Garrensee

Lime-and nutrient-poor lake

The Garrensee is a lime-and nutrient-poor inland waters in Ziethenstraße at Ratzeburg Schleswig -Holstein in the Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park.

Description

He is, together with the Plötscher lake and the Black cow in an endorheic, glacial valley, about 18 hectares in size and 23 m deep. It is part of the nature reserve Salem marsh with adjacent forests and lakes.

An in Ratzeburg to a halt Come glacier covered here Toteisblöcke with its melting water with Sandern. After melting of the ice the three lakes were left behind.

Due to the lack of drainage of the oxygen content of the lakes is relatively low and dead plants sink to the bottom and slowly lead to siltation of lakes. An advanced stage of this process, the Salem moor up near the lakes.

Bathing is partly allowed in three designated areas in the lake. Situated on the main road 208 parking was strongly built back in the 1980s to reduce the number of visitors. The lake is since 1595 owned by the parish of St. Lawrence in Ziethenstraße and is leased from this as angling.