Mirower See

The Lake Mirow ( MiS ) is a lake in the Mecklenburg Lake District Mecklenburg Lake District. He is one of the so-called other inland waterways of the Federation and is the responsibility of the Water and Shipping Authority Eberswalde.

Geography

Location

The Lake Mirow is located about eleven kilometers southeast of the southeast shore of Lake Müritz and extends immediately northwest of Mirow to the north. The lake, which is bordered by forests in the north, fields and meadows in the central part and Mirow on the southeast shore, is almost 2.5 kilometers long and 700 meters wide and up to seven feet deep. Its altitude is 58.6 m above sea level. NHN. In the north of the lake is an approximately one- kilometer-long hook-shaped, pointing to the west bay. In this flows from the south of Little Schulzensee one.

Islands

Within the Lake Mirow there is an island and an island.

On the Castle Mirow, which is Mirow upstream directly west, is home to the Castle Mirow, a 1748-1752 built as a summer residence of the dukes of Mecklenburg Baroque castle, and was built in the early 14th century, St. John Church, whose tower can be climbed.

The love island, just north of Castle Island is a small island, can be reached via an old, restored bridge that crosses the narrow Gewässerarm between the two small islands. On this island there is the tomb of the last Grand Duke of Mecklenburg -Strelitz, Adolf Friedrich VI. (1882-1918), who took his own life. Its not completely decayed corpse is laid in the tomb.

Waterways

A narrow, only about 200 meters long channel connects the Lake Mirow with the Müritz- Havel waterway ( MHW ) at 22.52 km. At the mouth of this channel, just a few hundred yards from the southern shore of Lake Mirow away, opens the channel Mirow, the northwestern part of the MHW, a; it branches off from the Little Müritz Lake Müritz - Elde waterway and through swamp lake and Ragunsee to Mirow. The Mirow channel replaced in 1936 the old drive or Old Müritz -Havel waterway that opens from the north to the Lake Mirow. Until then, it was the usual shipping route between Havel and Lake Müritz.

The Old MHW begins with the Bolter channel that had a lock in the bolter mill, which was, however, filled in, on the eastern shore of Lake Müritz. Further, Caarpsee, Woterfitzsee, Leppinsee, Big Lake and Little Kotzower Kotzower lake and the Granzower Möschen connect.

Together with the Lake Mirow, these lakes a chain of lakes, which is used by paddlers as a side route on the way from Lake Müritz. From Mirow to Leppinsee the drive for ships is allowed with a combustion engine. Woterfitzsee and Caarpsee are locked for vehicles with internal combustion engines.