Großer Wostevitzer Teich

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The Great Wostevitzer pond or Large Wostevitzer lake located on the peninsula Jasmund the island of Rügen about seven kilometers southwest of Sassnitz and about two kilometers from the Baltic Sea coast. The lake is located together with the little ones Wostevitzer pond in a marshy valley south of the Fährbahnhofes Mukran. It is entirely within the city limits of Sassnitz. The lake is 1.7 km long and up to 690 meters wide. He, together with the little ones Wostevitzer pond and surrounding the 322 -acre nature reserve Wostevitzer ponds. The heights in the vicinity of the lake reached by Gallows Hill in the south to 33 meters. Near the west bank of the railway line Stralsund - Sassnitz and the main road run 96th

The Wostevitzer ponds are located in a ground moraine, which was formed during the recent Eisvorstoßes the Vistula glaciation. It is assumed that the lakes formed in a Toteisrestfeld. The very flat and polytrophic lakes that drain through the Saiser Bach in the Baltic Sea, were never directly as a bay with the sea in conjunction. According to Swedish Matrikelkarte 1695 today's reserve was still largely free of forest. By the 20th century, the banks were fully covered by swamp forest and it spread from silting reedbeds. The latter have been destroyed since the 1970s by the introduction of manure, until the end of the 1980s was the sight depth in the lakes, only 10 to 20 centimeters. Then, the fishing was abandoned.