Amtssee

The Amtssee (formerly Chorin Lake or Lake Chorin, Chorin Little Lake) is a small lake in Brandenburg Barnim. It is located in the municipality of Chorin and is especially known for the monastery Chorin, built the monks of the Cistercian Order in the 13th century at its southern shore. The monastery remains among the most important monuments of Gothic brick architecture in Brandenburg.

Geography

The Amtssee has. Approximately the shape of a trapezoid with a maximum extension in west-east direction of around 600 meters and in north-south direction of approximately 400 meters On the western side there is a small wooded island and on the north shore a swimming area. On the east bank, the Federal Highway 2 runs along. The village center is one kilometer from Chorin's in a northwesterly direction.

Hydrographic conditions

The lake is part of the Biosphere Reserve Schorfheide- Chorin, a waters rich cultural landscape with the core region Schorfheide a contiguous forest area of about 200 km2 The area of ​​the lake is dominated by Chorin Endmoränenbogen the Pomeranian season of the Weichsel retreat. The lake lies in a valley with glazifluviatilen sands and gravels of the Sander- Angermünder season. In this valley very likely have broken through the melting water Endmoränenbogen. The lake is stably stratified and has the Trophic Index 3.0 ( eutrophic ).

History

The present name Amtssee carries the waters according to the Office Chorin, which was formed in the 16th century after the secularization of the monastery. On the historical state of the lake, the etymology of the name Chorin could indicate that originates from the Slavic. According to Reinhard E. Fischer, the term is ambiguous, meaning either settlement of a man named Chora or sick ( poor fish ) waters.

The natural flow made ​​to the 15th century, the upper reaches of the Ragöse ( Mühlengraben ), which led to the east and south around the monastery. Rising water levels prompted the monks to a 200 meter long straight grave puncture from the lake directly to Ragöse on the west side of the monastery. The bed of the Ragöseoberlaufs they poured on later. The puncture was the extension of the Nettelgrabens, which the monks had already been created in the 13th century to supply more water to power the mills and the monastery. The Nettelgraben led and still leads today from the northern shore of the lake to higher office today and isolated White Lake, which formed a bay of Lake Parsteiner the time of grave system.