Lankower See (Schwerin)

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The Lankower lake in Mecklenburg -Vorpommern is located in the city of Schwerin. He is a Rinnensee in a terminal moraine with steep slopes and created during the last ice age ( Würm ) from a former meltwater channel which permanently filled after the retreat of ice with water.

Description

The lake is located in the south of the district Lankow and west of Schwerin West town. It has a length of 1.56 kilometers and a width of 900 meters in the north and about 100 meters to the south, at an average depth of 5.2 meters and a volume of 2.8 million cubic meters. The lake is a recognized recreational area with a boat rental and outdoor swimming pool on the south side. There are 13 small garden divisions on the east side. The west side of the mountains Lankower was formerly used extensively for sheep grazing and motocross track, which has a negative impact on water quality. Due to the obvious new development areas in Neumühlestrasse and Lankow the lake subject today an increasingly intensifying recreational use. The lake is a popular fishing waters and should not be traveled by motor boats. The supervising fishing club is the nature and fishing enthusiasts Lankower lake V. Every year, the "Five -lake - run " in Schwerin also on Lankower lakefront. In the lake, the island is Rethorst. The lake is highly eutrophic (as of 1998).

Fauna

The Lankower lake has a good stocking of eels, groupers, sinkers, pike, carp, roach and rudd. White bream, ruffe, burbot, tench and pike are rare. The fish stock is bolstered almost annually qualitatively and quantitatively by the audit conducted by the supervising club Suspension of fishing. In addition, in the area of ​​the lake ten Dragonfly, 44 breeding bird and various mussel and snail species were detected.