Jungfernsee

Starting point of the Potsdamer Havel and Sacrow - Paretzer channel

The Jungfernsee is a glacial incurred pelvic and Rinnensee. Today, it is traversed by the River Havel and is therefore one of the Berlin- Potsdamer Havel waters. It covers 3.52 km from southeast ( Glienicke Bridge ) to West ( Big Horn ) and is thus transverse to the direction of the natural flow in the river Havel Havel lakes chain. The largest part of the water area is Potsdam city. Only a small triangle in front of his southeast shore is one of Berlin.

The Jungfernsee is a federal waterway, a section of the Lower Havel waterway waterway class IV, for which the Water and Shipping Authority Brandenburg is responsible.

The name " Jungfernsee " refers to the Benedictine monastery of Spandau, which owns the lake has been found.

Integration into the Havel

At three ends of the Jungfernsee passes through waters Engen in other parts of the Havel: The northeastern constriction represents the inflow of the Kladower sea crossing; it is bounded to the north and south of the Berlin- Wannseer steep bank with the pitcher Horn from Meedehorn. The southern bottleneck is spanned by the Glienicke bridge where the Potsdamer Havel begins. Through these frames, the water flows into the Havel Glienicker Lake and from there through the Babelsberg tightness in the depths of Lake of the Potsdamer Havel. At the northwest end of the Jungfernsee the western tip of the reserve Royal Forest and the opposite Big Horn limit ( earlier Nedlitz, among today's Fahrland ) the transition to a tortuous water surface, the 2.45 km extends north and is called the front of Lehnitzsee, in the back of Krampnitzsee. The large horn Jungfernsee also leaves the Sacrow - Paretzer channel shortens the Potsdamer Havel bow and has no locks, so represents an artificial second Havel run. The canal crosses the White Lake and touches the Fahrlander lake. To the northwest of Big Horn there is a natural connection from Lehnitzsee to the White Lake as part of the Nedlitzer old ride, which begins at the Great Horn and is caused by the puncture of the Sacrow - Paretzer channel.

Shore

The slight narrowing between the Riester horn of the north shore and the south shore of Quappenhorn divides the lake into a not quite circular southeastern part and a long, narrow north-west. The greatest width in the southeastern part is 1.45 km, in the northwestern part, the width is maximum 490 meters. The narrowest part is 180 meters wide, the width between Quappenhorn and Riester horn is 270 meters. The verschilfte north shore is almost entirely cultivated by the Royal Forest. Only a very few places are swimming holes, which can be reached on foot or by bike. On the Horn Riester this far northwest -southeast running shoreline bends only to the northeast and then east and is involved with the expansion. The southern tip of the lake is Sacrower away from here only 390 meters. In the northeast of the Virgin Lake is directly on the north bank the Sacrower Saviour Church. The opposite bluff, which rises 20 meters above the water level, is also forested. It is taken from Glienicker Park and extends in a southwesterly direction to the Glienicke Bridge, which spans the outflow of the lake. About this bridge that connects Potsdam ( Berlin suburb ) with Berlin -Wannsee, the highway passes first

Through the southeast part of the lake, parallel to the Berlin bank, the border between Brandenburg and Berlin runs (before 1990 inner German border between East Germany and West Berlin). The lake was not accessible from the Potsdamer shore. The beginning here shore is built in part and, once the confluence of the Rabbit trench which comes from the Holy See, the north-eastern boundary of the new garden dar. It runs on the headland Quappenhorn in a northwesterly direction until Nedlitz. The isthmus between Jungfernsee and the Holy See is only 190 meters wide. The dairy is located on this bank in the new garden and 160 meters from the lake Cecilienhof Palace. A few meters east of the Isthmus, Emperor Wilhelm II in 1890 to establish a settlement along the lines Norwegian villages. The sailors Kongsnæs station was destroyed by the construction of the Wall, the remaining houses are preserved.