is connected to the Bay of Greifswald and the Spandowerhagener Wiek by two ditches and has through this connection to the sea a transition state from brackish to freshwater. He is a real Strandsee and serves as a waterfowl rest area. Its banks are lined with reed beds with beach asters and are characterized by the surrounding salt marshes with their creeks, ponds and sand banks.

In the lake there are deposits of Brackwasserhahnenfuß (Ranunculus baudotil ).