Lake Kummerow

Large parts of the sea floor below sea level

The Lake Kummerow in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern is located between the cities of Malchin, Dargun and Demmin county in the Mecklenburg Lake District, about 70 kilometers south of Stralsund. The Lake Kummerow is the fourth largest lake in the state of Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania and also the largest in the country part of Pomerania.

Description

The western lake shore is one of Mecklenburg, Eastern and Southern with the places Verchen, summer village and Kummerow to Pomerania. The lake is about eleven miles long, on average, four kilometers wide and 8.1 meters deep on average. The maximum depth is about 23.3 meters. From Peene channel - connect to Teterower lake - the reason falls steeply down to 16 meters. The western bank is strong verschilft and marshy. Only in the town of Salem leads directly to the lake. The eastern shore zone, however, is not as strong verschilft by far. It is drained by the river Peene, which opens at Neukalen into the lake. He also receives water from the Ostpeene and the Malchiner lake flowing through West Peene. Due to the low gradient of the Peene between him and their confluence with the river Peene - the lake is only about 30 centimeters above sea level - the water level of Lake Kummerow of water level fluctuations of the Oder, the Szczecin Lagoon and Pomeranian Bay is affected.

From a geological perspective, the Lake Kummerow is together with the Malchiner lake in about 30 kilometer Malchiner Basin, a glacial trough, by melt water below the ice took its present form during the Pomeranian stage of the Weichselian.

In the 13th century the fishing rights on the Lake Kummerow subject of dispute between the town of Demmin and the monasteries Dargun and Verchen were. Both monasteries served thereby forging documents with which they backdated their rights. The town of Demmin saw eventually caused the Verchener monastery abzukaufen fishing rights. The dispute with the monastery of Demmin Dargun 1292 was settled by the Pomeranian dukes, who allowed the monastery of the general practice of fishing and operation of a fish weir in the river Peene. The town of Demmin was the free shipping guaranteed at sea and Peene, the fishing on the lake could be accomplished only through smaller networks, and fishing.

The lake is nestled in meadows and fields. Northwest of the lake are the forested mountains of the Mecklenburg Switzerland. The Lake Kummerow Nature Park is part of the Mecklenburg Switzerland and Lake Kummerow north of Lake Müritz. It is a tourist attraction in the region, to find him excursion boat ride instead. To the east of the lake runs from Malchin to Demmin, a section of the Ice Age route Mecklenburg Lake District.