Warnow

A transverse valley of the river Warnow

The 155 km long and partly canalised Warnow is a river in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, which flows into the Baltic Sea. The catchment area of ​​3324 km ² comprises Warnow.

Name

The name is [ vaʁno ː ] pronounced, is derived from the Slavic and means crow or raven river. Some authors suggest the other hand, a name related to the Germanic tribe of the warning, the well- settled in western Mecklenburg, before he migrated in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD mostly to Thuringia. The ancient geographer Claudius Ptolemy, in turn, used the first geographical coordinates mentioned around 150 AD with about matching the data Warnow the mouth of a river called Χαλούσος (Latin: Chalusus ).

River

Upper Warnow

The Warnow originates approximately 30 kilometers east of the state capital Schwerin in Mecklenburg Grebbin in the district of Ludwigsburg pleasure Parchim.

North of Grebbin open several trenches, including the armed trench in the river Warnow. From here, the river flows in a westerly direction, whereas by the Barniner lake and then Schwerin towards the lake, but without achieving this. Five kilometers to the east bank it bends to the north. Behind Karnin the Warnow forms a small, protected nature water gap. Then the river bends to the northeast, and by running after a few miles through meadows later Mickowsee. Then makes the Warnow their way through the Sternberger Lakeland sparsely populated, without even touching other lakes. In the village of Far Brüeler creek flows into the river Warnow. East of the village, a deeply incised section of the river begins to flow faster. For large Görnow north of Sternberg cuts in an up to 40 -meter-deep gorge cut a glacial moraine and loses between Sagsdorf and Eickhof to nine kilometers of river eight meters. In this section, it absorbs the water of Mildenitz who had recently flown through the Sternberger lake.

In Eickhof the valley is wide and again at the village Warnow their water level is only 2.5 meters above the sea. Then she reached Biitzow, the first city on their current path, where the fog opens into it. About 15 miles to the north flows through the Warnow the small town Schwaan. Links opens in flow direction behind the lift bridge in the center the Beke. Until the 1950s there were shipping between Rostock and Schwaan. This was later discontinued due to the projected nature riparian zone.

Then the dam locations, Pölchow and Pape village happens to be. Here are several former brickworks, where the city of Rostock and towns nearby bricks were fired and shipped out. In some places you can still see remnants of the so called loading stations Warnow Hall in Pape Village, as well as a variety of peat and clay pits.

Since the Middle Ages, a weir for the operation was created by water mills in the mill dam in Rostock, this forms the boundary between the freshwater flux upper Warnow and the brackish water of the river Warnow.

For a planned in the 19th century waterway link from Rostock to Berlin a lock in 1882 the mill dam built in Rostock. 1895/96, the nearly 37 -mile stretch of the upper Warnow Rostock to Biitzow and the lower reaches of the fog of the Warnow to Güstrow ( Biitzow Güstrow - channel) to the Warnow Fog waterway were then expanded. Even in 1939, the upper between Rostock Warnow and Biitzow was straightened, but further planning towards Berlin were never realized. The not already strong ship traffic went from 1945 back on. Until the 1950s there were shipping between Rostock and Schwaan. This was later discontinued due to the projected nature riparian zone.

The city of Rostock relates from the Warnow above the mill dam drinking water, which is why driving on the upper Warnow is permitted only with battery-powered motor boats, rowing and paddle boats. A tourist Warnow shipping between Biitzow, Schwaan Rostock and will therefore continue to be rejected by the Environment Ministry.

Unterwarnow

• Article: Unterwarnow

The last piece of the narrow river course below the mill dam from the confluence of the Wehrarms and lock channel mill dam to the confluence with the broad estuary north of Petri dam was named Small Unterwarnow. In 1915 Bayou was almost completely filled after 1912 was created east of it a "New Unterwarnow ". On the shores of present-day i.m. 50 meters wide water section mill dam - east port of Rostock are the Boat and club houses some rowing, sailing, canoeing and fishing clubs.

Hydrological is the Unterwarnow no flow but an inner coastal waters such as fjords, bay and lagoons because their salinity is as high as the Wismar Bay and higher than that of the open Baltic Sea to the Darßer threshold and the seaward directed flow low compared to others. A significant part of Unterwarnow is also accessible with oceangoing ships. They first takes place in Western, then in a northerly direction up to the haffartigen Breitling, where they widened from 500 meters to about 3000 meters. Here lies the seaport. Shortly before the Breitling Unterwarnow between the Hanseatic trade and the port area is under crossed by the Warnow Tunnel, the first privately financed, toll tunnel in Germany.

The connection of the Unterwarnow of the Baltic Sea in the district of Rostock Warnemünde is called New power ( sometimes also New Warnow ), and is a 1903 scale, 1958 extended channel with a fairway depth of 14.30 m since 1996. Even today age current (at times even stop Warnow ), called estuary, today closed with a dam, had an artificial waterway. It was dredged in 1423, after 1420 a storm surge had made the natural tidal inlet impassable.

Watershed

The Warnow source is connected to the North Sea - Baltic Sea watershed. This means that the only short streams and ditches that flow on the southern side of the ridge between Grebbin and Parchim, flow over the Elde and Elbe into the North Sea, while the Warnow drains into the Baltic Sea.

Federal Waterways

The upper Warnow (OWA ) from the railway bridge Rostock - Stralsund (km 140.96 ) to the lower head of the sluice at the mill dam and the subsequent stretch of river Unterwarnow to the eastern end of the city port of Rostock (km 143.00 ) with a total of about two kilometers inland waterway of the Federal class I. from here to the open Baltic Sea Unterwarnow ( UWA ) is a seawater street of the covenant. On top Warnow and Unterwarnow the Maritime Traffic Regulations applies. Responsible is the Waterways and Shipping Office Stralsund.

Tourism

The Warnow is often traveled by canoes and paddle boats - both day trips as well as multi-day recorded tracks, which can be extended to the inflows (eg according to Sternberg on the Mildenitz ). Along the Warnow there are several Wasserwanderrastplatz spaces and tent sites.

The Unterwarnow serves many sailors as home turf. In addition to dinghy sailors are located at the Unterwarnow by numerous small clubs and marinas several keel boat sailors.

Fauna

The river teams, inter alia, Eels, perch, pike, carp, trout, catfish and walleye. Not only at the Unterwarnow you see every year many anglers on the banks of the river. For several years, beavers have recaptured their old habitat.

Inflows

• Mildenitz, empties a few hundred meters north of Sternberger Burg
• Fog, empties in Biitzow
• Zarnow, opens behind Reez
• Brüeler Bach, opens in wide village
• Beke, empties in Schwaan
• Kösterbeck, empties in Kessin ( Dummerstorf )
• Carbäk ( opens into the Unterwarnow )
• Schmarler Bach ( opens into the Unterwarnow )
• Peezer Bach ( empties into the Breitling )
• Moorgraben ( empties into the Breitling )