Belauer See

The Lake Belau is one of six lakes in the Bornhöveder chain of lakes and lies about 25 km south of the city of Kiel in Schleswig -Holstein.

Chain of Lakes

The Bornhöved Lake chain consists of six lakes:

• Bornhöveder lake
• Schmalensee
• Lake Belau
• Stolper See
• Schierensee
• Fuhlensee

Through the first four lakes flows through the Old Schwentine, the latter two lakes are connected via outfall to the river network of the other lakes. The Old Schwentine leaves the stumbling lake at its northern end and continues to flow through the post see and Schwentine in the Kiel Fjord.

Due to the chemical nature of all six lakes are predominantly eutrophic, nutrient- rich, have high plankton production and thus view depths of 1 to 2 m. They belong to a dimictic lakes holomiktischen - type summer temperature stratification.

General data

The Lake Belau lies in the district of Plön at 54 ° 6 ' north latitude and 10 ° 16' east longitude in East Holstein young moraine just west of the municipality of Belau. The lake measures 2,350 meters in north-south and 800 meters east -west direction, its entire shoreline is 5650 m.

The volume of the lake is 10.18 million Belauer m³, it covers an area of ​​1.13 km ² and has an average depth of 9.0 m and a maximum depth of 25.6 m. The aboveground total catchment area is 26.43 km ², including the sea area, the catchment area in the narrower sense (excluding the inlet from the Schmalensee ) of 4,4 km ².