Dolgener See

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The Dolgener lake located west of Feldberg, the chief town of Feldberg Lakes in the Natural Park Feldberg Lakes. He is a glacial Zungenbeckensee, nestled in a terminal moraine. It has an approximate length of about 4.2 kilometers and an approximate width of only 200 meters. The very narrow crescent- shaped lake is not very structured and changes its orientation from north-south to east-west in the south to the north. The lake is almost a hundred meters above mean sea level to the highest lakes in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern. The surrounding hills reach 128 m above sea level. NHN near the eastern shore. Three villages are located near the lake. These are Dolgen in the west, the east and Lüttenhagen Koldenhof in the southwest. At the southern tip of the sawmill Koldenhof is. The southern part and a large part of the eastern shore is wooded and the rest is used for agriculture. North of the lake runs the disused railway line Thurow - Feldberg.

Name

The name is derived from the old Slavic lake Dolgener word dlŭgŭ for long from.