Tarnitz

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The Tarnitz is a right tributary of the Löcknitz in southwest Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania and Brandenburg in the north.

The approximately 14 -kilometer-long river has its origin in a small wooded area on the municipal boundary between Muchow and Stolpe at an altitude of about 42 meters above sea level. From here, the first Tarnitz about a kilometer flows in a south-westerly and then south, east past the towns of Muchow and Zierzow. The municipal area of Prislich limits on the right bank of meadows and larger forest areas, otherwise arable land are almost exclusively run through of which dissipate numerous drainage ditches in the water Tarnitz. At the border between Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania and Brandenburg opens a west of Meynbach. From here on the Tarnitz runs in a southeasterly direction to the Brandenburg area, then forms on a small section of the border and ends here at Streesow in the Löcknitz. The river overcomes in its course about 16 meters difference in altitude.

The Expert's country program of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in 2003 describes the almost continuously straightened course of the river Tarnitz as " non-natural ".