Harkenbäk

Harkenbäk estuary in the Baltic Sea near Barendorf

The Harkenbäk (also rake Beck or Harkenbeek ) is a river in Klützer angle.

The Harkenbäk springs west of the Schippmannsberges between the city Dassow and their district Pötenitz in the district of North West Mecklenburg. The Harkenbäk flows through the Deipsee, on whose banks on the Schlossberg at the spatial location Feldhusen a Wendish ring wall, the rake Wall, as well as a passage grave are. It forms a distinct river valley and flows north-west of Harkensee in the Lübeck Bay of the Baltic Sea.

Your mouth defined since Barbarossa privilege from the year 1188 is the seaward limit of the roads of Travemünde. She was controversial from 1188 until a decision of the State Court of the German Reich in Lübeck Bay case in 1928 and is formed by an imaginary line that runs from the mouth to the Gömnitzer tower in East Holstein.

The formed during the Ice Age as glacial trough, vermoorte and temporarily flooded Harkenbäkniederung was mainly used in the 18th century as grassland. With the system of trenches you drained the valley in the 19th century. The Harkenbäk was expanded in the 1960s and 70s, laid the mouth and partly destroyed the old drainage system here.

The Harkenbäk and its flood plain are fully protected in the nature reserve coastline between Priwall and Barendorf with Harkenbäkniederung. This nature reserve is 580 hectares in size and also backs up, starting from the mouth of Stepenitz the north shore of Lake Dassower, the eastern shoreline of Pötenitzer Wiek and the coastal strip along the Bay of Lübeck to large swan lake. In the area of the shore of Pötenitzer Wiek the area during the Second World War through the air ordnance Pötenitz was used for military purposes. In the coastal forest therefore find various architectural remains from this period. When Priwall it includes the northern end of the Green Belt Germany. The Deipsee was placed under protection in 1938.