Åebsko Lake
Strandsee
Jezioro Łebsko, German Lebasee, is a Strandsee in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Geographical location
The Lebasee located in Pomerania, near the town of Leba ( German Leba ). The Lebasee is now part of the Slowinski National Park.
Geology
With an area of 75 km ² of Lebasee is the largest beach of the Pomeranian lakes. The lake measures in west-east direction about 16 km in north-south direction about 8 km. The lake has a maximum depth of 5.80 meters, the average depth is only 2 to 3 meters.
The Baltic Sea is the Lebasee cordoned off by 800 meters to 2.5 km wide and 17 km long spit. On the Spit is a 1300 meter long and 500 meter wide dune, the Lontzkedüne. This is with a height of 42 meters, the highest elevation of the Spit, it migrates annually several meters further east and has already forced some small settlements to the task. The Lebasee fed and flows through the river Leba; it flows south into the lake, forming the north- east to the town of Leba the outflow of the lake.
History
The Lebasee was from 1776 the subject of a failed Meliorationsprojekts by Franz Balthasar von Brenkenhoff. Brenkenhoff wanted to lower the water level of the Lebasees and thereby facilitate the draining of the surrounding swamps. For this purpose he had in 1776 a channel from the Baltic Sea Lebasee dig about in the middle of the Spit. In November 1776, the deflation of the lake began.
The canal was used from May 1777 for the shipping as a seaport. Soon, however, showed that during storms the waters of the Baltic Sea has been pushed into the channel and in the Lebasee, the water level of Lebasees increased as a result and flooding caused.
In a storm in March 1779 the channel structure was destroyed and there was a danger that increase the breakthrough and the Lebasee to a bay of the Baltic Sea could be. Therefore, the channel 1782/1783 was re- sealed and cleaned and restored the old outflow of Leba from the Lebasee.