Alte Schwentine

Source of Old Schwentine at Bornhöved

The Old Schwentine is a river in Holstein in Germany. In some areas of the river also Bornau, Depenau, Kührener Au, Postau and Mühlenau is called.

Course

It rises near Bornhöved on Grimmelsberg on the road from Bornhöved after Tarbek in a meadow and in the mill pond of Bornhöved. First, it flows through the Bornhöveder lake and from there into the Schmalensee. From here it flows past the former Slavic Belauburg in Lake Belau. Behind the Lake Belau it passes the Perdöler mill, an old watermill, and occurs in Good Perdöl in an old swamp forest in the Stolper See. When Depenauer mill it leaves the lake and flows past the stumbling Depenauer high moorland towards Good Depenau. Behind the Good they are also called Kührener Au and it meanders through meadows to the west of the city Preetz lying to post see. Here it flows into the Schwentine which originates at Bungsberg and empties into the Kiel Fjord in the Baltic Sea.

The names Postau or Mühlenau be used ( after the opportune to her former mill of the monastery Preetz ) for her interim post see and Schwentine.

Name

This assignment with different names came about through a mistake of the cartographer Caspar Danckwerth 1652, which gave the real Schwentine from Sventanafeld at Bornhöved different names such as Bornau, Depenau, Kührener Au and Mühlenau. Thus, the Bungsberg - Schwentine was declared the actual Schwentine. A section of the Limes Saxoniae, the border wall between the Saxons and turning, which was built by the Emperor Charlemagne, ran along the chain of lakes in the Old Schwentine.

• River in Europe
• River in Schleswig -Holstein
• River system Schwentine
• Waters in the Segeberg
• Waters in the district of Plön