Drawa

The Drage at Drawsko Pomorskie ( Pomerania )

The Drage (Polish drawa ) is a right, 186 km long tributary of the networks (Polish NOTEC ) in Poland.

The headwaters of the Drage is the valley of Fünfsee in subdivision Switzerland Pomeranian Pomeranian Lake District south of Połczyn Zdrój (Bad Polzin ) near Ogrodno ( Kavelsberg ) in Świdwiński powiat ( county Schivelbein ) in 212 meters above sea level in Pomerania. It flows predominantly in the south and ends near the town Krzyż Wielkopolski (cross [ Eastern Railway ] ) in the networks.

The total catchment area of ​​3296 km ² comprises Drage. On its way it flows through the Dratzigsee ( Jezioro Drawskie ) and the Krössinsee ( Jezioro Krosino ) to Złocieniec ( Falkenburg ) and Drawsko Pomorskie ( Pomerania ) passing into the Great Lübbesee ( Jezioro Lubie ), from where they through a pine with stock of sand area at Stare Osieczno ( wedding) flows past in the nets. About the Dragebrücke at wedding it is crossed by the former National Highway 1. The Dragebrücke is a historical place because ( most likely) in the vicinity of the last sovereign Duke of Pomerania, Mestwin II, in the contract at the Dragebrücke of the Margrave of Brandenburg Pomerania took part for the second time in fief here. Also, here one of the last military chapter of the sinking of the "Third Reich" was playing from.

Because of its many lakes caused by post-glacial balanced water management the Drage was used for timber floating. The Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg undertook in 1680 and 1681 efforts to make the Drage navigable to promote trade between Pomerania and the Neumark. By marriage, she was also navigable in the 18th and 19th centuries, but you had to treideln the barges upstream. Today the Drage is a paradise for water sports enthusiasts.

Since 1918 there is a hydroelectric power plant at Borowo (Alt Jump ).

1368-1772 was the Drage the border between Brandenburg and Poland. Here was also up to the Reformation, the boundary of the dioceses of Pomerania and Poznan. In the Prussian era it formed from the village of flowers Werder (now Polish: Piaseczno ) in the district of Pommern to the mouth of the boundary between the Neumark and the West Prussian Netzedistrict.

The river flows through the National Park designated in 1990 drawa.