Dassower See

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Brackish bay

The Dassower See (DSS ) is an almost closed bay side of the Trave, five kilometers above the Trave estuary, lying northeast of the built-up urban area of ​​Lübeck (Schleswig -Holstein) in close proximity to the Baltic Sea. Legally, he is a part of the federal waterway Traveling with a length of approximately 5.5 kilometers to the southeast end at Dassow the responsibility of the Water and Shipping Authority Lübeck.

Geography

It is not a lake, but a brackish water bay which is separated together with the Pötenitzer Wiek from the open sea of the Bay of Lübeck by the Priwall peninsula. The approximately 8 km ² Dassower lake has, starting from the mouth of the river Stepenitz in the southeast, a funnel-like shape that narrows in the north- west ( confluence with the Pötenitzer Wiek ) back to about 300 meters. At the mouth of the Stepenitz at the Dassower bridge a small harbor for fishing boats from investors Dassow.

The lake is part of the city of Lübeck, the entire shoreline thereby forms the border with Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The eponymous town Dassow in the district of North West Mecklenburg is the only major settlement on the Dassower lake, on the north bank is the former manor of the Castle Johannstorf.

History

Until the reunification of the entire lakefront area restricted area and hence the tourism and any development was withdrawn. On the shore was on GDR territory a several -meter-high wall of concrete elements, so that the lake of the East German side could not be seen. Entering the Exclusion Zone was possible only with special permission. The surface of the lake was navigable from the Travelodge (the border ran along the high water line, so that at normal water level, a narrow shoreline of Schleswig -Holstein and thus belonged to the Federal Republic ).

Flora, Fauna and Conservation

As home to about 30 species of ducks is the Dassower See one of the largest bird sanctuaries in Germany. The lake with two islands Buchenhorst and grass Werder ( Plön Werder ) and his reed-beds is also an important resting and wintering area for Nordic waterfowl. The Dassower lake and its shores are areas since 1983, Nature Conservation ( Nature Reserve Dassower lake, islands Buchenhorst and grass Werder ( Plön Werder ) ) and the European Union are reported as a conservation area. In Mecklenburg side, adjacent shore areas is provided by expulsion of the nature reserve lake shore zone Dassower 1990 under protection. On the north shore to the nature reserve coastline between Priwall and Barendorf connects with Harkenbäkniederung.